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Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
Introduction by Allen S. Weller
College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana March 3 through April 7, 1963 Krannert Art Museum
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1963
CONTEMPORARY
(r) Copyright 1963 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Library of Congress Catalog Card No. A48-340
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AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
DAVID D. HENRY
President of the University
ALLEN S. WELLER
Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts Chairman, Festival of Contemporary Arts
JURY OF SELECTION
Muriel B. Christison
J. D. Hogan
C. V. Donovan, Chairman
EXHIBITION COMMITTEE
C. W. Briggs
F. Gallo
O. S. Guy
J. D. Hogan
R. Perlman
J. R. Shipley
M. A. Sprague
C. V. Donovan, Chairman
MUSEUM STAFF
C. V. Donovan, Director
Muriel B. Christison, Associate Director
Berdine Soenksen, Secretary
J. O. Sowers, Preparator
J. Vogt, Assistant
R. Green, C. Barnes, Custodians
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The College of Fine and Applied Arts and the Krannert Art Museum are grateful to those who have made loans of paintings and sculp- ture to this exhibition and acknowledge the cooperation of the following artists, collectors, museums, and galleries:
THE ALAN GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
AMEL GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
BABCOCK GALLERIES, NEW YORK CITY
MIRKO (BASALDELLA), CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
MR. LAWRENCE BLOEDEL, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
BOLLES GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
GRACE BORGENICHT GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
DAVID COLE GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
COMARA GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
CONTEMPORARIES GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
TERRY DINTENFASS, INC., NEW YORK CITY
THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MR. RALPH DUCASSE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
DURLACHER BROS., NEW YORK CITY
MR. AND MRS. ALLAN D. EMIL, NEW YORK CITY
ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
FAIRWEATHER-HARDIN GALLERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MR. ALEXANDER D. FALCK, JR., ELMIRA, NEW YORK
RICHARD FEIGEN GALLERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
FEINGARTEN GALLERIES, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; AND NEW YORK CITY
FORUM GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
ROSE FRIED GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
ALLAN FRUMKIN GALLERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
OTTO GERSON GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
GILMAN GALLERIES, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MR. AND MRS. DONALD S. GILMORE, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
GRAHAM GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
GRAND CENTRAL MODERNS, NEW YORK CITY
GREEN GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
GUMP'S GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
DALZELL HATFIELD GALLERIES, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
MRS. F. W. HILLES, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
JOSEPH H. HIRSHHORN COLLECTION, NEW YORK CITY
FREDRIC HOBBS FINE ART, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MR. STERLING HOLLOWAY, LAGUNA, CALIFORNIA
MARTHA JACKSON GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
SIDNEY JANIS GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
ART CENTER: KALAMAZOO INSTITUTE OF ARTS, KALAMAZOO. MICHIGAN
PAUL KANTOR GALLERY, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
M. KNOEDLER & CO., NEW YORK CITY
SAMUEL M. KOOTZ GALLERY, INC., NEW YORK CITY
FELIX LANDAU GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
ALBERT LANDRY GALLERIES, NEW YORK CITY
DR. AND MRS. FRANK LASSMAN, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
MR. LAWRENCE LIVINGSTON, JR., SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA
PIERRE MATISSE GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MISS JUDITH MCBEAN, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
DR. ABRAHAM MELAMED, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
MR. AND MRS. PHILLIP MELTZER, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
MIDTOWN GALLERIES, NEW YORK CITY
MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
BORIS MIRSKI GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
NORDNESS GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
THE PACE GALLERY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
BETTY PARSONS GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
PERIDOT GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
POINDEXTER GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MR. AND MRS. LEO PRAEGER, SYOSSET, NEW YORK
ROSE RABOW GALLERIES, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
FRANK K. M. REHN, INC., NEW YORK CITY
ESTHER-ROBLES GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
PAUL ROSENBERG & COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
BERTHA SCHAEFER GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
SCULPTURE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
SELECTED ARTISTS GALLERIES, INC., NEW YORK CITY
JACQUES SELIGMANN GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MR. HOWARD ROSS SMITH, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY SOLOMON, NEW YORK CITY
MR. EVERETT SPRUCE, AUSTIN, TEXAS
STABLE GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
STAEMPFLI GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
IRENE AND JAN PETER STERN, HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
MR. AND MRS. STEPHEN A. STONE, NEWTON CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS
MR. AND MRS. GENE SUMMERS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
SWETZOFF GALLERY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MR. CHARLES UMLAUF, AUSTIN, TEXAS
VALLEY HOUSE, DALLAS, TEXAS
CATHERINE VIVIANO GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
WILLARD GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
MR. DAVID WORKMAN, NEW YORK CITY
WORLD HOUSE GALLERIES, NEW YORK CITY
PURCHASE AWARDS
1948
LEONARD BECK EUGENE BERMAN RAYMOND BREININ JOSEPH DE MARTINI WILLIAM J. GORDON PHILIP GUSTON HAZEL JANICKI KARL KNATHS JULIAN E. LEVI LESTER O. SCHWARTZ
1949
CLAUDE BENTLEY
LOUIS BOSA
FRED CONWAY
JOHN HELIKER
CARL HOLTY
RICO LEBRUN
ARTHUR OSVER
FELIX RUVOLO
YVES TANGUY
BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN
1950
MAX BECKMANN DEAN ELLIS FREDERICK S. FRANCK ROBERT GWATHMEY HANS HOFMANN CHARLES RAIN ABRAHAM RATTNER HEDDA STERNE ANTHONY TONEY
1951
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
BYRON BROWNE
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
CLEVE GRAY
MORRIS KANTOR
LEO MANSO
MATTA
GREGORIO PRESTOPINO
KURT SELIGMANN
JEAN XCF.RON
1952
SAMUEL ADLER TOM BENRIMO CAROL BLANCHARD CARLYLE BROWN WILLIAM CONGDON WALTER MURCH RUFINO TAMAYO
1953
ROBERT L. GRILLEY YNEZ JOHNSTON GYORGY KEPES LAWRENCE KUPFERMAN THEODORE J. ROSZAK BEN SHAHN MARGARITA WORTH
1955
RALPH S. DU CASSE FRANK DUNCAN LEONARD EDMONDSON MORRIS GRAVES MARGO HOFF ROGER KUNTZ GEORGE RATKAI KARL ZERBE
1957
DAVID ARONSON JACOB EPSTEIN ELIAS FRIEDENSOHN JOHN HULTBERG WOLF KAHN CARL MORRIS CHARLES UMLAUF NICHOLAS VASILIEFF
1959
LAWRENCE CALCAGNO FRED FARR JONAH KINIGSTEIN RICO LEBRUN ARTHUR OKAMURA REUBEN TAM
1961
LEONARD BASKIN CHARLES BURCHFIELD DAVID PARK JULIUS SCHMIDT
FOREWORD
The phenomenal increase of public interest in ail has in recent years established an audience that wishes to be informed as well as entertained, and it is to this end that the present exhibition of CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, the eleventh in a series, has been formed. The jury has developed the exhibition from many parts of the country during the past year. As in previous exhibi- tions there has been no conscious attempt to choose works in any particular category. Examples representing a high degree of success in the solution of each posed problem have been brought together where they may be compared.
Members of the jury frequently are asked about new trends or directions that may have become evident since the last exhibition. It is their observation that an obsolescence, similar to that of the rapidly changing technological world, is not equally apparent in painting and sculpture. For the most part, except for a few capricious and novel productions, artists continue to be largely concerned with matters of organi- zation and two dimensional surface relationships arrived at through intuitive action. In reviewing several thousand works across the United States, the jury found, exclusive of some instances, a relatively small percentage in either painting or sculpture which dealt with the specific time or geographical place of the artist.
Today's speed of communication places the latest influence at the service of artists in the most remote areas, and in the assimilative process a vital sense of immediate experience and circumambience is often displaced by an attraction to a current mode.
In earlier times certain restrictions and responsibilities were placed on the artist, a condition which does not prevail today. A complete freedom of statement permits him to create for himself and his fellow artists works not likely to be immediately understood by the general public. The artist should not be expected to be satisfied to continue the traditions of the past. Therefore the freedom to compose without restraint is not apt to be easily relinquished. In a time of human anxiety and social regimentation this very freedom is a unique and treasured property of the twentieth century artist. To it may be credited the high degree of excitement, energy, tension, and enthusiasm discernible in the works brought together in this exhibition. It is pos- sible that not all of them will receive unanimous endorsement a few decades from now, but this is true of much endeavor in other fields, and vigorous forays into new- means of expression must constantly be made.
We hope that for all who are interested in the present and future of art this unbiased survey of contemporary directions in painting and sculpture will provide a stimulating visual and emotional experience.
C. V. Donovan
SALES Many of the paintings and sculptures in this
exhibition are for sale. Visitors are invited to obtain price information at the Museum office. The Krannert Art Museum reserves the right of priority in purchases made from the exhibition.
Subject, Object, and Content
Cultural forms and expressions are shaped by these things: relationships between man and everything which is not man, relationships between man and man, and man's search for self-understanding. The first of these has traditionally been man's relationship with the world of nature, but in our times this has taken on a totally new character. At various historic times, these activities have weighed differently in the total scales, now one, now another, being of determining importance. It is probable that these basic factors have been stated here in the chronological order in which they generally appear in cultural developments. It is possible that they appear in cyclical form and that new conditions call for re-evaluation of each of them.
There has perhaps never been a period in which so much attention was devoted to the attempt man makes to understand himself as is now the case, and certainly relationships among men have reached a new point of complexity. But in some ways the most revolutionary changes in the pat- terns and forms which our kind of culture is producing are caused by certain fundamental changes in contrasts and conflicts between man and non-man. Once this simply meant relations between man and what we think of as the world of nature : the continuing life of sun and soil, of earth and water, of wind and rain. The development of a sense of environment in art (as in the discovery of perspective or in landscape painting) is an important evidence of one kind of reaction to this relationship.
Today, however, the nonhumanistic facts and forces which surround man are not simply natural elements and the actions of the physical system
of which our world is a part, but more and more they are the products of man himself, the results of his own will. The engulfing totality of the modem city, the ubiquitous and aggressive activities of the machines man has himself constructed, have created a totally new man-made environment from which we contemplate the basic problems underlying self-realization and creative expression. Modern man, in large part, no longer lives pri- marily in the world of nature, but in a nonhumanistic world which he has himself designed. The tragedy of modem life may he in the fact that this world no longer seems to be under control and that it no longer seems possible to chart its future course with confidence.
When man is harmoniously a part of the world which surrounds him, when he is at peace with nature, his art tends to be naturalistic. Descriptive art ( that which we usually call realistic art ) signifies a faith in, a confidence in, the forms and forces of both man and all that is not man. The appear- ance of antinaturalistic art is profoundly significant of basic changes in all three of the impulses which have been mentioned here. As man's confidence in himself diminishes, one of two things seems to happen in the world of artistic form : if he still retains a fundamentally descriptive art, the physical scale and stature of the human image diminishes and its surroundings are given constantly greater and greater emphasis; or, as naturalistic elements vanish, man's sensations and feelings take the place of representation, and all that is not man tends to disappear completely. An emphasis on space for its own sake and a constantly increasing abstraction of descriptive representation inevitably result.
We are now engulfed in a wave of antinaturalism. What has caused this? What does it mean? It may be because man's relationship with nature has been upset, and particularly because the new character of the environ- ment which man has made for himself has led to doubts and anxieties, to a kind of general soulsickncss on the one hand and to undefined fanaticism on the other. We no longer find it possible to be preoccupied with the conviction of an ideal material or spiritual life in the future, one which can be achieved either by the planned progress of man's own actions or by the immutable events of predetermined order. Our historic sense has made the past vivid; it has also illuminated the future, but it has not solved our immediate problems.
The focal point around which time revolves is crucial in determining the character of a civilization, its actions, and its products. This point may be eternity, and all experience may be measured against this. It may be the past, in which case the present is seen in terms of its relationship with what has gone before. It may be that all actions and thoughts are concerned first of all with the reshaping of the future. While all three directions may be present at any one stage, every great culture seems to have its primary impulse in one or another of them. It is the contemplation of the effects of such basic concepts which form the characteristic qualities of thought (revealed in speculation, in actions, and in created forms) of each great cultural period.
Many of the great ancient cultures ( Greek and Oriental ) contemplated eternity. They thought in terms of absolutes, of endlessness. This does not mean that they believed the conditions of the moment would be per- manently preserved, but they felt themselves to be part of a planned and ordered and clearly defined system. It was Plato who said, "Time is the moving image of eternity." The world of sensory experience was conse- quently not a primary element in the methodology of such a society but a pathway to ultimate perfection. Such a civilization is aristocratic, other- worldly, critical as well as creative.
Other more changeless societies (the Egyptian) contemplated the past and placed major emphasis on the preservation of things as they were. Such a society is indifferent to a clearly defined scheme of values, is profoundly impressed by the facts of actual conditions as they physically exist, avoids criticism because of its basic objectivity, and fundamentally attacks other- worldliness. It does not have a concept of progress or a goal for human endeavor. Neither of these types sees the future as something to be deter- mined by present actions.
The nineteenth century produced a new kind of culture which focused itself upon the future and conceived the idea that this was not something which was inevitable, but rather that it would be the result of present action. The historical conception of culture, in which existing conditions are interpreted and understood only in the light of the development which has produced them, the whole evolutionary tendency of nineteenth century thinking, led to a culture of action. Man would remake the future in his
own terms; it would be different from what it would have been had man not acted as he did. The cult of factual objectivity led people to feel that all that was necessary was to understand immediate reality in order to project the future and to act wisely for this purpose. Karl Marx expressed this idea when he said, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the main thing is to change it."
The development of science is obviously a very prominent part of a culture of action, but it also contemplates the eternal and seeks a method of approaching it. It attempts to do so, however, without preconceived definitions of absolutes. But science is also, and at the same time, pro- foundly historical, very much concerned with the past in a physical sense, in that it is constantly trying to find out what has already happened in the world of matter and energy, with the realization that it is impossible to understand and control these forces without a knowledge of their structure. Science is thus crucial in the culture of our times in that it deals with the understanding of the past, the actions of the present, and plans for the future.
But there are elements in our culture which will not readily fall into place as a continuation of the evolutionary, historically conditioned kind of thinking and acting which seeks to mold the form and character of things to come. We are more and more committed to a culture of action but less and less sure of a sense of control of the future. The great cultures of the past were the result of contemplation of existing conditions in relationship to a total sense of time. The great problem today results from the possibility that we may be in the midst of a period in which we are involved with action without contemplation, action consciously unrelated to the past and without the intention of forming the future. In certain ways contemporary works of art are among the clear examples of this tendency, although it can undoubtedly be observed in other areas as well.
Naturalistic art — that is, realistic description of recognizable material — in times past always had inherent within it a sense of contemplation which gave it some significance beyond simple record or documentation. (This is not to say that it was always or necessarily good art but only that it was formed by a tradition in which the work of art reflected a conception of existence, a world view, which had meaning and which reached beyond
the immediate stimulus.) There have been periods in which nature was humanized (as in Greek art) and others in which man was naturalized (as in Egypt), but always naturalistic description was the vehicle for thought and, consequently, for meaning. Often naturalism has unexpected and sometimes undetected symbolic values, as was the case in much seven- teenth century realistic descriptive painting. Even a purely physical, visual art of almost pure sensation, like Impressionism, reflected a sense of the enveloping totality of nature in which man and his works were thoroughly and happily at home with their surroundings.
Today, however, with a culture of action which to many people no longer seems to have a sense of the promise of fulfillment in the future, it is more and more difficult to see naturalism in symbolic terms or even as a vocabulary for the expression of humanistic emotion, as it almost invariably was in the past. As a result, we now see contemporary art following along two divergent paths : a new kind of naturalism, apparently devoid of symbolism, and an antinaturalistic humanism. Paradoxically but inevitably, naturalism becomes nonhuman, while humanistic emotions are expressed in antinaturalistic terms.
These tendencies in contemporary art are much in need of definition and seem at first thought to represent diametrically opposed points of view. On the one hand, we see a great deal of work which is completely anti- naturalistic, so far as recognizable symbols are concerned: forms which seem to emerge entirely from within the artist's individual consciousness without reference to the tangible world outside of the creator. On the other hand, we also encounter a return to naturalism of a quite special kind. This began to be seen some years ago as the human image appeared more and more frequently, often in the work of artists who were previously largely abstract or nonobjective in their expression. This tendency has now gone into a new phase in which works of art either rely completely upon actual objects of everyday life (frequently objects which would ordinarily be considered of decidedly minor importance) or in which the artist seeks to create without comment, without expression, in the manner of a non- human energetic force. This naturalism is the result of action without contemplation. The artist deliberately avoids every element of self- expression; he equates himself with the nonhumanistic (though man-made)
elements of our culture. Paintings of soup cans, gigantic plaster hamburgers, articles of actual clothing suspended on coat hangers, stoves with miscel- laneous objects scattered upon them, are now exhibited in galleries as works of art. We have long been accustomed to the introduction of "actual" objects into artistic compositions, starting with the early cubist experiments in collage and reaching a climax in the "junk" sculpture of yesterday, but now to have the objet trouve presented almost without modification is some- thing which, so far as I know, is an absolutely new cultural phenomenon. The bald fact has been isolated and now seems to have been turned into an artistic statement. What was once raw material has become end product. The search for self-identification (which often enough has been a desperate one) reaches full circle, or perhaps it would be better to say, dead end. Such objects may be witty, or they may be disturbing, but it is certain that they cannot be judged by any of the standards we have applied to all other artistic developments, except that of novelty.
These two tendencies are not necessarily irreconcilable. They may be opposites of the same coin. Rejection is often as powerful a response to a given situation as is acceptance. We will not truly understand the peculiar ethos of our times unless we attempt to place both of them in context.
It is a fact that in times like ours, abstractions often seem more impor- tant and consequently more real than the concrete facts of everyday experi- ence. We have gone through and left behind a period in which the representation, the classification, and the comprehension in a gross sense of the material objects of our world seem of much significance. We are concerned now with precisely those qualities which cannot be handled or measured in any obvious way. The hidden interior structure of matter; the positive and aggressive activities of forces which seem outside of human control, either physical or psychological ; tensions and relationships — these are the problems with which we grapple. It is symptomatic that space, which once appeared to man simply as something which was not there, something left over after mass had defined itself, now becomes the essential element in which and with which we must operate. Traditional forms of language and traditional forms of aesthetic expression (and also, of course, traditional forms of social behavior) can no longer cope with this situation.
Just as new symbols emerge in scientific and philosophical discourse, so new aesthetic symbols are called into being in such a climate.
Sometimes we look back with nostalgic longing to a period when it was more possible to make the definitions which we search for today. No ques- tion is directed more frequently or more pointedly to the critic than one which aims at uncovering the standards he uses, the measurements he applies to his judgments. Even when he attempts to define these ( as I did in the introduction to the 1961 Festival exhibition at the University of Illinois ) , he generally ends up by knocking the foundation out from under himself and gives his own critics ample grounds for attack by admitting the profoundly subjective quality of the judgments he makes and the standards he assumes. It is hardly possible today for him to establish a secure or impersonal basis for aesthetic evaluation.
Some artists will avoid all of the problems of definition which are so often asked about contemporary art by telling you that it is impossible to put its significance into words and that the attempt is futile. Some writers on art (and this includes many artists themselves, in the statements which it is now customary for them to produce in quantity) seem deliberately to obscure meaning by overelaborate and unclear phraseology. But I do not believe that the art of the present is necessarily more difficult to understand if it is seen in context than is the art of the past when it is judged in terms appropriate to it. It should be possible to produce a few fixed points against which many of the artistic products of our times may be measured.
As we look at contemporary art, let us question three things about it: subject, object, and content. The subject of a work of art is what it is about. The object is the material thing it is. Its content is the meaning which is expressed by the artist's thought and action. These three elements are related in the most intimate way, but in the past it was usually possible to isolate each of them, although some people have always been confused about the difference between subject and content. Today the situation has changed. Subject, as such, has disappeared from much contemporary art, or perhaps it is more correct to say that it has merged with the other ele- ments. The work of art becomes total and self-contained. It means what it if. It is not about anything except itself.
Subject, object, and content are crucial elements because they make us concentrate on the three things which have always gone into the make-up of all creative activities: mind, matter, and spirit. If we can understand the way in which the artist's mind works, if we have a comprehension of the material with which he is dealing, if we can begin to sense the spirit which impels him in the direction he has taken and which underlies the work he has accomplished, we shall know a good deal about contemporary art and also perhaps have a clearer comprehension of ourselves and the world we have made for ourselves.
It is certainly not difficult to understand why a sense of uncertainty about the future haunts the minds of men today. This has undoubtedly had a profound effect on many kinds of artistic expression, as well as on almost all other aspects of fife. It has caused uncertainty of aim, a loss of sense of permanence. Often it causes the artist to turn more and more within himself, to express only those qualities which emerge from the very depths of his being, resulting in an increasingly private kind of artistic language; or, again, it may result in the opposite — an almost completely nonhumanistic absorption in material objects, deliberately avoiding associa- tive values. In many ways this has not been a nourishing atmosphere in which art can flourish.
All forms of creative expression share this atmosphere. Over twenty years ago, Katherine Anne Porter, describing her own development as an artist in another medium, characterized this experience and at the same time expressed the amazing toughness of art even when produced under painful circumstances:
... I was not one of those who could flourish in the conditions of the past two decades. . . . We none of us flourished in those times, artists or not, for art, like the human life of which it is the truest voice, thrives best by daylight in a green and growing world. For myself, and I was not alone, all the con- scious and recollected years of my life have been lived to this day under the heavy threat of world catastrophe, and most of the energies of my mind and spirit have been spent in the effort to grasp the meaning of those threats, to trace them to their sources and to understand the logic of this majestic and terrible failure of the life of man in the Western world. In the face of such shape and weight of present misfortune, the voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass; but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their
names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive un- changed in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilizations that produced them.
Diana Trilling, in a recent essay on a literary subject, expresses very clearly some of the reasons for which the artist is driven inward. One can substitute "painter" for "writer" in her analysis without really changing the significance of her statement.
For the advanced writer of our times, the self is the supreme, even sole, referrant. Society has no texture or business worth bothering about; it exists because it weighs upon us and because it conditions us so absolutely. The diverse social scene is homogenised into a force we feel only grossly, as a source of our horror or terror or emptiness. The job of literature in our period is thus more poetical than novelistic - — our advanced fiction neither anatomises the society that is nor conceives the society that might be; it deals merely with the massive brute social fact in its impress upon the individual consciousness. Where the novelist of an earlier day helped us to understand and master a mysterious or recalcitrant environment, the present-day novelist undertakes only to help us define the self in relation to the world that surrounds and threatens to overwhelm it. And this search for self-definition proceeds by sensibility, by the choice of a personal style or stance which will differentiate the self from, or within, its undifferentiated social context.
A great deal of contemporary artistic expression is a response to the dehumanizing factors of our age. Sometimes it is an attempt to control the new mechanistic forms and materials by an aesthetic which can be a mode of self-realization. Sometimes it is a cry of defiance. It is in the world of art that the importance of the self remains supreme. In a world which more and more works with a sense of social collectivism, the artist (whatever his medium ) treasures his right to be unpredictable, spontaneous, to preserve something of the innocence of childhood — in other words, to be free. He does not create in order to change conditions, or even to expose them. His work is not necessarily good or bad; it simply is. This is creation without illusion, presentation rather than re-presentation of something outside of the inner depths of the creative being. The artist is less and less concerned with the image of the natural world and more and more with feeling for its own sake. Increasingly the artist has no outer life, only an inner one. Image becomes feeling, and feeling becomes image. Subject, object, and content draw constantly closer and closer together. The purpose of contemporary
art is largely self-contained: it is act, not fact, which engrosses the artist. It is a statement, not a statement about something.
As a result, contemporary art combines opposites constantly in the same expressions. The real and the unreal mingle : highly arbitrary and imagina- tive forms may be expressed with an almost brutally concrete sense of the material from which they are constructed. It is logical and illogical at the same time, or may shift from one of these to the other according to the stance of the spectator. It is useful as self-realization, useless as social product. The exhilaration and joy of creation is at the same time filled with sadness. Art inevitably is a life-creating, a life-enhancing thing, but at the same time much art today is instinct with the sense of destruction and death. It is a personal reaction against the great impersonal forces which seem to control our destinies: against what "they" are doing to us, against the things which "it" has forced on us, against the great no-one who manipulates us.
There are still other boundaries which become indistinct. It seems to be more and more difficult to isolate the work of art and to see it for itself, rather than as a symptom or an example or an influence or a stage in a development. There are times when art and criticism become so involved with each other that the two seem almost inseparable, when the work of art seems to derive its importance and to find its reason for being from the critical response it arouses, rather than the other way around. Often pictures seem to be planned primarily as material to be reproduced in books about art, or, at best, as items in comprehensive exhibitions. Often the museum seems to have lost its original function as a place in which to keep and expose individual works of art and turns into an institution of learning about art, in which individual works take their place in functions which are more closely related to method than to content.
A final important point must be made about nonobjective art. It is one which is often not considered but which is of profound significance in defining the completely new aspects of such an art and its constantly increas- ing emphasis upon the creative individual. It is this: nonobjective art is now in an important sense the most completely humanistic art there is. Everything in it comes from within the creator. It reproduces nothing; it produces much or little according to the innate meaning and capacities
of its creator. We must get away from the idea that humanistic art deals primarily with the human image ; in an important sense, exactly the opposite is the case. Representational art is compounded of the three elements which have been here discussed: the world of matter outside of man which pro- vides forms and motifs with which the artist works; the physical materials or media which are the artist's tools; the personality or point of view of the artist himself. Nonobjective art omits the first element and provides us with the interactions between media and the unique personality of the creator. While the forms and the relationships which it establishes are certainly part of basic physical being (mass, gravity, and so on), it has ceased to imitate or reproduce in any descriptive way the facts of nature as we ordinarily apprehend them. It has created a new kind of life, a man-made dynamic organic complex. There is nothing in it which is not human except the physical materials out of which it is made. It is consequently a mistake to see in nonobjective art a submission to the mechanization of the human condition which increasingly diminishes the stature of the individual human being and his individual will. The opposite is actually the case. In its freedom from the restrictions which reliance upon everything which is nonhuman imposed on much of the art of the past, in its annihilation of descriptive or illustrational or symbolic aspects of the world of vision, it is the final proclamation of humanistic expression. It has no other purpose. It does not try to evoke something other than itself; it does not attempt to influence the spectator in any way; it is spontaneous and completely indi- vidualistic. If it establishes contacts and associations with things other than itself, these are much more likely to be contacts and associations with other works of art rather than with forms or ideas which are not art.
This does not mean, of course, that art of this kind is bound to be significant. More than in any earlier style, significance depends on the actual character and stature of its creator. If he is important, the works of art which he creates will be important. He cannot borrow important ideas from some other sources or establish a train of thought which will provide satisfaction outside of his work. If the theoretical freedom and spontaneity of contemporary art has all too often led to distressing uniformity of results, this must be an expression of our present human condition, not a reason for the kind of regimentation which our society seems to create. Contem-
porary art is not a major force in the creation of the culture of our times, as was the case in certain earlier periods. But there has perhaps never been a time in which it provided a surer insight into some of the most basic qualities of the society which has produced it.
The humanism of nonrepresentational art, the absolute identification of the creator and his work, is indicated in a number of characteristic con- temporary artistic habits. This catalogue is an example of one of them. At no earlier period has the public been bombarded with "artist's statements" to the extent which is now the case. Whereas the artist remained anon- ymous in the Middle Ages, seldom even leaving a signature upon his work, innocent of the ideas of self-expression or self-realization, and the artist of the Renaissance relied almost exclusively upon the finished work as his means of communication with the public, today we constantly inquire of the artist what he is doing, how it came about that his work has developed in the way it has, what he thinks about when he is involved in the act of creation, what his ideas on education are, what he believes the relationship between artist and society to be, and so forth. The documentation which exists about contemporary artists is fantastically voluminous. Photographic portraits of artists at work are popular as they never were before and frequently accompany catalogues of one-man shows. This tendency is equally evidenced in our attitude towards the art of the past, in our increas- ing interest in the studies and unfinished works by great artists, and in our attempts to explain them in psychological terms. Often the public seems to be more concerned with the identification of the artist than with the con- templation of the work of art.
