Background
Titlebaum, Richard Theodore was born on January 26, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Max William and Katherine (Kurland) Titlebaum.
Titlebaum, Richard Theodore was born on January 26, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Max William and Katherine (Kurland) Titlebaum.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1962; Master of Arts in English, Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in English, Harvard University, 1969.
From Harvard. In 1969, he received a doctorate in English literature from Harvard University. He taught literature at Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Haifa and the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1976, he decided to devote himself full-time to painting.
Some of Titlebaum"s works were done in Surrealistic styles, often with Old Testament religious motifs.
He was especially interested in Middle Eastern history and the Jewish Revolts. Many of his large paintings, done in the Physique style, were donated to the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation on his death and may be viewed on their website.
At the end of his life, most of his work was religious in subject matter. His paintings are in the Fogg Art Museum, the Permanent Collection of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York City, Liberty University, and the Miami City Hall.
Titlebaum died October 9, 2006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His Harvard thesis, completed in 1969 but published only in 1987, is entitled: Three Victorian Views of the Italian Renaissance: John Ruskin, Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds.
Member Michigan Guild Artists and Artisans.