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Knox Martin

(American, 1923–2022)

alice in wonderland by knox martin

Knox Martin

Alice in Wonderland, ca. 1972

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Biography

Timeline

1923
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, South America
1950
The Art Students League of New York
1957 - 1958
Longview Fellowship (3 purchase awards),
1973
Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
1978
C.A.P.S. Grant
1988
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1991
Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2002
Named to the National Academy of Design
2005
Desser Award for Painting, National Academy of Design, New York
2007
Kept Memorial Prize, National Academy of Design, New York

Exhibitions

2020
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2020:
Fresh Paint: New Acquisitions to the Museum Collection, Zillman Art Museum-University of Maine, Bangor, ME
Essentialism, The Art Students League of New York, NY
Taggart Times 7, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, New York
Women, Artsy Online Viewing Room (solo)
Living Legend, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX (solo)
2019
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2019:
Radical Structures, Hollis Taggart, New York (solo)
The League of Masters, PAST + PRESENT 20, New York Design Center, New York
New York 1962-2019, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX (solo)
2018
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2018:
The Masters: Art Student League Teachers and their Students, The Art Students League of New York
Untitled San Francisco, Todd Merrill Studio, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2017:
No Day Without a Line: Artists of the Art Student League of New York in Spain, CosmoArte Siglo XXV Gallery, Alicante, Spain
Master/Protégé,Todd Merrill Studio, Southampton, NY
2016
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2016:
Personalized: Friendship, Celebration, Gratitude, FreedmanArt, New York On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at The Art Students League of New York, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States,Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2015
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2015:
Passion and Commitment, FreedmanArt, New York
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, Art Gallery at the University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT
Woodward Gallery Decades, Woodward Gallery, New York
Art in the Making, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
National Academy Annual Exhibition: 2015, National Academy of Design, New York
On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at The Art Students League of New York, The Art Students League of New York
Art in the Making: A New Adaptation, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Art in the Making: Refocused, FreedmanArt, New York
2014
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2014:
Art in the Making, FreedmanArt, New York
Making/Breaking Traditions: Teachers of Ai Weiwei, The Art Students League of New York
2013
Selected Knox Martin Exhibitions in 2013:
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
SHE, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia (solo exhibition)
2012
SHE, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY (solo)
2010
“Knox Martin - Woman: Black and White Paintings,” Woodward Gallery, New York (solo)

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
The Art Students League of New York
The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA
Denver Art Museum, CO
Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Ithaca Museum, Ithaca, New York
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, D.C.
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Collection, Florida
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Academy of Design, New York
National Arts Club, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
The New York University Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK
Portland Art Museum, OR
Museo de Prado, Barranquilla, Colombia
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Reading Public Museum, PA
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Springfield Museum of Art, MO
Tougaloo College Art Collections, MS
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Wellesley College, Maryland
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT

Literature

2019
Jillian Russo, Knox Martin: Radical Structures
2018
Jillian Russo, Mara Miller, Thomas B. Parker, The Masters: Art Student League Teachers and their Students
Jessica Idarraga, “15 Minutes with Knox Martin,” Cultured Magazine
2017
Sahar Khan, “Material World: New East End exhibits explore Mother Nature and the minutia of the modern world,” Beach Magazine
Julie Earle Levine, “Opening Ceremony: The Todd Merrill Gallery Is Back for a Third Southampton Season,” Hamptons Magazine
Katy B. Olson, “Knox Martin and Protégé open Southampton Todd Merrill Studio Season,” The Editor At Large
Sarah Cascone and Caroline Goldstein, “13 Things to See in New York This Week,” artnet News
2016
Dave Hirschman, “Aviation Book Returned to Artist Knox Martin,” AOPA
2015
Sam Roberts, “Coffee Table Books About New York,” New York Times
James L. McElhinney and the Instructors of the Art Students League of New York, Art Students League of New York on Painting: Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Styles, and Methods
2013
Nathan J. Timpano, Pan American Modernism: Avant-garde Art in Latin America and the United States, exh. cat. (Coral Gables: Lowe Art Museum)
Jodi O’Dell, “Knox Martin at The SAGG,” Just Paint, Issue 28
Ira Goldberg, “Knox Martin: What Art Is,” Linea: Journal of the Art Students League of New York
2012
William Fried, Ph.D., FIPA, She: an Exhibit by Knox Martin
Mark Golden, Knox Martin at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, Just Paint, Issue 27, New York
James Lancel McElhinney, ed., The Visual Language of Drawing: Lessons on the Art of Seeing (New York: Sterling)
2011 - 2012
Julia Montepagani, A Call for a Giant Cause, Lines from the League (Winter)
2011
Knox Martin – Woman: Black and White Paintings, Post Road Magazine 21
Photo, Knox Martin with a cartoon for the Whaling Wall Mural Project, Linea: Journal of the Art Students League of New York, Vol.15, No.2 (Fall)
Benjamin Sutton, Veteran NYC Muralist Knox Martin Plans Anti-Whaling Wall for Lower East Side, L Magazine, May 4
Knox Martin & The Whaling Wall Project, Artnet Magazine, April 29
Knox Martin x Woodward Gallery: The Whaling Wall Mural Project in NYC, Juxtapoz Magazine, April 20
Traven Rice, Artist Knox Martin Proposes a “Whaling Wall” on Building at 334 Grand Street, The Lo-Down, April 11
2010
Ann Landi, Knox Martin, ArtNews, December
Robert Shuster, Best in Show: Knox Martin at Woodward Gallery, The Village Voice, October 20
Valerie Gladstone, Knox Martin: Black and White Paintings, City Arts, September 28
Benjamin Sutton, “Paintings of Women by the Handful,” L Magazine, September 29
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