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Arts Institute Director Robert Richman, 72, Dies

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871113
Author:Bart Barnes

Robert Maxwell Richman, 72, a poet and teacher who from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s played a vital role in bringing hundreds of artistic performances and exhibitions, concerts, workshops, readings and lectures to what was considered then a culturally bereft Washington, died Nov. 10 at a hospital in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., after a stroke.

Mr. Richman founded and directed the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit cultural and educational organization that brought T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, Arnold Toynbee, Robert Penn Warren, Joan Miro, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aaron Copland, ...

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