Writing and Statements by the Artist
Introduction to Lithograph Suite and Related Acrylic Paintings on Paper: Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York, 1979.
Interview with Robert Natkin by Peter Fuller in: Peter Fuller. Robert Natkin, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981, pp. 249-338.
Introduction to Robert Natkin: Recent Paintings from Hitchcock Series. Exh. cat. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York, 1985.
Introduction to Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick: Selected Works. Exh. cat. Thomas J Walsh Art Gallery, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Connecticut, Sept-Oct 1998.
“Diebenkorn,” Modern Painters, vol. 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1988), p. 90.
“Andy Warhol,” Modern Painters, vol. 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1989), p. 82.
“Jasper Johns,” Modern Painters, vol. 2, no. 1 (Autumn 1989), p. 87 (co-author: Leda Natkin).
“Paul Klee,” Modern Painters, vol. 2, no. 2 (Autumn 1989), p. 98 (co-author: Leda Natkin).
“Arshile Gorky,” Modern Painters, vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 1990), p. 83.
“Notes on the Paintings and Drawings of Roy Oxslade” in Roy Oxslade. Exh. cat. Reed’s Wharf Gallery, London, 1993.
Subject Matter & Abstraction in Exile. St. Alban’s, G.B.: The Claridge Press, 1993.
“Canapes from Twombly: Meal Art from de Kooning, Kline.” The York Observer, Nov. 14, 1994, p. 33.
“Kline and Co.: A Meditation on Abstract Expressionism.” Contemporary Art, vol. 2, no. 4 (Winter 1994-95).
Introduction to Robert Natkin: Jism and Grace. Exh. cat. Flanders, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2001.
About the Artist
Ashton, Dore. “Natkin’s Avant-Garde Paintings.” The New Times, January 7, 1960.
Ashton, Dore. “New York Report.” Kunstwerk, vol. 17 (January 1964), p. 27.
Ashton, Dore. “Robert Natkin.” The Studio, vol. 164, no. 835 (November 1962), pp. 190-92.
Beckett, Sister Wendy. “Out of the Envelope and into Eternity.” The Guardian, May 6, 1992.
Beckett, Sister Wendy. “The Story of Painting: Essential Guide to the History of Western Art.” London: Dorling Kindersley, London, pp. 388, 453.
Beckett, Sister Wendy. “The Mystical Now : Art and The Sacred.” New York: Universe, 1993, pp. 104, 105.
Beckett, Sister Wendy. “Robert Natkin in Conversation with Sister Wendy Beckett.” Modern Painters, 1995, pp. 51-53.
Brusberg Berichte 26. Exh. cat. Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, September 1981, pp. 86-91.
Butler, Doris Lane. “Vim Vigor Vitality in ’Vangard‘ Display.” Chicago Daily News, September 27, 1957.
Campbell, Lawrence. “Color Coordinates.” Art in America, September 1989, pp. 188-93.
Canaday, John. “Philadelphia American.” The New Times, January 14, 1962.
Damsker, Matt. “Robert Natkin.” The Hartford Courant, January 24, 1988, pp. 16-21.
Davies, Peter. “Robert Natkin.” Art Line Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2, (Winter 94/95), pp. 33-35.
Dillon, Michael. Introduction to Robert Natkin: Recent Paintings from the Hitchcock Series. Catalogue, Redding: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988.
Edgar, Natalie. “Exhibition at Pointdexter Gallery.” Art News, vol. 60 (November 1961), p. 19.
Fineberg, Jonathan. “Robert Natkin: Intimate Themes,” in Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 9-35.
Forman, Nessa. “A Very Special Show.” The Sunday Bulletin, Philadelphia, February 1, 1976, p. 8.
Frankel, Ellen. “The Jewish Spirit: A Celebration in Stories and Art.” New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, 1997, pp. 206-7
Fuller, Peter. “Robert Natkin.” Art and Artists, December 1974, pp. 30–32.
Fuller, Peter. Introduction to Robert Natkin. Exh. cat., André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1974.
Fuller, Peter. Introduction to Robert Natkin, Recent Paintings. Exh. cat. André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1976.
Fuller, Peter. “Excerpts from a New York Diary.” Art Monthly, no. 33, (1980), pp. 14-15.
Fuller, Peter. Robert Natkin. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981.
Fuller, Peter. Introduction to Robert Natkin, Recent Paintings from Hitchcock Series. Exh. cat. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1984.
