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Sigmund Abeles
630 Ninth Avenue 31102A
New York, New York 10036
(212)581-3601
http://www.sigmundabeles.net
sabelesart@aol.com
Brown Couch or Woman With Cat: Lithograph; 29" x 38"Inspiration: A lady in the theater department at the University of New Hampshire came into the studio to pose for this piece. The work is a process and was developed over time.
How Piece was Acquired: Purchased in 1974:Funds from James H. Burroughs Memorial Purchase Award donated by Windjammer Village.
Links:
http://www.cherylnewbygallery.com
http://www.twfine.art.com
http://www.biddingtons.com
http://www.nationalacademy.org
http://www.abacus.bates.edu/acad/museum
http://www.bpl.org/index.htm
http://www.sheldon.unl.edu/
Artist's History:
Birthplace:
New York, New York
Education:
Columbia University, NYC: MFA in Painting, 1957
Skowhegan School of Painting&Sculpture, summers 1955&ë56 Brooklyn Museum School, graphics, 1956
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.: AB in Fine Arts,1955
Grants and Awards:
Artist Residency Program, Chateau Rochefort En Terre, Brittany, France, summer 2000
Honoralay Doctorate of Arts Degree and commencement speaker, Coastal Carolina Univ.,2000
Florsheim Foundation Grant for retrospective catalog, 1992
Elected to the National Academician of the National Academy of Design in New York in 1990
American Jewish Committee Academic Seminar in Israel, 1981-82
Louis Comfort Tifany Foundation Grant for Graphics, 1967
National Council of Arts & Humanities Sabbatical Grant, 1966
National Institute of Arts & Letters Award, 1965
Teaching Positions:
Art Students League of New York,1997 - 2000
The National Academy School, advanced figure workshop 1998
University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1970 - ë87, Full Prof./tenure, elected Prof. Emeritus ë87
Boston University, School of Fine Arts, Assoc. Prof., 1969 - ë70
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Resident Artist, 1964 - ë69
Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA, Instructor, 1961 - ë64
One Artist Exhibitions:
Sigmund Abeles: Drawings, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 2001
Sigmund Abeles, Things to Come, Franklin G.Burroughs/Simeon B.Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2001
ABELES, Recent Pastels, Drawings & Print Survey, Thomas Williams Fine Arts ,London, UK, catalog, 2000
Sigmund Abeles- Print Retrospective, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, catalog w/complete print listing. 1999
Hudson River Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, New York, paintings, pastels, prints&drawings.,1999
The Century Association, The Presidentís Room, New York City, paintings and pastels,1999
Sigmund Abeles, duel solo exhs.: The New York Years, 1994-98, The Brush Gallery and SA: A Survey, 1979-94 at The Whistler Museum of Art, both Lowell, Massachusetts, 1998
The Observant Hand, 40 Years of Drawing by Sigmund Abeles, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas Texas, 1998, catalog
Sigmund Abeles - A 30 Year Retrospective of Drawings & Prints From the Collection of the Boston Public Library, 1993
A Traveling Retrospective, Pastels, Oils, Prints&Drawings: The Manchester Institute of Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire & New England College Gallery, Henniker, New Hampshire; McKissick Museum of Art, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia; The Fine Arts Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, North Carolina and Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1992 -ë93, catalog
The Max Drawings 1985 - ë92, 13 sites including: The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, The Trition Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, Yeshiva Univ. Museum of Art, New York City, Univ. of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, The Shere Zadik Hospital Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, The Newton Free Library Gallery, Massachusetts.
