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Jules Olitski

(American, 1922–2007)

Jules Olitski

Yarmuk Wall - 6, 1975

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Jules Olitski

Samaria Sin-Kr.-2, 1978

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Biography

Timeline

1922: Born Jevel Demikovosky on March 27th in Snovsk, Ukraine
1923: Emigrated with his mother to Brooklyn, NY
1939 - 1942: Attended National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1939: Scholarship to the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1940 - 1942: Attended Beaux Arts Institute, New York, NY
1949 - 1950: Attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
1949: Studied with Ossip Zadkine in the Zadkine School of Sculpture
1952: B.S., New York University, New York, NY
1954 - 1955: Associate Professor of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1954: M.A., New York University, New York, NY
1955 - 1956: Curator, New York University Art Education Gallery, New York, NY
1956 - 1963: Art Instructor and Fine Arts Department Coordinator, C. W. Post College, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
1963 - 1967: Instructor in Art, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1964: Awarded Purchase Prize, Ford Foundation, New York, NY
1967: First Prize and Gold Medal, 30th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1975: Distinction in the Arts Award, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
1987: Sally and Milton Avery Professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1991: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sceinces, Cambridge, MA
1993: Associate, National Academician, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2007: Died on February 4th in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2017: Jules Olitski Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Caro & Olitski: 1965 – 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2016: Jules Olitski Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Plexiglas, 1986, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2015: Jules Olitski Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Jules Olitski: On the Edge, A Decade of Innovation, Leslie Feely, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Jules Olitski: Paintings from the Seventies, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Bold Abstractions: Selections from the DMA Collection 1966–1976, The Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Pretty Raw, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
White, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2014: Jules Olitski Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Jules Olitski: Mitt Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Olitski Visions, Installation at Tower 49 Kato International 12 E 49 St, New York, NY (solo installation)
Jules Olitski on An Intimate Scale, Luther W. Brady Gallery, George Washington University, Washington D.C.; Reading Musuem, Reading, PA; Freedman Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2013: Jules Olitski Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Revelations: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Museum of Art, Houston, TX; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.; Naples Museum, Naples, FL (solo exhibition)
2011: Embracing Circles, Inaugural Exhibition, FreedmanArt, New York, USA (solo)
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, USA; travelled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo; Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, D.C., USA
2010: Jules Olitski: Prints (1954-2007), The Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: Circles Embraced, 1959-1964, Hackett Mill, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2009: Jules Olitski: An Inside View, A Survey of Prints, 1954-2007, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: An Inside View, The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2008: Jules Olitski An Inside View, A Survery of Prints 1954-2007, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, USA (solo)
2007: In Circulation: Works on Paper, The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Celebration, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the 1980s, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, USA (solo)
2006: Jules Olitski: The Seventies Painting and Sculpture, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: Works on Paper, The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2005: Jules Olitski, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski - Matter Embraced: Paintings 1950s and Now, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: Six Decades, The Goldman Warehouse, Miami, USA (solo)
2004: Jules Olitski: Half a Life's Work, Selected Paintings 1972–2002, The Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, USA (solo)
2003: American Master: Important Paintings and Works on Paper, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, USA
Jules Olitski: Spray Paintings of the 1960s, Ameringer/Yohe Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
Voyages: Recent Paintings by Jules Olitski, The McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: A Ten-Year Retrospective 1993–2003, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, USA (solo)
2002: Jules Olitski, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, USA (solo)
With Love and Disregard: New Paintings by Jules Olitski - an 80th Birthday Celebration, Ameringer/Yohe Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: New Acrylics and Watercolors, Gallery V, Columbus, USA (solo)
1960s Paper, Ameringer/Howard/Yohe, New York, USA
Landscapes, Ameringer/Howard/Yohe, Boca Raton, USA
Jules Olitski: Recent Works, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, USA (solo)
Ameringer/Yohe Fine Art, Boca Raton, USA
Jules Olitski: Passages, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England (solo)
Jules Olitski, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Jules Olitski: Watercolors and Pastels, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: New Works on Paper and Intimate Paintings, Ameringer/Howard/ Yohe Fine Art, Boca Raton, USA (solo)
Olitski: Works on Paper, the 1960s, Ameringer/Howard/Yohe Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
2001: Jules Olitski, C.W. White Gallery, Portland, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent School of Art & Design, Nottingham, England (solo)
Jules Olitski: New Work on Paper, Ameringer/Howard Gallery, Boca Raton, USA (solo)
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, USA
Jules Olitski: New Works on Paper, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski, C.W. White Gallery, Portland, USA (solo)
Five Decades of Jules Olitski: A Traveling Retrospective Including Prints, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, USA, traveled to Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA (solo)
2000: Jules Olitski, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Jules Olitski, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Jules Olitski, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, USA (solo)
Jules Olitski: New Work, Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
1999: Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, USA
1996: Contemporary Masters, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, USA
1995: Monotypes, Long Fine Arts, New York, USA
1991: Galeria Afinsa, Porto, Portugal
1990: Retrospective, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, Los Angeles, USA
1989: Print Retrospective, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
1987: Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, Germany
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, USA
1985: La Musée de Valence, Valence, France
1984: Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, USA
1973: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo)
1969: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
1967: 30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painters, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1966: Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1961: Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
1958: Zodiac Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1951: Galerie Huit, Paris, France (solo)

Public Collections

: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY
: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, CA
: National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, ACT
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: National Academy Museum, New York, NY
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, SKR
: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT
: Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, DE
: Musee National du Chateau de Jau, Perpignan, FR
: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Washburn Arts, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
: Uffizi Portrait Gallery, Florence, IT
: Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciso, CA
: The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NH
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, FR
: Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
: The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
: Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
: Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
: The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: The Luther W. Brady Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
: Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
: Beth Tzedek Congregation, Toronto, Ontario, CA
: David Winton Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA
: Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA
: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
: Kunstmuseum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE
: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
: The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: The Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Museum American University, Washington, D.C.
: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
: The Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
: The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerlie Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Jules Olitski

(American, 1922–2007)

Jules Olitski

Jules Olitski

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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