Dick Bellamy was born in Cincinnati in 1927, the son of a doctor who met his future wife at medical school.
[1] He then ran the Noah Goldowsky Gallery on Upper Madison Avenue for a few years.
Bellamy attended the University of Ohio in Cincinnati for one semester.
In 1949 he visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, and its summer art colony.
He moved to New York in the early 1950s, eventually working as director of the Hansa Gallery, a cooperative gallery that included members Allan Kaprow, Alfred Leslie, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz, Jean Follett, Robert Whitman and Jan Müller.