1. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1936
  2. B.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
  3. Providence, Rhode Island, 1959
  4. M.F.A. in Painting, Cornell University
  5. Ithaca, New York, 1962

Taught at the Following Institutions:

  1. Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
  2. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  4. School of Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
  5. St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota

Selected Museum Collections:

  1. Brooklyn Museum of Art
  2. National Academy Museum, New York
  3. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
  4. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  5. National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
  6. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
  7. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
  8. Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
  9. DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
  10. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  11. Boston Public Library, Wiggins Collection, Boston
  12. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
  13. Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing
  14. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Grants and Awards:

  1. 2008 First Prize, Members Exhibition, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
  2. 1995 Elected to the Membership of the National Academy of Design
  3. 1991 Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
  4. 1983 Fellow, Hand Hollow Foundation, East Chatham, New York
  5. 1982 R.S. Reynolds Memorial Sculpture Award
  6. 1981 Lippincott Incorporated Sculpture Commission, New Haven Connecticut
  7. 1975-79 Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Grant in Sculpture
  8. 1963 First Prize, Painting, Boston Fine Arts Festival
  9. 1959 First Prize, Painting, Providence Art Club Annual, Providence, Rhode Island

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  1. 2014  Galerie Gris, Hudson, New York
  2. 2011 Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
  3. 2010 Cornwall Library, Cornwall, Connecticut
  4. 2009 Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
    • Great South Bay Gallery, Hudson, New York
  5. 2007 Zabriskie Gallery, New York
    • Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
    • The Movie Paintings, Moviehouse Studio Gallery, Millerton, New York
  6. 2005 Marymount Manhattan College, New York
  7. 2004 Kouros Gallery, New York
    • New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut
    • Hillel, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  8. 2003 Minor Memorial Library Gallery, Roxbury, Connecticut
  9. 2002 Dillon Gallery, Oyster Bay, New York
    • Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  10. 2001 Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York
    • Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
    • Rich Forum, Rosenthal Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
  11. 2000 Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  12. 1999 Dillon Gallery, New York
    • Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
  13. 1998 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
  14. 1996 Dillon Gallery, New York
  15. 1994 Hugh Hill Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  16. 1992 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, Connecticut (with Robert Andrew Parker)
    • Bradley International Airport, Showcase Gallery, Hartford
    • Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford
  17. 1991 Klonaridis Gallery Toronto
  18. 1990 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach
    • The Tin Years (A Survey of the 1980’s) Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts
    • Nahan Contemporary, New York
  19. 1989 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
    • Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
    • Gallery Hiro, Tokyo, Japan
    • Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
    • Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
    • Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  20. 1988 Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
    • Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut (with Charles Cajori)
  21. 1987 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
    • Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
    • Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
    • Galerie Esperanza, Montreal
    • Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
  22. 1986 Pine Manor College, Boston
  23. 1985 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
    • Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco
    • Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
    • Galerie Esperanza, Montreal
  24. 1984 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
    • Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
  25. 1983 Watson DeNagy Gallery, Houston
    • Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich
  26. 1982 Gimpel Fils, London
    • Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York
  27. 1981 Sculpture Center Gallery, New York
    • Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
  28. 1979 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston
  29. 1974 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
    • Zabriskie Gallery, New York
    • Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
  30. 1972 Sculpture in Copley Square, Boston
  31. 1971 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
  32. 1968 Botolph Gallery, Boston
  33. 1967 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
  34. 1961 Nexus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  35. 1959 Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
  36. 1958 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  1. 2015 Color, Shape, and Form II, Galerie Gris, Hudson, New York
  2. 2011 Eclecticism, Stage Works Gallery, Hudson, New York
  3. 2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  4. 2007 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
    • 182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York
  5. 2006 The Figurative Show, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  6. 2004 Highlights From The Collection, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
    • Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  7. 2003 Twenty Years, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
    • Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  8. 2000 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
    • Paintings of Paintings, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
    • Figurative Works, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
  9. 1999 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York
  10. 1998 Selections from the National Academy at Silvermine, New Caanan, Connecticut
  11. 1996 Recent Acquisitions, National Academy of Design, New York
  12. 1995 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
    • Sound Shore Gallery, Cross River, New York
  13. 1994 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
  14. 1993 Their Faces and Their Work, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
  15. 1992 Matters of the Heart, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
  16. 1991 After Duchamp, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
  17. 1990 Fiac 90, Grand Palais, Paris (Galerie Keeser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany)
  18. 1989 Sculptures, Reliefs and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
    • Sculpture with Color, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York
  19. 1988 Drawings from Boston, Boston Public Library
  20. 1987 Drawings from Boston, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
    • Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago
  21. 1986 Artists for Artists, Benefit Auction, New York
  22. 1985 Sixteen Sculptors, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
    • Indoors for Outdoors, Kouros Gallery, New York
    • Fun De Mental, Parasol, Sag Harbor, New York
    • Painted Sculpture and Constructions, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
  23. 1984 Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut
    • Heidenberg Gallery, New York
  24. 1983 Sculptors Guild, Lever House, New York
    • Abstract Art in New England, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
  25. 1982 Graham Gund Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    • Metals: Cast-Cut-Coiled, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
    • Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
  26. 1981 Marlborough Gallery, New York
  27. 1980 American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York
  28. 1978 Art Words/Book Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
    • Portrait of a Friendship, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
  29. 1977 The Material Dominant, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
  30. 1976 Artists at Bennington, Bennington College, Vermont
    • On the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
  31. 1974 Zabriskie Gallery Sculptors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
  32. 1973 New Talent, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
  33. 1970 Coalition, Studio Exhibitions, Boston
    • Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
  34. 1965 Detroit Art Institute Annual
  35. 1963 Minnesota Biennial, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    • Boston Fine Arts Festival

