Andrew Hudson (British, 1935), 

Bruce in Red Sweater, 

24/25 Lithograph Unframed, signed

37 in. X 59 in. (Please note size.)

Andrew Hudson of LGBTQ interest

Biography

Andrew Hudson was born in 1935 in Birmingham, England. He was the great-great-grandson of the early 19th century miniature painter William Hudson. Both his grandfathers were Anglican clergy. His father was a well-known metallurgist and together with his mother encouraged his interest in art. He earned a B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford in 1957. For the next two years he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London. After being an active Evangelical Protestant, in 1955 Hudson became a practicing Roman Catholic.

Seeking a change from the British scene and new perspectives in art he moved to Canada in 1961 to study at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where he began teaching art courses for the Art Department and Extension Department at the University. His drawings and paintings were exhibited in a number of solo and group shows in Canada in the early 1960s. In August, 1962, he met New York art critic Clement Greenberg at an artists workshop at Emma Lake. Greenberg encouraged Hudson’s writing of art crticism and Hudson’s articles and art reviews began to appear in Canadian and international publications. In 1965 Greenberg recommended Hudson for the position of art critic to The Washington Post. Hudson was offered and accepted the job, and acquiesced to the editors’ request that he stop exhibiting his own work.

Hudson left The Post in 1967 to become Curator of Education at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art. This pioneering museum became part of the Corcoran Gallery in 1968. In 1970 Hudson founded the Department of Academic Studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he taught art history, writing and Buddhism for the next 34 years. He continued making art and his work appeared in shows in D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Austria, among other places during the 1970s and 1980s.