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Leland Bell

(American, 1922–1991)

Leland Bell

Two Nudes with Cat, Morning, ca. 1985–1990

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Leland Bell

Family Group with Butterfly, 1986–1990

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Leland Bell

Untitled (Morning Series IX), ca. 1980–1989

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Leland Bell

Untitled (Morning Series II), ca. 1980–1989

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Leland Bell

Untitled (Morning Series I), ca. 1980–1989

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Biography

Timeline

1970: National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1982: Benjamin Altman Figure Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
1989: Thomas R. Proctor Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
: Leland Bell’s paintings are represented in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Rose Museum of Brandeis University, Massachusetts; the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Chemical Bank Collection, New York; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibitions

2002: Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C., Changing Rhythms (a touring exhibition: The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ; Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C.; University Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY)
2001: 'Larger than Life: Ninety American Masterpieces from the Center’s Collection,' Center for Figurative Painting, New York, NY May 12-September 28.
: 'Reconfiguring the New York School,' Center for Figurative Painting, New York, NY, November 11-January 27
2000: 'The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,' The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, June 4, 2000 – January 14, 2001.
1998: 'Seeing the Essential: Selected Works by Robert de Niro, Sr., Paul, Resika and Leland Bell', Hackett-Freedman Gallery San Francisco
1994: 'The Figure: Selected Gallery Artists,' Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
1993: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries New York
1992: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: 'New American Figure Painting', Contemporary Realist Gallery New York
1991: 'Nell Blane and Friends', Callen McJunkin Gallery West Virginia
1989: 'Positive ID,' Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
1987: The Phillips Collection Washington D.C.
: Stoppenbach and Delestre, Ltd. London
1985: 'Recent American Portraiture,' Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: 'Contemporary American Still Life,' One Penn Plaza, New York
: 'Survival of the Fittest II,' Ingber Gallery, New York
: 'Westfield Chapter of Hadassah: 28th Art Show and Sale,' Westfield,
1984: 'Modern Masters of Classical Realism,' University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
: 'Recent American Still Life Paintings,' Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: 'Nine Realists Revisited: 1963-1984,' Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1983: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1980: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: Theo Waddington Gallery London
1978: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1976: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: 'Leland Bell/Paul Georges,' Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
1974: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1973: 'Bell/Resika/Georges,' State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York
1972: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
: Swain School of Art New Bedford, Massachusetts
1970: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1968: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1967: Leland Bell/Louisa Matthiasdottir, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1966: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1964: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery New York
1961: Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1959: Zabriskie Gallery New York
1957: Poindexter Gallery New York
1955: Hansa Gallery New York

