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Louise Nevelson

(American, 1899–1988)

Louise Nevelson

Maquette for Sky Landscape I, 1977–1979

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Biography

Timeline

1899: Born in Kiev, Ukraine
1905: Moved Rockland, USA
1929 - 1930: Studied visual and performing arts, including dramatics at the Art Students League
1931: Attended Hans Hofmann’s school in Munich, Germany
1932: Returned to New York and assisted Diego Rivera on murals for the WPA Federal Art Project
1937: Joined the WPA as a teacher for the Educational Alliance School of Art
1947: Studied etching with Stanley William Hayter at his Atelier 17 in New York
1949 - 1950: Worked in marble and terra-cotta and executed her totemic Game Figures
1957 - 1959: Became a president of the Artist’s Equity New York chapter
1959: Received a grand Prize for work in the Art USA exhibition at the New York Coliseum
1966: Became vice-president of the International Association of Artists
Received Honorary Degree from Western College for Women in Oxford, USA
1969: Received a MacDowell Colony Medal in Peterborough, USA
1973: Received a honorary degree from Smith College in Northampton, USA and Columbia University in New York, USA
1985: Received a National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan
1988: Died in New York, USA
2000: Was the subject of a set of Louise Nevelson commemorative stamps issued by the U.S Postal Service

Exhibitions

2013: Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Louise Nevelson: Black, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
2012: Louise Nevelson, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Selections From The Estate: 1954-1987, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, USA
2011: Louise Nevelson, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, USA
Rediscoveries 1, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA
Louise Nevelson: Collages, Pace Prints, New York, USA
Louise Nevelson 1899 – 1988, The Architect of Shadow, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
2010: Louise Nevelson, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany (solo)
Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Louise Nevelson, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA
2009: Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England (solo)
Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Louise Nevelson: Collages, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy (solo)
The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2008: Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
Doppio Songo Dell' Arte (Art's Double Dream), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA
2007: De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
Light Time and Three Dimensions, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA; travelled to de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2006: Louise Nevelson: Small Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
Louise Nevelson: The Architecture of the Light, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2005: Louise Nevelson: Ceramics and Sculpture, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Collecting for the Cause: Activist Art in the 1960s and '70s, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Continuum: 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, ACA Galleries, New York, USA
2004: Picasso to Pop: A Growing Contemporary Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Louise Nevelson, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2003: Louise Nevelson: Selections from the Farnsworth Art Museum, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
Going Modern at the Allen: American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA
Imagine: Selections from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
2002: True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA
Louise Nevelson: Structures Evolving, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA
2001: Louise Nevelson, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France (solo)
Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1999: Drawings, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Louise Nevelson, Sculpture and Collages, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
1998: Louise Nevelson: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1940s, Washburn Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The 60s in the Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York, USA
1997: Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Assemblage: More Than Meets The Eye, Choate House Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, USA
1994: Louise Nevelson, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (solo)
The Box: From Duchamp to Horn, Ubu Gallery, New York, USA
1991: 10 Sculptors of the New York School, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1986: Louise Nevelson, Michel Soskine Inc., New York, USA (solo)
1983: Nuclear Weapons Freeze Benefit Exhibition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1967: Louise Nevelson,The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA (solo)
Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Public Collections

: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, France
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, U.K
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Literature

2009: The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend(edited by Brooke Kamin Rapaport). Yale University Press: New Haven
1990: Lisie, Laurie. Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life. Simon & Schuster/ Summit Books: New York, 1990
1981: Wilson, Laurie. Louise Nevelson: Iconography and Sources. New York: Garland, 1981
1976: Nevelson, Louise. Dawns + Dusks: Louise Nevelson (taped conversations with Diana MacKown). New York: Scribner, 1976
1972: Glimcher, Arnold B. Louise Nevelson. New York: Praeger, 1972

Louise Nevelson

(American, 1899–1988)

Louise Nevelson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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