Timeline

1920 - 1921

Studied at the National Academy of Design, New York

1926 - 1935

Moved to Europe and traveled to Germany, Switzerland, France, North Africa and Hungary

1936 - 1944

Member of American Abstract Artist, New York

1948 - 1950

Artist-in-Residence at the University of Georgia, Athens

1950 - 1952

Instructor of Fine Arts at the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

1955 - 1959

Instructor of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College, New York

1964 - 1970

Professor of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College, New York

1900

Born June 12 in Freilburg, Germany, and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1919

Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1926

Studied at the Hans Hoffman School, Munich, Germany

1932

Became a member of Abstraction-Creation, Paris France

1939

Taught at the Art Students League, New York

1950

Taught at the Art Students League, New York

1951

Artist-in-Residence at the University of California at Berkeley (summer)

1961

Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (summer)

1970

Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College, New York

1973

Died March 22 in New York

Publications by the Artist
'A Memoir of Modrain,' Arts Magazine, Vol.31, September 1957
'The Way to Creativity,' Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 15, February 1958
'The Mechanics of Creativity of a Painter: A Memoir,' Leonardo, Vol. 1, Pergamon Press 1968
'The Painter’s Mind', with co-author Romare Bearden, Grove Press, New York 1969

Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum of art, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey
New School for Social Research, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.M
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
University of Georgia, Athens
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York