William Austin Kienbusch (American, –1980)

Timeline

1914
Born in New York, NY
1928–1932
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, studied with artist/teacher Robert Osborne
1934
Studied watercolor with Eliot O’Hara in Kennebunkport, Maine
1935
Studied watercolor with Eliot O’Hara in Kennebunkport, Maine
1936
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University
1936–1937
Studied at The Art Students League, New York, NY
1937–1938
Studied at the Académie Colarossi, Paris, France; begins freindship with Abraham Rattner; they have critique sessions
1940–1942
Spent Summers painting in Maine; studied with Stuart Davis at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY; studied with Anton Refregier at the American Artists School, New York, NY
1942
Enlisted in the US Army; becomes a Sgt. Like Gorky, he teaches camouflage
1946
Stationed in Guam; completed a mural for the Army Recreation Center; returned to Maine and began to develop his new style of painting
1950
Spent Summers in Maine
1952
Drawing Prize from the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, NY; First Prize for Drawing , the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1959
Guggenheim Fellowship (enabled travel and study in Greece),
1962
Spent Summers for the rest of his life on Great Cranberry Island in Maine where he purchased a house
1968
Artist-in-residence, University of Maine, 1968
1948–1969
Instructor, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY
1969
Fire at his Greenwich Avenue, NY Studio; Moves to E. 80th St. , New York, NY
1980
Died in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2009
‘Modern and Postwar American Art,’ Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL (group)
'Art of the Cranberry Isles," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
2007
‘Maine Modern Two,” ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA (group)
2006
"1966-2006," Frost Gully Gallery, Freeport, ME (group)
2005
‘The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection of Maine Art,’ University of Maine Museum of Arts, UMMA, Bangor, ME (group)
2001
Frost Gully Gallery, Freeport, ME (group)
1997
'Off the Wall,' Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA (group)
1996
'William Kienbusch: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1946-1979,' Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME (solo)
1992
'Art of Maine,' Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ (group)
1981
'William Kienbsuch,' The Art Museum, Pinceton University, Princeton, NJ and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (solo)
1953–1973
Participates in the Whitney Museum Annuals
1950–1970
Active member of ‘The Club’(loft at 39 East Eighth Street) and was influenced by member tenets (Dove, Hartley and Marin remained true influences)
Exhibited at the Annuals of The University of Nebraska, University of Illinois, Toledo Museum, and Brooklyn Museum
1963
Colby College, Waterville, ME
Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1962
Solo Exhibition, Princeton University, NJ
The Tokyo International Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan(group)
1961
Tanager Gallery (group)
1960
St Louis City Art Museum, St Louis, MO (group)
Art Institute of Chicago(group)
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC(group)
1959
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (group)
1958
‘Nature in Abstraction’ (group), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957
‘Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Houston,’ Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, TX
1956
‘Abstract Expressionism Annual’, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1955
‘The New Decade’, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1954
Two-Person Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1949
First exhibition at Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY There would be nine more Kraushaar exhibitions.
English (US)

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