This is evidenced, too, in our habit of usually referring exclusively to the artist by name, rather than by identifying the individual work. We say, "This is a Jackson Pollock," while once we said, "This is Titian's 'Assumption of the Virgin'." The one-man show, which brings together multiple examples of a single artist's work, is the way in which we judge an artist's caliber, rather than by emphasis upon an individual masterpiece. Indeed, the day of masterpieces seems to be past. Art becomes a continuing series of actions, really a way of life, rather than the creation of specific monuments. The comprehensive exhibition, which attempts to represent the totality of a limited period of time, more and more becomes a total
artistic design, rather than a collection of individual works. There is a tendency to balance one direction against another, to make sure that all aspects of contemporary work are represented in proper proportion and in proper geographical distribution. The search for unknown young artists is continuous.
It is far easier today to express joy in nonobjective terms than in any other way. Contemporary representational art has increasingly tragic overtones.
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1. SAMUEL ADLER
I Saw Him in Florence
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2. RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ
3. DAVID ARONSON
Minos in the Labyrinth
Page 71
Blind Sampson
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Delilah
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The Philosopher
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Robed Nude
Page 156
Foam Spray
Page 74
8. RICHARD BARINGER Blue T with Yellow Square
Page 119
9. WALTER BARKER
Persian Series #19
Page 62
10. MIRKO (BASALDELLA) Danzatore Guerriero
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* 11. LEONARD BASKIN
Seated Woman
Page 112
12. JOHN BAXTER
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Summer Geese
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13. ROBERT BEAUCHAMP
Two Sunken Heads Against Ochre and Green
14. RAINEY BENNETT
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Sunset Child
Page 85
15. EUGENE BERMAN The Trajan Column at Night
Page 116
16. HARRY BERTOIA
Untitled
Page 94
o> 17. ISABEL BISHOP
Woman Undressing
Page 110
18. PAMELA BODEN
Steeplechase
Page 195
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19. GEOFFREY BOWMAN
White Image
Page 129
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20. MORRIS BRODERSON
Pieta
Page 137
21. ROBERT BRODERSON
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22. ALEXANDER BROOK
Coming Age
Page 127
A. Rogoway
Page 101
23. JAMES BROOKS
Fargo
Page 106
24. JOAN BROWN Nun with Staffordshire Terrier
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2^ 25. CHARLES BURCHFIELD
March Wind in the Woods
Page 92
. 26. GIORGIO CAVALLON
Untitled painting dated 3.21.61
Page 82
The Mandala Image
Page 167
27. SUNGWOO CHUN
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28. CARROLL CLOAR
The Brotherhood
Page 81
29. ROBERT COOK
Revolution
Page 100
30. ROBERT CREMEAN Standing Figure— Disrobing
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31. JERROLD DAVIS
32. STUART DAVIS 5-t 33. ENRICO DONATI
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34. RALPH DU CASSE
The Bay
Page 49
General Studies
Page 142
222 CPS 1962
Page 59
The Temple of Noo
Page 64
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35. LUDVIK DURCHANEK
36. JIMMY ERNST
37. EDGAR EWING
The Wish
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Sooner or Later
Page 46
Enigma of the Chess Set
Page 89
38. FRED FARR
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Armored Horse No. 8
Page 193
7 $+ . ; 39. KELLY FEARING
Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing
Page 97
40. JOHN FERREN
A Rose for Everyone
Page 121
41. SAM FRANCIS
Untitled
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42. HELEN FRANKENTHALER Seascape with Dunes
Page 99
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43. JANE FREILICHER
Canal
Page 223
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44. ELIAS FRIEDENSOHN
The Secret
Page 77
45. LEE GATCH
Jurassic Frieze
Page 188
46. KAHLIL GIBRAN
Seated Nude
Page 65
47. JOSEPH GLASCO
Standing Figure
Page 177
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Male Figure
Page 144
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50. ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
Ochre and Black
Page 150
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The Window East
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Swiss Landscape
Page 103
2.^3'ua 53' BALCOMB GREENE
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Walking in the Street
Page 109
Black Light
Page 170
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55. ROBERT GWATHMEY Woman Arranging Vase
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56. GRACE HARTIGAN
Clark's Cove
Page 216
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58. JOSEPH HIRSCH
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Noah's Ark
Page 124
Daybreak
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59. HANS HOFMANN
Scattered Sunset
Page 86
60. ART HOLMAN
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Allegorical Landscape
Page 219
61. CARL HOLTY
Not What You Think
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62. RICHARD HUNT
63. LESTER JOHNSON
Standing Form I
Page 90
Blue Man
Page 159
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64. YNEZ JOHNSTON
Bulwark of the Shore
Page 111
65. JOHN PAUL JONES
Low Man
Page 161
66. LUISE KAISH
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Descending Angel
Page 212
67. MURIEL KALISH
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Nude and Cow
Page 222
68. HOWARD KANOVITZ
Quequechan
Page 178
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69. MORRIS KANTOR
Pink Facade
Page 206
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70. HERBERT KATZMAN
En Negligee
Page 118
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71. ELLSWORTH KELLY
Yellow White
Page 163
J72. GYORGY KEPES 73. EARL KERKAM
Nomad Lines
Page 107
Head
Page 185
? 74. WILLIAM KING
Fortitude
Page 146
575. LYMAN KIPP
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76. MASATOYO KISHI
77. GEORGE KOKINES
Route II
Page 132
Opus No. 62-607
Page 57
Patrimony
Page 192
78. ROGER KUNTZ
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Double Underpass
Page 176
Mother of Pearl Chair
Page 125
80. WILLIAM LASANSKY
Head of Sage
Page 217
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81. RICO LEBRUN Two Figures Emerging from Flood
Page 63
82. JULIAN LEVI
Studio
Page 220
83. JACK LEVINE
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84. LANDES LEWITIN
In Soho
Page 104
Noblesse Oblige
Page 147
85. JACQUES LIPCHITZ
Lesson of a Disaster
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86. SEYMOUR LIPTON
Codex #2
Page 60
87. ERLE LORAN
Myth
Page 171
c ;^ ^ 88. LOREN MAC IVER
Paris Roofs
Page 122
89. PEPPING MANGRAVITE
Summer Night in Cornwall
Page 96
90. CONRAD MARCA-RELLI
Room B-3
Page 166
91. MARCIA MARCUS
Double Portrait
Page 152
92. RICHARD MAYHEW
Hilltop
Page 102
5 93. JEAN MC EWEN
Violet Rainbow
Page 72
94. JAMES MC GARRELL
95. GERALD MCLAUGHLIN
96. HARRY MINTZ
Dolphin
Page 174
High Priest
Page 224
Animal
Page 201
97. RAYMOND MINTZ
Sun Bathing
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98. ENRIQUE MONTENEGRO
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99. CARL MORRIS
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100. HILDA MORRIS
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Man in Traffic
Page 194
Blue Recess
Page 180
Sea Sentry
Page 143
101. KYLE MORRIS
102. CLIVIA MORRISON
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Obstinate Bird
Page 135
103. WALTER MURGH
104. ROBERT NATKIN
SSBCO
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Faust
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105. LOUISE NEVELSON
106. KENZO OKADA
Great Night Column
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107. ARTHUR OKAMURA Leaning Lady and Parasol
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108. NATHAN OLIVEIRA Man with Hand to Chin
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109. GORDON ONSLOW-FORD
110. MARIA LUISA PACHECO
Who Lives
Page 91
Inner Light
Page 67
111. RAYMOND PARKER
Untitled
Page 48
112. ABBOTT PATTISON
View of Pittsburgh
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REGINALD POLLACK
Picnic ..
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Angels and People
Page 114
GREGORIO PRESTOPINO The Open Door
Page 162
ABRAHAM RATTNER
Rocce Del Capo, Sea Storm III
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13<£. 73117. BERNARD REDER Dwarf with Cat's Cradle
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118. ROBERT RICHENBURG
Fall Garden
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LARRY RIVERS
Dying and Dead Veteran
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Veda
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Sunaegis
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123. LUDWIG SANDER
Golden Hawk
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Untitled
Page 224
124. ABE SATORU
Seed
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Untitled
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126. GARFIELD SEIBERT
Old Bickel Quarry
Page 210
127. BEN SHAHN 5 :
It's No Use to Do Anymore
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128. SEYMOUR SHAPIRO
129. LOUIS SIEGRIEST
Years of the Tiger
Page 199
East of Tonapah
Page 169
130. LUNDY SIEGRIEST
Blue Reflection
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.(pllr 131. DAVID SIMPSON Red Stripes
Page 66
132. WALTER SNELGROVE Daguerre Desert
Page 202
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134. JOHN SONENBERG Zenith-White
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135. EVERETT SPRUCE Windy Night — Padre Island
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73 136. JACK SQUIER Blind Animal #2
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137. THEODOROS STAMOS Red Field I
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138. EDWARD STASACK The Brass Ring
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139. HEDDA STERNE Vertical-Horizontal No. 2-1962
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140. JACK STUCK Self Portrait — Seeing Rose
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Remote Space Page 52 |
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Star Chamber Page 128 |
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The Facade Page 196 |
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150. ESTEBAN VICENTE Blue, Red, Black & White \l'l%b Pa8e 191
5 151. ELBERT WEINBERG
Medusa
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152. HARVEY WEISS
Jericho
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153. H. C. WESTERMANN
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Nine Crazy Girls, a Dog and a Cat at My Place
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162. PAUL ZIMMERMAN Still Life, Citron
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All dimensions give height first, width second, except in the case of sculpture where height alone is given.
The dates in parentheses, following the name of the artist's gallery, indicate years of previous University of Illinois exhibitions of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture in which the artist's work has been included.
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ARONSON
David Aronson, The Philosopher, 39'//' x 27'//', en- caustic on masonite. ( Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1949, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961) Blind Sampson, 22", bronze, 1962. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Stone, Newton Center, Mas- sachusetts. (Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massa- chusetts)
Delilah, 22", bronze, 1962. (Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts)
David Aronson was born in Shilova, Lithuania, in 1923. He studied at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1940-45, and at the Hebrew
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Teacher's College, Boston. He received a traveling fellowship from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1946; a grant from the National
S01 iet) of Arts and Letters in 1958; and a fellow ship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun- dation in 1900. He taught at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1942-55; he now is Associate Professor of Art and Chairman of the Division of Art, Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, where he has taught since 1955. Mr. Aronson has had awards from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1944; The Art Insti- tute of Chicago. 1946; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, 1946; Boston Arts Festival, 1952,
1953, 1954; Tupperware Art Museum, Orlando,
1954. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Niveau Gallery, New York, 1945, 1956; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946; Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, 1951, 1959; The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1953; Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York, 1960, 1963.
Mr. Aronson's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Atlanta Art Association; Atlanta University Museum; Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston; Museum of line Arts, Boston; Brandeis Uni- versity, Waltham, Massachusetts; Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College; The Art Institute of Chi- cago; University of Illinois; Dc Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tupperware Art Museum, Orlando; Vir- ginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica.
Mr. Aronson's work is in the collection of At- lanta University; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gersten, Brock- ton, Massachusetts; Mr. and Mrs. George W. W. Brewster, Brookline, Massachusetts; Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College; The Art Institute of Chi- cago; Mr. Earle Ludgin, Chicago; University of Illi- nois; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Mas- sachusetts; University of Nebraska; Miss Edith G. Halpert, Mr. Phillip Hettleman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Stone, Newton Center, Massachusetts; Tupper- ware Art Museum, Orlando; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, LTtica; and others.
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Jimmy Ernst, Sooner or Later, 50" x 60", oil on canvas, 1962. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil, New York City. (Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City) (1952, 1953, 1957, 1961)
"Whatever artists say in public is certainly not meant to be heard or read by other artists. Explain- ing ourselves to one another seems always peculiarly redundant. Mutual respect and understanding among artists continues to grow in direct proportion to the increase in public confusion and aesthetic diffu- sion. The promotion of cultural hysteria is not caused by artists. New labels for old tin-cans are immaculately conceived by the 'Subnoxious' of the socially underprivileged dilettante."
Jimmy Ernst was born in Bruhl, Germany, in 1920. He studied in European craft schools. In 1961 he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggen- heim Memorial Foundation fellowship. He has taught at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College, New
York. Mr. Ernst lives in Rowayton, Connecticut.
Mr. Ernst has received awards from The Pasa- dena Art Museum, 1946; The Art Institute of Chi- cago, 1954; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1951; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massa- chusetts, 1957. Special exhibitions of his work have been held throughout the country.
Mr. Ernst's work is represented in the collec- tions of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; Ne- braska Art Association, Lincoln; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica.
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Walter Murch, SSBCO, 24" x 18", oil on canvas, 1962. (Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City) (1949, 1951, 1952, 1961)
Walter Tandy Murch was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1907. He studied at the Ontario College of Art, and at the Art Students League and the Grand Central Art School, New York. He has taught at Pratt Institute, New York, from 1953-61, and at New York University during 1961. He lives in New York City.
Thirteen special exhibitions of Mr. Murch's work have been presented. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Art Institute of Chicago; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Univer- sity of Illinois; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis; Institute of Contempo- rary Arts, London; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Venice Bicnnale d'arte; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Wash- ington, D.C.; Worcester Art Museum. Mr. Murch's work is in many public and private collections.
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Raymond Parker, Untitled, 69" x 70", oil on canvas, n 960-61. Lent by Mrs. F. W. Hilles, New Haven, Connecticut. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallerv, Inc., New- York City) (1961)
Raymond Parker was born in Beresford, South Dakota, in 1922. He attended the State University of Iowa where he received his B.A. degree in 1946 and his M.F.A. degree in 1948. He has taught at the State University of Iowa, at the University of Minne- sota, and in summer session at the University of South- ern California. Since 1955, he has been a member of the teaching staff at Hunter College, New York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Parker has been the recipient of awards from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1948, 1949; St. Paul Gallery, 1949; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1949, 1951. Eighteen special exhibitions of his work have been held since 1 950.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1950; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1950, 1952, 1958; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950; Oberlin College, 1951; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis, 1956; Stable Gallery, New York, 1956; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1960; University of Illi- nois, 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; Des Moines Art Center, 1962-63.
Mr. Parker's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Insti- tute; Fort Worth Art Center; State University of Iowa; Tate Gallery, London; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Minne- sota State Historical Society, St. Paul.
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73 Jerrold Davis, The Bay, 48" x 60'//', , L 1960. Lent by Miss Judith McBean, California. (1959, 1961)
"My objective is simply to paint."
Jerrold Davis was born in Chico, California, in 1926. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Davis was the recipient of a Sigmund M. Heller fellowship in 1953 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1959. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Mr. Davis received an award from the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; California Palace of tin- Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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John Baxter, Summer Geese, 6", stone and wood, 1961. (David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, Cali- fornia)
"What I believe and hope I am doing is to make tangible the world of my imagination: each piece of sculpture is a new landmark in the region I would like to materialize. To me the essence of poetry lies in a relationship: that which exists be- tween self-conscious, civilized man, and self- sufficient, primeval nature. I try to distill this es- sence in several ways.
"I like to juxtapose the spontaneous forms of the unhumanized world (stones, shells, bones and so forth) with wooden blocks and pillars, rods and rings of metal: the products, sometimes the by- products, of human activity. To me the effects of weathering on such diverse elements are beautiful; I make use of the natural grays and umbers and rusty browns, the blank bone-whites, not only for their own quality, but also because they so power- fully evoke the concepts of time, the elements and organic change. In assembling my structures, I call on human experience — the experience of art- history — in two distinct, but obviously related, as- pects. I work for proportion according to my own instincts, strengthened by all I have observed of the sculpture of past traditions; and I try to evoke a sense of scale by making figurative reference to the objective world. I am drawn to the realm of myth and legend in such references — this chiollv when human or animal resemblances are involved; otherwise simply to the phenomena of geography.
I'm aware that humor, sometimes even farce, may involve itself in my visual puns; when this happens of its own accord, I accept it gladly — but I have never indulged in deliberate clowning. I think the pervading mood of my sculpture is reflective and rather quiet, but charged — if I fulfill my intention — with the latent energy of universal life."
John Baxter was born in San Francisco in 1912. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as a lecturer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-53; instructor, Philadelphia Museum College of Art, 1953-56; and curator of education, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1956-59. He lives in Oakland, California.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Baxter's work have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1946, 1959; The Print Club, Philadelphia, 1954; Willard Gallery, New York, 1955; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, 1960, 1962; Esther- Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960; The Phoenix Art Museum, 1960; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1961. Mr. Baxter's work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Amer- ican Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Print Club, Philadelphia; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. His work is found in many private collections.
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Robert Gwathmey, Woman Arranging last-, 48" x 36", oil on canvas, 1962. (Terry Dintenfass, New York City) (1950, 1951, 1953)
"Here is an excerpt from a critic's pen in 1955 '. . . since we are now able to look and enjoy Per- sian carpets as pictures.' This is arbitrary.
"Broadly speaking there are two branches of art; one is image (fine art), the other is ornament (applied art). Ornament is usually a status symbol — the extra braid on the General's visor; the elab- oration of the high priest's vestments; the added decoration on the chief's canoe. Folk art as ex- pressed in costume not only separates one province from another but implies a proud distinction, etc.
"Image is fraught with deeper meaning, a belief in order, a system, if you will. It is the desire to find and separate truth from the complex of lies and evasions in which we live.
"Art is the conceptual solution of complicated forms — the perceptual fusion of personality, not humble ornamentation of surface pyrotechnics. Beauty never comes from decorative effects but from structural coherence. Art never grows out of the persuasion of polished eclecticism or the inviting momentum of the bandwagon.
"Respect and encourage the artist's bias in order that he might work free of compromise. Search for patronage be it private, public, or industrial."
Robert Gwathmey was born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, in 1903. He studied at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and at North Carolina State College, Raleigh. He received a Rosenwald fellow- ship in 1945 and a grant from the American Acad- emy of Arts and Letters in 1946. Mr. Gwathmey has taught at Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. He teaches now at The Cooper Union School, New- York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Gwathmey has received awards from The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1941; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1941; Pepsi-Cola Company, New York, 1946. His work has been represented in exhibitions held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Illinois; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsyl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Car- negie Institute, Pittsburgh; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Gwathmey 's work is found in the collec- tions of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massa- chusetts; University of Illinois.
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Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, Wiscon- sin, in 1890. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and under Frank Zimmerer and Mr. Reynolds in Chicago, and briefly under Kenneth Hayes Miller in New York. He served as an illustrator in Chicago and on McCall's Magazim in New York. While in New York he worked as a portrait painter and an interior decorator. He went to Paris in 1925, to Mexico in 1931, to Europe in 1932, and to China in 1934, where he studied in Shanghai under Teng Kuci. Mr. Tobey taught at the Cornish School in Seattle from 1923-25, and at Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, from 1931-38. He lives in Seattle.
Mr. Tobey has won awards from the Seattle Art Museum, 1940; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942, Rockefeller Center, 1945, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1956, American Institute of Architects, 1957, all of New York; Venice Bien- nale d'arte. 1958; Art in America (magazine), 1958; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Tobey 's work have been held at M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1917; Arts Club of Chicago, 1928, 1940, 1945; Romany Marie's Cafe Gallery. New York, 1929; Cornish School, Seattle, 1930; Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, 1931; Paul Elder Gallery, San Francisco, 1934; Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1934; Seattle Art Museum, 1935, 1942, 1949: Willard Gallery, New York. 1944, 1947, 1949, 1950. 1951, 1953, 1954,
1957; Portland (Oregon Art Museum, 1945; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1956; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1951; University of Chicago, 1952; Zoe Dusanne Gallery, San Francisco, 1952; Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle. 1954, 1955, 1957, 1962; Gump's Gallery, San Fran- i isco, 1955; Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, 1955; Institute of Contemporary Arts. London, 1955; Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1958; St. Albans School, Washington, D.C., 1959; Fredric Hobbs Fine Art, San Francisco, 1960; Galerie Beveler, Basel, 1961; Royal S. Marks Gallery, New York, 1961; The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1962; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1962. His work has been included in major group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Tobey s work is represented in the collec- tions of the Addison Gallery of American Art, And- over; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Milwaukee Art Center; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; City An Museum of St. Louis; Seattle Art Museum; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Phil- lips Gallery. Washington, D.C.; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach; and in numerous private collec- tions in the United States and abroad.
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Nathan Oliveira was born in Oakland, California, in 1928. He studied at Mills College, Oakland, and received his M.F.A. degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, in 1952. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship in 1956, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1958, and a Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959. Mr. Oliveira has taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; and the University of Illi- nois. He lives in Piedmont, California.
Special exhibitions of his work have been held at The Alan Gallery, New York, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, 1960, 1961; University of Illinois, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of Illinois, 1957, 1961; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; International Exhibition, Tokyo, 1958; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1958; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959, 1960, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; and at other institutions.
Mr. Oliveira's work is represented in the collections of the University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas; University of Michigan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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"A name is given to my painting usually after the picture is born. I am still fascinated with the power of mastering the matter, to animate inanimate things."
Tseng Yu-Ho (Mrs. Gustav Ecke) was born in Peking in 1923. She received a degree in art from Fujen University, Peking, in 1942 and continued her graduate studies in the history of Chinese art, litera- ture, and philosophy in Peking until 1948. In 1949 she moved to Honolulu, and in 1953 she was awarded a Rockefeller scholarship under which she traveled in the United States studying museum and private art collections. In 1956-57 she traveled and studied art in Europe. She has painted murals in Kauai and Honolulu and created stage designs and costumes for productions at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and for St. John's College, Annapolis. During the summer of 1958 Tseng
Yu-Ho conducted lecture courses on Chinese paint- ing at the University of California in Berkeley. Since 1959 she has taught painting at the Art School of the Honolulu Academy of Art. She lives in Honolulu.
Special exhibitions of Tseng Yu-Ho's work have been held at the Hong Kong University; Honolulu Academy of Arts; China Institute, London; Mil- waukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis; The Downtown Gallery, New York: Musee Cernuschi, Paris; University of Peking; the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institution; Stanford University; Galerie Fussli, Zurich.
Tseng Yu-Ho's work is represented in the col- lections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum for Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; Honolulu Acad emy of Am: Milwaukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences; Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford; Stan- ford University, Palo Alto; Williams College.
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Nathan Oliveira was born in Oakland, California, in 1928. He studied at Mills College, Oakland, and received his M.F.A. degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, in 1952. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship in 1956, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1958, and a Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959. Mr. Oliveira has taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; and the University of Illi- nois. He lives in Piedmont, California.
Special exhibitions of his work have been held at The Alan Gallery, New York, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, 1960, 1961; University of Illinois, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of Illinois, 1957, 1961; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; International Exhibition, Tokyo, 1958; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1958; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959, 1960, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; and at other institutions.
Mr. Oliveira's work is represented in the collections of the University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas; University of Michigan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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"A name is given to my painting usually after the picture is born. I am still fascinated with the power of mastering the matter, to animate inanimate things."
Tseng Yu-Ho (Mrs. Gustav Ecke) was born in Peking in 1923. She received a degree in art from Fujen University, Peking, in 1942 and continued her graduate studies in the history of Chinese art, litera- ture, and philosophy in Peking until 1948. In 1949 she moved to Honolulu, and in 1953 she was awarded a Rockefeller scholarship under which she traveled in the United States studying museum and private art collections. In 1956-57 she traveled and studied art in Europe. She has painted murals in Kauai and Honolulu and created stage designs and costumes for productions at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and for St. John's College, Annapolis. During the summer of 1958 Tseng
Yu-Ho conducted lecture courses on Chinese paint- ing at the University of California in Berkeley. Since 1959 she has taught painting at the Art School of the Honolulu Academy of Art. She lives in Honolulu.
Special exhibitions of Tseng Yu-Ho's work have been held at the Hong Kong University; Honolulu Academy of Arts; China Institute, London; Mil- waukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis; The Downtown Gallery, New York; Musee Cernuschi, Paris; University of Peking; the M. II. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institution; Stanford University; Galerie Fussli, Zurich.
Tseng Yu-Ho's work is represented in the col- lections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum for Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; Honolulu Acad- emy of Arts; Milwaukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences; Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford; Stan- ford University, Palo Alto; Williams College.
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Harvey Weiss, Jericho, 60", brass, 1962. (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York City) (1961)
'"I would hesitate to comment on the present direction of American Art, except as followed by myself. But I have found from my own experience that completely non-representative art is lacking a dimension. Regardless of how sophisticated or powerful a design, without subject matter, its relationship to human thought and feeling is tenuous. For me, the result is rarely anything more than decorative.
"It is an effort to move on from a monolithic concept of sculpture. I have been evolving a 'scenic' or 'tableau' subject matter which contains many elements — many figures, props, architectural parts. I find that this richness of subject matter enables me to develop complex spatial compostions which have a literary interest in addition to a purely three-dimensional design interest.
"Working in this way I can deal with the feeling and mood and design of situa- tions and events rather than particular, individual subjects. I have found that this approach has opened up entirely new possibilities for me."
Harvey Weiss was born in New York City in 1922. He studied at New York Uni- versity, the National Academy of Design, Contemporary Arts, and the Art Students League, New York, and privately with Ossip Zadkine in Paris. He teaches occasion- ally, writes, and illustrates children's books. He lives in Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Weiss received a citation in the playground sculpture competition from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955. His work has been shown in special exhibitions at Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Riverside Museum, New York. His sculpture is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and in those of Joseph Hirshhorn and Roy Neuberger, New York.
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"[The] title of the painting does not mean anything, and also paint- ing itself is not a kind of thing to explain something.
"I always hope that my painting will be born from the abyss of inevitability; and I am trying to forget and throw away everything: old concept, knowledge, looking back and forward . . . , when I start to paint."
Masatoyo Kishi was born in Sakai, Japan, in 1924. He was grad- uated from the Sakai Middle School in 1941 and completed his studies in the science course at the Tokyo Physical College in 1945. Mr. Kishi was one of the organizers of the Tekkeikai Group in 1958. In 1959 he became associated with the Vamada Gallery in Kyoto. He came to the United States in 1960, and at the present time he lives in San Francisco, California.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Kishi's work have been held in Osaka, 1956; Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo in 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1960: Thibaut Gallery, New York, 1961; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1962. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions at the City Art Museum, Kyoto; Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, 1960; Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh, 1961; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1961.
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John Thomas, Figure and Foliage, 60" x 51", oil on canvas, 1961. (Esther- Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California) (1961)
"The shattering of the mass of the figure into color chunks, or frag- ments, makes it possible for this woman to fuse momentarily with the color chunks of the surrounding foliage. They swirl as one substance, but then, there is a coalescence of these color fragments into isolated masses where figure and foliage separate from each other to exist independently in a real space where all is apparently stable and sunlit."
John Thomas was born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1927. He attended the University of Georgia, Athens, 1946-48; the New School for Social Research, New York, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1951; and New York University, where he received his Master's degree in 1954. He has taught at The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1957, and the State University of Iowa, 1962. Mr. Thomas lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
He won an award in the Tucson Festival, 1962. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Galleria Schneider, Rome, 1955; Birming- ham Museum of Art, 1955; The Artist Market, Detroit, 1956; Wichita Art Museum, 1957; Fine Arts Association, Tucson, 1957; The Alan Gallery, New York, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1957; University of Nebraska, 1958; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958, 1960; University of Illinois, 1961; The International Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1961; Esther- Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1961; Tucson Festival, 1962. Mr. Thomas' work is in many private collections.
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Enrico Donati, 222 CP.S 7962, 50"x60", oil and sand on canvas, 1962. (Staempfli Gallery, New York City) (1948, 1950, 1951, 1959, 1961)
Enrico Donati was born in Milan, Italy, in 1909. Mr. Donati has served on the advisory board of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massa- chusetts, and on the board of the Parsons School of Design, New York; he has been a visiting critic at Yale University. He lives in New York City.
