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George Earl Ortman
(
American
, 1926–2015)
George Earl Ortman
Ten Works X Ten Painters,
1964
4,500 USD
Biography
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Timeline
1926
Born in Oakland, CA
1947 - 1949
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1949 - 1950
Atelier Andre L'hote, Paris, France
1949
Studied with Stanley Hayter, Atelier 17, New York, NY
1950 - 1951
Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
1960 - 1965
School of Visual Arts, NY (co-chairman of Fine Arts Dept. 1963-65) (teaching)
1963 - 1965
New York University (teaching)
1965
Guggenheim Fellowship
1966 - 1969
Princeton University (teaching)
1966
Ford Foundation grant
1969 - 1970
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Artist in Residence (teaching)
1970 - 1991
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit (Head, Graduate School Painting Dept.) (teaching)
1994
Elected member National Academy of Design
2003
Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award
2008
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
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Exhibitions
2002
Mitchell Algus Gallery, NY (solo)
1984
"New Acquisitions", Cleveland Museum of Art
1981
"New Acquisitions", Guggenheim Museum, NY
Cranbrook Academy of Art (solo)
1977
"The Spirit of Art", Indianapolis Museum of Art
1976
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit (solo)
1975
"Rainments of the Lord", Art Institute of Chicago
1972
"Bi-annual", Whitney Museum of American Art
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, NY (solo)
"Opening Exhibtion", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"Selection", Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
1971
Indianapolis Museum of Art (solo)
1970
"Opening Exhibition", Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI (solo)
Reed College, OR (solo)
1969
Howard WIse Gallery, NY (solo)
Honolulu Academy of Art Museum (solo)
Middlebury College, VT (solo)
"Carnegie International", Pittsburgh
1967
"Tamarind Print Exhibition", Museum of Modern Art, NY
Howard Wise Gallery, NY (solo)
Princeton University Museum of Art (solo)
Dallas Museum of Art (solo)
Harkus-Krakow Gallery, Boston (solo)
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
Portland Museum of Art, ME (solo)
1966
Akron Art Institute (solo)
Milwaukee Art Center (solo)
1965
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
"Tokyo Biennial", Tokyo
"A Decade of American Drawings", Whitney Museum of American Art
1964
"Sculpture Annual", Whitney Museum of Art
"American Painting", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"History of Geometric Painting in America", Whitney Museum of American Art
"Carnegie International", Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Museum of Art (solo)
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto (solo)
The Formalists", Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
"60 Years of American Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art
1963
"Toward a New Abstraction", Jewish Museum, NY
1962
"Annual", Chicago Art Institute
Howard Wise Gallery, NY (solo)
Fairleigh-Dickenson University, NJ (solo)
1961
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston (solo)
"American Sculpture", Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
1960
"Artists Under 35", Whitney Museum of American Art
"New Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, NY
1959 - 1960
"New Forms, New Media", Martha Jackson Gallery, NY
1957
Stable Gallery, NY 1960 Stable Gallery, NY (solo)
1956 - 1958
Stable Annual", Stable Gallery, NY
1955
Wittenborn Gallery, NY (solo)
1953
Tanager Gallery, NY (solo)
1950
Salon de Mai, Paris
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Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
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