Richard Bellamy (art dealer)

Richard Hu Bellamy (1927–1998), was an American art dealer, known as Dick Bellamy.

Dick Bellamy was born in Cincinnati in 1927, the son of a doctor father, who met his future wife at medical school.[1] He ran New York's Green Gallery, from 1960 until 1965 an art gallery at 15 West 57th Street in Manhattan.[1] He then ran the Noah Goldowsky Gallery on upper Madison Avenue for a few years. Bellamy attended the University of Ohio in Cincinnati for one semester. In 1949 he visited Provincetown, Massachusetts and its summer art colony. He moved to New York in the early 1950s eventually working as director of the Hansa Gallery, a cooperative gallery that included members Allan Kaprow, Alfred Leslie, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz, Jean Follett, Robert Whitman and Jan Müller.[1]

References

1. Smith, Roberta (3 April 1998). "Richard Bellamy, Art Dealer, Is Dead at 70". New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2016.

Further reading

• Eric La Prade. Breaking Through: Richard Bellamy and the Green Gallery 1960-1965: Twenty-Three Interviews. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2010. ISBN 9781877675782
• Judith Stein. Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2016. ISBN 9781877675782
• Miles Bellamy, ed. Serious Bidness: The Letters of Richard Bellamy . New York: Near Fine Press, 2016. ISBN 9780692518670