Seventeen special exhibitions of Mr. Donati's work have been held in Chicago, New York, Milan, Paris, and Venice. His work has been in- cluded in group exhibitions at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1950-58; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1950; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1953; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, 1957; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1955.
Mr. Donati's work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Indian Head Mills, Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Institute, Whit- ney Museum of American Art, New York; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and in many private collections.
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Seymour Lipton, Codex #2, 66", bronze on monel metal, 1962. (Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City) (1953, 1955, 1959)
"The Codex #2 like any other work has an origin that can only be guessed at. It grew out of my previous work Manuscript as a further image of the book of Man and Nature, and the problems of good and evil, of birth and growth, etc. Of course such notions are part of a vortex of feeling involving a fresh formal solution; both aspects always working together for me in double harness."
Seymour Lipton was born in New York City in 1903. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1927. He received a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 1958; a fellowship from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda- tion, New York, 1960; and a Ford Foundation award, 1960. Mr. Lipton has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art and Archi- tecture, New York, 1943-44; New Jersey State Teacher's College, Newark, 1944-45; Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, 1957-59; New School for Social Research, New York, 1940 to the present. Mr. Lipton lives in New York City.
Mr. Lipton has received special awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957; Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; New School for Social Research, 1960; Architectural League of New York, 1960, 1962.
Special exhibitions of his work have been presented at the ACA Gallery, New York, 1938; Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1943; Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1958; Watkins Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1951; State University College of Education, New Paltz, New York, 1955; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1958; Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute Museum, Troy, 1961.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Balti- more Museum of Art; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; United States Pavilion, International Pavilion, Bruxelles World's Fair; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Insti- tute of Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Tate Gallery, London; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Brook- lyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musee d'Art Moderne, Musee Rodin, Paris; San Fran- cisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Art LIPTON Gallery of Toronto; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Worcester Art Museum; and in USIA and other exhibitions in Europe, the Near and Far East, and Russia.
Mr. Lipton's work is in the following collections: The Balti- more Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Inland Steel Company, Chicago; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Temple Beth-El, Gary; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; University of Kansas Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whit- ney Museum of American Art, New School for Social Research, Manufacturers Trust Company, International Business Machines, Inc., New York; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Museum; The Art Gallery of Toronto; Temple Israel, Tulsa; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Yale University; and in the private collections of Mrs. Nathaniel Owings, Big Sur, California; Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block; Mrs. Florsheim, Earle Ludgin, Arnold H. Maremont, Chi- cago; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New Canaan, Connecticut; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hilles, New Haven; William Burden, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipman, Mr. and Mrs. Albert List, Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ross, New York; Mrs. Greenfield, Philadel- phia; H. J. Heinz, Pittsburgh.
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'What a canvas triggers is the interesting in- tangible to me. What my objectives are, I try to conceal as well as possible in order for the trap to work and for the reaction to be unrehearsed. Some- times the concealment is elaborate and sometimes it is simple, but in any case it should be deceptive initially, like an ikon. The canvas has to operate as a catalyst, come off the wall and stop hanging there. In the end, everyone involved has the responsibility to avoid boredom."
Walter Barker was born in Coblenz, Germany, in 1921. He studied at Washington University where he received his B.F.A. degree in 1948, and at the University of Indiana where he received his M.F.A. degree in 1950. He studied also at the University of North Carolina and at Iowa State University. His principal instruction in art was under Max Beckmann and Philip Guston. He received a foreign travel scholarship from Washington University in 1948, a fellowship at the Max Beckmann Gesell- schaft, Munich, 1955, and an Italian government
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grant in 1956. Mr. Barker has taught at Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and at Washington University, St. Louis. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of his work have been held at Washington University, St. Louis, 1955; Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1959; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1956; and the Virginia Mu- seum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1962.
Mr. Barker's work is represented in collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Perry T. Rathbone, Boston; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Los Angeles County Museum; University of Minnesota; Brook- lyn Museum, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; James Michener, Pipersville, Pennsylvania; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; City Art Museum of St. Louis; William Eisendrath, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis.
Rico Lebrun, Two Figures Emerging from Flood, 76"x98", casein on canvas, 1961. (Nordncss Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1949, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"To do a landscape of alluvial forms in man's imprint and semblance — "
Rico Lebrun was born in Naples, Italy, in 1900. He studied at the Academy of Beaux Arts and at the Industrial Institute of Applied Arts, Naples, 1919-21. He received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1936, 1937, and 1962. He has taught at the Art Students League, New York, 1936-37; Chouinard Art Insti- tute, Los Angeles, 1938-39; Walt Disney Studios, 1940; Tulane University, 1942-43; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1945; Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1947-50; Instituto Allende, Mexico, 1953- 54; Yale University-Norfolk School, 1956; Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles, summers, 1956, 1957; Yale University, 1958-59; University of California, Santa Barbara, 1962. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Lebrun has won awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1947; Los Angeles County Museum, 1948; University of Illinois, 1949, 1959;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1952; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1953, 1962.
Since 1940, there have been thirty-seven special exhibitions of Mr. Lcbrun's work. It has been in- cluded in major group exhibitions here and abroad. His paintings are found in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts; Denver Art Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; University of Hawaii; University of Illinois; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Los Angeles County Museum; University of Nebraska; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila- delphia; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; St. Paul Gallery and School of Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Syracuse University; The Art Gal- lery of Toronto; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Worcester Art Museum.
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Ralph Du Casse, The Temple of Noo, 68" x 68", oil on canvas, 1961. Lent by John Bolles. (Bolles Gallerv, San Francisco, California) (1953, 1955, 1957, 1961)
"In the 1953 (University of Illinois) catalogue I stated '. . . gradually ... a more literary quali- ity . . .' seems to be reflected in my paintings. Now, ten years later, I hope that this same quality is even more intense and acute, and that I will have found my way of even more clearly connecting the viewer visually with my work."
Ralph Du Casse was born in Paducah, Ken- tucky, in 1916. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He received his B.A. degree in 1940 from the University of Cincinnati; his M.A. degree in 1948 from the University of California, Berkeley; and his M.F.A. degree in 1950 from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; and California
Art Institute, San Francisco. At the present time he teaches at Mills College, Oakland, and he lives in San Francisco.
Mr. Du Casse has won awards from the Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Illinois; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Illinois; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Mr. Du Casse's paintings are found in the col- lections of Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Illinois; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and of the San Francisco Museum of Art.
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Kahlil Gibran, Seated Nude, 42", hammered steel, 1960-61. (Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1959)
"Look at my work; I do not write poetry about it."
Kahlil Gibran was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1922. He studied at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for 1959 and for 1960, and of an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1961. He taught at VVellesley College in 1957, and he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mr. Gibran received an award from the Boston Arts Festival, 1956, and from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1958.
Special exhibitions of his work have been held in Boston and New York. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Boston Arts Festival; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines An Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; Los Angeles County Museum; National Academy of Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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David Simpson, Red Stripes, 1W x 45", oil on canvas, 1962. (David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, California)
"Horizontal space may be considered a 'form' of painting, in the same sense and in a similar way, as landscape. Although 'landscape' is too confining a term, it approximates my interest. The horizontal movement is part of the definition for landscape, cloud- scape, waterscape, moonscape, etc.
"I prefer art — both the making and experiencing of it — as an act of contemplation. To rely solely on egotistical strength, to splash playfully about, is beside the point. It is easy to 'express' yourself as an animal; a greater achievement would be an attempt to produce an art which is in itself expressive.
"My painting, whether termed landscape or 'pure painting,' is meant to be contemplative in nature."
David Simpson was born in Pasadena, California, in 1928. He received his Bachelor's degree from the California School of Fine Arts and his Master's degree
from San Francisco State College. He lives in San Francisco.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Simpson's work have been held at the San Francisco Art Association Gal- lery, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, 1959; Santa Barbara Mu- seum of Art, 1960; Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Fran- cisco, 1961; Joachim Gallery, Chicago, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Fran- cisco Museum of Art, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960; Denver Art Museum, 1953, 1955, 1959; Oakland Art Museum, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1957, 1959, 1960; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1958, 1960, 1961; Osaka, Japan, 1960; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rich- mond, 1962. His work is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art and in numerous private collections here and abroad.
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Maria Luisa Pacheco, Inner Light, 50" x 60", oil on canvas, 1961. (Rose Fried Gallery, New York City)
"I begin to paint when a contact with the work has been established by an image formed in my mind. The total structure is many times an arbi- trary world in which the decorative beauty does not exist. The space is the reality that has to be cut and filled with subjective and intimate expressions of myself. In doing this I prefer simplicity."
Maria Luisa Pacheco was born in La Paz, Bolivia, in 1919. She studied in Madrid, Spain. She has received prizes at the Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1953, 1957; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1957; Pan American Union. Washington, D.C., 1959; Latin American Exhi- bition, Baranquilla, 1960; and elsewhere. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1958-59. She has taught at the National Academy of Fine Arts in La Paz. Miss Pacheco came to the United States in 1956, and she lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Miss Pacheco's work have been held in La Paz, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima. New York City, Washington, D.C., and Milan. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, Havana, Bogota, Caracas, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Dallas, Chicago, Pitts- burgh, and New York City. Miss Pacheco's paintings are in museum collec- tions in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, La Paz, Caracas, and Dallas; in the Pan An i. i n .Hi I nioii; and in man) private collections in Europe and North and South America.
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■ Larry Rivers, Dying and Dead I eteran, 70"x94", J oil on canvas, 1961. (Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City) (1959)
Larry Rivers was born in New York City, 1923. He was graduated from New York University, then spent two years studying painting with Hans Hof- mann and a year in Paris, copying in the Louvre Museum. At the present time, Mr. Rivers lives in Southampton, Long Island, New York.
Mr. Rivers received special awards in exhibi- tions at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, and in Arts Festivals at Spoleto, Italy, and Newport, Rhode Island, 1958.
Seven special exhibitions of Mr. Rivers' work have been held at New York galleries since 1949. His work has been included in group exhibitions presented by the Vangard Gallery, Paris, 1953; American Federation of Arts (traveling exhibition), 1954-55; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and in a special exhibition pre- pared for circulation in Japan by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Mr. Rivers' work is found in the collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; State Uni- versity College of Education, New Paltz, New York; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miss Dorothy Miller, Museum of Modem Art, Roy Neuberger, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Jack Sonenberg, Zenith-White, 60"x60", oil on canvas, 1962. (Feingarten Galleries, New York City )
"In my recent paintings I have worked with a finite image, that through its positioning and concretion is made to dominate a large space. In Zenith-White I have used this approach to present an image of soaring whiteness that carries with it a surrounding void. In paintings that preceded Zenith-White I was concerned with a space that was a fragment of a larger space, or an intersection in space through which forms enter and depart. I started then to use concretions of paint in order to seize the surface and arrest all motion. Whether with a fragment of space or with a more finite form like Zenith-li'hite I have wanted to encompass more than appears within the sides and top and bottom of a canvas, and at the same time I have wanted to project the image beyond the surface of the canvas. The result has been a concrete image bearing with it that condition of materiality, endurance, with which I am concerned."
Jack Sonenberg was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1525. He attended the Ontario College of Art, and the School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis. Mr. Sonenberg received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship, in 1962. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Sonenberg has won awards from Bradley University, Peoria, 1955-60; The Print Club, Philadelphia, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1957; Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, 1962.
Mr. Sonenberg's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960,^1962; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1957, 1960; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngs- town, 1958, 1961; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1959. Mr. Sonen- berg's work is represented in many public collections.
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Richard Anuszkiewicz, Minos in the Labyrinth, 58" x 52", oil on canvas, 1962. (The Contemporaries, New York City) (1961)
"My work is of an experimental nature and lias i entered on the investigation ol the optical changes that occur by using complementary colors of full intensity when juxtaposed, and their dynamic effect to the eye."
Richard Anuszkiewicz was horn in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1930. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948-53, where he received his B.F.A. degree, and at Yale University from 1953-55, where he earned an M.F.A. degree. In 1953 he was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship by the National Academy of Design. He lives in New York City.
He has received awards in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1950-54; Cleveland, Ohio, 1951-55; and Ohio State Fair, 1954. Special exhibitions of Mr. Anuszkiewicz's work have been held at The Contemporaries, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio; and Erie, Pennsylvania.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961; New York University, 1961; University of Illinois, 1961; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962; Silverminc Ouild of Artists, New Canaan, 1962; Helsinki, Finland, 1962.
Mr. Anuszkiewicz's work is found in the following collections: Akron Art Insti- tute; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Nelson Rockefeller, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; and other private collections.
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Jean McEwen, Violet Rainbow, 60'A" x 6014", oil on canvas, 1962. (Martha Jackson Gallery', New York City)
"From color for the sake of color, I wanted to explore unknown ranges as in this painting which is violet over blue, so closely related that one could not think of this work without all its components.
"As for the thought, the work, the difficulty, this is all forgotten when the painting is done."
Jean McEwen was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1923. He was graduated from the University of Montreal, but he is self-taught as an artist. He has received an award in the Provincial Artistic Competitions, Quebec, 1962. He lives in Montreal.
Mr. McEwen's work has been shown in exhibitions at Agnes Lefort Gallery, Mon- treal, 1951; Moos Gallery, Toronto, 1961; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1963. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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John Wilde, Nine Crazy Girls, a Dog and a Cat at My Place, 12" x 18", oil on canvas, 1961. (Robert Isaacson Gallery, New York City) (1948, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"I have little to add to what has been stated in previous catalogues of the University of Illinois Biennial. On the whole I can hold with what- ever I have said.
"I might just append this (maybe this sums it all up) : I like fruits and naked ladies and old houses and dead fish and birds and meadow mice and hair and many, many other things. I paint what I like and maybe the painting says why."
John Wilde was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1919. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and received a Master's degree in 1948. Mr. Wilde taught at the University of Wisconsin, where he was Chairman of the Department of Art and Education, but after two years, he resigned his position to devote full time to painting. Mr. Wilde lives in Evansville, Wisconsin.
Mr. Wilde's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Arts Festival, Aix-En-Provence; The Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; Festival of The Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy. Mr. Wilde's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Center; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum.
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\ George Ball, Foam Spray, 63" x 63", oil on canvas, 1961. (Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, California)
"I have attempted in my work to find the essential elements of the world that I see and feel. To describe this, to make out of all the conflicting aspects of the visual world a painting which pro- duces an emotion, an idea about man's environ- ment, a synthesis of nature is, for me, the real meaning of abstraction. All the technique of paint- ing, the physical and emotive qualities of the mate- rial itself must, in the end, convey an idea, must communicate a meaning understandable intuitively to everyone."
George Ball was born in San Francisco, Cali- fornia, in 1929. He studied at Stanford University, where he earned his B.A. degree in 1951 and his M.A. degree in 1952; at the California Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1956; at the University of Paris, 1956-59; and with Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, 1958-62. He won a Fulbright travel award in
1958-59. He lives in Oakland, California.
Mr. Ball has received awards from the French government, 1960, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957; and James D. Phelan Awards from the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Fran- cisco, in 1957 and 1958. Special exhibitions of Mr. Ball's work were held at Gump's Gallery, San Fran- cisco, 1957, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1957, 1959; The Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1957, 1959; Provincetown Art Festival, 1958; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; and in Paris, 1961.
Mr. Ball's work is in the collections of Mr. Henry Luce, New York; the City of Paris; the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Art, San Fran- cisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Stanford University.
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Ludvik Durchanek, The Wish, 74", hammered bronze, 1962. (Graham Gallery, New York City)
"Almost every adolescent wishes for Life, Lib- erty and the pursuit of Happiness, a pot of gold or a beloved.
"Basically the sculpture illustrates 'Illusion,' a sy inbol for the evanescence of it all. It is made from hammered 24 gauge sheet bronze, oxydized with Liver of Sulphur."
Ludvik Durchanek was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1902. He studied at The School of the Worcester Art Museum and at the Art Students League, New York. He lives in Wassaic, New York.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Durchanek's work have been held at the Albany Institute of Art; and Graham Gallery, New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions presented by the Mu- seum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan.
Mr. Durchanek's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; St. Paul Minnesota) Gallery; and in the private collections of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baker; Mrs. Sidney Berkowitz; Miss Bonnie Cashin; Mr. Michael Erlanger; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett; Mr. Sidney Kingsley; Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Lang; Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lichenstein; Mr. Howard Lipman; Mr. Law- rence Marcus; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, III; Mrs. Daisy Shapiro; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Spitzer; Mr. Robert Strange; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ep- stein; Mrs. Bert Fishel; Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen; Mrs. Martin Shampaine; Mr. and Mrs. John Schulte; Mr. Frank Weinstein; Mr. Roy Neuberger; Mrs. Robert D. Simon, Jr.; Mr. Jacob Shulman; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dayton; Mrs. Florine Robin- son; Mr. Walter Cerf; Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Straus; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Weingarten.
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Joseph Goto, #14, 9", steel, 1961-62. (Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois) (1953, 1955, 1957)
Joseph Goto was born in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1920. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and at Roosevelt College, Chicago. He was the recipient of a John Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He has taught at the Richmond (Virginia) Professional Institute and the University of Michigan. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Mr. Goto has received four awards from The Art Institute of Chicago. His work has
been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Illinois, 1955, 1957; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1956; Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, 1957; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1958; Lake Forest (Illinois) Col- lege, 1960; Michigan State University, 1962. Mr. Goto's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Freehling, Mrs. Lillian Florsheim, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Goldberg, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont, Mr. John Peloza, Mr. Joseph Shapiro, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith. Chicago; Indiana University: Michi- gan State University; Mr. Edgar Kaufman, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Elias Friedcnsohn, 77;, Secret, 37"x43'/fe", oil on canvas, 1962. (Fein- garten Galleries, Beverly Hills, California) (1957, 1959, 1961)
Elias Friedensohn was bom in New York City in 1924. He studied at Temple University, Philadelphia; at Queens College, New York; and .a New York University. Mr. Friedensohn was the recipient of a Ful- bright award in 1957 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda- tion fellowship in 1961. He teaches al Queens College, and he lives in
Flushing, New York.
Mr. Friedensohn's work has been included in exhibitions at the University of Illinois, 1957, 1959, 1961; University of Wisconsin, 1957; Whitnev Museum of American Art, New York, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, L963; Smithsonian Institution, 1958; The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1961.
His work is in the collections of the University of Illinois; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: and in many private collections.
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Bernard Rosenthal, Sunaegis, 74", brass, I960. (Samuel M. Kootz Gal- lery. Inc., New York Cit) (1955, 1959)
Bernard Rosenthal was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1914. He was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1936. At the present time he lives in New York City.
Mr. Rosenthal received awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; Los Angeles County Museum, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1958; Audu- bon Artists, Inc., New York, 1953; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1954; American Institute of Architects, South California Chapter, 1959.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Rosenthal's work have been held at Asso- ciated American Artists Galleries, Chicago, 1947; Scripps College, 1948; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; Associated American Artists Gal- leries. New York, 1950; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1952; Lon^ Beach Museum of Art, 1952; Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, 1954 1958 19;>9; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1959; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc New York, 1961.
His sculpture has been included in group exhibitions at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Bruxelles World's Fair; University of Southern California; The Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; University of Illinois- University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Architectural League of New York; American Federation of Art (traveling exhibition), Audubon Artists, Inc.' The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art, Sculptor's Guild, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; San Francisco Mu- seum of Art; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Yale University.
Mr. Rosenthal's work is in the collections of Arizona State College; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo! Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Long Beach Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Lytton Savings and Loan Association Collec- tion; Lincoln (Massachusetts) Museum; Milwaukee Art Center; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New York University; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
His architectural commissions include those for the New York World's Fair, 1939; Max Strauss Memorial Center, Chicago, 1940; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, 1941; Nokomis (Illinois) Post Office, 1946; Motion Picture Country Home, San Fernando Valley, 1947- William Goetz Garden, Beverly Hills, 1948; General Petroleum Building Los Angeles, 1949; 260 Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, 1950; Bullock's Westwood, Los Angeles, 1951; RKO Studios, Los Angeles, 1952; UCLA Elementary School, Los Angeles, 1952; J. W. Robinson Store, Beverly Hills, 1952; Capri Theatre, San Diego, 1954; 1000 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 1954; Beverly Hilton Hotel, Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills' 1955; Police Facilities Building, Los Angeles, 1955; Southland Center^ Dallas; IBM Building, Los Angeles.
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Kenzo Okada, Aslant, 72"x54", oil on canvas, 1962. (Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City)
Kenzo Okada was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1902. He studied at the Mei- jigaukuin Middle School, at Tokyo Fine Arts University, and in Paris from 1924-27. He taught at Nippon University, 1940-42; at Musashino Art Institute, 1947-50; and at Tama Fine Arts College, 1949-50. He has lived in New York City since 1950.
Mr. Okada received a Ford Foundation grant in 1959, and he has received exhi- bition awards from Nikakai in Japan, 1936; Showa Shorei, 1938; Yomiuri Press, 1947; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, 1957; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; Colum- bia, South Carolina, 1957; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1958.
Mr. Okada's work has been included in many major exhibitions and is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Albright- Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Colorado; Brooklyn Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Yale University; and in many other collections.
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Carroll Cloar, The Brotherhood, 28"x44", tempera
on gesso panel, 19i>'_'. The Alan Gallery, New York ( ity) (1957, 1959)
I iiimy thing happened to me on (In- way to the studio the othei day. 1 supped on a cal I'm \ B. Shelley, tnj youngest). Immediately the idea occurred to me of creating a collage, or constru< tion, by gluing, or attaching in some way, a live eat to a < anvas. Paintings have been created that tick and tell time, or smell, or gyre and gimble. Self- destroying art machines have been executed success- fully, as well as paintings that dissolve in dandruff Hakes of paint on the galler) floor. But, as far as I have been able to ascertain, no one has ever < reated a painting that bad to be fed Puss 'n Boots twice a day. Certainly thru' has never been, quite yet, a painting that would chase mice and Bessie bugs. "I nfortunately 1 am not a courageous man, and I rejected the idea. I am a timid man because I do not have access to the collective courage of artists who flock together or run in schools. I have never been associated much with other artists — and don't speak the language — but, rather, am
more apt to be found in the company of Attomeys- at Law, Dirt Farmers, Chiropodists, Midwives, Fish- wives, Insurance Adjusters, Crop Dusters, Lefi Fielders, Welders, Weavers, Oeputj Sheriffs, Cut- purses, Wet Nurses, Faith Healers, Used Car Deal- ers people like that.
"Joking aside, I really take a great interest in the innovations, and I am not an angry young man. I am neither young nor angry."
Carroll Cloar was born in l'.arle, Arkansas, in
191 I. He studied at Southwestern College, Mem- phis; Memphis Academ) of Art; and the Art Stu- dents League, New Yoik. Mr. Cloar received a McDowell fellowship and a John Simon Guggen- heim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Mr. Cloar has taught at the Memphis Academ) of Art. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mr. Cloar's work has been included in exhibi- tions held at The Art Institute of Chicago; Univer- sity of Illinois; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. His work is in many major public and private collections.
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p*t -' Giorgio Cavallon, Untitled painting dated 3.21.61, 60" x 52", oil on can- Lf. a vas, 1961. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City)
Giorgio Cavallon was born in Sorio, Italy, in 1904. He studied at the National Academy of Design, New York, with Charles Hawthorne, and with Hans Hofmann. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Cavallon's work have been held at Vicenza, Italy, 1932; ACA Gallery, New York, 1934; Egan Gallery, New York, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1954; Stable Gallery, New York, 1957, 1959; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1961.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at Ca' Pesaro, Venice, 1932; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951; The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; University of Nebraska, 1955; University of North Carolina, 1956; Camino Gallery, New York, 1959; Roko Gallery, New York, 1959; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1959, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1959, 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961.
His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Union Carbide Corpora- tion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Hyde Solomon, Aries, 56" x 70", oil on canvas, 1960. (Poindexter Gal- lery, New York City)
"In my painting I have drawn on the forces of nature, its movement, light and structure, and have tried to express a deeper meaning in the abstraction underlying this. However, I would like to keep these remarks limited, for ideas change in the process of working."
Hyde Solomon was born in New York City in 1911. He studied at Pratt Institute, New York, 1932-33, and with Chaim Gross for eight years. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Solomon's work have been held at the Jane Street Gallery, 1945, 1948; Vendome Gallery, 1951; Peridot Gallery, 1954, 1955; Poindexter Gallery, 1956, 1958, 1960; all of New York; Princeton University Art Gallery, 1960. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1954, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1960.
Mr. Solomon's work is in the collections of the Ford Foundation; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberger, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Princeton University; Tel Aviv.
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Miikn (Basaldella), Danzatore Guerriero, 381.". bronze, 1960. Lent by the .mist. (1961)
Mirko i Basaldella) was born at L'dine. Italy, in 1910. He studied in Venice, Florence, Monza, and Rome. He was awarded second prize in the inter- national competition for the Memorial to the Unknown Political Prisoner; he received an award from the Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; the Carrara sculpture prize. 1957; and an award from the Accademia di Lincei, 1958. He has designed and executed: bronze memorial gates for the Ardeatine Caves, It.tly; the Italian war memorial at Mauthausen, Austria: ,i mosaic fountain at La Spezia; and a monu- mental outdoor sculpture for the Krannert Art Mu- seum, Urbana, Illinois. Since 1957 Mirko has been director of the Design Workshop at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Special exhibitions of Mirko s work have been held at Calleria La Cometa, Rome, 1935; Galieria La Zecca, Turin. 1936; Comet Gallery, New York. 1937; Galieria l'Obelisco, Rome, 1947. 1952; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1947. 1949; Catherine Viviano Gal- lery, New York, 1950, 1957; Galieria il Milione, Milan, 1951; Galieria Schneider, Galieria delle Carozze, Rome, 1954; Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, 1958; Rhode Island School of Design, Provi- dence, 1959; Obelisk Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1961; World House Galleries, Xew York, 1961; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1962.
His work has been included in group exhibitions in Barcelona; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bruxelles; Budapest; Lon- don; Xew York; San Francisco; Venice; and Vienna.
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Rainej Bennett, Sunset Child. 22"x29'/4", water color on paper, 1962. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lassman, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Feingarten Galleries, New York Citj 1949. 1951, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"In reviewing previous statements, I am reminded th;it my objectives have not changed in essence. Once again, I hope to create a painting of rhythms sym- pathetic with nature in color tones that seem to grow from within. If the painting suggests a sense of mystery, I am pleased.
"The method of search has changed in recent years. Whereas, in the past the water color was con- sidered as a quii k statement or a high pitched inter- pretation of a given set of terms, now it is more likely to develop from responses to isolated characteristics of nature: color deep in a flower, a drop of water, the curl of a single strand of hair — accidents and rhythms in general. In line with this Sunset Child was moti- vated by a small area of late afternoon sun cast on my <>u. r white wall. The theme followed the slow process of trying to recapture (in different terms) some of the richness of the light."
Rainey Bennett was born in Marion, Indiana, in
190 He was graduated from the I niversit) ol Chi- cago and studied at The S< In >i d ol I In \n Institute of Chicago; American Academ) ol \n. Chicago; and An Students League, New York; and with George < Irosz and Maurice Sterne in New York. He has taught at The School of The Art Institute ol Chicago, 193! He lives in Chicago.
Mr. Bennett has received awards from The Art Institute of Chicago: Union League Club, Chicago; Hyde f'.nk Art Center; Illinois State Museum, Spring- field. Special exhibitions of Mr. Bennett's work have been held by Feingarten Galleries, Beverl) Hills; I he Art Institute of Chicago: Feingarten Galleries, Chicago; Feingarten Galleries, Museum of Modem Art, .Yew York. His work has been included In man) group exhibitions.
Mr. Bennett's work is found in the collections ol Beloit College; Cranbrook Academ) "I Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; The Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Universit) of Illinois; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art, -Yew York; I HiMTsitv of Oklahoma.
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\ Hans Hofmann, Scattered Sunset, 72" x 84", oil on canvas, 1961. (Samuel ' M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"When I paint a sunset, I paint actually thousands of sunsets of which I was a part when I did enjoy them through all my Life. I am — and whatever I do is — part of nature with the added and unconciliatory difference that I allow myself never to renounce the aesthetical demands of creation."
