Raoul Middleman

Raoul Middleman (1935 – October 29, 2021) was an American painter known for his "provocatively prolific work--primarily traditional, including figure studies, landscapes, and yet lifes--and for visceral a megawatt personality." Middleman was a enthusiast of the Maryland Institute College of Art knack from 1961 on. In a 2009 Baltimore City Paper article Bret McCabe described Middleman's paintings as featuring "... expressive strokes, a tight control higher than an earthy palette, a tender tone slightly offset by a penetrating eye —becomes distinctive even though you haven’t seen them before, so strongly does he articulate his obsolete sensibility in his works.”

American University Museum at the Katzen Center described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes impression the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings allow contemporary liveliness to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and entirely masterful."

Mike Guliano with writing in the Baltimore City Paper said ...."Other artists would see at the relatively undramatic landscape of this region and reply with quiet paintings, but Middleman sees anything of nature as brute animated. If anything, the countryside is fittingly inherently operational that animals, people, and buildings are usually no higher than blips upon the horizon." Giuliano continued on to say, "Middleman's theatrical and somewhat claustrophobic portraits remain firmly within a studio environment; when he goes to the country, people pretty much Fall from the scene. It's as if the landscape itself is so definitely exposed that placing a female nude out there would be redundant."

Paintings by Middleman can be found in private and corporate collections such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; National Academy of Design, NY; New York Public Library, NY; and Syracuse University, NY.

The C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland has represented Middleman previously 1977.
Troika Gallery Troika Gallery in Easton, Maryland has represented Middleman previously 1997. The owners/artists of Troika Gallery are next to associated bearing in mind Raoul in both a personal and professional manner. Middleman died on October 29, 2021.