R. Bruce Muirhead III

Robert Bruce Muirhead III

American, born 1939

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design

M.F.A., Boston University

Instructor, Middlebury College, 1964

Assistant Professor, 1968–72

Member

The Copley Society of Boston

The Society of American Graphic Artists

Selected Collections

Boston University

The Chittenden Trust Company, Burlington, Vermont

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York

Middlebury College Museum of Art

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York

During his years at Middlebury, Muirhead taught both painting and sections of the large, two-semester art history survey offered by Arthur Healy.

Muirhead studied painting at Boston University with Walter Murch and Joseph Ablow (who preceded him in the Department of Fine Arts at Middlebury in the mid-1950s). He credits his Middlebury colleague David Bumbeck with introducing him to the allure of printmaking. A strong vein of romanticism runs through Muirhead’s landscapes and figure compositions, which, though derived from meticulous observation, are composed from memory in the artist’s studio.

Muirhead lives and works in Clinton, New York, where since 1983 he has been Professor of Art at Hamilton College.

–EmmieDonadio, 2000