Boris Margo (American, –1995)

Timeline

1902
Born in Wolotschisk, Russia
1919–1923
Studied at Polytechnik of Art, Odessa
1924
Participated in Futemas (Workshop for the Art of the Future), Moscow
1927
Studied at The Analytical School of Art with Pavel Filinov, Leningrad
1930
Immigrated to the United States from Russia
1941
Metropolitan Museum purchased the cellocut Floating objects Illuminated
1946
Awarded, the Mildred Boericke Purchase Prize, First Award for cellocut print, Philadelphia Print Club, PA
1947
Purchase Print Award, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1960
Purchase Print Award, National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY; Purchase Award, Portland Museum of Art, ME
1962
Diploma of Merit, First International Arts Exhibition, Saigon, Vietnam
1964
Purchase Print Award, National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1988
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1995
Died in Hyannis, MA

Exhibitions

2005
After Dark: Nocturnal Images, Barbara Mathes Gallery Prints with/out pressure, The New York City Public Library, New York, NY
2001
1950-1956: Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Expressionism: Expanding the Canon, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
2000
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Linear Impulse, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Impossible Landscapes of the Mind, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY
Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
The Surrealist in Exile and the Origin of the New York School, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid Spain; Musees de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
1998
Boris Margo: Divine Light, Paintings on Paper from 1950-1952, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Surrealist Vision: Europe and The Americas, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, FL
1997
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Surrealism and American Art 1932-1949, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1996
Other Artists of the ‘50s, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
1995
Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Boris Margo: Fantasy in Form, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
American Masters of Watercolor: 100 Year Survey, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Exploring the Unknown: Surrealism in American Art, Michael Rosenfield Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Counterpoints: 1930-1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Surrealism to Abstraction, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL (solo)
1993
Lines and Myths: Abstraction in American Art 1941-1951, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (group)
Surrealism to Abstraction, 1932-1952, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988
Boris Margo: A Retrospective, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA traveled (solo)
1987
Surrealist Books and Prints, New York Public Library, New York, NY
1977
Retrospective, Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library, Fair Lawn, NJ (solo)
Surrealism and American Art, 1931-1947, Zimili Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Provincetown Painters 1890s-1970s, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Provincetown Art Association
1976
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1975
30 Years of American Art 1945-75: Selections From the Permanent Collection III, Whitney Museum of (group)
1970
35th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1967
North Carolina Collects, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
1966
Retrospective, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, New York, NY (solo)
1965
Charles C. Bowers Memorial Museum, Santa Ana, CA (solo)
1964
Boris Margo, Recent Works, World House Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary American Prints, Gallerie Nees Morphes, Athens, Greece
30 Contemporary American Prints, IBM Gallery, New York, NY
1963
Witherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (solo)
28th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, DC
1962
Retrospective, Tweed Gallery, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, traveled (solo)
International Arts Exhibition, Saigon, Vietnam
Japan Print Association’s International Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
1961
Annual Contemporary Painting Exhibition, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
International Prints, Auckland Gallery in New Zealand and other Galleries, New Zealand
1960
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1959
26th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, DC
1958
Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
First International Biennial, Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico
1957
25th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, DC
First International Exhibition of Prints, Modern Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1956
The Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY (solo)
American Artists Paint the City, 28th Biennial Venice, Italy
Modern Art in the United States (Circulated by Museum of Modern Art), shown at Tate Gallery and other European Museums
Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY
1955
The Embellished Surface, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Embellished Surface, Circulated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, AAA Gallery, New York, NY
Graphic Outlook, Contemporaries Gallery, New York, NY
9th Annual Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
International Watercolor Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
4th Artists Annual Show, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Art in the United States, Museum of Barcelona, Spain
1954
Biennial Exhibition, Musea de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
61st Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
12th National Exhibition of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
14 Painters-Printmakers, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
8th Annual Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Graphic Arts-USA, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2nd Invitational Print Exhibition, University of Minnesota, MN
Exchange Exhibition of Prints, National Academies of Rome, Bologna, Carrara, Venice, Milan and Turin, Italy
1953
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Paintings in the USA, Los Angeles County Fair, Los Angeles, CA
International Watercolor Exhibition, 17th Biennale, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Exhibition Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1st Annual National Print Exhibition, Dallas, TX
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Candidates for Grants in the Arts, National Institute Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Moderne Amerikaanse Grafiek, Municipal Museum S’Gravenhage, The Netherlands
7th Annual Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
14 Painters and Printmakers, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1st Artists Annual Show, 9th Street Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Religious Art, Church of the Ascension, New York, NY
1952
University of Maine, Orono, ME (solo)
American Watercolors, Drawing and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Annual Contemporary American Painting Exhibition, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Biennial Exhibition, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
Carnegie International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA
New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Exhibition Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Contemporaries, Well of the Sea Gallery, Chicago, IL
6th Annual Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1951
Art Center Gallery, Louisville, KY (solo)
The Months, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
Annual Contemporary Painting Exhibition, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Biennial Exhibition, Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
Fifteen Years on Review, Artists Gallery, New York, NY
Revolution and Tradition in American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
60th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
61st Annual Exhibition, University of Minnesota, MN
5th Annual Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1950
The Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Annual Contemporary Painting Exhibition, University of Illinois, Champaign IL
10th Annual Exhibition, Society for Contemporary American Painting Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Postwar American Painting, University of Michigan, Lansing, MI
American Painting 1950, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1949
Graphic Circle, Jaques Seligmann Galleries, New York, NY
1948
The Cellocut, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC (solo)
1947
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Graphic Work 1934-47, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Graphic Circle, Jaques Seligmann Galleries, New York, NY
58h Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1946
Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The American University, Washington DC (solo)
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1943
Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1942
Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1939
The Artists Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Albion College, Albion, MI
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brown University, Providence, RI
Chase National Banks
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Isaac Delgado Museum of Ar, New Orleans, LA
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
IBM Collection, New York, NY
Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
New York Public Library, New York City
Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Ca
Philadelphia Free Library Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose State College Library, San Jose, CA
Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Texas Wesleyan College Library, Fort Worth, TX
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
University of Louisville, Louisville KY
University of Maine, Orono, MN
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Literature

1993
Boris Margo: Surrealism to Abstraction, 1932-1952. New York, NY: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
English (US)

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