Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australia-born art critic, author and producer of television documentaries. He was an outspokenly expressive and controversial art critic who lived his literary life with an inspirational flair that he owed to artist Francisco Goya, a self confessed artistic motivation. He was as famous on the television as he was in the print media and spent over three decades of his life working as the chief art critic of TIME magazine in New York. With his insightful books and documentaries, Hughes delved into the history of various artistic revolutions in the west and the development of society along with it. Over the years his favorite topic remained Australia, where he was born and brought up, and wrote several books on the artistic side of the country as well as its history of British penal colonies and early European settlement. Other recurring subjects of his prolific writings were Goya, Lucian Freud, fishing, the history of American art, the city of Barcelona and himself. For his exceptional contribution to art, literature and television, Hughes was awarded with honors like, Officer of the Order of Australia, International Emmy Award, etc.
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Birth Place
Sydney, Australia
Also Known As
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
Famous As
Art Critic, Writer
Place Of Death
The Bronx, New York
Education
Saint Ignatius College, University of Sydney
Awards
1982 – Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism given by the College Art Association of America. 1985 – second Frank Jewett Mather Award
Father
Geoffrey Forrest Hughes
Mother
Margaret Eyre Sealy
Spouse(s)
Danne Patricia Emerson (m. 1967–1981), Doris Downes (m. 2001–2012), Victoria Hughes (m. 1981–2001)
Siblings
Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes
Children
Danton Hughes, Fielder Douglas Jewett, Freeborn Garrettson Jewett IV