Hans Hofmann was born in Weissenberg, Bavaria, in 1880. He studied painting in art schools in Munich and later in Paris. In 1915 Mr. Hofmann opened an art school in Munich. During the summers of 1930 and 1931 he taught painting at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the spring of 1931 at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles. He taught at the Art Students League in New York, 1932-33, and in the summers of 1932-33, at the Thurn School, Gloucester. Mr. Hofmann opened his own school in New York City in 1933 and his summer school in Provincetown in the summer of 1934. He gave up teaching to devote full time to painting in 1958. He lives in Provincetown and New York City.
Mr. Hofmann has received awards from the University of Illinois, 1950; Society for Contemporary American Art, Chicago, 1952; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1952; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959, 1961; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1960.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Hofmann's work have been held by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1910; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1931; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1940; Art of This Century Gallery, New York, 1944; Arts Club of Chicago, 1944; 67 Gallery, New York, 1944, 1945; Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1946, 1947; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1948; Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1949; Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, 1954; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1954; Bennington College, 1955; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1956; Rutgers University, 1956; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957; Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg. His paintings have been included in numerous group exhibitions.
Mr. Hofmann's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts; Blanden Memorial, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Grenoble Museum, France; University of Illinois; Univer- sity of Nebraska; The Newark Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery; International Min- erals & Chemicals Corp., Skokie, Illinois; Art Gallery of Toronto; Art of This Century, Venice, Italy; Washington University, St. Louis; Yale University, New Haven.
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--j\ \*> Everett Spruce, Windy Night — Padre Island, 24" x 30", oil on masonite, ~ 1960. Lent by Mr. Everett Spruce, Austin, Texas. (1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953)
Everett Spruce was born in Faulkner County, Arkansas, in 1908. He studied at the Dallas Art Institute and with Olin Travis and Thomas Stell. He has taught at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of Texas, Austin, since 1940. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Spruce has been the recipient of awards from the Worcester Art Museum, 1945; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1946; The Pennsylvania SPRUCE Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1947; The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C., 1949; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1955. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Hudson Walker Gallery, New York, 1938; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1945; Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951; Arts Club of Washington (D.C.), 1948. His work has been included in many group exhibitions.
Mr. Spruce's work is in the collections of the University of Alabama; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; Illinois Wesleyan University; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; The Newark Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art. New York Public Library, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Ohio Wesleyan University; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Witle Memorial Museum, San Antonio; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Museu dc Arte Modcrna dc Sao Paulo, Brazil; Southern Methodist University; Tulane University; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Wichita Art Museum.
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Edgar Ewing, Enigma of the Chess Set, 50"x38", oil on canvas, L961. (Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, California) (1957. 1959, 1961
"I have always tried to be alert to the world around me. This is not only the world of sensor) experience but the world of human ideas. Experience has taught me to work for some kind of equilibrium between the perceptual world of the eyes, the technical world of the hand, and the conceptual world of the mind."
Edgar Ewing "as born in Hartington, Nebraska, in 1913. He studied at The School ol I lie Art Institute of Chicago from 1931 15, where he won The Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship in 19.?,"). In 1948 he received a scholarship from the Louis Comfort Tiffanj Foundation. He has taught .ii The School >>l The Arl Institute of Chicago, 1937-43; I ni versity of Michigan, summer session, 1946; I niversit) of Southern Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, 1946 I'1. I niversit) "I Oregon, summer session, 1950. lie lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Ewing has received a number of awards, and his work has been included in group exhibitions at Syracuse University, 1946; M II. I)e Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1948, 1955; Santa Barbara Museum ni Art, 1952; Senile Art Museum. 1953; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, 1956 1961; Long Beach Museum of Art, I960. Mr. Ewing's work is in man) public and private collections.
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Richard Hunt, Standing Form I, 65W, steel, 1960. (The Alan Gallery, New York City)
"In some works it is my intention to develop the kind of forms Nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her."
Richard Hunt was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1935. He studied at The School of The Art Insti- tute of Chicago, where he received his B.F.A. degree in 1959. He was the recipient of a James Nelson Raymond Foreign Traveling Fellowship from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1962. Mr. Hunt has taught at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Hunt has won awards from The Art Insti- tute of Chicago in 1956, 1961. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at The Alan Gallery, New York. 1958, 1960, 1963; Holland Art Gallery, Chicago, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buf- falo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; University of Michigan; The Newark Museum; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh; Seattle World's Fair.
Mr. Hunt's work is in the collections of Richard Brown Baker; Albright-Knox Art Caller)-, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Victor Ganz; Joseph H. Hirshhorn; National Museum of Israel; Jean and Ploward Lipman, Mu- seum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Gordon Onslow -Ford, Who Lives, 77'/J"x53", Paries' paint on canvas, 1962. (Rose Rabow Galleries, San Francisco, California)
"Modern art has been through a period of working from the known towards the unknown. The time has now come to start with a clear mind.
"All is visible in a beginning — hence the importance of the calli- graphic mark that hides nothing behind a surface. As lines and marks become more fluent, they tend towards the straight line, the circle, or the dot. With line, circle, dot, freedom joins order once again, and the world can create itself anew."
Gordon Onslow-Ford was born in Wendover, England, in 1912. He is self-taught but traveled and worked extensively in foreign countries and was associated with the Surrealists in Paris, London, and New York from 1938-43. He settled in California in 1948. He has never entered an exhi- bition nor submitted a painting t < « a jury. He has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and he lives in Inverness, California.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Onslow-I'ord's work have been held at the M H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, and at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
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Charles Burchfield, March Wind in the Woods, 40"x54", water color on paper, 1952-61. Lent by Mr. Alexander D. Falck, Jr., Strathmont Park, Elmira, New York. (Rehn Gallery, New York City) (1957, 1959, 1961)
Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula Har- bor, Ohio, in 1893. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art, 1912-16, and received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design, New York. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch, summer sessions, 1950, 1953; University of Buffalo, summer sessions, 1950, 1951; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1951-52. He has received academic honors from the University of Buffalo, 1944; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1946; Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1948; Harvard University, 1948; Valparaiso University, 1951. He lives in Gardenville, New York.
Mr. Burchfield has won prizes from the Cleve- land Museum of Art, 1921; The Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1929, 1940,
1946, 1947, 1950; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1935, 1946; Art Association of Newport, 1936; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941; National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 1942; The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1952, 1955.
Nearly forty special exhibitions of Mr. Burch- field's work have been held at galleries and institu- tions such as Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1938; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1944; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953; Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York, 1956; and many others. He has been represented in many group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Uni- versity of Illinois; University of Nebraska; Everson Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and in many other collections in the United States and Europe.
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Raymond Mintz, Sun Bathing, 40" x 39", oil on canvas, 1962. (Rehn Gallery, New York City) (1952, 1959)
Raymond Mintz was born in Clifton, New Jersey, in 1925. He attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, 1946-47, and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1947-48. He studied at Fontainebleau, France, and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1948-49.
Mr. Mintz's work has been shown in several special exhibitions here and abroad and has been included in group exhibitions at The Metro- politan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Universit) of Illinois; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. His paintings are in numerous private collections.
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Harry Bertoia, Untitled, 69'A", bronze, brass, top- per, nickel, I960. (Fairwcathcr-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, and Stacmpfli Gallery, New York City) (1961)
"The piece which was chosen by the University of Illinois for their spring exhibition was done some- time ago. Since then I have been completely ab- sorbed by a large bronze panel for the Dulles Inter- national Airport ... a work which has to do with the primeval forces of nature and with our air age, In using a technique of working molten metal at 2,000°. Earthy and organic. The piece the univer- sity has selected was introductory to all this."
Harry Bertoia was born in San Lorenzo, Italy, in 1915. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He received a Graham Foundation Fellowship Grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1957. He lives in Barto, Pennsyl- vania.
Mr. Bertoia was awarded a Gold Medal b\ the American Institute of Architects, 1956, and by the Architectural League of New York. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1956, 1961; Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Insti- tute of Chicago; "United States Pavilion, Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; Graham Foundation Gallery, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Vir- ginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
His commissioned sculptures are in the Amer- ican House, Bremen; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; St. John's Unitarian Church, Cincinnati; Dallas Public Library; Denver Hilton Hotel; General Motors Technical Center, Detroit; United States Consulate, Dusseldorf; First National Bank, Miami: The Dayton Company, Min- neapolis; Manufacturers Trust Company, New York; Syracuse University; First National Bank, Tulsa. His work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Inland Steel Company, Chi- cago; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and many other public and private collections.
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Peppino Mangravite, Summer Night in Cornwall, 29" x 48", liquitex on canvas, 1961. (Rehn Gallery-, New York City) (1948, 1950, 1952)
"Midday in my green valley does not offer poetry to me. I have found these lyrical images in the light of dawn and in the shadows of evening."
Peppino Mangravite was born in Lipari, Italy, in 1896. He studied at the Scuoli Techniche and Belle Arti in Italy and at The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, and Art Students League, New York. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1932 and 1935 and a grant by the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. Mr. Mangravite has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, and Art Students League, New York; and The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He is Professor of Painting at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Mr. Mangravite was awarded a gold medal at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926; the American purchase prize at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939; the Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942; Woodmere Museum Exposition prize, Philadel- phia, 1944; Eyre medal, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1946; a citation at The Cooper Union, New York, 1956; and a silver medal by the Architectural League of New York, 1956.
Thirty-one special exhibitions of Mr. Mangravite's work have been held in this country, and his work has been included in many national exhibitions since 1929. He is represented in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Denver Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; City Art Museum of St. Louis; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and many other collections.
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Kelly Fearing;, SI, cpin» Philuso/ihri in a Landscape Di veloping, 60"x40", oil on canvas, 1961. (Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas) (1955, 1957)
"Painting for me must be an expression of both my outer and inner vision. In order to expand my vision, I find that I must seek new experiences in seeing from nature, and broaden my inner life with meditation upon all experiences.
"What and how I paint has to do with my per- sonal philosophy of life, and each canvas is a further realization of belief and faith toward existence and the Tao. My philosophy has been greatly influenced by readings and study in Zen and Yoga, as well as a study of the lives of the saints of the past and the present. My interest is in man and his involvement with nature as a means of identificiation. This search as expressed in literature, music, and the other arts, has been a part of my study also, and has exerted its influence. Naturally I use subject mate- rial in my painting; the core of which is the human figure and forms taken from the natural world. When translated into painting I have found that what I have to say must be expressed through recog- nizable forms. Liberties are taken with nature in the final forms used in my painting, as well as the relationship and juxtaposition of these forms in a canvas. I do not choose to belong to any school of painting but rather to myself. I might add that most of my canvases in their beginning stages are abstract and could remain as final statements but for my own satisfaction, I must slowly bring them into full realization."
Kelly Fearing was born in Fordyce, Arkansas, in 1918. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, and his Master's degree from Columbia University, New York. Mr. Fearing teaches at the University of Texas where he is Professor of Art. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Fearing has won the cash award in the National Juried Arts Exhibition in 1952, the first purchase prize in the Eighteenth Texas Annual Exhi- bition at the Texas State Fair in 1956, and seventeen major cash awards and prizes in Texas exhibitions since 1945.
His work has been included in exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Denver Art Museum; University of Illinois; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Terry Art Institute, Miami; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Pennsylvania Academy of tin- Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Henry Clay Frick Memorial Gallery, Pittsburgh; San Fran- cisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Vancouver (British Columbia) Art Gallery.
His paintings arc found in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Fort Worth Art Cen- ter; Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston; Van- couver (British Columbia) Art Gallery; and in man) private collections.
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William Ronald, Veda, 80" x 60", oil on can- vas, 1962. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1961)
William Ronald was born in Stratford, Canada, in 1926. He studied under Jock Macdonald in Toronto. He was the recipient of an IODE scholarship, 1951, and a CAHA scholarship through the Canada Foundation, 1954. He lives in Kingston, New Jersey.
Mr. Ronald received a Hallmark award in 1952 and an award from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956. Eleven special exhibitions of his work have been presented since 1954. His work has been included in group exhibitions held at Trinity College, Toronto, 1951; Eglinton Gallery. Toronto, 1953; The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1956; Riverside Museum, New York, 1956; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958. 1961;
Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1959; University of Illinois, 1961.
Mr. Ronald's work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; The Art Institute of Chicago; Walker Art Center, Min- neapolis; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggen- heim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York; University of North Carolina; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Phoenix Art Museum; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Art Gallery of Toronto; Williams College, Williamstown, Massachu- setts; and in private collections.
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Helen Frankenthaler, Seascapt with Dunes, 70"xl40", oil on canvas, 1962. (Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York) (1959)
Helen Frankenthaler was born in New York City in 1928. She studied at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, where she received her B.A. degree. She has taught at New York University. She lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Miss Frankenthaler's work have been held at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1951-58; Andre Emmerich Gal- lery, New York, 1959-1)1; The Jewish Museum, New York, 19ti(l; Fveretl Ellin Caller)-, Los Angeles, 1961; Galerie Lawrence, Paris, 1961. Her work has been included In group exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. 1955. 1958. 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, \Vhitne\ Museum of American Art, New York, 1961.
Miss Frankenthaler's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Caller), Buffalo; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Milwaukee Art Center; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern An. Whitne) Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh.
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Robert Cook, Revolution, 38", bronze, 1960. (Sculpture Center, New York City.)
Robert Cook was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1921. He studied at the Demetrios School, Boston; the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris; and at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome. He has received a Fulbright award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Rome, Italy.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Cook's work have been held at the Insti- tute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1951; Sculpture Center, New York, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961. Mr. Cook's work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadel- phia; and in many private collections.
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Alexander Brook, A. Rogoway, 44" x 38", oil on canvas, 1961. (Rehn Gallery, New York City) (1948, 1949)
Alexander Brook was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1898. He studied at Pratt Institute and under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1931. He lives at Sag Harbor, Long Island. New York.
Mr. Brook has won awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1930, 1939; and the Los Angeles County Museum, 1934.
Mr. Brook's work has been shown in many special and group exhibitions and i^ found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chi- cago; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; International Business Ma. nines, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art. New York University, Whitney Museum of American An. New York; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh; Cit) \n Museum of St. Louis; The Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art.
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Richard Mayhew, Hilltop, 39" xW, oil on can- vas. 1962. (Durlacher Bros., New York City)
"I paint the moods, forms and feelings of nature, its timelessness, that which is always the same yet ever changing."
Richard Mayhew was born in Amityville, New York, in 1924. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He was the recipient of fellowships from the John Hay Whitney Foun- dation in 1958; from the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1958; and from The Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1961. Mr. Mayhew lives in Brooklyn. New York.
Mr. Mayhew's work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, New York. 1955, 1959; Brooklyn Mu- seum, New York, 1956, 1961; Riverside Mu- seum, New York, 1957; National Arts Club. New York, 1958; Robert Isaacson Gallerv, New York, 1959, 1961, 1962; The Art Insti- tute of Chicago, 1961; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961. His work is in the collections of The Olsen Foundation. New Haven, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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"I look in my work for the same thing 1 seek in the work of others: a personal state- ment about Reality.
"This painting was completed a few days after I returned from Switzerland in August, 196.'."
Cleve Gray was born in New York City in 1918. He studied with Tony Nell in New York, with James ('.. Davis at Princeton, and with Andre Lhote and Jacques Villon in
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Mr. Gray's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, An- dover; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford: Universit) of Illinois; University of Nebraska; Lee A. Ault. Ralph F. Colin, The Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Jacques Sarlie, New York.
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(The Alan Gallery, New York City) (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
Jack Levine was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1915. He studied privately with Denman Ross of Har- vard University and with Harold Zimmerman. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda- tion fellowship, 1946-47, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1946, and a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, awarded by Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1956. He has taught privately at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and at the Sknwhegan (Maine) School of Painting and Sculpture. Since 1942 he has lived in New York City.
Mr. Levine has received awards from Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1946; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947, 1959; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1948.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Levine's work have been held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1955; Palacio del Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1960. His work has been included in many group exhibitions and is found in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; University of Arizona; Mu- seum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Art Museum, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts; The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Kansas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; Brooklyn Museum, The Metro- politan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whit- ney Museum of American Art, New York; University of Oklahoma; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; The Phil- lips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and in many other collections.
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James Brooks was born in St. Louis, Mis- souri, in 1906. He studied at the Art Students League, New York, and with Wallace Har- rison. He has taught at Columbia University, 1946-48, and Pratt Institute, New York, 1947-58; and Yale University, 1955-60.
Mr. Brooks has received special awards from Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1952; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957, 1961; Ford Founda- tion, 1962. Special exhibitions of Mr. Brooks's work have been held at Peridot Gallery, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1954, Stable Gallery, 1957, 1 959, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1961.
Mr. Brooks's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitnc\ Museum of American
Art, New York, 1950, 1955; Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1952; Galerie dc France, Paris, 1952; Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954, 1961; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956, 1958, 1959; Muscu de Arte Modcrna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; Osaka, Japan, 1958; Kassel, Germany, 1959; Turin, 1959; Bicnal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1960; Seattle World's Fair, 1962.
Mr. Brooks's work is in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila- delphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
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Gyorgy Kepes, Nomad Lines, 72"x36", oil and sand on canvas, 1961. (The Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts) (1952, 1953, 1955, 1961)
Gyorgy Kepes was born in Selyp, Hungary, in 1906. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, 1924-29. He was awarded a John Simon Guggen- heim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1960. He taught at the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937-43, and he has been Professor of Visual Design, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 1946. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Kepes' work have been held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1952; Galleria l'Obelisco, Rome, 1958; Galleria Montenapoleone, Milan, 1958; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1959; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Mr. Kepes' work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; University of Illinois; Brooklyn Mu- seum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art.
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"Maybe models of ritual architecture — or per- haps recorded events — symbols of universals or ancient codes or the focus on greater orders — com- plex combinations, even only a glimpse of future man.''
Julius Schmidt was born in Stamford, Connec- ticut, in 1923. He studied at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, 1950-51; at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michi- gan, where he received a B.F.A. degree in 1952 and a MI. A. degree in 1955; with Ossip Zadkine, Paris, 1953: and at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, 1954. He has taught at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1952-53, and 1962- 63; Silvermine Guild School of Art, New Canaan, summers, 1953, 1954; Cleveland Institute of Art, summer, 1957; Kansas City Art Institute, 1954-59; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1959- 60; University of California, Berkeley, 1961-62. He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Mr. Schmidt has received awards from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michi- gan, in 1957 and 1958. Five special exhibitions of Mr. Schmidt's work have been presented since 1953. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chicago, 1958; The Detroit Insti- tute of Arts, 1958; Milwaukee Art Center, 1958; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 1958; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila- delphia, 1958; University' of Illinois, 1959, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963; Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1960; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1960; Boston Arts Festival, 1961; Dayton Art Institute, 1961; New School of Social Research, New York, 1961; Otto Gerson Gal- lery, New York, 1961-62; Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh, 1961; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1961; Michigan State University, 1962; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1962; San Fran- cisco Museum of Art, 1962. Mr. Schmidt's work is in a number of major public collections.
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Balcomb (ireene, Walking in the Street, 56" x 64", oil on canvas, 1962. (Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City) (1952, 1959)
"The excesses of modern art, most prominent of which may be abstract expressionism, action painting and nco-dada, were committed by special- ists. Each of these 'movements' represents a position which was frozen and intellectualized early in the century, and is now deftly revived by the artist specialist. Each seems once to have been dissolved in its own prescription: i.e. expressionism in despair, futurism in physical violence, and dada in dada. For its resurrection, or a profitable replica of it, each 'movement' required that limited talent, the special- ist.
"On the biological level, specialization can mean the end of a species. In cultural matters it means beginning painfully all over again.
"One may then feel, to avoid pain and since these 'movements' existed less in the continuity of art than in the succession of mankind's symptoms, tli.it we need a clear and detailed description of a new direction. But we must not intellectualize and limit direction, nor insist on its newness, simply be- cause the revivalistic 'movements' were intellectual- ized. A definition of sickness does not enable us to define health. ( lertainly we need not program the future in terms of social good simply because those
'movements' offer more a social than an artistic meaning.
"What we specifically need is a new kind of artist to replace the specialist. We may ask, as Dr. Johnson did, that he 'have a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direc- tion.' With him there should not be, in the cultural sense, so many accidents."
Balcomb Greene was born in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1904. He studied at Syracuse Univer- sity, where he received a B.A. degree in 1926; at the University of Vienna, 1926; at Columbia University, New York, 1927; and at New York University, where he received a M.A. degree in 1940. He has taught at Dartmouth College, New York, 1928-31, and at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. 1942-59. He lives in Montauk, New York.
Three special exhibitions of Mr. Greene's work have been held in New York. His work has been included in major group exhibitions and is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mu- seum of Modern Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Port- land Oregon Art Museum; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; and in many private collections.
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•Isabel Bishop, Woman Undressing, 21"x35", tempera and oil on masonite, 1961. Lent by Mr. David Work- man, New York City. (Midtown Galleries, New York City) (1950)
"On the basis of Occam's 'Razor' (which is: 'the terms in an argument may not be multiplied except out of necessity'). The revolt against specific subject matter in painting and sculpture, in our period, was necessary — even over-due. And of all subjects (no subject may be taken for granted!), the NUDE should be questioned most severely.
"Though the undressed model is fun to draw, the requirement of relevance for painting is more strict. Presenting a specific human being in such an unusual position for the general eye, as having no clothes on, brings an extra term to the 'argument,' that is, unless a larger statement is reached.
"Traditionally the NUDE was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life or more perfect-than-Iife; as Heroic or Ideal. But what shall provide the larger statement when these attitudes are rejected — as we do, in fact, reject them! My at- tempted solution is to try for mobility in the form. When mobility is introduced into a picture, the possi-
bility is expressed that whatever is represented there can change its position, though all may be described as still. This communication, which must be made through the total form in the picture (and is quite a different thing from movement) releases the content! Potential for change opens the door to so much. Were mobility achieved the limitations of the specific subject could be both kept and transcended, nudity becoming a term in the larger theme — no longer an extra term in the 'argument,' or subject to Occam's 'Razor.'
"Anyhow, one can try for this!"
Isabel Bishop (Mrs. Isabel Bishop Wolff) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1902. She studied in Detroit and at the Art Students League, New York. Miss Bishop received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. She lives in New York City.
Miss Bishop has won awards from the Art Associ- ation of Newport; Society of American Etchers, Na- tional Academy of Design, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown. Miss Bishop's work has been shown in many special and group exhibitions and is represented in numerous major American collections.
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Ynez Johnston, Bulwark of the Shore, 32" x 47", oil on canvas, 1961. (Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California) (1952, 1953, 1955, 1957)
"Painting, for me, is an expedition into un- mapped areas of time and space, invaluable exten- sions of the essential but limited present. Points of entry are often those objects, man-made or natural, which bear in their resistant surfaces histories of elemental struggles: oxidation, erosion, vandalism and the like. This is analogous to human experience and the gradual, residual definition of points of view directed toward a mobile relation between the inner and the outer world."
Ynez Johnston was born in Berkeley, California, in 1920. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a B.F.A. degree in 1941 and a M.A. degree in 1946. She was awarded a University of California scholarship in 1941, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fel- lowship, 1952-53, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship, 1956. Miss Johnston has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, 1950-51, and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center,
summer sessions, 1954, 1955. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Thirteen special exhibitions of Miss Johnston's work have been held, and it has been included in group exhibitions at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1951, 1955; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1951, 1955; The Art Institute of Chi- cago, 1952; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; University of Nebraska, 1952; Wads- worth Atheneum, Hartford, 1952; University of Illi- nois, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1954; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1954; University of North Carolina, 1955; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1955.
Miss Johnston's work is in the collections of Albion College; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Wads- worth Atheneum, Hartford; University of Illinois; Art Center in La Jolla; Los Angeles County Mu- seum; University of Michigan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Philadel- phia Museum of Art; City Art Museum of St. Louis; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Philbrook Art Center.
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Leonard Baskin, Seated Woman, 54", oak, 1961. (Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts) (1961)
Leonard Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1922. He worked with Maurice Glickman, 1937-39. He studied at the New York University School of Architecture and Applied Arts, 1940-41; at Yale University School of the Fine Arts, 1941-43; at the New School for Social Research, New York, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1949; at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1950; and at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, 1951.
Mr. Baskin received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship, 1947, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, 1953. He has taught at the School of the Worcester Art Museum and is presently teaching at Smith College. He lives in Northampton, Massa- chusetts.
Mr. Baskin has been awarded an honorable mention for the Prix de Rome, 1940, a commission in graphic arts from the International Graphic Arts Society and The Book Find Club, 1953, and first prize in graphics, Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1961.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Baskin's work have been held at Numero Gallery, Florence, 1951; The Little Gallerv, Princeton, 1952; Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1962; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1962; Fitchburg Art Museum, 1953; Mount Holyoke College, 1954; Worcester Art Museum, 1957; The Print Club, Philadelphia, 1959; University of California, 1959; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1959; Long Beach Museum of Art, 1959.
His work has been included in many group exhibitions and is con- tained in the following collections: Albion College; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mount Hol- yoke College; Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, New York; New York Public Library; Smith College; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Worcester Art Museum; and many private collections.
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Reginald Pollack, Angels and People, 79" x 50", oil on canvas, 1961. (Peridot Gallery, New York City) (1957)
"I feel that I have said better with paint what I believe in, than I could with a paragraph or two."
Reginald Pollack was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the High School of Music and Art, New York, and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. He was awarded the Prix Neumann, 1952; the Prix Othon Friesz, 1954 and 1957; Prix des Peintres Etrangers, 1958. He teaches at Yale University and lives in New Haven and New York.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Pollack's work have been held at Peridot Gallery, New York, in 1949, 1952, 1955-57, 1959, 1960, 1962; Galerie St. Placide, Paris, 1952; Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960. He has been rep- resented in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Illinois; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Ecole de Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Salon de Mai, Paris; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; and elsewhere.
His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Haifa; Jerusa- lem Museum; University of Nebraska; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Worcester Art Museum.
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Tania, SG7, 38"x45V4", oil on canvas, 1962. (Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City )
"The 'objective' is to isolate and stress a visual experience wherein two opposite images exist simultaneously and yet merge. The composite newly formed by this interaction establishes the space in which a part is relative to nothing else but itself, by force of its opposite parts."
Tania Schreiber was born in Poland in 1924. She received her Master of Arts degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and she studied with Morris Kantor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League, New York, from 1948 to 1951. At the present time she lives in Hartsdale, New York.
Special exhibitions of Tania's work have been held at Albert Landry Galleries, New York, in 1959, 1961, and 1962. She has been represented in group exhibitions at the East Hampton Gallery, Long Island, 1961; Nelson-Taylor Gallery, Long Island, 1962; Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, 1962. Her work is in the collections of Morgan State College, Baltimore; New York University; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massa- chusetts.
Eugene Berman, The Trajan Column at Night, 34"x26'/4", oil on canvas, 1960. (M. Knoedler & Co., New York City) (1948, 1949, 1950, 1955)
"The best statement an artist can make is ex- pressed by his work. Verbal statements are most of [the] time without any real significance or value Everybody talks much too much."
Eugene Berman was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. He studied in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow- ship in 1947 and 1949. As a scenery and costume designer for ballet and opera, he has executed com- missions for the Metropolitan Opera, the City Center Opera, and Ballet Theatre, New York; tin- Theatre de FEtoile, Paris; Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo; La Seala Ballet. Milan; and Sadler's Wells
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Ballet, London. Mr. Berman lives in Rome, Italy. Many special exhibitions of Mr. Berman's work have been held, the most recent at M. Knoedler & Co. in New York in 1960. His work has been in- cluded in major group exhibitions here and abroad. Mr. Berman's work is found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Wadsworth Athencum, Hartford; University of Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Washington University, St. Louis; Al- bertina, Vienna; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; as well as in many other public and private collections here and abroad.
