Richard Hambleton - Shadowman

Richard Hambleton - Shadowman

1h 21m 49s

Street art movement

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Richard Hambleton

Commercial success

Startling silhouette

Venice Biennale

In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. At the height of his first commercial and critical success, Hambleton was featured in LIFE magazine and acclaimed at the Venice Biennale.

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