Art critic and writer. Born in Sydney on 28 July 1938. Art critic and editor for the Sydney Observer 1958-59 and for Nation (Aust) 1960-64. Exhibited paintings in Sydney and Melbourne 1963. Senior art critic for Time Magazine since 1970. Hon. DFine Arts (N.Y.). Hon. Doctor of Letters (University of Melbourne).
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Recent Australian painting, 1961.
His Frank Auerbach, 1990: jkt. (Robert Hughes; b. 1938)
WW in America, c1988: v. 1, p. 1500 (Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest; b. July 28, 1938; art critic)
LC manual auth. cd. : (hdg.: Hughes, Robert, 1936- ; p. [1] of his Art of Australia cites d. of b. 1938)
Tel. info. from CIP Off., Apr. 8, 1999 : (also auth. of A jerk on one end : reflections of a mediocre fisherman)
Magritte, ReneĢ. The portable Magritte, 2002: t.p. (Robert Hughes) cover, p. 4 (Robert Hughes, the celebrated author and art critic for Time magazine)
New York times WWW site, Aug. 7, 2012 : (in obituary published Aug. 6: Robert Hughes; Robert Studley Forrest Hughes; b. July 28, 1938, Sydney; d. Monday [Aug. 6, 2012], the Bronx, aged 74; eloquent, combative art critic and historian who lived with operatic flair and wrote with a sense of authority that owed more to Zola or Ruskin than to his own century)