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Richard Wilt, Antigua, No. Ill, 27"x40", water color on paper, I960. (Gilman Calleries, Chicago, Illinois)
"My statement should echo the circumstances and purposes of your exhibition since I too am in- volved in art instruction at the university level. In this context, I must consider the picture on exhibit to have resulted from certain processes that are entirely reminiscent of the industrialization of our present civilization. I can argue the value of such a methodical innovation since the exhibited picture is but one of three hundred works produced during a three months' residence on Antigua, British West Indies (sabbatical leave). However, I must question the value of a multiplicity of intention when com- pared to a singleness of purpose. Obviously one must recognize the fact that three hundred expres- sions can generally generate a stronger image of energy, conviction and competence than any single, solitary example of an artist's work, if for no other reason than we have a great tendency to consider quantity above quality. But still might not the one solution be that of greater merit?
"Such a question, I believe, illustrates the essential value of the university art education. Only within the university atmosphere of honest doubt can the artist truthfully question the relationship between his act of creation and each human's desire for a meaningful identity, truthfully search for an intellectual premise which will make him responsible for his action and truthfully utilize either his skills or his awarenesses in order to open the Pandora's
Box of endless speculation."
Richard Wilt was born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, in 1915. He studied at Pennsylvania State College; at Carnegie Institute of Technology where he u.iv graduated in 1938; at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1945; and at the University of Pittsburgh where he received his M.A. degree in 1953. He is Associate Professor of Art at the Uni- versity of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Mr. Wilt's work has been included in the fol- lowing group exhibitions: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 1947, 1948, 1919, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962; Michigan Artists, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961; Michiana (Indi- ana) Exhibition, 1955; Michigan State Fair, 1955, 1957, 1959; Michigan Academy, 1956, 1957; and group exhibitions held at the Illinois State Mu- seum, Springfield. 1950, 1951; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 1953, 1961, 1962; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1958, 1959, I960; University of Michigan, 1961, 1962; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1961; Flint Institute of Art, 1962; Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1962.
His work is in the collections of The Detroit Institute of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; South Bend (Indiana) Museum; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Indiana Stale Teachers Col- lege, Terre Haute; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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Herbert H. Katzman, En NSgligee, 50" x 38", oil on canvas, 1960. (Terry Dintenfass, New York City) (1959, 1961)
Herbert H. Katzman was born in Chicago, Illi- nois, in 1923. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where he was graduated and received a traveling fellowship in 1946. He received a Fulbright grant, 1955, and a grant from the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Letters, 1958. Mr. Katz- man has taught at the Rockland Foundation, Nyack, New York, 1952-53, and at Pratt Institute, New
York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Katzman has received awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1951; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1952. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at The Alan Gallery, New York, 1954, 1957, 1959.
Mr. Katzman's work has been included in major group exhibitions here and abroad and is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine.
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Richard Baringer, Blue T with Yellow Square, 66" x 66", liquitex over gesso on canvas, 1962. (Bertha Schaefer, New York City)
"The growth of a painting evolves from areas of pure personal consideration to areas of impersonal analytical decision. My paintings attempt to elab- orate their own language, to invent the spaces, to create the shapes, which will call up a world of plane and color with no indebtedness to literature; one which does not resemble that which the layman calls reality, but which constitutes, by itself, reality. The essential mission of painting is to substitute for the vision of realitv the . . . realitv of vision."
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Richard Baringer was born in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1921. He studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago under Moholy-Nagy and Emerson Wolfer. He lives in New York City. Special exhibitions of Mr. Baringer's work have been presented by the Nelson-Taylor Gallery, Long Island, 1962; Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, 1962; Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Cambridge; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
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Elbert Weinberg, Medusa, 21", bronze, 1961. (Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City)
"Art is more closely connected to life than people permit themselves to realize. When the complexities of life are brought into focus and more clearly understood, I believe I will have a greater insight into what I produce. What intuition and intent make good will be more easily identifiable. Then I will write a statement worth reading. You may have to wait a century; I hope you are patient."
Elbert Weinberg was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928. He attended the Hartford Art School; The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Yale University . I le was the recipient of a Prix de Rome in 1951 and 1953 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, 1960. He has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York. He lives in Rome, Italy.
Mr. Weinberg received two awards from Yale University in 1959. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1957, 1958, 1960; Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh, 1958; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1960, 1961.
Mr. Weinberg's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; The Jewish Museum. Museum of Modern Art. Whitnej Museum of American Art. New York: Yale University.
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John Millard Ferren was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1905. He studied at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Academie Colarosi, Academie Ronson, and the Sorbonne, Paris; University of Florence, Italy; University of Salamanca, Spain. Mr. Ferren has taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art Sehool, New York, 1946-50; The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, 1947-54; Art Center School, Los Angeles, summer, 1948; Universitj of California, l.os Angeles, summer, 1953. He presently iv Associate Professor of Art at Queens College, New York. Mr. Ferren lives in New York City.
Over thirty special exhibitions of Mr. Ferren's work have been pre- sented, and his paintings have been included in major group exhibitions since 1925. Mr. Ferren's work is in the collections of Scripps College, Claremont, California; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Wadsworth Athe- neum, Hartford; University of Nebraska; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; San Francisco Museum of Art; Washington University, St. Louis; Yale University.
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MAC I V E R Loren Maclver, Paris Roofs, 54W" x 122", oil on canvas, 1962.
(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York City) (1950, 1951, 1957, 1961)
Loren Maclver was born in New York City in 1909. She studied at the Art Students League, New York. In 1960, Miss Maclver was the recipient of a grant from the Ford Foundation. She lives now in New York City.
Miss Maclver has received an award from The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1957, and special exhibitions of her work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; Vassar College; Wellesley College; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C
Miss Maclver's work has been included in exhibitions at East River Gallery, New York, 1938; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1940, 1944, 1949, 1956, 1961; Arts Club of Chi- cago, 1941, 1953; Museum of Modern Art, New York, cir- culating exhibition, 1941-42; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1945; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946; University of Illinois, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1961; Vassar College Art Gal- lery, 1950; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1950; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1950; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1950; Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 1951; Farnsworth Museum, Wellesley College, 1951; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C, 1951; Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, New York, 1953; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1953; Des Moines Art Center, 1953; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash- ington, D.C, 1958; Fairweather-Hardin Gallerv, Chicago, 1959.
Miss Maclver's work is represented in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Balti- more Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Wads- worth Atheneum, Hartford; Los Angeles County Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mu- seum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; University of Oklahoma; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica; Vassar College Art Gallery; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C; Williams College Art Gallery; Yale University.
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Milton Hebald, Noah's Ark, 36", bronze, 1961. (Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1961)
"Towards a re-evaluation of the classic or humanistic tradition, an affirmation of man's positive goals, to function wherever pos- sible in public places, and designed and exe- cuted with my personal invention and style."
Milton Hebald was born in New York City in 1917. He studied at the Beaux Arts Institute and Art Students League, New York. In 1955, he received the Prix dc Rome. He has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art and at the Brooklyn Museum Art School,
New York. Mr. Hebald lives in Rome, Italy.
Mr. Hebald was the recipient of a prize from the New York Department of Public Works, 1953. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the ACA Gallery, New York, 1937, 1940; Grand Central Moderns, New York, 1950, 1954; Galleria Schneider, Rome, 1957; Nordness Gallery, New York, 1959, 1960, 1961.
His work is in the collections of the Whit- ney Museum of American Art, New York; University of North Carolina; University of Notre Dame; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Yale University; and in private collections.
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"For the past three years I have been attracted by the chair and the many variations it offers for conveying associations between man and the object. The chair itself can also become a symbol of man. The mystery of the relationship object-space remains an unknown, fascinating to seek."
Jennett Lam was born in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1911. She studied at Yale University, where she received her B.F.A. degree in 1954 and her Ml. A. degree in 1960. She studied with Joseph Albers in 1960, and she was the recipient of a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hamp- shire, in 1960, 1961. Miss Lam teaches at the Uni- versity of Bridgeport; she lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Special exhibitions of Miss Lam's work have been held at Bradford (Massachusetts) Junior Col- lege; Silvcrmine Guild of Artists, New Canaan; Munson Gallery, New Haven; Lyman Allyn Mu- seum, New London; Grand Central Moderns, New York.
Miss Lam's work is in the collections of the Akron Art Institute; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Bradford (Massachusetts) Junior Col- lege; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts; Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Uni- versity of Illinois; Nebraska Art Assoi iation; First New Haven National Bank; American Council of Learned Societies, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Nevelson, New York University, Overseas Press Club, United Nations Plaza, New York; Madame Dierre de Harting, Paris, France; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
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Abraham Rattner, Rocce Del Capo, Sea Storm III, 28" x 36", oil on canvas, 1961. (The Downtown Gal- lery, New York City) (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"Worked hard but with quick enthusiasm over what I'd call the violence of mommy nature the sea in a fit of sum-total tempestuousness — no piece of music has yet done its worthy manifestation of expressiveness of the vitality, energy, livingness or powerful joy and anger of the sea — I felt I was in it dancing with it fighting it roaring with it part of it participating with that old — ever young sea letting out the excitement the expression of being alive — roaring it — not being boxed in fenced in by restraint of any kind — NOT SILENT as the poet-painters might moan for — that is if moaning and silence could juxtapose each other. So after the hot hot sun the smooth flat vaporous glassy glossy dead pan whiteness — no stir — no — to the look and feel of it not even wet — suddenly kicked up her heels and went into a magnificent furioso and all the old gods and sea dogs and I went along in that fabulous fury which nothing could resist. I had a room to work in right over that roaring tumult. Made many studies — drawings — symphony of power, fertility, liv- ingness being alive vitality of never say die — of relent- less destructive capacity of that untamable savageness of sheer nature. It's a sympathetic motif for me at this sad moment of a dying world of humanity — of man
pooping and petering-out. Our GUTLESS TIME of little man who in painting is afraid to be alive and the ultra ultras the puny dying race of them cries out for 'silent art,' is dead."
Abraham Rattner was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1895. He studied at George Washington Uni- versity, and The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and in Paris. He received a Cresson Traveling Fellowship from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1945. He has taught at the Uni- versity of Illinois, 1952-54, and at Michigan State University in 1956. He lives in Paris.
Mr. Rattner received awards from the Pepsi-Cola Company, 1944; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1945; La Tausca Company, 1946; Uni- versity of Illinois, 1948; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953; University of Michigan, 1956.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Rattner's paintings have been held at the Bonjean Galleries, Paris, 1935; Julien Levi Gallery, New York, 1936-41; San Francisco Mu- seum of Art, 1940; Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1942-56; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 1948; Univer- sity of Illinois, 1952; The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1957; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958. His work has been included in many major exhibitions here and abroad and is in numerous public and private collections.
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Robert Broderson, Coming Age, 66"x51", oil on can- vas, 1961. Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York City
"In an essay entitled Tradition and the Individual Talent. T. S. Eliot has said a number of things about art which reinforce my own views. I quote:
'No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone ; you must set him, for con- trast and comparison, among the dead.
'He must be quite aware of the obvious fact that art never improves, but that the material of art is never quite the same.
'Some one said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Pre- cisely, and they are that which we know.
'One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse.
'In fact, the bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. Both errors tend to make him "per-
sonal." Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion : it is not the expression of per- sonality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, onlv those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.' "
Robert Broderson was born in West Haven, Con- necticut, in 1920. He received his B.A. degree from Duke University in 1950 and his MA degree from the State University of Iowa in 1952. lie was the recipient of a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1962. He has taught at Duke University from 1957 to the present. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Mr. Broderson has won a number of awards. His work has been shown in five special exhibitions, and it has been represented in many group exhibitions includ- ing those at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1951, 1953, 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, 1957; Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961. Mr. Broderson's work is in many public and private collections in the United States.
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TOWNLEY
Hugh Townley, Star Chamber, 60", wood, 1961. (The Pace Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts) (1961)
Hugh Townley was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1923. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under Ossip Zadkine. Paris, from 1948-50, and at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. He has taught at Boston University and presently teaches at Brown University, Providence. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Mr. Townley has received awards from the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, and from the San Francisco Museum of Art. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago; University of Illinois: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, New York; Gallery St. Germain, Paris; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Mr. Townley s work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Art Mu- seum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Arnold Mare- mont, Chicago; Nelson A. Rockefeller. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Geoffrey Bowman, White Image, 50" x 40", oil and collage on canvas, 1962. (David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, California)
"The shapes, colors, and patterns which form the content of my work are the result of the transformation of visual phenomena by my own life- process — conscious and unconscious as well. These personal configura- tions are not completely planned beforehand but grow organically as I paint. However, I believe they have no relationship with so-called 'action painting.'
"Because I am keenly aware of the phenomenon of change persist- ently present in all that surrounds us, I work reflectively with the things I have seen and am continuing to see in their metamorphoses. It is these acts of seeing and reflecting that I hope to stimulate in the viewer of my work."
Geoffrey Bowman was born in San Francisco, California, in 1928. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from San Francisco State College and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives in San Francisco. Special exhibitions of Mr. Bowman's work have been held at the East- West Gallery, San Francisco, 1957; Yakima (Washington) Junior College, 1959; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, 1962.
Mr. Bowman's work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957, 1961, 1962; Richmond (California) Art Center, 1958, 1961; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1959, 1961; David Cole Gallery, Los Angeles, 1962; Stanford University, 1962. Mr. Bowman's work is in the collections of The Lannan Foundation, New York; John Baxter, Oakland; San Francisco Museum of Art; and other west coast collections.
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Samuel Adler, / Saw Him in Florence oil on canvas, 1962. (Babcock Gall (1950, 1951
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"While in Florence in 1954, I made a num- ber of studies of a man who sat at the entrance of my pension.
"He was strange and strangely dressed, and he sat there every day for a week or more.
"I stood across the street from him daily and made my studies — captivated by his strange- ness.
"In 1959, in my studio, quite unexpectedly one day, I saw him again — this time in my mind's eye, and I painted him out of that memory.
"Of course I no longer could remember how he really looked — I could only recall the 'feel' of the experience.
"As a painter, I am not intrigued ever, by any particular man, but rather by man and life, as experience.
"Again, this past year [1962] my Florentine returned to haunt me, and my painting, / Saw Him in Florence, is another attempt to breathe life into a haunting memory."
Samuel Adler was born in New York City in 1898. He was admitted to the National Academy of Design by special dispensation at the age of fourteen. He devoted his early years to both music and painting, supporting himself as a violinist until 1927 when he turned to painting as a full-time profession. Mr. Adler taught drawing and painting privately from 1936 to 1950. He was Visiting Professor of Art at the University of Illinois, 1959-60, and since 1948 he has taught at New York University where he is Professor of Art. He has been guest lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; University of Michi- gan; and Syracuse University. He has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Adler has received special awards from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1951; Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York, 1952; University of Illinois, 1952; Audubon Artists, Inc., New York, 1956, 1960; Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sci- ences, 1962.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Adler's work have
been presented by the Luyber Gallery, New York, 1948; University of Indiana, 1950; Louisville Art Center, 1950; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, 1951; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1952, 1954; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1954; Uni- versity of Illinois, 1960; Grand Central Moderns, New York, 1961.
His paintings have been included in group exhibitions at the Chicago Society for Contem- porary American Arts, 1940, 1952; Los Angeles County Museum, 1945; The Art Institute of Chi- cago, 1948, 1952, 1957; The Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1948, 1951- 53; Nebraska Art Association, 1949, 1952, 1953; National Academy of Design, New York, 1949, 1951; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1949; Day- ton Art Institute, 1949, 1950; Des Moines Art Center, 1949, 1954; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1949, 1953; Univer- sity of Georgia, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1956; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1949; The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York, 1950, 1952; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1951-55, 1956; City Art Museum of St. Louis,
1951, 1953; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach,
1952, 1955; Sarasota Art Association, 1952, 1956; Key West Art and Historical Society,
1952, 1955; University of Washington, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1952; Stanford Uni- versity, 1952; Woodstock Art Association, 1952,
1953, 1955; University of Mississippi, 1953; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Inc., Clearwater, 1953, 1956; Audubon Artists, Inc., New York, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957; Columbus (Ohio) Gal- lery of Fine Arts, 1953; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, 1953, 1956; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1954; Denver Art Museum, 1955, 1956; New York University, 1955-58; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lin- coln, Massachusetts, 1955; Illinois Wesleyan Col- lege, 1955; Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1956, 1957; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1957; and in Europe, 1956, 1957.
Mr. Adler's work is represented in the per- manent collections of the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater; University of Illinois; New York University; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences; Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; and in many private collections.
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Lyman Kipp, Route II, 24", bronze, 1962. (Betty Parsons Gallery, New- York City)
Lyman Kipp was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1929. He studied at Pratt Institute, New York, 1950-54, and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1952. He has taught at the Harvey School, Hawthorne, New York; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Bennington College, Bennington, Ver- mont. He lives in Bennington, Vermont.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Kipp's work have been held at the Cran- brook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1954; Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1962; Bennington College, 1961.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1955; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, 1959; Des Moines Art Center, 1956; University of Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1956; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1956; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1956, 1960; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1957; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1960; Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, 1962; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961. Mr. Kipp's work is in the collections of Mrs. Therone Catlin, Mrs. Albert Greenfield, University of Kentucky, Lfniver- sitv of Michigan, Mrs. Garrish Milliken, Miss Kay Orday, Mr. Robert Ossorio, Miss Priscilla Peck, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Stecker.
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"To search out the uniqueness and dignity of individual character in the life around us and state these certain responses in as much a natural expression as is consciously or subconsciously possible, one might say my objectives in painting are denned. I can only hope the paintings give some abstract feeling of the experience which it has been the artist's reward to have had.
Although there is a great fondness of the Flemish masters, I strive through the quiet excitement of discipline and craft to develop a purely American vision.
"Working from the references gained amid the familiar surroundings of 'home' in southern Ohio, I try to penetrate the surface of these singular subjects and go for their strength and essence rather than mere reproduction."
Robert Alan Gough was born in Quebec City, Canada, in 1931. He studied at the American Academy of Art, Chicago. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Gough has received awards from the Municipal Art League of Chicago; Illinois State Fair; National Academy of Design, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Voungstown. His work has been included in exhibitions .it the Illinois State Fair, 1961, 1962; The Union League Club of Chicago, 1961; Butler Institute of American Art, Voungstown, 1962; National Academy of Design, New York, 1962. Mr. Cough's work is in the permanent collections of The Union League Club of Chicago; National Academy of Design, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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(Joan Brown, Nun with Staffordshire Terrier, 60" x 60", oil on canvas, 1961. Lent by The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, New York City. (StaempHi Gallery, New York City) (1961)
"I intend to further develop the direction I'm now involved with, introducing new ideas as they evolve."
Joan Brown was born in San Francisco in 1938. She received her Bachelors degree and her Master's degree from the California School of Fine Arts, San
Francisco, in 1960. She teaches at the California School of Fine Arts, and she lives in San Francisco. Miss Brown won prizes from the Richmond (California) Art Center in 1957 and 1960. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Richmond Art Center, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Miss Brown's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Olivia Morrison, Obstinate Bird, 30'/.;", bronze, 1961. (Selected Artists Galleries, Inc., New York City)
"I try to speak — through sculpture — of man's dependency on the earth, water, air and sun — the struggle for life. To protest the unbalancing of nature, constant fights between nations and the fears of destruction. I often find birds a simple and direct form for what I have to say."
Clivia Morrison was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1909. She studied at the Art Students League, New York, and at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, where she received a scholarship in 1927. She has taught at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, and in her own studio. She lives in New York City.
Miss Morrison won a prize in the Michigan Artists' exhibition in 1937 and an award from the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1941. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Audubon Artists, Inc., Selected Artists Galleries, New York; Ontario Sculptors Society; The Ontario Society of Artists; Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Toronto.
Her work is in the collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts; Mrs. Edsel Ford, Detroit; Lansing Water Board Building; University of Michigan; International Business Machines, Inc., New York.
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Paul Zimmerman, Jft'W Zi/<% Citron, 48" x 48", oil on masonite, 1961. (Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York City) (1948, 1961)
Paul Zimmerman was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1921. He received a B.F.A. degree from the Art School of The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapo- lis, in 1946. He was awarded a Milliken Memorial Scholarship in 1946. He has taught at the Univer- sity of Indiana, Bloomington, and Westminster School, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and he teaches now at the University of Hartford. Mr. Zimmerman lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mr. Zimmerman has won awards from the Boston Arts Festival; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Connecticut Water Color Society, Hart- ford," The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapo- lis; Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan: National Academy of Design, New York; Berkshire Art Festival, Pittsfield; Springfield (Massachusetts) Art League.
Over eight special exhibitions of his work have been held, and it has been included in group exhibi-
tions at the Boston Arts Festival; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts; Dayton Art Institute; Illinois Wesleyan University; University of Illinois; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis; University of Nebraska; National Academy of Design, The National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila- delphia; Provincetown Art Association; Rhode Island Art Festival; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash- ington, D.C.; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
His work is in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; New Britain (Connecticut) Museum of American Art; First New Haven National Bank; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; The Pennsyl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield; The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Morris Broderson, Pieta. 55" x 42", oil on canvas, 1961. Lent by Mr. Sterling; Holloway, Laguna, California. (Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California)
"I try to paint people as I see them and show the way they feel about life, other people, and the world around them. Sometimes when I am painting I can hear music in my mind — or when I sec a beautiful landscape with forms of hills, trees and horses. We need these things; they help.
"I like to paint angry things too, like a bull-fishier who has just been gored by the bull, a growling dog, or a chicken trying to be free. We all want to be free."
Morris Broderson was born in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, in 1928. He studied at The Pasadena Art Mu- seum, and Jepson Art Institute and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.
Mr. Broderson has received awards from the Los Angeles Count>' Museum, 1958, 1960; Whitney Mu
seum of American Art, New York, 1960. Special exhi- bitions of his work have been held at Stanford Uni- versity, 1958; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1959; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1961; Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, 1961, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Anion Cartel Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth; Los Angeles County Museum; Universit) of California, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New- York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Butler Insti- tute of American Art, Youngstown.
Mr. Broderson's work is in the collections of Dr. MacKinley Helm; Joseph II. llirshhorn; The Kalama- zoo Institute of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Wright Ludington; Whitney Museum of American Ait. New York; The Phoenix \il Museum: M. II. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; San Fran- cisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Stanford University
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H. C. Westermann, Where the Angels Fear to Tread, 17", laminated wood, 1962. (Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois) (1961)
H. C. Westermann was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1922. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in Brookfield Center, Connecticut.
Mr. Westermann has received awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, and special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, 1958, 1961; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1961; Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, 1962. Mr. Westermann's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, 1962; Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, 1959; University of Illinois, 1961; Lake Forest (Illinois) College, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1962; American Federation of Art, New York, 1962; Galerie du Dragon, Paris, 1962.
Mr. Westermann's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bergman, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Manilow, Mr. Joseph Shapiro, Mrs. Harold Weinstein, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hollander; Mr. Dennis Adrian, Mr. Charles Jules, Mr. Howard W. Lipman, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Neumann, New York; Mr. and Mrs. William Coply, Paris.
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Jack Stuck, Self Portrait — Seeing Rose, 72" x 49", oil on canvas, 1962. (Comara ^ q-z 2. "2- S Gallery, Los Angeles)
Jack Stuck was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, in 1925. He received his B.A. from Fairmont State College, 1950, and his M.F.A. degree from the State University of Iowa, 1952. He has taught at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.
Mr. Stuck has received nine awards in exhibitions since 1959. Special exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960, 1961, 1962, and Art Center in La Jolla, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; Art Center at La Jolla, I960; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1960, 1961; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1960; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1960, 1961; Denver Art Museum, 1961; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, 1961; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1962. Mr. Sturk's work is in the collections of Long Beach State College; William Roerick, Los Angeles; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Lee Nordness, New York; The Phoenix Art Museum: and in many other collections.
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' Andrew Wyeth, Back Apartment, 22'A" X.3OV2", water color on paper, 1961. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gilmore, Kalamazoo, Michigan. (1948, 1949)
Andrew Wyeth was born at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He studied with his father, N. C. Wyeth. Mr. Wyeth still lives in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
He received the Dana Water Color Medal from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1947; the Award of Merit Medal and a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1947; and a prize from the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1948 and 1958.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Wyeth's work have been held at the Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1952; Doll & Richards, Boston, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1951; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 1951; M. Knoed- ler & Co., New York, 1953, 1958; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1956; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1956; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, 1957; Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1960; Albright-Knox Art ( iallery, Buffalo, 1962.
Mr. Wyeth's work has been included in group exhibitions at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1956, 1959; Carnegie Insti- tute, Pittsburgh, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1961; Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine, 1955; and in Moscow, 1959.
Mr. Wyeth's work is in the following collections: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; The Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; National Gallery, Oslo; Philadelphia Museum of Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington.
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Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1894. He studied with Robert Henri in New York, 1910-13. He served with Army Intelligence during World War I and worked in New Mexico during the summer of 1923 and in Paris during 1928-29. Hetaught at the Art Students League, 1931-32, and at the New School for Social Research, 1940-50. In 1952 Mr. Davis received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fel- lowship. He has lectured at many museums and uni- versities. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Davis has received awards from the Pepsi- Cola Company, 1944; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1944; The Pennsvlvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1945, 1956; St. Boltolph Club, Bos- ton, 1947; Look, 1948; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, 1951; La Tausca Company, 1948; Virginia Mu- seum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1950; Brandeis Univer- sity, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1957; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1958, 1960.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Davis' work have been held at Sheridan Square Gallery, New York, 1917; Ardsley Gallery, New York, 1918; The Newark Mu- seum, 1925; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1926, 1929; The Downtown Gallery, New- York, 1928, 1931, 1939, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1957; Valen- tine Gallery, New York, 1928; Crillon Gallery, Paris, 1931; Kath'erine Kuh Gallery, Chicago, 1939; Cincin- nati Art Museum, 1941; University of Indiana, 1941; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1945; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1945; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, 1945; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1946; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1952; Brandeis Univer- sity, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1957; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, 1957; Des Moines Art Center, 1957; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957.
Mr. Davis' work has been in many group exhibi- tions including that at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York, 1913; the Independents Exhibition, New York, 1916; Golden Gate International Exposition, San Fran- cisco, 1940; Tate Gallery, London, 1946; Museum of Modern Art International Exhibitions, 1953-54, 1955- 56; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico, 1958.
Mr. Davis' work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Baltimore Mu- seum of Art; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum; Dart- mouth College; University of Georgia; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Uni- versity of Illinois; University of Iowa; University of Kentucky; Los Angeles County Museum; Randolph- Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia; Mil- waukee Art Center; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Ne- braska; The Newark Museum; The Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metro- politan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Uni- versity of Oklahoma; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Yassar College, Pough- keepsie; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Washington University, St. Louis; San Francisco Museum of Art; Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Brandeis LTnivcrsitv. Waltham, Massachusetts; Library of Congress, The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; University of Wash- ington; W'ellesley College; Yale University.
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Hilda Monis, Sttt Sentry, 61", cements and metal, 1959. (California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, California)
"Sea Sentry, began as a ballad — of a coastal storm, the wrestling, the primordial condition, and the fusion of past and present."
Hilda Morris (Mrs. Carl) was born in New York Citv in 1911. She studied at the Art Students League and at The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. In 1960 she received a grant from the Ford Foundation. At the present time she lives in Portland, Oregon.
Mrs. Morris' work has been included in group exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1951; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1953; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; American Federation of Arts (traveling exhi- bition), 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; Boston Arts Festival, 1959; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1959; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1959; Davton Art Institute, 1961; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth; University of California, Los Angeles; Denver Art Museum; Oakland Art Museum; San Francisco Mu- seum of Art; Seattle Art Museum.
Mrs. Morris' work is represented in the collec- tions of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; University of Oregon; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Tacoma Art League; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica.
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Leon Golub, Male Figure, 81"x45", oil and lacquer on canvas, 1962. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Sum- mers, Chicago, Illinois. (Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois) (1957, 1961)
Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922. He received his Bachelor's degree in the history of art at the University of Chicago in 1942 and his Master i if Fine Arts degree from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1950. In 1960 he was awarded a Ford Foundation grant. He has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Indiana, and Northwestern University. At present he is living in Paris, France.