Glaser, Bruce. “Robert Natkin and the Muses: Recent Paintings and Classical History.” Art Magazine, vol. 52, no. 10 (June 1978), pp. 156–60. Reprinted in Robert Natkin: New Paintings. Exh. ca. André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1978.
Henry, Gerrit. “Robert Natkin.” Artnews, November 1980.
Henry Gerrit. “Robert Natkin at Reece.” Art in America, December 1997.
Intimate Lighting: Paintings by Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, 1990. Introduction by Jerry A. Berger and Greg G. Thielen.
Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists. Exh. cat. The Jewish Museum, New York, 1982, pp. 24-25
Judd, Donald. “Exhibition at Pointdexter Gallery,” Arts Magazine, vol. 38 (February 1964), p. 26.
Judd, Donald. “Exhibition at Pointdexter Gallery,” Arts Magazine, vol. 39 (February 1965), p. 59.
Judith Dolnick and Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. The Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, 1987. Essay by Bruce Glaser.
Kozloff, Max. “New York, Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick.” Artforum, vol. 6 (Summer), pp. 50-51.
Kozloff, Max. “Art,” The Nation, December 2, 1961.
Larson, Kay: “Mural as Theater.” Center, The Magazine of Rockefeller Center, July/August 1991, pp. 8-11.
Leonard, William. “Conclusion.” Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, December 7, 1958.
McWhinnie, Harold J. “Maximum not Minimum–An Interview with Robert Natkin.” Per/Se Stanford, California, vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 1968), pp. 37–45.
Natkin. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969.
McDonald, John. Introduction to Three American Friends: Robert Natkin, Judith Dolnick, and Michael Dillon. Exh. cat. England & Co., London, April 1994.
Meek, William. Introduction to Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida, 1994.
Nordland, Gerald. “Robert Natkin: Color-Saturated Elastic Space.” Art News, vol. 72 (February 1973), pp. 54-55. Reprinted in Robert Natkin., Exh. cat. Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, England, 1974.
Nordland, Gerald. Essay in Robert Natkin: Works from 1959 to 1980. Exh. cat. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York, 1980.
“Pastel Patchwork: Richard Diebenkorn & Robert Natkin.” Time Magazine, August 1, 1961.
Peterson, Valerie. “Exhibition at Pointdexter Gallery.” Art News, vol. 62 (December 1963). p. 11.
Pointdexter, Joseph. “The Art of Living: Painters Bob and Judy Natkin.” United Mainliner Magazine, March 1980, pp. 90–94.
Raynor, Vivien. “Seductive, and Sometimes as Remote as a Mayan Dialect.” The New York Times, Sunday, January 22, 1995.
Robbins, D., and S. Platt. “Albert Pilavan Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art.” Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin, vol. 55 (May 1969). pp. 48–50.
Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969.
Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Holburne of Menstrie Museum and Festival Gallery, Bath, England, March-April 1974.
Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Gimpel Fils, London, 1977
Robert Natkin: Unique Paper Pulp Works and Recent Prints.” Exh. cat. Styria Studio, New York, 1980.
Robert Natkin: Recent Work. Exh. cat., Gimpel Fils, London, 1980.
Robert Natkin, A Retrospective: 1952-1996. Exh. cat. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1997. With introduction by Louis A. Zona, commentary by Leda Natkin Nelis and essay by Ross Woodmann.
Robert Natkin. Exh. cat. Theo Waddington Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida, 2001.
Robert Natkin: Portraits. Exh. cat. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2003.
Schulze, Franz. “Past and Present.” Chicago Daily News, October 20, 1962.
Schulze, Franz. “Spring Blooms.” Chicago Daily News, May 4, 1968.
Tillim, Sidney. “Exhibition at Pointdexter Gallery.” Arts Magazine, vol. 34 (December 1959). p. 63.
Tucker, Marcia. “Natkin: Overtones at Outskirts.” Art News, vol. 66, no. 1 (March 1967). pp.48–49, 74.
Van Houton, David. “Encounters with Robert Natkin.” Art Week (Piedmont, CA), February 1975.
Weigle, Edith. “Chicago Artists.” Chicago Sunday Tribune, September 8, 1957.
Wolff, Theodore F. “The Many Masks of Modern Art.” The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, 1989, pp. 72-75
Wolff, Theodore F. Introduction to Robert Natkin: Recent Work. Exh. cat. David Findlay JR Fine Art, New York, January 2004.
Woodmann, Ross, “Robert Natkin: A Retrospective 1952-1996.” Exh. cat. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio,