Ronald bladen biography

Ronald Bladen ( ) was a Minimalist best known for his large-scale sculptures. He is often credited with influencing fellow Minimalists Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt.

In he moved to San Francisco form Vancouver, Canada where he enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts.

 He spent the war years working as a ship’s welder at the navy dockyards. In he joined a communal household with poet Michael McClure and Al Held.

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During this time he also befriended the writers Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, and Allen Ginsberg and became close friends with the dancer Yvonne Rainer. 

In , Bladen relocated to New York where he lived on Houston Street.

He met fellow artists George Sugarman and Nicholas and John Krushenick, who together founded the Brata Gallery co-operative in His paintings from this period are defined by highly concentrated segments of color set against monochromatic backgrounds.

, he exhibited his plywood paintings for the fi