Richard Hambleton

Richard Hambleton (Vancouver, June 1952 – New York, October 29, 2017) was a Canadian painter who lived and worked on the Lower East Side in New York.

He has been called the “godfather of street art” and, until his death, was the only surviving member of the group that, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, had great success emerging from the New York art scene during the art market boom of the 1980s. Much of Hambleton‘s work has been compared to graffiti art, although the artist considered his works “public art”.