Artworks by Ray Parker at Washburn Gallery on artnet

Ray Parker

(American, 1922–1990)

Ray Parker

Untitled #756, 1961

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1961

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1961

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1962

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1963

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1963

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Ray Parker

Untitled (#68), 1963

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1971

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1970

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1954

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1953–1954

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Ray Parker

Untitled, 1953–1954

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Timeline

1922: Born; Beresford, SD
1946: Bachelor of Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
1948 - 1951: Taught painting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1948: Master of Fine Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
1949 - 1989: Taught painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
1970 - 1971: Guest Critic, Columbia University School of Arts, New York
1974: Guest Critic, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1990: Died; New York, NY

Exhibitions

2008: "Ray Parker," Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
2007: "Ray Parker: Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s," Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
2006: "Ray Parker Paintings 1958-1971: Color into Drawing," Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: "Ray Parker: Paintings from the 1970s," Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
2000: Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999: Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1997: Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1994: Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy (solo)
1993: "Works on Paper, 1978-1982," Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
1990: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY (solo, retrospective)
1989: "Abstract Expressions: Painting and Sculpture of the 1950s and 1960s," Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
"Three-Man Exhibition with Dan Christensen and Robert Goodnough," Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
"Before the Field - Paintings from the Sixties," Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY
1987: "39th Annual Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1986: "After Matisse," The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY. Traveled to: Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
1984: "Artists at the Hunter 1950-1965," Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
"Then and Now," Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1983: Carl Soloway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
1981: College of Cortland, SUNY, Fine Arts Center, Cortland, NY (solo)
1980: Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (solo)
Joe Grippi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1979: Betty Cuningham, New York (solo)
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (solo)
"Art in American after World War II," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1978: The Billiard Room Gallery, Cambridge (solo)
"New York, The State of Art, The New York School," State Museum, Albany, NY
1977: "New in the '70s," University Art Museum, Austin, TX
"A Miscellany of the 1960s," Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
University of Texas, Austin, TX (solo)
Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"American Art Since 1945," from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Traveled to: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1976: Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View," The University of Texas, Austin, TX
"Drawing Today in New York," Rice University, Houston, TX
"Artists and East Hampton, A 100-Year Retrospective," Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1975: American University, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1974: Berenson Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
Quay Gallrey, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (solo)
David Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR (solo)
1973: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"The Biennial Exhibition of American Art," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1972: "Color Forum," University of Texas, Austin, TX
"Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971: "Young Artists of the '50s," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969 - 1970: "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968: "The Art of the Real: USA 1948-1968," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Traveled to The Tate Gallery, London, England; Grand Palais, Paris, France; Kunsthaller, Zürich, Switzerland

Public Collections

: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
: Rice University, Rice Museum, Houston, TX
: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
: The Tate Gallery, London, England
: University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
: University of New Mexico, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
: The University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
: Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: American University, Watkins Gallery, Washington, D.C.
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
: Childe Hassam Foundation, New York, NY
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Ft. Lauderdale Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
: The Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
: University of Kentucky Arts Museum, Lexington, KY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA
: Miami-Dade Junior College Art Gallery, Miami, FL
: The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Literature

2003: Irving Sandler. A Sweeper-Up After Artist's, Thames and Hudson Inc., 2003.
1978: Irving Sandler. The New York School. Harper & Row, New York, 1978.
1973: Mary Fuller McChesney. A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950. Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 1973.
1970: Irving Sandler. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. Praeger, New York, 1970.
1967: Barbara Rose. American Art Since 1900, A Critical History. Praeger, New York, 1967.
1959: Bernard Friedman, editor. School of New York. Grove Press, New York, 1959.
1957: "American Abstract Artists," The World of Abstract Art, George Wittenborn, New York, 1957.

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Washburn Gallery

Ray Parker

(American, 1922–1990)

Ray Parker

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Ray Parker

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Ray Parker

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Ray Parker

(American, 1922–1990)

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Ray Parker

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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