Ronald Mallory

1939–

Introduction

Ronald Mallory (June 17, 1932 – July 7, 2021) was a Philadelphia born architect and artist artist who worked in New York City and Milan, Italy, and his old age lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. His family had come to United States from Russia. He studied architecture in Brazil with Oscar Niemayer. In the sixties, he was one of the founding members of the kinetic art movement which took him to become a star in Paris, Monte Carlo and New York. In particular, his works involving mercury and acrylic have become icons, and are represented in many important private collections and museums in United States as including the Museum of Modern Art of New York as well as most of the top museums and collections in the United States, in Europe , Mexico City and Dubai

Mallory was a student of the late Pol Bury, friends of many celebrities and himself a famous jet setter. He was funny, brilliant and extremely talented worked in many mediums, sculpture, digital art and oil paintings.

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Q7365091

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1966

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