Mr. Golub won the Bertha Aberle Florsheim Memorial Prize in the Annual Exhibition of Ameri- can Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, and the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize in the 65th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, in 1962; he received an award in the Bienal Interamericana in Mexico City in 1962.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Golub's work have been held at Wittenborn and Company, New York, 1952; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1956; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1957; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago and New York, 1961; Centre Cul- tural Americain, Paris, 1961; Galerie Iris Clert. Paris, 1962; Hanover Gallery, London, 1962. His work has been included in the following group ex- hibitions: "Younger American Painters," The Solo- mon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954; "Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,"' Carnegie Institute, 1955; "New Images of Man," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960; "Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962; Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1962; Galerie du Dragon, Paris, 1962.
Mr. Golub's paintings are in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Chase Manhattan Bank, Museum of Modern Art, New York; S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine.
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Sam Francis was born in San Mateo, California, in 1923. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California. He won an award at the International Exhibition, Tokyo, 1956, and in 1957 a mural commission for the Kunsthalle, Bern. Mr. Francis painted in San Fran- cisco, 1946-50, and in Paris, 1950-58. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Francis' work have been held at the Gal- lerie Nina Dausset, Paris, 1952; Gallery Rive Droite, Paris, 1954; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963; Gimpel Fils, London, 1957; Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, 1957; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, 1957; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959; Seattle Art Museum, 1959; Dayton Art Institute, 1959.
His work has been represented in group exhibitions at the San Fran- cisco Museum of Art, 1947-49; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954; Spazio Gallery, Rome, 1954, 1955; Gallery Samlaren, Stockholm, 195 ; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956; Institute "l Contemporary Art, Houston, 1956; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1957; Museum of Modern Art, Bern, 1958; Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; David Anderson Gallery, New York, 1960.
Mr. Francis' work is represented in the collections of the Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute; Tate Gallery, 1 don;
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum ol Modern Art, New York; and in numerous other collections here and abroad.
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"This piece (Fortitude) was made originally of wax, cloth, and wood, and was sent to Italy to be cast in bronze. The materials and style were in large part dictated by problems of transport. I intended it to be an unequivocal, biographical state- ment."
William King was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. He attended The Cooper Union School of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Accademia di Belle Arte, Rome. He received a Fulbright award in 1949. He has taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and he lives in New York City.
Mr. King has won an award from The Cooper Union School of Art, 1948, and an award in the Margaret Tiffany Blake Resco competition, Skow- hegan, Maine, 1951. Special exhibitions of his work have been held in New York City, and his work has been included in group exhibitions at the Roko Gallery, New York, 1945-49; The Cooper Union Museum, New York, 1948-49; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1948-49; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949-50, 1955; The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1950-52, 1952-55; Addison Gallery of Ameri- can Art, Andover, 1952; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1952, 1955; The Alan Gallery, New York, 1955-59; Carnegie Insti- tute, Pittsburgh, 1955; New Sculpture Group, New York, 1957-60; The Newark Museum, 1962; The Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, 1962; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1962; Peabody College, Peabody, Tennessee, 1962. Mr. King's work is in a number of private collections.
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Landcs Lewitin, Noblesse Oblige, 40" x 42", oil on canvas, 1960. (Rose Fried Gallery, New York C :it\
"Born under the strongest sign of the Zodiac - symbolized by the scorpion and the eagle — on the Red Sea, on November 14, 1892, at nine o'clock a.m. and registered in Cairo, Egypt.
"Schooling: Left kindergarten with a set of lettered blocks and a set of colored pencils. There- after, lived on a cloud, criss-crossed many lands and seas. 1908: Studied art in Cairo; same vear went to Paris. 1916: Came to the U.S.A. 19J9: After main vicissitudes, enrolled in an art school in New York.
"After many years, returned to France, then bai k to New York. Watched the sun rise and set into starr)' nights on hillsides — olive, cypress, pine, and orange groves — sparkling with fireflies.
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"Sat in enchanted gardens overlooking shingled beaches; heard the warble of nightingales beyond wisteria and roses hung over fences and walls. Now has a studio with a view of the Hudson River and New Jersey's industrial smoke stacks, and hears the blasts of transatlantic liners and tooting tugboats."
Landes Lewitin was born near Cairo, Egypt, in 1892. He studied art in Paris before coming to the United States in 1916; then he enrolled in art si hool in New York City. He lives in New York.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Lewitin's work have been held at Egan Gallery, Stable Gallery, Royal S. Marks Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is in a number of private and public col- lections in Europe and the United States, including those of the Museum nl Modern Art. and New York University in New York.
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* Nicholas Vasilieff, Still Life with White Vase, 36"x48", oil on canvas, 1960. (Amel Gallery, Now York City) (1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1961)
"Today there is much talk of the search for a new school of art. To me, there is nothing new or dynamic except total individuality of the artist himself. Only when the artist has his own focus and a personal color harmony, no matter which school of art he belongs to, can he create. For the real significance of creativity is in the individual expression of the artist. Only this is new.
"Simplicity has great value in painting, as in all art forms. The artist who expresses himself honestly and with understanding, who knows himself and his limit, will be saved from extending himself to absurdity.
"An artist can develop real understanding and the capacity for self-expression only after basic classical study. Picasso, Degas, Rouault, Matisse — all the great artists of the 19th and 20th centuries — could create new forms only after they were able to draw as well as Ingres. In the personal expression of every great artist there is the evidence of an academic training."
Nicholas YasiliefT was born in Moscow in 1892. He studied at the Moscow Academy and was a student of Leonid Pasternak. He was Professor of Art at Moscow University. He came to the United States in 1923.
Mr. Vasilieff received an award in the La Tausca ex- hibition at the Riverside Museum, New York. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the John Heller Gallery and Amel Gallery in New York City. His work has been included in group exhibitions at: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; University of Illinois; Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The American University, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washing- ton, D.C.; and in Bordighera, Italy.
Mr. Vasilieff's work is in the collections of the Tweed Gallery, Duluth; University of Florida; Wadsworth Athe- neum, Hartford; University of Illinois; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Mount Holyoke College; University of Nebraska; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. New Orleans; Brooklyn Museum, New York University, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Phoenix Art Museum; The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Museum; The Cor- coran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.G; Colby College, Waterville, Maine; Yale University; Butler Institute of Amer- ican Art, Youngstown.
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Adolph Gottlieb, Ochre and Black, 78" x 132", oil on canvas, 1962. (Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Cit) i (1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955)
Adolph Gottlieb was born in New York City in 1903. He studied at the Art Students League, New York, and traveled and studied for a year and a half in Europe. He has taught at Pratt Institute, New York, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has lectured at various colleges and museums. Mr. Gottlieb lives in East Hampton, Long Island, New York.
Mr. Gottlieb has been the recipient of awards from the Dudensing Gallery, New York, 1929; United States Government, Treasury Department, 1939; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1944; Univer- sity of Illinois, 1951; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Gottlieb's work have been held at Galerie Handschen, Basel; Bennington College; Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills; Arts Club of Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Galleria dell' Ariete, Milan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Dudensing Gallery, Andre Emmerich Gallery, French and Co., Inc., Martha Jackson Gallery, Sidney Janis Gallery, The Jewish Museum, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., Jacques
Seligmann and Co., Inc., New York; Galerie Law- rence, Galerie Maeght, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris; Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, London; The Solomon R. Gug- genheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York; and at many other institutions, here and abroad.
Mr. Gottlieb's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Illinois; Ball State Teacher's College, Muncie, Indiana; Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca; University of Miami; University of Nebraska; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans; Brooklyn Museum, The Solomon R. Gug- genheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Smith College, North- ampton; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; San Jose Library; Tel Aviv Museum; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Yale University; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; and in many other collections.
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Robert Cremean, Standing Figure — Disrobing. .U", unique bronze, 1961-62. (Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California) (1961)
Robert Cremean was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1932. He attended Alfred University, New York, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1954 and his Master's degree in 1956. He was the recipient of a Fulbright award in 1954. He has taught at The Detroit Institute of Arts, at the Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles, and at the Art Center in La Jolla. He lives in Los Angeles.
Mr. Cremean s work has been included in exhi- bitions at The Toledo Museum of Art, 1955; Galleria Schneider, Rome, 1955; La Fontanella Gallery, Rome, 1955; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1955; University of Michigan, 1956; The Detroit Institute of Art, 1956; Contem- porary Arts Association, Houston, 1957; Santa Bar- bara Museum of Art, 1957; Art Center in La Jolla, 1957; University of Nebraska, 1958; Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960, 1961, 1962; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960, 1961; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961; Chapman College, Orange, California, 1961; Ball State Teacher's College, Muncie, Indiana, 1961; San Fernando Valley Col- lege, 1961; Long Beach City College, 1961; Cali- fornia Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1961, San Francisco; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961, 1962; Providence Art Club, 1962.
Mr. Cremean's work is in the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of California, Los Angeles; Univer- sity of Miami; University of Nebraska; Santa Bar- bara Museum of Art; City Art Museum of St. Louis.
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^Marcia Marcus, Double Portrait, 68' j" x 78"/', oil on canvas, 1962. Lent by Mr. Lawrence H. Bloedel, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (The Alan Gallery, New York City)
Marcia Marcus was born in New York City in 1928. She studied at New York L'niversity, The Cooper Union School of Art, and the Art Students League, New York. She received a Fulbright award in 1962, and she now is living in Paris, France.
Miss Marcus' work has been included in a number of group exhibi- tions and is in the collections of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Marie and Roy R. Neuberger, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Sumner Foun- dation for the Arts; and others.
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Robert Richenburg, Fall Garden, 76" x 56", oil on canvas, 1961. (Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Cits
Robert B. Richenburg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1917. lie studied at Boston University; George Washington University, and The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Students League, the Ozenfant School of Art, and the Hans Hofmann School, New York. He has taught at the City College of New York, 1946-50; The Cooper Union School of Art, 1954-55; New York University, 1960-61; and Pratt Institute, 1959 to the present. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Seven special exhibitions of Mr. Richenburg's work have been held since 1954. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1949, 1950, 1961: Chryslei Museum, Provincetown, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1960; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1961; Yale University, 1961; Dayton Art Institute, 1962; The Arkansas Aits Center, Little Rock; William Rockhill Nelson Gallets ol \u. K. in-. iv City, 1962; Chrysler Museum. Provincetown. Mr. Richen- burg's work is in a number of public and private collections.
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°Edward Stasack, The Brass Ring, 48" x 40", oil on canvas, 1962. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Leo Praeger, Syosset, New York. (The Down- town Gallery, New York City) (1961)
"Paintings are, and I hope always will be, esthetic objects.
"Some paintings and sculpture I've seen have very little esthetic value but lots of con- tent, philosophy, satire, protest, purgation; good things all. But the only constant factor I am able to see in fine art, since the begin- ning, is the glory in looking at it."
Edward Stasack was born in Chicago in 1929. He studied at the University of Illinois where he obtained an M.F.A. degree in 1956. He was the recipient of a graduate fellowship from the University of Illinois in 1955, a scholarship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation in 1957, and a Rockefeller Foun- dation grant in 1958. He has taught at the University of Hawaii from 1956 to the present. He lives in Hawaii.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Stasack's work have been held at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, 1954; Cromer and Quint Gallery, Chicago. 1956; University of Hawaii, 1956, 1957; The Gallerv, Honolulu, 1957; Scoville Gallery, Honolulu, 1958, 1959; Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1962.
Mr. Stasack's work is in the collections of the University of Hawaii; Honolulu Acad- emy of Arts; University of Illinois; Library of Congress; Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Bradley University, Peoria; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum.
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Jack Squier, Blind Animal #2, 37", wood, 1962. (The Alan Gallery, New York City) (1959, 1961)
Jack Squier was born in Dixon, Illinois, in 1927. He studied at Oberlin College, at Indiana University, where he earned his B.S. degree in 1950, and at Cornell Uni- versity where he received an M.F.A. degree in 1952. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, summer session, 1960, and he teaches now at Cornell Univer- sity. Mr. Squier lives in Ithaca, New York.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Squier's work have been held at The Alan Gallery, New York, 1956, 1959, 1962; Cornell University, 1957, 1959. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Albany Institute of History and Art; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills; Boston Art Festival, Brown Gallery, Boston; Bruxelles World's Fair; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; University of Illinois; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis; Hanover Gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum; University of Minnesota; The Alan Gallery, The Downtown Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Stable Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Clavo Bernard Gallery, Paris; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Rochester (New York) Memo- rial Art Gallery; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. Mr. Squier's work is in the collections of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Cor- nell University, Howard Lipman, Lois Orswell, Nelson Rockefeller, Eero Saarinen, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Wormley.
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n tz'C'x tylilton Avery, Robed Nude, 68" x 58' , oil on canvas, I960. (Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City) (1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"I had been painting the sea and dunes for some time — when suddenly I had an urge to do a figure. A yellow robe of my wife's set the tone of the canvas, a plant in the studio served as accessory and Robed Nude came into being."
Milton Avery was born in Altmar, New York, in 1893. He studied at the Connecticut League of Art Students, Hartford. He received special awrards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929; Connecti- cut Academy of Fine Arts, Hartford, 1930; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; Boston Arts Festi- val, 1958; Art: USA: 59, (Coliseum) New York, 1959; Ford Foundation (retrospective exhibition award), 1959. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Avery's work have been held at the Opportunity Gallery, New York, 1928; Gallerv, 144 West 13th Street, New York, 1932; Valentine Gallery, New York, 1935-42; Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946; Durand-Ruel Gallery-, New York and Paris, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949; The Phillips Gallerv, Wash- ington, D.C., 1943, 1944, 1952; Arts Club of Chi- a «« m n v cago, 1944; Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York,
AVERY 1944; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946;
Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1947; Laurel Gal- lery, New York, 1950; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1950; Grace Borgenicht Gallerv, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959; The Baltimore Mu- seum of Art, 1952; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1952; Lowe Gallery, Coral Gables, 1952; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1952; Mills Col- lege, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1956; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1956; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1956, 1959; University of Nebraska, 1956; HCE Gallerv, Provincetown, 1956, 1958, 1959; Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, 1958; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1959; Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, New York, 1960.
Mr. Avery's work has been included in many group exhibitions and is represented in the following collections: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; University of Illinois; Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; Walker Art Cen- ter, Minneapolis; University of Minnesota; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum, The Metro- politan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Nor- ton Gallery, West Palm Beach; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Philadel- phia Museum of Art; Phillips Exeter Academy; Smith College Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Phillips Gallerv. Washington, D.C.; Yale Uni- versity Art Gallery; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; and in many other collections.
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• James Wines, Eclipse, 18%", bronze, 1961. Lent by Irene and Jan Peter Stern, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. (Otto Gerson Gallery, New York City) (1959)
"I am involved with sculpture as an architectural experience. This does not necessarily mean that my intention is to create sculpture for buildings, (although I am enthusiastic about the potentials of environmental design); but, rather that I want to capture the spirit, the space, the sensations, inherent in architecture.
"The baroque dynamics which have dominated American painting and sculpture for the past 15 years have grown too widely acceptable, the vocabulary too pat, the masters too masterful, and the imitators too plentiful. I find myself, when viewing exhibitions today, searching for clarity and the 'sink or swim' attitude toward statement. Out of the mass of works which are deftly realized through arbitrary selection one cannot help but seek a different kind of order.
"Possibly I envy today's architect — collaborative or master builder. Their ability to seize undissipated geometry, a block of concrete, a shaft of steel, makes them, for me, the heroes of assemblage. My particular intent is to realize intrinsic sculpture, with all its psychological or mystical intentions, through some of the means peculiar to architecture. Possibly I could better define this as a 'warm geometry.' "
James Wines was born in Chicago in 1932. He studied at Syracuse University, New York. He was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggen- heim Memorial Foundation, 1962. He lives in Rome, Italy.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Wines's work have been held at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1954; Na- tional Academy of Istanbul, 1956; The Baltimore Mu- seum of Art, 1958; Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, 1958, 1959, 1961; Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1960, 1962; Galleria Trastevere, Rome, 1960, 1961; Galerie Alphonse Chave, Venice, 1960; Syracuse Uni- versity, 1962, 1963. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art, Syra- cuse, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1952, 1953, 1954; Uffizzi Gallery, Florence, 1957; Los Angeles County Museum, 1958; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963; American Academy in Rome, 1958; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959; University of Illinois, 1959; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, 1961, 1962; Boston Arts Festival, 1961; Dayton Art Insti- tute, 1961; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961.
Mr. Wines's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Lester Johnson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1919. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, the St. Paul School of Art, and The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He was the recipient of the Alfred F. Pillsbury (Minneapolis) scholarship, and a St. Paul School of Art scholarship. He teaches at Ohio State University, Columbus. His permanent residence is in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Johnson's work have been held at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1961; Holland Art Gallery, Chicago, 1962; Dayton Art Institute, 1962; Fort Worth Museum, 1962; Ohio State Uni- versity, 1962; and in Provincetown, 1962.
Mr. Johnson's work has been included in group exhibitions at Zabriski Gallery, New York, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961; The Minne- apolis Institute of Arts, 1956, 1957; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1956; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958; Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York, 1958; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1959, 1960; University of Colorado, 1959; Nebraska Art Association, 1959, 1960; Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 1959; Salzburg (Austria) Festival, 1959; American Federation of Arts, New York, 1960; University of North Carolina, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1962; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1962.
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Carl Holty, Not What You Think, 72" x 56", oil on canvas, 1962. (Graham Gallery, New York City) (1949, 1950)
"I believe that a painting may be fully realized without representational or referential elements and that forms in tension and color germane to the artist's conception of form are sufficient as the basic elements for working. I need hardly say that vision on the part of the artist and his sense of scale and of rhythm are essential, for without them there can be no kind of art at all.
"My method of working is abstract but the results I aim at are concrete. The images I would attain must result from dealing with the realities of forms (shapes) and colors. Not they themselves but the relationships between them are the determining factors in my work.
"Since all pictorial work that is not permitted to remain in a purely suggestive or tentative state will bear resemblance to other things seen, my paintings, like all others, will resemble something other than themselves, or if not actually resembling, will evoke images of other things. To this I have no objection. What I would hope is that they, the paintings, would reveal some heretofore unnoticed element in nature rather than recall to mind an aspect previously noted and common to visual experience."
Carl Holty was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1900. He studied at Marquette University, Milwaukee; The School of The Art Institute of Chicago; the
National Academy of Design, New York; the Royal Academy of Painting, and the Hans Hofmann School, Munich. He has taught at the Art Students League, New York, 1939-51; University of Georgia, Athens, 1942-50; University of California, Los Angeles, 1951; The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., 1952; University of Florida, Gainesville, 1952-53; Brooklyn College, New York, 1954-59. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Many special exhibitions of Mr. Holty's work have been presented here and abroad. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; L'niversity of Colorado; University of Florida; University of Georgia; University of Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum; Milwaukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis; L'niversity of Nebraska; The Metropolitan Mu- suem of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; City Art Museum of St. Louis; University of Tennessee; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale Uni- versity; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown. Mr. Holty's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of Art, Andover; Georgia Museum of Art. Athens; University of Illinois; Milwaukee Art Center; University of Nebraska; Nebraska Art Galleries; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown.
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John Paul Jones, Low Man, 39'//' x 223/4", oil on paper mounted on masonite, 1962 (Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles)
John Paul Jones was born in Indianola, Iowa, in 1924. He received his B.F.A. degree in 1949, and his M.F.A. degree in 1951, from the State University of Iowa. He was the recipient of a scholarship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1951, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1960. He has taught at the University of Okla- homa, 1951-52; University of Iowa, 1952-53; and the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1954 to the present. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Jones has won over forty-five major awards for his work, and his work has been shown in seventeen special exhibitions. Examples of his work have been included in over fifty-five group exhibitions here and abroad since 1948.
Mr. Jones's work is in the collections of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Center; University of Iow:a; The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Art Center in La Jolla; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum; Michigan State University; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Ball State Teachers College, Mun- cie, Indiana; University of Nebraska; Tulane University, New Orleans; Brooklyn Museum, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oakland Art Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; The Pasadena Art Museum; Bradley University, Peoria; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Seattle Art Mu- seum; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Gregorio Prestopino, The Open Door, 39" x 44", oil on canvas, 1961. (Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957)
Gregorio Prestopino was born in New York City in 1907. He studied at the National Academy of Design, New York, and traveled and studied abroad. He has taught at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946-48; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1946-49; and New School for Social Research, from 1949 to the present. He received a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1961. Mr. Prestopino lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.
Mr. Prestopino has won awards from the Pepsi- Cola Company in 1946 and 1947 and from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1946. Eleven special exhibitions of his work have been held in New York City since 1943. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions at the Ad- dison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Iowa; University
of Minnesota; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, New York; Smith College, Northampton; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio; Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco; Santa Bar- bara Museum of Art; Venice Biennale d'arte; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Prestopino's work is in the collections of the University of Alabama; Addison Gallery of Ameri- can Art, Andover; The Art Institute of Chicago; Hawaii University; Joseph H. Hirshhorn; University of Illinois; International Business Machines Cor- poration; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Univer- sity of Nebraska; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; University of Oklahoma; S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine; Mrs. Stanley Resor; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow White, 84"x55'//', oil on canvas, 1962. (Bettv Parsons Gallery, New York City)
Ellsworth Kelly was born in Newburgh, New- York, in 1923. He studied at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in Paris. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Kelly has received awards from Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961, and from The Art Insti- tute of Chicago, 1962. Special exhibitions of his work have been presented at Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 1951; Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961; Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1958; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959; Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962; Bruxelles World's Fair, 1957; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957, 1961, 1962; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1958; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958; David Herbert Gallery, New York, 1960, 1961; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1962; and numerous European galleries.
Mr. Kelly's work is in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Arenberg; Mr. Kenneth Arenberg; Mr. Armand Bartos; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft; The Art Institute of Chicago; Mrs. Lillian H. Flor- sheim; Mr. Robert Fraser; Mr. Cleve Gray; Mr. David Hicks; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Maremont; Mr. Robert Mayer; Mr. and Mrs. Patrick B. Mc- Ginnis; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Mr. E. J. Power; Mr. Ralph P. Youngren.
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Bernard Reder, Dwarf with Cat's Cradle, 44", bronze, 1960. (World House Galleries, New York City) (1953, 1959, 1961)
"Sometimes the form brings out the reason, sometimes the reason brings out the form. And to find out which came first, I do not care."
Bernard Reder was born in Czernowitz, Austria, in 1897. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and he won a prize in an international architectural competition in 1927. He received a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1960 and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1962. Mr. Reder now lives in New York City.
Mr. Reder's work has been included in exhibi- tions at The Rudolphinum, Prague, 1928; Manes and Prague, 1935; Galerie de Berri, Paris, 1940; Lyceum Gallery, Havana, and University of Havana, 1942; Weyhe Gallery, New York, 1943; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1950; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1951, 1952, 1953; Florence, 1959; World House Galleries, New York, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961.
His work is found in the collections of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, Nelson Rockefeller, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and in many other collections.
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Conrad Marca-Relli, Room B-3, 78" x 48", plastic on wood, 1962. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1955, 1961)
Conrad Marca-Relli was born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, in 1913. He studied in New York City. He received a Ford Foundation award in 1959. Mr. Marca-Relli has taught at Yale University, 1954-55 and 1959-60, and at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, 1958. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Marca-Relli won awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1960; and in the Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City. Eighteen special exhibitions of his work have been held here and abroad. His work has been in- cluded in group exhibitions at the Boston Arts Festival; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bruxelles World's Fair; Arts Club of Chi- cago; The Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; University of Illinois; Museum of Mod- ern Art, Kassel, Germany; The Minneapolis Insti- tute of Arts; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts;
in Moscow; University of Nebraska; Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, New York; The Pennsyl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Seattle World's Fair; Venice Biennale d'arte; The Corcoran Gal- lery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University.
Mr. Marca-Relli's work is found in the col- lections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; The Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; The De- troit Institute of Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hart- ford; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery; Washington University, St. Louis; Bundy Art Gal- lery, Waitsfield, Vermont.
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Sungwoo Chun, The Mandala Image, 63" x 73", oil on canvas, 1962. (Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, California) (1961)
"The Mandala became the most frequent subject for my paintings during the last few years.
"Of course, the Mandala has various meanings, it represents the Pictorial Bible of Buddhism for one. However, to me the Mandala symbolizes the state of mind of an individual, in which one could achieve the ABSOLUTE peace; and under this atmos- phere a painter can create the simplest and the most honest works.
"When a painting is successful, it represents the personalized atmosphere of an artist and also his state of mind.
"To synthesize, the Mandala of a painter is the root of creativity, and as a result an artist could achieve the simplicity of forms and also a complex meaning.
"Symbolically then, in order to create the honest work, one has to strive toward achieving the Mandala.
"And it is my belief that all the mystery of creativity and the mystery of painting in particular lies in a searching of the Mandala."
Sungwoo Chun was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1935. He attended Seoul National University; San Francisco State College; San Francisco Art Institute, where he ob- tained a Bachelor's degree; Mills College, Oakland, where he received his Master's degree; and Ohio State University. He lives in Oakland, California.
Sungwoo Chun has won awards from the Seoul National Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, 1957; Mi Chou Gallery, New York, 1959 Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1960, 1962; Bolles Gallery, New York, 1962.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of Illinois Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Provincetown Art Festival; San Francisco Museum of Art. Sungwoo Chun's work is in the collections of John Bolles Dr. Richard Gorton; Chase Manhattan Bank, Marsteller Collection, Sarah Lawrence College, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seoul National Museum.
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Hiram Williams, Running Man, 88" x 72", oil cm canvas, 1962. (Nordness Gallery, Inc.. New York Cit)
"I value the associative possibilities of a painted image, therefore my image is figurative. However, I am satisfied that a painting is first of all a formal arrangement, and that that formal- ity must grow out of the figuration rather than be imposed upon a descriptive appearance."'
Hiram D. Williams was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1917. He studied at the Williamsport (Indiana) Sketch Club. 1932-36; at the Art Stu- dents League, New York, summer, 1939; and at the Pennsylvania State College, where he received his B.S. degree in 1950 and his M.Ed, degree in
1951. He was the recipient of a Texas research grant, 1958, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1963. Mr. Williams has taught at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Florida, Gainesville. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Mr. Williams has received many awards; his work has been represented in twenty-two juried exhibitions, including exhibitions held at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Wil- liams' work is in a number of public and private collections.
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Louis Siegriest, East of Tonajmh, 48" x 84", mixed media on masonitc, 2- 1962. (Fredric Hobbs Fine Art, San Francisco, California)
"I have always been interested in the spectacular terrain of the deserts of the west — the magnitude of the desert cliffs. In the last four years I have departed from the traditional landscape without feeling it necessary to disown my native desert subjects, without entirely becoming pure abstract or non-objective, but have taken its advantages."
Louis Siegriest was born in Oakland, California, in 1899. lie studied at the California School of Arts and Crafts, Berkeley, 1914-16; at tin- Mark Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, 1917-18; at the Frank van Sloun Art School, San Francisco, 1919-20; and with Glenn Wessels, San Francisco, 1938-39. He has taught at the Layton Art School, Milwaukee, 1928-30, and at the Art League of California, San Francisco, 1948-51. Mr. Siegriest lives in Oakland, California.
Mr. Siegriest has won a large number of awards, and his work has been included in over forty-five special and group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Chico State College, California; Oakland Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; and in many private collections.
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Stephen Greene, B/acfc Ltgfo, 58" x 68", oil on canvas, 1961. (Staempfii Gallery, New York City) (1950, 1955, 1957, 1961)
Stephen Greene was born in New York City in 1918. He attended the National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York; the Art Students League, New York; the College of William and Mary. Williamsburg; and the State University of Iowa. In 1949 Mr. Greene won the Prix de Rome. He has taught at the Art Students League and at Pratt Institute in New York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Greene has received awards from the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 1941; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 1946; Milwaukee Art Center, 1946; Ohio State University, 1946; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1946; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1947.
His work has been included in exhibitions held at The Art Institute of Chicago; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville; The Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Academy of Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Princeton LTniversity; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Greene's work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Detroit Institute of Arts; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Tate Gallery, London; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Mu- seum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; City Art Museum of St. Louis.