Retrospective, Drawings, Sculpture, Pastels & Prints, University Art Gallery, UNH, Durham, New Hampshire,1987
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, MB, 1985
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City, 1983
Impressions Gallery, Boston, 1981
Abeles: The First 20 Years, Prints &Drawings: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; University Art Galleries, Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina and Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1979 - ë81, catalog
Sigmund Abeles Recent Drawings: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswich, Maine and De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Univ. of New Hampshire/Durham, 1971 - ë72, catalog
Jewett Art Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley Massachusetts 1966
Group Exhibitions; partial list:
100 Years/100 Artists; Views of 20th. Century Art in South Carolina, South Carolina State Museum, Contemporary American Realism on Paper from the Collection of Jalane & Richard Davidson Gifted to the Chicago Art Institute, New York
Artists/Mentors, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City, 1999
Psychologically Charged: S. Abeles, Gregory Gillespie, Paul Matthews, Jerome Witkin, Univ. of Vermont 1996; SUNY-Plattsburg, New York, 1997
Figures Drawings: S. Abeles, Sidney Goodman & Jody Mussoff, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1992
With Nothing On, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1990, Man-Woman-Child, John Szoke gallery, New York City, 1989
The Animal Kingdom, Association of American Artists Galleries, New York City, 1986
Contemporary Figure Drawing., Minnesota College of Art & Design, Michigan, 1985
Works on Paper, Abeles, Basilitz, Chia, Dine, Harris &Mazur, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988
Prints USA, Pratt Center. New York City.
Contemporary American Realism on Paper from the Collection of Jalane &Richard Davidson, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts &Chicago Art Institute, 1982
American Portrait Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1980
A Selection of American Art, The Skowhegan School, 1946 -ë76, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1976
Living American Artists & The Figure, Penn. State University Museum of Art, 1974
16 American Artists of Protest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1971
American Contemporary Prints, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
Human Concerns/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum, New York City
Drawings by Young Americans, Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine, 1969
Protest & Hope, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1967
Whitney Annual, Sculpture & Prints, New York City, 1966
New Talent in Printmaking, AAA Galleries, New York City, 1965
Permanent Collections:
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Bates College Museum of Art, Maine
Boston Public Library
The Brooklyn Museum
The British Museum, London, Great Britain
The Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
The Currier Gallery of Art
The Fitzwilliams Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
Fogg Art Museum & Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Honolulu Academy of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Library of Congress
Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley,California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Academy of Design, New York City
New York Public Library
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Salt Lake Art Center
San Diego Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Victoria &Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Private Collections, partial list:
Udo&Iris Bensch, Geneva, Switzerland
Bill&Deborah Binnell, New York City & Connecticut
Alfred Brendel, London, Great Britain
William&Lisa Carl, Boston
Richard Davidson, Chicago Illinois
Neil Feitag ,Paris, France
Joseph Fuery&Lee Grant, New York City
Eric Greenleaf, New York City
John&Lisa Hall ,New York City
Edwin &Thayer Hockberg, New York City
Linda & Douglas Honnold ,Evanston, Illinois
Nora Labor, New York City
Hal&Barbara Laeger,Englewood, New Jersey
Kit&Geraldine Laybourne, New York City & Los Angeles
Albert &Kate Merck, Massachusetts
Yasuteru Miyamoto, Tokyo,Japan
Frank H. Pearl, Wash. DC.
Joe &Bernice Tanenbaum, Roslyn, New York
Sela Ward, Los Angeles, California
Thomas Williams, London, Great Britain
Former Students:
Dominic Cretera, Leonard Dusfresne, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Ganson, Betsy Garand, Brenda Garand, Hung Yu Ji, Scattergood Moore, Catherine Nash, Robert Neffson, Lorraine Shemesh, Janet Wentworth, Homer Yost
Gallery Affiliations:
Thomas Williams Fine Art LTD, London. thomaswilliams@twfa.co.uk
The Old Print Shop, NYC, Cheryl Newby, Fine Arts, Pawleys Island, South Carolina.www.cherylnewbygallery.com
The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
3100 South Ocean Boulevard Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
PO Box 1124 Myrtle Beach 29578
phone 843.238.2510
fax 843.238.2910
artmuse@sccoast.net