Other Selected Collections:

  1. ExxonMobil
  2. American Express
  3. Fidelity Investments
  4. Boston Properties
  5. Prudential
  6. Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
  7. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
  8. Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
  9. David Mirvish, Toronto, Canada
  10. Betty Parsons Collection
  11. Graham Gund Collection
  12. Virginia Zabriskie
  13. Robert Andrew Parker
  14. Richard Haas
  15. Robert Natkin
  16. Max Weitzenhoffer
  17. Billy Wilder Collection
  18. Robert Avian
  19. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gallagher
  20. Lynn Redgrave

Selected Bibliography:

  1. Kenneth Baker, “Art-Heavy Metals”, Boston Phoenix, September 14, 1982, Section 3, pg. 10.
  2. Kenneth Baker, “The Mechanics of Illusion”, Boston Phoenix, November 14, 1972, Section 2, pg. 21.
  3. Carl Belz, “Boston”, Artforum, April, 1970, Vol. 8, no.8, pg. 90(illus.).
  4. Kathryn Boughton, “Falls Village Artist… Movies”, Northwest Corner Journal, The Litchfield County Times, December 15, 2006, pg. 11 (illus.).
  5. John Chandler, “The Tin Years,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Catalogue, December 2, 1990.
  6. Jaime Fervis, “Coming Full Square”, The Litchfield County Times, September 2, 2011, Vol. 31, No.35, pg 1 & 15 (color illus.)
  7. Hayden Herrera “Reviews”, Art News, November 1974, pg. 88 (illus.).
  8. Christopher Hume, “Cronin’s Work Easy on Eyes”, The Toronto Star, December 8, 1985.
  9. Patricia Johnson, “Encompassing Exhibition”, Houston Chronicle, July 17, 1983, pg. 15.
  10. Hilton Kramer, “New Talent”, The New York Times, June 17, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).
  11. Kay Larson, “Three at Sunne Savage’s”, The Real Paper, November 27, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).
  12. E.L. Lefferts, “Essays Of Adoration” The Litchfield County Times, April 11, 2003, Vol. 23, no. 15, pg 15 (color illus.).
  13. Sunny MacMillan, “Cronin’s People,” The Lakeville Journal, January 28, 1999, pgs. 1-3, and 15.
  14. Marc Mannheimer, “Robert Cronin, The Tin Years, Fitchburg,” Art New England, March 31, 1991.
  15. Thomas Mellana, “The Ordinary and the Unusual,” Stamford Sunday Advocate, March 25, 2001, pg. D4 (color illus.).
  16. Vivien Raynor, “ART,” The New York Times (CN), September 22, 1991, pg. 18 (illus.).
  17. Matthew Rose, “Robert Cronin: An Interview”, Art Gallery International, Jan./February 1987, Vol. 8, pg. 16 (illus.).
  18. Stella Sasseville, “Robert Cronin – Liaisons Vegetative et Transformation”, Vie des Arts, December 1985, pg. 78 (illus.).
  19. Roberta Smith, “Reviews”, Artforum, December 1974, Vol. 13, no. 4, pg. 72 (illus.).
  20. Elizabeth Sussman, “On the Wall”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Catalogue, September 17, 1976.
  21. Robert Taylor, “Sculpture in Copley Square”, Boston Globe, Oct. 31, 1982, pg. 21 (illus.).
  22. Stuart Wilson, “Cronin: Painted Tine and Wire Masterpieces”, The Montreal Downtowner, September 18, 1985, pg. 19.
  23. Karen Wright, “Gallery”, Modern Painters, Spring 2001, pg. 115 (color illus.).
  24. Max Wykes-Joyce, “London Reviews”, London Arts Review, April 9, 1982, pg. 185.
  25. William Zimmer, “In Stamford, Paradoxical Painting”, The New York Times August 14, 1983, pg. 24