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TAYLOR | GRAHAM
New York / Greenwich / Port Chester
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Michael (Corinne) West
(
American
, 1908–1991)
Michael (Corinne) West
Self Portrait II,
1970
28,000–38,000 USD
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1908
Born Corinne West in Chicago, Il
1925
Education: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; later Cincinnati Art Academy, studying drawing and portraiture under John Weis and Frank Meyers
1927
Continues studies at Art Academy of Cincinnati with Kate Reno Miller, professor of still life painting and figure drawing
1932
Attends first historic Hans Hofmann class at the legendary Art Students League; studies with Raphael Soyer and Kenneth Hayes Miller
1933 - 1936
Protege of Arshile Gorky
1933
Studies with Raphael Soyer
1935
West moves to Rochester and exhibits at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, where her Portrait of Manuelle receives attention
Lectured on "The New American Painting" at the Rochester Arts Club, Rochester, NY
1941
Exhibition at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Abstract Still Life is critically acclaimed
1943
Exhibits series of drawings at Rochester Fingerlakes Exhibition
1945 - 1946
Worked with Richard Prousette-Dart
1991
Died: New York
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Exhibitions
2007 - 2008
“Suitcase Paintings Smallscale Abstract Expressionism” Various: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN; Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2005
“Rapt in the New York School”, The Studio Armonk, NY
2001
“Second to None: Six Artists of New York School”, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
Michael West: Automatic Paintings 123 Watts Gallery, New York
1996
“Other Artists of the 50s”, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College Miami, FL
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center New York, NY
1979
WomanArt Gallery New York, NY
1978
Solo: Woman Art Gallery New York, NY
1976
“Bicentennial Exhibition”,Gallerie Internationale New York, NY
1966
Solo: Dolly Carlson’s Imaginary Art New York, NY
1965
Included in Park Bennet auctions; painting titled Oliver sold
1963
Solo: Granite Gallery New York, NY
1958
Solo: Domino Gallery Georgetown, DC
1957
Solo: Uptown Gallery New York, NY
1953
2nd “New York Painting and Sculpture Annual,” Stable Gallery New York, NY
1948
Group show: Rose Fried Gallery New York, NY
1945
Pinacotheca (with Gottlieb, Kaldis, Rothko, Avery and others) New York, NY
1943
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery and Fingerlakes Exhibitions Rochester, NY
1941
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery and Fingerlakes Exhibitions Rochester, NY
1939
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery and Fingerlakes Exhibitions Rochester, NY
1935
Rochester Arts Club Rochester, NY
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery and Fingerlakes Exhibitions Rochester, NY
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