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Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American postminimalist artist...

Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. Tuttle studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and after moving to New York in 1963 he spent a semester at the Cooper Union and worked at the Betty Parsons Gallery. One year after taking a job as an assistant at Betty Parsons, she gave him his first show. Tuttle's reputation as a master was secure in Europe from early on, though acceptance of his work in his home country was slower. His works on paper are considered seminal works in American art. Tuttle had a survey exhibition in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit was controversial and the show's curator Marcia Tucker lost her job as a result, after a scathing review by Hilton Kramer. Kramer, then art critic for The New York Times wrote, referring to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum "less is more", "in Mr. Tuttle's work, less is unmistakably less...One is tempted to say, art is concerned, less has never been as less than this." Tuttle's work, however, is in the collection of the Whitney today. Tuttle is often referred to