Literature

2002: “Changing Rhythms: Works by Leland Bell, 1950s-1991.” Washington City Paper (January 17, 2002).
: Dawson, Jessica. “A Painter Who Never Quit Trying: Leland Bell, for Better and Worse.” The Washington Post (January 24, 2002).
: Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Shifting Rhythms of Leland Bell.” The Washington Times [in print and online] (January 12, 2002).
: Kramer, Hilton, “Painter Leland Bell, A Great Lecturer, Finally Gets Exhibit,”
: “Galleries-Uptown: Leland Bell,” The New Yorker (30 September 2002)
: Kunitz, Daniel, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion (October 2002).
2001: Johnson, Ken. “Larger Than Life.” The New York Times (June 22, 2001).
: Naves, Mario. “Currently Hanging: Western Culture on His Shoulders.” The New York Observer (July 30, 2001).
: Donohoe, Victoria. “Exhibits Celebrate Faces of Bell.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 7, 2001).
1994: Wilkin, Karen. “At the Galleries.” Partisan Review (1994).
: Bullard, CeCe. “Artists Draw on Talent, Potential.” Richmond Times-Dispatch (March 30, 1994).
1993: Perl, Jed. “Code Name: Painting.” The New Criterion (December 1993).
1992: Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: The Cat and the Canary, via Leland Bell.”
1991 - 1992: Obituaries, The Artist’s Proof, New York, 5, no. 2 (Winter 1991-92)
: Obituaries, Art News (November 1991), p. 31.
: Jed Perl, “Leland Bell, 1922-1991,” The New Criterion (November 1991), pp. 79-80.
1991: Roberta Smith, “Leland Bell, a Figurative Painter, Teacher and Lecturer, Dies at 69,” The New York Times (September 20, 1991), obituaries page.
: Obituaries, Art in America (November 1991), p. 174.
1990: Jed Perl, “Successes,” The New Criterion (May 1990).
: “Leland Bell at Robert Schoelkopf,” Art News (September 1990).
1987: Jed Perl, “The Pictures and Passions of Leland Bell,” The New Criterion, (April 1987).
: John Hollander, “Leland Bell: Gesture and Trope,” Art in America (July 1987).
1986: Nicholas Fox Weber, Leland Bell, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986.
: Vivien Raynor, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, The New York Times (April 1, 1983).
1983: W. Hearne Pardee, “On Color,” Review of exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, Arts Magazine, 57 (January 1983), p. 13.
: Ilene Susan Fort, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Arts Magazine, 57 (June 1983), p. 36.
: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 82 (Summer 1983), p. 200.
: Gerrit Henry, “Leland Bell,” Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art in America, 71 (October 1983), p. 179.
1980: R. B. Kitaj, Leland Bell, London: Theo Waddington Gallery, 1980.
: Martica Sawin, “Leland Bell,” Review of exhibition at Waddington Gallery, Arts Review (October 10, 1980), pp. 437-38.
1978: Jed Perl, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Arts Magazine, 52 (May 1978), p. 16.
1977: Jed Perl, “Life of the Object: Still Life Painting Today,” Arts Magazine, 52 (December 1977), p. 126.
: Hilton Kramer, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, The New York Times (May 21, 1976).
1976: Martica Sawin, “Abstract Roots of Contemporary Representation,” Arts Magazine, 50 (June 1976), pp. 106-109.
1974: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 73 (May 1974), pp. 100-101.
1973: Lawrence Campbell, Leland Bell/Louisa Matthiasdottir/Temma Bell, Canton, Ohio: The Canton Art Institute, 1973.
1972: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 71 (Summer 1972), p. 13.
1970: Leland Bell, “Esthetics Replaced by Sociology?” Art News, 68 (January 1970), p. 59.
: John Asbery, “Bell: Virtuosity without Self-Interest,” Art News, 68 (February 1970), p. 45+.
: James Mellow, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, The New York Times (March 1, 1970).
: Carter Ratcliff, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art International, 14 (May 1970), p. 76.
1968: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 67 (April 1968), pp. 9-10.
: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Arts Magazine, 42 (June/Summer 1968), p. 63.
1967: Leland Bell/Louisa Matthiasdottir, Hartford, Connecticut: Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, 1967.
1966: Hilton Kramer, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, The New York Times (February 26, 1966).
: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 65 (March 1966), p. II.
: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Arts Magazine, 40 (May 1966), p. 65.
: Leland Bell, “Hélion Paints the Impossible,” Art News, 63 (November 1964), pp. 36-37.
: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Arts Magazine, 38 (September 1964), p. 70.
: John Gruen, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine (April 26, 1964).
: Stuart Preston, Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, The New York Times (April 19, 1964).
1964: Review of exhibition at Schoelkopf Gallery, Art News, 63 (April 1964), p. 12.
1963: Lawrence Campbell, “Five Americans Face Reality,” Art News, 62 (September 1963), pp. 25-27.
: Martica Sawin, “Good Painting - No Label,” Arts Magazine, 37 (September 1963), pp. 37-41.
: Leonard Horowitz, “Five Americans,” The New York Times (September 22, 1963).
1961: Review of exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, Art News, 59 (February 1961), pp. 11-12.
: Sidney Tillim, Review of exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, Arts Magazine, 35 (February 1961), pp. 47-48.
1960: Leland Bell, “The Case for Derain as an Immortal,” Art News, 59 (May 1960), pp. 25-27.
1959: Review of exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, Arts Magazine, 33 (April 1959), p. 51.
: Review of exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, Art News, 58 (May 1959), p. 16.
1958: James Schuyler, “Bell Paints a Picture,” Art News, 57 (September 1958), pp. 42-45.
1957: Review of exhibition at Poindexter Gallery, Art News, 56 (April 1957), p. 14.
: Review of exhibition at Poindexter Gallery, Arts Magazine, 31 (April 1957), p. 59.
1956: Thomas B. Hess, “U.S. Painting: Some Recent Directions,” Art News Annual, 25 (1956), p. 76+.
1955: Review of “Portraits and Figure Studies” at Hansa Gallery, Arts Digest, 29 (April 1955), p. 19.
: Review of “Portraits and Figure Studies” at Hansa Gallery, Art News, 54 (April 1955), p. 46.

Leland Bell

(American, 1922–1991)

Leland Bell

Leland Bell

Leland Bell

Leland Bell

Leland Bell

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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