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Erie Loran, Myth, 76"x53", oil on canvas, 1962. Lent by Mr. Lawrence Livingston, Jr., Sausalito, California. (Graham Gallery, New York City) (1949, 1952, 1953)
"Every new painting is a game of chance. The first statement you make determines the next one. If you are lucky you become involved as if in the discovery of some strange new world, that makes demands, presents choices and requires decisions. Knowing something about plastic principles can be a help along the way, but finding that little image or private world is all that counts.
"Tribal mvths are concrete and can be believed by large followings. Maybe it is a myth to believe that civilized man can also produce myths. What- ever mystery is involved here, the unknown force that drives man on toward finding something for himself, a whole world no matter how tiny, contains its own rewards."
Erie Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
in 1905. He studied at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; at The Minneapolis School of Art; and with Hans Hofmann. He won the Chaloner Paris Prize in 1926. Mr. Loran has taught at the University of California, and he lives in Berkeley, California.
Mr. Loran has received awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1944; Pepsi-Cola Com- pany, New York, 1949; San Francisco Art Associa- tion, 1954, 1956. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Artists' Gallery, New York, 1938; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1950; Cath- erine Viviano Gallery, New York, 1952, 1954. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935; Whitney Museum of American Art, New- York; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1948; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1941; University of Illinois, 1949, 1952, 1953; The Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, New York, 1951, 1953. Mr. Loran's work is in numerous public and private collections.
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MORRIS K>le Morris, '62 Summer Series No. 5, 72" x 72", oil on canvas, 1962. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1955, 1957, 1961)
Kyle Morris was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in } "3. c 1918. He studied at Northwestern University, Evanston, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1939 and his Master of Arts degree in 1940. Between 1935 and 1939 he studied painting at The School of The Ait Institute of Chicago. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1947. He has taught at Stephens College, 1939; University of Texas, 1940-42; University of Minnesota, 1947-52; Cranbrook Academy of Art, summers of 1947 and 1951; University of Cali- fornia, 1952-54. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Morris has received awards from the Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, 1948; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, 1960. Special exhibitions of Mr. Morris' work have been held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1952; Des Moines Art Center. 1955; Stable Gallery, New York, 1955; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1959, 1960, 1962; Galleria d'arte del Naviglio, Milan, 1960.
Mr. Morris' work has been included in group exhibitions at the Tanager Gallery, New York, 1952; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, 1961; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1955; Stable Gallery, New York, 1955; University of Illinois, 1955, 1957, 1961; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, 1958, 1960; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1957; Worcester Art Museum, 1958; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958; United States Pavilion, Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; New York-Rome Founda- tion, Rome, 1958; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1959-60; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1959-60; Des Moines Art Center, 1962-63.
His work is represented in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Detroit Insti- tute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Newark Museum; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Mu- seum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Washington University, St. Louis; The Toledo Museum.
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James McGarrell, Dolphin, 68"x57", oil on canvas, 1961. (Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois) (1959, 1961)
"There are no symbols in my paintings, only visual metaphors; sometimes things are just things and not even metaphors. Just as important as these aspects of the work are such problems as the way the parts fit together on the surface and in space, or how to get the kind of palpable space I want without violating the skin of paint on the picture plane."
James McGarrell was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1930. He studied at Indiana University, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the recipient of a Fulbright award and of a scholarship from Indiana University for study at Skowhegan, Maine. He has taught at Reed College, Portland, 1956, and at Indiana University from 1960 to the present. Mr. McGarrell lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nine special exhibitions of Mr. McGarrell's work have been held since 1955, and his work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, 1962; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1960; University of Illinois, 1959, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961; and in the International Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo, 1962.
Mr. McGarrell's work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Nebraska; Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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i Louise Nevelson, Great Night Column, 96", wood, 1960. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Solomon, New York City. (The Pace Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts)
"My search in life has been for a new image, a new insight. This search not only includes the object, but the inbetween places; the dawns and the dusks, the objective world, the heavenly spheres, the places be- tween the land and the sea."
Louise Nevelson was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1900. She studied in the United States, Europe, and Central America. She lives in New York City. Miss Nevelson won awards in national exhibitions in New York and Chicago. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale d'arte.
Miss Nevelson's work is in the collections of the Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of Nebraska; The Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Philip Johnson, Museum of Modern Art, New York University, Stephen Paine, Queen's College, Irving Rabb, Riverside Museum, Nelson Rockefeller, Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
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3 Roger Kuntz, Double Underpass, 40" x canvas, 1961. (Felix Landau Gallerv, I California) (1955, 1957)
50", oil on Los Angeles,
"I am attempting in my recent paintings to resolve the paradox of strong abstraction co-existent with objective reality. I try to synthesize a direct and simultaneous reciprocity between the two fac- tors by wading right into everyday reality and turn- ing it inside out so to speak, to expose its inherently abstract property. I am currently exploring in the recent Freeway Series the exciting shapes and vol- umes of the deeply spacial complex of roads, sur- faces, ramps, arches, columns and cement canyons that make up this most topical and valid 'abstract- reality' so much a part of our contemporary life."
Roger Kuntz was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1926. He attended Pomona College, Claremont, California, where he obtained his B.A. degree in
1948, and Claremont Graduate School, where he earned his M.F.A. degree in 1950. He studied in France and Italy during 1950. He lives in La Verne, California.
Mr. Kuntz has received ten exhibition awards, and sixteen exhibitions of his work have been pre- sented since 1949. His work has been represented in major group exhibitions including those at the Los Angeles County Museum, 1949-57; National Acad- emy of Design, New York, 1952-53; Denver Art Museum, 1952-55; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1952, 1955; The Cor- coran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953; Car- negie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1955; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; University of Illinois, 1955, 1957; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1957; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1958.
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Joseph Glasco, Standing Figure, 72"x48", oil on canvas, 1961. (Catherine Yiviano Gallery, New York) (1951, 1952, 1957, 1959)
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, in 1925. He studied at the University of Texas, Austin, 1941-42; with Rico Lebrun and at the Art Students League, New York, 1949; and at the School of Painting and Sculpture of San Miguel Allende, Mexico, 1948. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Glasco's work have been held at Perls Galleries, New York, 1950; Catherine Yiviano Gallery, New York, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1961. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chi- cago; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Illinois; Indiana University; I.os Angeles County Museum; University of Nebraska; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Vale Univer- sity. Mi < llasco's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Howard Kanovitz, Quequechan, 50"x60", oil on canvas, 1962. (Stable Gallery, New York City)
"In Fall River, where I grew up, the Quequechan flows through the center of town. Unlike most rivers, it is out of sight, covered by the cotton mills that used its rushing waters for power during the city's indus- trial heyday. Everyone talks about the river and knows the work it did, but few have ever seen it. My work is to make such rivers visible."
Howard Kanovitz was born in Fall River, Massachusets, in 1929. He has studied at Providence (Rhode Island) College, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949; at the Rhode Island School of De- sign, Providence, 1949-51; at the Art Students League, New York, 1951; with Franz Kline, 1952; and at New York University, from 1960 to the present, where he is a candidate for a Master of Arts degree. Mr. Kanovitz has been the recipient of an alumni scholarship from New York Univer- sity. He has taught at Brooklyn College, New York, and he lives in New York City.
Mr. Kanovitz's work has been exhibited at the Tanager Gallery, New York, 1953, 1954; Hansa Gallery, New York, 1954; Stable Gallery, New- York, 1954, 1955, 1962; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1956; Great Jones Gallery, New York, 1960, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961. His work is in the collections of Mr. Jasha Bernstein, Mr. Stanley Moss, Mr. David Oppenheim, Dr. Richard Stern, and Mr. Donald Weisberger.
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Arthur Okamura, Leaning Lady and Parasol, 60" x 77", oil on canvas, 1962. (Feingarten Galleries, Beverly Hills, California) (1955, 1959, 1961)
"My concern with my painting, through exten- sions of time and choice, seems to be one of duality with nature . . . not to join, but to adjoin its mys- tery, somehow, through the weathering clarifications and revelations that seek a kind of existence with the salt ocean, the cypress and heath, their sound- less voices."
Arthur Okamura was born in Long Beach, California, in 1932. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and at Yale University. He has taught at the California School of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Art, San Francisco; and at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. He lives in Bolinas, California.
Mr. Okamura was the recipient of a four year scholarship and an Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship from The School of The Art Institute
of Chicago, and a fellowship from Yale University. His work has been included in group exhibitions al The Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Denver Art Museum; University of Illi- nois; Los Angeles County Museum; M. Knoedler & Co., Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Oakland Art Museum; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Phila- delphia; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, M. II. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Mu- seum of Art.
Mr. Okamura's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Container Corporation of America, U.S. Steel Service Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; University of Illinois; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, National Society of Arts and Letters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Phoenix Art Museum; S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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Galleries, Beverly Hills, California) (1957, 1959, 1961)
"Shooting the rapids, between high canyon walls, somewhere among L*- those boulders was the beginning of Blue Recess."
Carl Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California, in 1911. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1931-33; at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, 1933-34; and at the Akademie der Bildenen Kunste in Vienna, 1934-35. Mr. Morris received a scholarship from the Institute of International Education for study in Paris, 1935-36; he was awarded a fellowship from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1962. He taught from 1936-38 at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and during 1938-39 he served as Director of the Spokane Art Center. He lives now in Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Morris won the U.S. Treasury Department competition for the mural painting commission in the L:nited States Post Office at Eugene. Oregon, 1941. He received the Margaret E. Fuller Award at the Seattle Art Museum, the Anne Bremmer Memorial Prize at the San Francisco Museum of Art, and a Purchase Award at the Denver Art Museum, all in 1946; the Pepsi-Cola Bronze Award, 1948; Phelan Award, 1950; Pur- chase Award, Stanford University Art Gallery, 1956; Purchase Award, University of Illinois, 1957; Prize, Vancouver (British Columbia Art Gallery, 1958.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Morris' work have been held at the Seattle Art Museum, 1940; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1946; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1946, 1952, 1955; Pepsi-Cola Gallery, New York/ 1948; Reed College, Portland, 1950; Rotunda Gallery,' Paris, 1954; Mills College, Oakland, 1956; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1956; Kraushaar Gallery, New York, 1956-58; Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, 1957; The Pasadena Museum of Art, 1961; Feingarten Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1962. His paintings have been in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942-47; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1944-58; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957; The Metropolitan Museum of Ait. New York, 1952; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, 1953; City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1953; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; University of Illinois, 1957, 1959, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth; University of California, Los Angeles, 1962; Oakland Art Museum, 1962.
Mr. Morris' paintings are in the collections of Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Colorado; Denver Art Museum; Fred Grunwald; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York; S. C. John- son & Son, Inc.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Solomon R. Gug- genheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica.
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Sahl Swarz, Tryst, 45", bronze, 1961. (Sculpture Center, New York City) (1961)
"Until two years ago, I was obsessed with the idea of producing a great work of sculpture, to the exclusion of everything else. I feel now that this is futile and presumptuous. My ambition is to grow as a person and let sculpture flow as it will, a true expression of life's experiences."
Sahl Swarz was born in New York City in 1912. He studied at the Clay Club and at the Art Students League, New York. He received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1955, 1958. He has taught at the Sculpture Center, New York. He lives in Verona, Italy.
Mr. Swarz has been the recipient of awards from New York World's Fair, 1939; Federal Courthouse, Statesville, North Carolina, 1941; City of Buffalo, New York, 1950. Special exhibi- tions of his work have been presented by the Sculpture Center, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1948, 1958, 1960, 1962; Philadelphia Mu- seum of Art, 1948; Padua, Italy, 1959, 1961; Uni- versity of Illinois, 1961. Mr. Swarz's work is in the collections of Brookgreen (South Carolina) Gardens Museum; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Norfolk (Virginia) Museum of Arts and Sciences.
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Roland Petersen, Picnic, 67"x71", oil on canvas, 1961. Lent by Mr. Howard Ross Smith, San Francisco, California. (1961)
"This painting is typical of the approach that has interested me for the past few years. The picnic set in deep space offers ample opportunity for me to explore the human figure singly and in groups. I am especially interested in integrating figures, still life material and landscape by means of light — especially the brilliant sunlight of the Sacramento Valley. I am attempting to create a somewhat surrealistic aura through the use of quiet impersonal figures placed in a deep land- scape."
Roland Petersen was born in Endelavc, Den- mark, in 1926. He received his B.A. degree in 1949 and his M.A. degree in 1950 from the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. He studied at the Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown, sum- mer, 1950, 1951; with Stanley William Hayter, Paris, 1950; at the California School of Fine Arts, 1951-52; and at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, summer, 1954. He was the recipient of a Sigmund Martin Heller
Traveling Fellowship, 1950, and a research grant from the University of California, 1959-60. Mr. Petersen has taught at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; the Spokane Art Center; the State College of Washington, Pullman; and the University of California, Berke- ley and Davis. He lives in Davis, California.
Mr. Petersen has won over twenty awards, and five special exhibitions of his work have been presented. His work has been represented in group exhibitions including those at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1950; Cali- fornia Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Fran- cisco, 1951, 1952; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1961; Seattle Art Museum, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955; M. II De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1953, 1957, 1959; Oakland Art Museum, 1953, 1958; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1959; Los Angeles County Museum, 1960; Oakland Art Museum, 1960; University of Illinois, 1961; The Pasadena Art Museum, 1961; Denver An Mu- seum, 1962. Mr. Petersen's work is in a number of private collections.
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it Robert Beauchamp, Two Sunken Heads Against Ochre and Green, 61" x 791/2", oil on canvas, 1962. (Green Gallery, New York)
Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1923. He studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; University of Denver; and the Hans Hofmann School of Art, Provincetown. In 1960 Mr. Beauchamp received a Fulbright grant. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Beauchamp's work has been included in exhibitions at the Tanager Gallerv, 1953; Hansa Gallery, 1955; March Gallery, 1958; Green Gallery, 1961; all of New York; Sun Gallery, Provincetown, 1961-62.
His work is in the collections of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, New York; James A. Michener, Pipersville, Pennsylvania; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Provincetown; and in other private collections.
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KERKAM Earl Kerkam, Head, 23Wxl8W, oil on canvas-board, 1961. (World
-. ji -75 House Galleries, New York City' "I try to paint a constructio
try to paint a construction instead of a sensation." Earl Kerkam was born in Virginia in 1890. He studied and taught at the Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He lives in New York City. Special exhibitions of Mr. Kerkam's work have been held in Paris in 1931 and at Babcock Galleries, Inc., Contemporary Arts, Inc., Egan Gallery, J. B. Neumann Art Gallery, Poindcxter Gallery, World House Galleries, New York. His work is found in the collections of Joseph II. Hirshhorn and Helena Rubenstein, New York.
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Paul Wonner, Sleeping Figure, 46"x51'/j", oil on canvas, 1961. (Felix Landau Gallerv, Los Angeles) (1961)
Paul Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1920. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, where he received a B.A. degree in 1942 and at the L'niversity of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. degree in 1952, a M.A. degree in 1953, and a M.L.S. degree in 1955. He lives in Davis, California.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Wonner's work have been presented by M. H. De Young Memorial Mu- seum, San Francisco, 1955; San Francisco Art Asso- ciation, 1956; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1959, 1960, 1962; Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibi- tions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo,
Brazil, 1955; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1955; Stable Gallery, New York, 1955; San Francisco Mu- seum of Art, 1955; Oakland Art Museum, 1957; Los Angeles County Museum, 1957; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958; The Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1958; Coliseum, New York, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1959; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1959, 1962; Barnsdall Park, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Mr. Wonner's work is in the collections of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sperling, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hanak, Beverly Hills; Mrs. Thomas Blake, Jr., Dallas; Gimpel Fils, London; Dr. and Mrs. Digby Gallas, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Manulis, Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Schaffner, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Mr. Mason B. Wells, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art.
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Hedda Sterne, I. rtical-Horizontal No. 2-1962, 86" x 50", oil <ni i.unas, 1962. (Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City) (195(1, 1961)
Hedda Sterne was born in Bucharest, Roumania, in 1916. She studied in Paris, Bucharest, and Vienna. She came ti> the United States in 1941. She lives in New York City. She has received an exhibition award from The Art Institute of Chi< ago. Fifteen special exhibitions of her work have been presented since 1943. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute ol Chicago,
1954, 1955, 1957, 1960; University of Illinois, 1955, 1960; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
1955, 1958; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955, 1958, 1961; Rhode Island School of Design, Provi dence, 1955; Stanford University, 1955, 1956; ["he Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955,
1956, 1958; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1956; Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1956; Univer- sity of Iowa, 1958, 1959; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1958; Virginia Mu- seum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1958; Rome-New York Art Foundation, Rome, 1959, 1961; University of Colorado, 1960; Bienal Interamericana, Mexico City, I960.
Miss Sterne's work is in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Insti- 1 1 ■ l > - ..I Chicago; Inland Steel Company, Chicago; Flu- Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Illinois: University of Nebraska; Chase Manhattan bank. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum ol Modern Art, Rockefeller Institute, Whitnej Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rii hmond.
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Lee Gatch, Jurassic Frieze, 19%"x48", oil, collage, stone, canvas, on ply- wood, 1962. (Staempfli Gallery, New York City) (1951, 1953, 1959, 1961)
"Jurassic Frieze must be regarded as creation in collage. I prefer the title, stone collage — this, a relationship of four textures: stone, sand, linen and paint. Due to the expressionistic character of this particular stone I conceived it as a frieze of three images; however they do not dominate to any extent beyond subtle association.
"In pursuing this medium of stone collage in other works my inten- tion is to show the relationship between organized and disorganized forms. Thus the stone represents the automatic, the ornamental, the accidental and finally the disorganized. So my task is to relate this condition with conscious geometric abstract forms, thereby establishing a definite rapport and logic between the organized and the disorganized; to integrate both; one reconciling the other and in the end achieve a single entity with the pictorial space."
Lee Gatch was born near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1902. He studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore; at The American School, Fontainebleau; and with Andre L'Hote and Moise Kisling in Paris. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.
Mr. Gatch won the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1957 and the Temple Award, The Detroit Insti- tute of Arts, 1959; he also won the commission to create a mural painting for the United States Post Office in Mielen, South Carolina.
A retrospective exhibition of Mr. Gatch's work was circulated in 1960 by the American Federation of Arts under a program of the Ford Foundation. His paintings have been included in exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1950, 1952, 1955; Venice Biennale d'artc. 1950, 1956; Munich-Berlin-Yienna American painting exhibition, 1952; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1960; Los Angeles County Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Phillips Gal- lery, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Gatch's work is found in the following collections: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Los Angeles County Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadel- phia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; City Art Museum of St. Louis; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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WILEY William Thomas Wiley, Lodestar, 68" x 72", oil on canvas, I960.
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6 I liT7-^ William Thomas Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. He
attended the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, where he
received his B.F.A. degree in 1960. He lives in Mill Valley, California.
Mr. Wiley has received exhibition awards from the San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco Art Association, Richmond (California) Museum, and the California State Fair. A special exhibition of his work was presented at the Staempfli Gallery, New York, in 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions held at the San Francisco Art Associa- tion, 1958, 1959, 1960; San Francisco Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1960, 1962; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.
Mr. Wiley's work is in the collections of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Levick, Mr. Charles P. Penney, Jr., Buffalo; The Lannan Foundation, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Clint Murchison, Jr., Dallas; Mr. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. and Mrs. William Zeckendorf, Jr., New York; San Francisco Museum of Art.
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Esteban Vicente, lilu, . Red, Black & White, 30"x 10", collage on card board, 1961. Andre" Emmerich Gallery, New York Cit) 1952, 1953)
Esteban Vicente was born in Segovia, Spain, in 1906. He studied al the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid. He painted in Paris, 1927-32, and again in Spain until 1936, when he came to the 1 nited States. He received a Tamarind Workshop Fellowship, summer, 1962. He has taught in Puerto Rico, at the University of California, Berkeley, at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and at New York University, lie lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Vicente's work have been held al Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago; Leo Castelli Gallery, Kgan Gallery, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Rose Fried Gallery, Kleemann Galleries, Peridol Gallery, New York; Galerie de France, Paris. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Baltimore Museum of Art; Institute of Con- temporary Art, Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitnej Mu- seum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio; Seattle World's Fair.
Mr. Vicente's work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; University of Iowa; Look Magazine; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: Chase Manhattan Bank, Union Carbide Corporation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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George Kokines, Patrimony, 6T/2" x 54", oil on canvas, 1962. (Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago)
George Kokines was born in Chicago in 1930. He studied at the University of Chi- cago and at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago where he received his Bachelor's degree. He has taught at the Hyde Park (Chicago) Art Center, and he lives in Chi- cago.
Mr. Kokines was the recipient in 1962 of the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Art Insti- tute Medal and prize in the "65th Annual
Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity" at The Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, 1960, 1961; Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, 1960, 1961; John Gibson Gallery, Chicago, 1961-62; Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, 1962; Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago, 1962.
Mr. Kokines' work is in the collections of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bensinger, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Freehling, Highland Park, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mayer, Win- netka, Illinois.
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Fred Farr, Armored Horse No. 8, 26", bronze, 1960 (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York City) (1959 1961)
"I do sense a more recognizable image emerg ing from the complete abstraction. In painting c\pr< i.ilh 1 Muse foliage, ] Is, land and seascapes.'
Fred Farr was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1914. He studied at the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; Art Students League, and American Art ists School, New York; and University of Oregon Eugene. He has taught at the Museum of Modern Art, 1917; University of Oregon, Eugene, 1948 Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1948; Dalton Schools, New York, 1950; Hunter College, New York, 1954; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1950- 1956. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Farr's work has been included in exhibi- tions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946; Taft Museum, Cincinnati, 1947; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield,
Massachusetts, 1947; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, 1948; The Currier Gallery of Art, Man- chester, New Hampshire, 1948; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery, 1948; Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1948; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1948; City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1948; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1948; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1949; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949; The Toledo Museum of Art, 1949; Isaac Dclgado Mu- seum of Art, New Orleans, 1949; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1949; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1950; Walters Art Gallery, Balti- more, 1953; and many universities. Mr. Fan's work is in the collections of the Dayton Art Institute; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Illinois; Ball State Teacher's College, Muncie, Indiana; Sarah Lawrence College, New York; Portland (Ore- gon) Art Museum; The Phillips Gallery, Washing- ton, D.C.
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MONTENEGRO
Enrique Montenegro, Man in Traffic, 52" x 54", oil on canvas, 1961. (Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California)
"In the '40's I painted exclusively in an abstract nonobjective style. Around about 1952 I felt strongly inclined to paint the real world. There followed a slow development in a series of paintings concerned with people, landscapes, and still life objects.
"At present I am much involved in painting people in various activities of modern day life and am also concerned in opening up large areas of space on my canvas, and with the interpretation of movement and action."
Enrique Montenegro was born in Valparaiso, Chile, in 1917. He studied at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and at the Art Students League, New York. He has taught at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque; North Carolina State College, Raleigh; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Mount Holyoke College; and Brown University, Providence. He received a Catherwood Foundation fellowship in 1956. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Montenegro was awarded a prize by the Denver Art Museum in 1953, and special exhibitions of his work have been held by the Denver Art Museum, 1955; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1957; Witte Memorial Museum, San An- tonio, 1958; Parma Gallery, New York, 1959, 1960; Mount Holyoke College, 1961; Felix Landau Gal- lery, Los Angeles, 1962; University of Texas, 1962.
Mr. Montenegro's work is in the collections of James B. Byrnes; Denver Art Museum; S. J. Levin; Mount Holyoke College; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Olscn Foundation; the late W. R. Valentiner.
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Pamela Boden, Steeplechase, II", wood construction, 1962. (David Cole ( . . 1 1 1 c • i % . San Francisco)
Pamela Boden was burn in England in 1911. She worked and ex- hibited in Europe before 1945, when she came to the United States. Miss Boden lives in Bolinas, California.
Miss Boden's work has been included in group exhibitions at Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles; Art of This Century, New York; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Stanford Univer- sit) . Palo Alto, California.
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Joyce Treiman, The Facade, 48" x 70", oil on can- vas, 1962. (Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; The Forum Gallery, Xeu York Cit\ i 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1961)
"I believe my statement in the 1961 catalogue of the University of Illinois exhibition stated my point of view about my work: "... I personally have been finding the strength of the image more and more vital and increasingly important to my own work. I want to escape the anonymity that has enveloped most painting today and to particularize in such a way as to make the human image again alive. I want to individualize the object and create a singular momentary event. Not as a literal repre- sentation, but with an attitude toward objects and figures that makes them important ... I want to make a series of unmistakable individualized figures beyond repetition, with the mysteriousness of the particular revealed.' I have been working toward these stated objectives."
Joyce Treiman was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1922. She earned her A. A. degree from Stephens College in 1941 and her B.F.A. degree from the State University of Iowa in 1943. Miss Treiman received a fellowship for graduate study at the State University of Iowa in 1944, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship in 1947, and a Tupperware Art Fund fellowship in 1955. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
Miss Treiman has won awards from Stephens College, 1940; Denver Art Museum, 1948; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 1948; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1959, 1960; Festival of Art, Highland Park, Illinois, 1953; Ford Founda- tion, 1960; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, 1961. Special exhibitions of her work have been held at the Paul Theobald Gallery, Chicago, 1942; John Snowden Gallery, Chicago, 1945; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1947; North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois, 1947; Fairweathcr- Garnett Gallery, Evanston, Illinois, 1950; Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, 1950; Palmer House
Galleries, Chicago, 1952; Glencoe (Illinois) Library, 1953; Elizabeth Nelson Gallery, Chicago, 1953; Charles Feingarten Gallery, Chicago, 1955; Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, 1955; Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1955, 1958; Willard Gallery, New York, 1960; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1961.
Her work has been included in the following group exhibitions: Denver Art Museum, 1943, 1948, 1955, 1958, 1960; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1946, 1948; The Art Institute of Chi- cago, 1946, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960; Springfield (Missouri) Art Museum, 1946; University of Illinois,
1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1951, 1954; Milwaukee Art Center,
1951, 1955; American Federation of Arts (traveling exhibition), 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951; Watkins Gal- lery, Washington, D.C., 1951; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1952; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952; University of Texas, 1952; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 1953; University of Wisconsin, 1953; University of Chicago, 1954; The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1954; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1954; University of Nebraska, 1957; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1957; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1958; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1958; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1958; Utah State University, 1958; Lake Forest College, 1959-60; Sarasota Art Associa- tion, 1959; Boston Arts Festival, 1960; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, 1961.
Miss Treiman's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; International Min- erals and Metals, Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; the State Uni- versity of Iowa; Utah State University; Abbott Laboratory Collection, North Chicago; Allen Memo- rial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Tupperware Art Museum, Orlando.
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Theodore Roszak, Golden Hawk, 24", steel and bronze, 1961. (Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York City) (1953, 1955, 1961)
"The new content, as it appears in modern art, is shaped organically out of an evolution of forms that have a corresponding bearing upon historic necessity for us today. It arises painfully, yet naturally, out of heaps of frag- ments and experiments that result from decades of accumulated 'visual ideas.' It emerges out of a plethora of plastic elements that belong entirely to our contemporary vocabulary, visually revealing bones, nerves and senses as well as man's varied state of being.
"Considered in this light, sculpture emerges as a language of visual content in space . . . not as an 'act' sufficient unto itself, nor as a repository for the 'object' either lost or found — but as an unequivocal statement charged to ful- fill man's awakened sense of his inner reality, upon whose threshold of affirma- tion stands delineated — a new image."
Theodore Roszak was born in Poznan, Poland, in 1907. He studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and at the National Academy of Design, and Columbia University, New York. He received the American Traveling Fellowship, 1928, and the Anna Louise Raymond Foreign Traveling Fellowship. 1929, from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. In 1929 he was the hi ipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship. He has taught at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and at Design Laboratory, and Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Mr. Roszak lives in New York City.
Mr. Roszak has won a number of prizes, and his work has been included in many major group exhibitions here and abroad. Mr. Roszak's sculpture is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont. Chicago; University of Illinois; Tate Gallery, London; Michigan State Univer- sity; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Mr. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Museum of Modern Art, Sara Roby Foundation. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museu dc Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
SHAPIRO
Seymour Shapiro, Yean of the Tiger, 12" x 17'/', oil on masonite, 1962. Stable (Jailers. .\V» York City) "on the process of making a painting — "Make yourself ready t<> direct your heart. Cleanse your body and choose a lonely housing where none can see or hear your voice. Sit there in your housing and do not reveal your ecrel to any man. Do it by day — but it is better by night. In that hour when you arc prepared, then clear all your thoughts from the vanities of this world. Covet yourself with a cool aii and if possible let your clothing be of bl.uk — for all this is helpful in leading the heart. Light that only whie h is to be until it is bright, but keep the rest of the
room in dark. Then take brush in hand remember- ing that you are about to serve in. in in jo) ol the glad- ness of heart. Now begin to combine a tew or main brush strokes and continue until your hearl is warm. Then watch these movements and what more you can bring forth by moving them. And when you feel that your In-art is already warm and when you look upon these various combinations, having imagined this very vividly, then turn your mind to understand youi thoughts with the main thing- that will come int" youi In. in through these combinations — ponder them as a
whole and in all their detail and interpret what \.hi see as far as possible with your reason, but do not limn it to reason. And all this will happen: th.it your whole body will be seized b\ an extreme!) strong trembling — so that you will surely think you are about to die be- . ause your soul, overjoyed with this new know ledge will leave your body, and be ready at that verj moment to consciously choose death — and then you will know that you have gone far enough to receive- the influx. And then you will grasp new things which by human tradition or by yourself alone. \ou would not be able to know.
Seymour Shapiro was bom iii Irving ton, New Jer- sey, in 1927. He studied at New Jersey State Teachers College and. as a graduate student, at Hunter College. New York. He lives in Rutherford, New Jersey.
He received an award from The Ncw.uk Mu- seum, and his work has been included in group exhibi- tions ai I he Newark Museum; Stable Gallery, Stuit- man Gallery, Union t arbidi Corporation, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy ol the line Arts, Philadel- phia. Mr. Shapiro's work is in the collections ■ . f Albright-knox An Gallery, Buffalo; Cornell Univei -it\. Ithaca; The Newark Museum.
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^1 ^ Lundy Siegriest, B/ut Reflection, 48" x 48
mixed media on masonite, 1962. (Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, California) (1953, 1955, 1961)
"I believe that painting, like music, is to be enjoyed rather than commented on." Lundy Siegriest was born in Oakland, California, in 1925. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he completed the four-year course in fine arts. In 1952 he received the Albert M. Bender grant-in-aid for travel in Mexico. He teaches at the Junior Center of Art and Science, Oakland, and at the Valley Art Center, Lafayette. He lives in Oakland, California.
Mr. Siegriest's work has been included in group exhibitions at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1949, 1950, 1954; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950-60; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962; University of Illinois, 1953, 1955, 1961; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957, 1960; Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; World House Galleries, New York, 1958; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1958. Mr. Siegriest's work is in the collections of Chico State College; Denver Art Museum; Terry Art Institute, Miami; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Oakland Art Museum; Oakland Public Library; James D. Phelan; California State Fair, Sacramento; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Crown Zellerbach, San Francisco; San Francisco Art Commission; San Francisco Museum of Art; Vallejo Art Association; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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Ham- Mintz, Animal, 48"x51", oil on masonite, 1960. (Charles Feingarten, Chicago, Illinois) (1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1961)
"When I first approach a canvas, I have no previously conceived idea of what I might want the finished canvas to be. I do not make preliminary sketches, nor do I draw an outline on the canvas. Immediately, I begin to seek form through color. Only as I work, only as new forms suggest themselves, do new discoveries and hitherto unseen possibilities appear. Thus, what happens on the canvas during the process of creation is a continual surprise and, hence, a continual challenge to me. There is a never ending search for new color relationships and repeated experimentation with new techniques for better handling the medium."
Harry Mintz was born in Ostrowiec, Poland, in 1909. He received a M.F.A. degree from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and he studied in the United States at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught at Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis, 1954-55, and since 1955 at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Mintz lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Mintz has received over forty awards, and twenty-seven special exhibitions of his work have been presented. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New York World's Fair; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Venice Biennale d'arte; The Corcoran Galley of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Mintz's paintings are in the collections of Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; The Art Institute of Chicago; Evansville (Indiana) Museum of Arts and Sciences; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; University of Notre Dame, South Bend; Warsaw (Poland) Academy of Fine Arts; and in many private collections.
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Walter Snelgrove, Daguerre Desert, 78"x57", oil on canvas, 1962. (Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, ( lalifornia)
"From my studio I try to paint places where I've never been but would like to be."
Walter Snelgrove was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1924. He studied at the Uni- versity of Washington, Seattle, 1941-43; the California Srhool of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1946; and the University of California, Berke- ley, where he received his B.A. degree in 1947 and his M.A. degree in 1951. He was awarded a Phelan Traveling Si holarship in 1951. Mr. Snelgrove taught at the University of Cali-
fornia, 1952-55. He lives in Berkeley, Cali- fornia.
Mr. Snelgrove*s work has been included in group exhibitions held at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950-60, 1962; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1958;' The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961 Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1961 Los Angeles County Museum, 1961; Poindcx- ter Gallery, New York, 1961; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, 1962; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962. His work is in public and private collections in California and Texas.
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Abe Satoru, Seed, 34", copper, brass, steel, 1962. (Sculpture Center. New York City) (1961)
"'Seed' — Imagine what it can grow into — with such a beginning.
"'Myself — I will keep growing."
Abe Satoru was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1926. He studied at the Art Students League, New York, 1948-50. He lives in New York City. A special exhibition of Mr. Satoru's work has been presented at the Sculpture Center, New York, and his work has been included in group exhibitions at the Columbia Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute o) Arts; University of Illinois; Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan; Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Mr. Satoru's work is represented in public and private collections.
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Jean Xceron, Painting No. 7, 51"x42", oil on canvas, 1949. (Rose Fried Gallery, New York City) (1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957)
Jean Xceron was born in Isari, Greece, in 1890. He studied at The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. He worked in Paris from 1927-37" Mr. Xceron lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Xceron's work have been held at Galerie de France, Paris, 1931; Galerie Percier, Paris, 1933; Galerie Pierre, Paris, 1934; Garland Gallery, New York, 1935; Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1938; Bennington College, 1944; Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1950; Rose Fried Gallery, New York, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962.
Mr. Xceron's work has been included in group exhibitions at Independent Artists, New York, 1921, 1924; Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1929; Zappeion Gallery, Athens, 1930; Arts and Crafts Club, New Orleans, 1931; Salon des Surin- dependants, Paris, 1931, 1935; Galerie de la Renaissance, Paris, 1932, 1935; Exposition a l'Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1933; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1939; New York World's Fair, 1939, 1940; Golden Gate International Exposition, San Fran- cisco, 1939; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1939; The Solomon R. Guggen- heim Museum, New York, 1939, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1962; Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1940; American Abstract Artists, New- York, 1941, 1944, 1951, 1957; Helena Rubinstein, New York, 1942; National Arts Club, New York, 1942; Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1942; Mar- quie Gallery, New York, 1943; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, "l947, 1948,
1949, 1950; Riverside Museum, New York, 1943; Los Angeles County Museum, 1945; Pinacotheca, New York, 1945; Rockefeller Center, New York, 1945; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1945, 1946,
1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956; Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh, 1945; California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1945; Ferargil Gallery, New York, 1946, 1948,
1949, 1950, 1951, 1952; The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 1946, 1951; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1946; University of Iowa, 1947; National Academy of Design, New York, 1947; Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, 1947,
1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952; The Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, 1947, 1948; Galerie Georges Giroux, Bruxelles, 1948; Columbus (Ohio) Gal- lery of Fine Arts, 1948; University of Illinois,
1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957; Dayton Art Insti- tute, 1951; Rose Fried Gallery, New York, 1952, 1955; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1953; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 1955; Contempo- rary Art Association, Houston; 1957; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1957; Yale University, 1957.
Mr. Xceron's work is in the collections of Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Uni- versity of Georgia; University of Illinois; Staat- liche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; University of New- Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Living Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Mu- seum, New York; New York University; Smith College, Northampton; Cahiers d'Art, Paris; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield; Washington University, St. Louis; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachu- setts; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C; Wellesley College.
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1896. He studied in the Independ- He has taught at the Art Students New York. He lives in New City,
Morris Kantor, Pink Facade, 53" x 58", oi New York City) (1949, 1950, 1951, 1953
"In Pink Facade my concern was mainly two figures in a given space and their transition."
Morris Kantor was born in Minsk, Russia, in ent School of Art, New York, under Homer Boss. League and at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York.
Mr. Kantor has received awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1931; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1939; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1940; University of Illinois, 1951. Five special exhibitions of Mr. Kantor's work have been held, and his work has been included in major group exhibitions here and abroad. Mr. Kantor's work is in the collections of the University of Arizona; The Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Illinois; Illinois Wesleyan Univer- sity; University of Michigan; University of Nebraska; The Newark Museum; Art Students League, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington; Worcester Art Museum.
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Jacques Lipchitz, Lesson of a Disaster, 27", bronze, 1961. (Otto Gerson Gallery, New York City) (1957, 1959, 1961)
"This sculpture is born from a disaster which shook the foundations of my life. Ten years ago my studio in New York burned with all that was in it. In this hre also perished my Virgin for the church of Assy in France, which was almost finished after a year's work on it.
''Examining the place of the disaster I was ask- ing myself the reason and the meaning of this catastrophe. And this idea literally took possession of me to the point that I was obliged to clarify this matter. And of course, I did it in my way, which is by means of sculpture.
"As a result, since 1952, the date of the fire, I produced many studies which crystallized themselves finally in a sculpture which I am finishing right now •iiul which is twelve feet high.
"The sculpture you have at your exhibit [in the 1963 University of Illinois exhibition is one of the stages of this process of crystallization."
Jacques Lipchitz was born in Druskieniki, Lithuania, in 1891. He studied at the LYole des Beaux Arts, Academie Julian, and Academie Col- larossi, Paris. Mr. Lipchitz was awarded the Cheva-
lier de la Legion d'Honneur, 1946, and an honorary doctorate by Brandeis University, Waltham, Massa- chusetts, 1958. He lives at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Lipchitz's work have been held in Paris, Bruxelles, Venice, and in the United States at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Buchholz Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Virginia Mu- seum of Fine Arts, Richmond. His work has been included in many major exhibitions here and abroad. It is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buf- falo; The Art Institute of Chicago; University of Iowa; Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; University of Michigan; Walker Art Center, Min- neapolis; The Jewish Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fairmont Park, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portland (Oregon) Art Museum; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro; Smith College; St. Paul (Minnesota) Gallery; Wellesley College; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach; Worcester Art Museum; Yale University.
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Ajoseph Hirsch, Daybreak, 57"x72", oil 1962. (Forum Gallery, New York C 1952)
"For a minority of us the human condition is important. So is paint when it is the right color, beautifully in the right place.
"Both of these concerns can invoke complete devotion. Little wonder that so many of us have been seduced by the excitement of charting the labyrinths of our social edifice, or that others have gone hunting, in full cry, after the elusive new forms in the forest of plastic arts. Taken separately, either of these tempting pursuits is a full time hobby. But if you hold out for facing realities, and happen to be a painter, you cannot separate them and settle for one because you are deeply involved with both — the social conscience and the seeing eye.
"Together, that is strong stuff. It is even poison to the muscle flexers whose paint-flinging seances put them safely below any responsibility and above all criticism. Vet it is this strong stuff which gave us the fantasy and fury of a Goya.
"What about the future? I believe that some- day the fabric of art will be threaded with morality, enabling us to distinguish wrong from good. Today this is unthinkable, literally, in the delightful anarchy of the art world, where, excepting censor- ship, anything goes. But 'anything goes' does not accord with the more discriminating ethics of our civilized code which recognizes what is socially destructive.
"When art again assumes its proportionate role in our future life, it will have the responsibilities of freedom as well as the privileges."
Joseph Hirsch was born in Philadelphia in 1910. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Henry Hensche at Provincetown, and with George Luks in New York. He was the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Institute of In- ternational Education, National Academy of De- sign, National Institute of Arts and Letters, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York; City of Philadelphia; and the American Acad- emy in Rome. He has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Art School, New York, and the University of Utah; he teaches now at the Art Students League in New York. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Hirsch's work has been included in many major group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Dallas Mu- seum of Fine Arts; Dartmouth College, Hanover; LTniversity of Georgia; Walker Art Center, Min- neapolis; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brown University, Providence; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts; The Corcoran Gal- lery of Art, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and in many other collections.
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Theodoros Stamos, Red Field I, 49"x61", oil on canvas, 1962. (Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York City) (1950, 1951, 1955, 1961)
Theodoros Stamos was born in New York City in 1922. He studied at the American Artists School, New York, and abroad. He has been the recipient of a scholarship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1951; an award from the National Insti- tute of Arts and Letters, 1959; and a fellowship from Brandeis University, 1959. He has taught at the Art Students League, New York; Black Moun- tain (North Carolina) College; and the Cumming- ton (Massachusetts) School of the Arts.
Mr. Stamos received a prize in an international exhibition sponsored by the Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, 1961, and special exhibitions of his work have been presented by Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, 1945; Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1947, 1956; The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1950, 1954; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1957; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash- ington, D.C., 1959; Gimpel Fils, London, 1960;
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, 1960; Galleria d'arte del Naviglio, Milan, 1961.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1958, 1959; Kunsthalle, Basel, 1958, 1959; Hochschule fur Bil- dende Kunste, Berlin, 1958, 1959; Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, 1958, 1959; Tate Gallery, London, 1958, 1959; Museo Nacional de Arte Contempo- raneo, Madrid, 1958, 1959; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan, 1958, 1959; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, 1959; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1958, 1959.
Mr. Stamos' work is in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; VVadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; University of Illinois; Univer- sity of Iowa; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Uni- versity of Nebraska; Chase Manhattan Bank, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Fran- cisco; Tel Aviv Museum; Munson-Williains-Proctor Institute, Utica; Vassar College; The Phillips Gal- lery, Washington, D.C.; Wellesley College.
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Garfield Seibert, Old Bickel Quarry, 18" x 24", [)S oil on board. (Gilman Galleries, Chicago, Illi-
nois) (1959)
"After 48 years in Federal Service in the Louisville Post Office, I retired in 1951. Three months later I applied for entrance into an adult art class at the University of Louisville. My ob- jectives in the ait world are as follows: since this gift has opened up a whole new world to or for me so late in my life, I sincerely feel a sense of responsibility and duty to try and make the most of it. I believe that to be gifted to produce works of art for the enjoyment and enlightenment of my fellowman is a privilege. Therefore, so lung as I shall be blessed with good health and physically able, I shall endeavor to put forth my best efforts in appreciation of this gift. With reference to my work: I have always had an in- terest in art since my boyhood; however, I have
had no opportunity to pursue it until after my retirement. I love to paint landscapes and to paint them as they appear to me."
Garfield Seibert was born in Louisville, Ken- tucky, in 1881. Though self-taught as an artist, he recently has studied at the University of Louis- ville. He has taught in the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Schools. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mr. Seibert has received awards from the Kentucky State Fair, and the J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Kentucky State Fair; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville; University of Illinois, 1959; Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, 1962. Mr. Seibcrt's work is in the collections of the Louisville Children's Free Hospital; Dean and Mrs. Allen S. Weller, Ur- bana; LTniversity of Illinois.
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Robert Natkin, Faust, 78' k" x 74", oil on canvas, 1962. Lent anonymously. (Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Poindexter Gallery, New York City]
"I hope for my paintings to have a strong beauty; one that lasts beyond the 1'ir-t look or the twentieth look. No matter how much a painting seems to dis- play, it is a continuous and perhaps surprising visual \ield that I want ultimately from it. But I am not referring to any eastern mysticism, contemplative, or Zen idea. I adore much of Western tradition, and although I am a midwesterner, I'.S.A. man. I hope to be holding hands with Velasquez, or Vermeer, or Bon- nard, my greatest teacher and master."
Robert Natkin wis born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. He studied at The School of The Art Institue of Chicago, where he was graduated in 1952. He lives in New York City.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Natkin- work have been held at Wells Streel Gallery, Chicago, 1957, 1958; Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1959, 1961; Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1955, 19 i7, 1959; Momentum, Chicago, 1955, 1956, 1957; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, I960; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1961; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1961-62; The Pennsylvania Academy ol the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1962. Hi- work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art. New York; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
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Luise Kaish, Descending Angel, 48", bronze, 1961. (Sculpture Center, New York City) (1959, 1961)
Luise Kaish was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1925. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Syracuse University in 1946. Then she studied in Mexico during 1946-47 and with Ivan Mestrovic at Syracuse University in 1947-50, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1951. She did further work in Florence, Italy, in 1951-52. She was the recip- ient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation scholarship, 1951-52, and of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow- ship, 1959. She lives in New York City.
Miss Kaish has received awards from the Rochester (New York Memorial Art Gallery; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Audubon Artists, Inc., National Association of Women Artists. Inc., New York; Emily Lowe Competition Project. New York; "Daily Bread" Exhibition, San Francisco.
Special exhibitions of Miss Kaish's work have been held at Manhattanville College, Sculpture Center, New York; Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery. Miss Kaish's work has been included in exhibitions at the following institutions: Birming- ham Museum of Art; University of Illinois; Mount Holyoke College; Notre Dame University; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Federation of Arts (traveling exhibition!, Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Letters, National Association of Women Artists, Inc., National Academy of Design, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Rochester New York) Memorial Art Gallery; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse.
Miss Kaish's work is represented in the collections of Container Corporation of America; Rochester (New York) Me- morial Art Gallery; Temple B'rith Kodesh, Rochester; Syracuse University; and in numerous private collections.
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Abbott Pattison, View of Pittsburgh, 72", bronze re- lief, 1960-61. (Feingarten Gallery, New York City, Chicago, Illinois, Beverly Hills, California) (1959, 1961)"
"To the west of the city of Pittsburgh, on a high place, one looks down at the city and the drama of the point of convergence of the two rivers — the city — the surrounding mountains — the blending of nature and man's contributions to the landscape — is one of the most powerful and mag- nificent vistas one could discover anywhere in the world. This bronze relief was cut and gouged out and built up with the memory of this vista directly in mind.
"Cannot the sculptor too comment upon a landscape and is not the landscape itself a mag- nificent sculpture? There lies the land — convex and concave — enormously varied in texture and stroke, slashing flatnesses ami indicate concentration of detail — all pulsing with life of the present and life of the land is gouged out of mountain ranges by the erosion of the waters."
Abbott Pattison was born in Chicago, Illinois,
in 1916. He received a B.A. degree in 1937 and a B.F.A. degree in 1939 from Yale University. In 1940 he was the recipient of a traveling fellowship from Yale University. He has taught at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946-51; the University of Georgia, Athens, 1953-54; the Summer Art School, Skowhegan, Maine, 1954, 1955; and the North Shore Art League, Winnetka, 1947-62. He lives in Chicago.
Mr. Pattison has received exhibition awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1954; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1951; 1020 Arts Center, Chicago, 1954; Old Orchard Art Fair, Winnetka, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962; McCormick Place, Chicago, 1962. Over twenty-five special exhibitions of Mr. Pattison's work have been presented, and his work has been included in major group exhibitions here and abroad. Mr. Pattison's work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Art Center in La Jolla; Chrysler Museum, Provincetown; The Phoenix Art Museum; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Ben Shahn was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in
1898. He studied at New York University, I'm
College i if New York, National Academy of Design,
Art Students League, New York; and in Paris. He
SHAHN was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetrj al
Harvard University, 1956-57. He lives in Roosevelt. New Jersey.
Mr. Shahn has been the recipient of man) awards. Special exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1947; in Venice, 1954; and at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1956; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1957. His work has been included in many group exhibitions here and abroad. Mr. Shahn's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Art Institute of Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; I in versity of Illinois: The Metropolitan Museum ol Art. Museum of Modern Art. Whitnej Museum ol American Art. New York; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond; C'.ii\ Vt Museum of St. Louis; San Francisco Mu- seum of Art: Smith ( lollege.
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3 Grace Hartigan, Clark's Cove, 64" x 72" , ^Gallery, New York)
oil on canvas, 1962. (Martha Jackson
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Grace Hartigan was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1922. She studied with Isaac Lane Muse and painted in Mexico in 1949. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Twelve special exhibitions of her work have been held since 1951, and her paintings have been included in group exhibitions at the University of Minnesota, 1955; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955-56; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1957; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957; Bruxelles World's Fair, 1958; Coliseum, New York, 1959; Kassel, Germany, 1959; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, 1960; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis, 1960; University of Michigan, 1960; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961-62.
Miss Hartigan's work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Institute of Chicago; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minne- apolis; New Paltz (New York) Museum; Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Washington University, St. Louis; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
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William Lasansky, Head of Sage, man Galleries, Chicago, Illinois)
83/4", bronze, 1962. (Gil-
"One of my continual objectives is to pick my best ideas and learn to materialize them.
"I see no need for great verbal complexity. I would feel no need to cast something in bronze if I could formulate an equivalent with words. Language and sculpture are two different mediums and I would not feel right in trying to explain my work any more than I have in this short state- ment."
William Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of Iowa, and he presently is enrolled there as a graduate student. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
Mr. Lasansky has been the recipient of an award from the Des Moines Art Center, and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center; University of Kansas; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Wichita Art Museum. Mr. Lasansky 's work is in the collection of the Des Moines Art Center.
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•Charles Umlauf, Icarus, 34", bronze, 1961 (made and cast at Fonderie Battaglia, Milan). Lent bv the artist. (1953, 1957)
"In this sculpture, modeled direct in plaster for bronze, I have tried to carry through my personal feeling of expression toward the present plight of man. This is one of several studies I have made of Icarus, whose legendary experience speaks to us forcefully and with more poignancy than could have been possible before.
"My intention is to make a large sculpture, heroic in size, employing the same direct modeling approach. This I find to be more plastic and fresh though at the same time more difficult than other methods. One must know the medium and have the idea very well in mind."
Charles Umlauf was born in South Haven, Michigan, in 1911. He studied at the Chicago School of Sculpture, 1932-34, and The School of' The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929-32, 1934-37. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memo-
rial Foundation fellowship, 1949. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin, Texas.
Seventeen special exhibitions of Mr. Umlauf 's work have been presented, and his work has been included in group exhibitions held at Dallas Mu- seum for Contemporary Arts, 1958; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1958; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1958; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1958; The Detroit Institute of Arts, I960; Oklahoma Art Center, 1960; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1960, 1962; Princeton University, 1960; National Gallery of South Aus- tralia, 1962.
Mr. Umlauf's work is in the collections of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Des Moines Art Cen- ter; Fort Worth Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; University of Illinois; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Marion Koogler McNaj Art Institute, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Wi< hita Ail Museum; and in many private collections.
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Art Holman. Alii iiorical Landscape, 62" x 78", oil on canvas, 1962. (David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, California)
'"Basing my work on nature, I am trying to utilize the underlying structural and plastic elements of art that are essential in creating a meaningful work. I wish to make something solid and lasting of abstract painting, like the art of the museums."
Art Holman was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1926. He studied at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; the Hans Hofmann School. New York; and the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Holmans work have been presented at The Alan Gallery, New York, 1958; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959; Esther- Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960; Los Angeles City College, 1961; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of California, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art. New York; Bolles Gallery, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. David Cole (iallery, M. II. De Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art; Stanford University.
Mr. Holman's work is represented in many private collections.
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LEVI Jlllia" Lovi- Studio, 42" x 50", oil on canvas, 1962. (Nordness
Gallery, Inc., New York City) (1948, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961)
"Studio is one of a series painted during the past four «/ years in which I have been examining my immediate environ- ment: studio, garden, home, animals, etc."
Julian Levi was born in New York in 1900. He studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1917-20, and for five years in France and Italy. He received a Cresson Traveling Fellowship from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1920; a second fellowship from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1954; and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1955. During the summers of 1951 and 1952 he taught at Columbia University, New York, and during the summer of 1953 at Montana State University. He teaches now at the Art Stu- dents League and at the New School for Social Research, New York. Mr. Levi lives in East Hampton, New York, and in New York City.
Mr. Levi has received awards from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942, 1943; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1945; Pepsi-Cola Company, New York, 1945; National Academy of Design, New York, 1945; University of Illinois, 1948; East Hampton (New York) Regional Exhibition, 1952; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1962.
Special exhibitions of Mr. Levi's work have been held at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1920; Crillon Galleries, Phila- delphia, 1933; The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1940, 1942, 1945, 1950; Venice Biennale d'arte, 1948; The Phila- delphia Art Alliance, 1953; The Alan Gallery, New York, 1955; Nordness Gallery, New York, 1961; Anna Werbe Gal- lery, Detroit, 1961; Boston University Gallery, 1962; New Britain (Connecticut) Museum of American Art, 1962.
His work has been included in the following group ex- hibitions: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942, 1944; National Academy of Design, New York, 1945; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1945; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1946; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadel- phia, 1952; University of Illinois, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961; New York State Fair, Albany, 1958.
Mr. Levi's work is in the following collections: Univer- sity of Arizona; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Ency- clopaedia Britannica, Chicago; The Art Institute of Chi- cago; Scripps College, Claremont, California; Des Moines Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Georgia; University of Illinois; Michigan State University; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; University of Nebraska; New Britain (Connecticut) Museum of American Art; The Newark Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadel- phia; S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts; The Toledo Museum of Art; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.
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, ■ «• Muriel Kalish, AWc and Coic, 60" x 60", oil on canvas, 1960. (StaempHi ^ I %H i r Gallery, New York City)
"I hope in my work to give pleasure — to myself and others. I try to paint what I feel naturally and simply. Never having studied art in any form, I'm perhaps less hampered by theories, influences or trends than I might have been. To sum up, painting truly — following my own bent honestly — is to me a great fulfillment and a great joy."
Muriel Kalish was born in New York City in 1932. She attended Pottsville High School, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She has had no formal instruction in art. Miss Kalish lives in New York City. She has exhibited at the Staempfli Gallery in New York.
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Jane Freilicher, Canal, 50" x 63", oil on canvas, 1961. (Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City)
"I am trying for a means in painting which will evoke an informal, almost fugitive, Uric quality which I find moving in nature and in much great art — 1 1 lv sense of the beautiful," I suppose."
Jane Freilicher was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her Bach- elor's degree from Brookhn College and her Master's degree from Columbia University, New York. She has taught in the adult education program in Great No k. New York, and in the Elizabeth, New Jersey, public schools. She lives in New York City.
Miss Freilicher won a prize in the Hallmark International Art Award An- nual, 1960. Nine special exhibitions of her work have been presented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, and her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; Mount Holyoke College: University of Nebraska; Museum of Modern Art, Stable Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila- delphia; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Rhode Island School of Design, Provi- dence; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Miss Freilicher's work is in the collections of Mr. Larry Aldrich; Mr. Walter Bareiss, Jr.; Mr. Joseph H. Hirshhorn; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Mr. Guy Weil.
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Gerald W. McLaughlin, High Priest, 48" x 36", oil on mason- ite panel, 1962. (Albert Landry Galleries, New York) (1959)
Gerald W. McLaughlin was born in Sacramento, Cali- fornia, in 1925. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles. He has taught at The School of The Art Insti- tute of Chicago, and he lives in Stamford, Connecticut.
Mr. McLaughlin has received an award from The Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Art Insti- tute of Chicago; University of Illinois; National Institute of Arts and Letters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Chrysler Museum, Prov- incetown. Mr. McLaughlins work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York.
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Ludwig Sander, Untitled, 60" x 54", oil on canvas, 1962. (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York City)
Ludwig Sander was born in New York City in 19(16. He studied at New York University, where he received a Bache- lor's degree. He painted in Paris and studied for two semes- ters with Hans Hofmann in Munich, and he worked with a group of American artists in Positano, Italy. He lives in New York City.
Mr. Sander has received a Hallmark award and an award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Spe- cial exhibitions of his work have been held at the Hacker Gallery, New York, 1952; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1959, 1961; Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc., New York, 1962. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, 1962; Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, New York, 1962; Seattle World's Fair, 1962; Bran- deis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1962.
Mr. Sander's work is in the collections of Geigy Chem- ical Company, Ardsley, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gal- lery, Buffalo; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
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