Michael Mazur

(American, 1935–2009)

ponds edge iii by michael mazur

Michael Mazur

Ponds Edge III, 2000

Price on Request

ponds edge iv by michael mazur

Michael Mazur

Ponds Edge IV, 2005

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1935
Born NYC, NY
1953
Horace Mann School, New York, NY
1958
BA, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1959
BFA, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1961
MFA, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1962
Tiffany Foundation
1964
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
National Institute of Arts and Letters
1968
Ford Foundation fellowship at the Tamarind Institute
1978 - 1997
Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Exhibitions

2004
Michael Mazur: Recent Painting and Works on Paper, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
(group) Heaven and Hell: Dante’ Divine Comedy in 20th Century Art, Stadtmuseum Erlangen, Germany
2003
Michael Mazur: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2002
Looking East, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA (with Pat Steir and Brice Marden) Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
The Inferno of Dante, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
2001
The Inferno of Dante (new etchings), Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
The Inferno of Dante (new etchings), Provincetown Art Museum
2000 - 2002
The Prints of Michael Mazur, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1999 - 2000
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
(group) Contemporary American Realist Drawing, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Literature

2002
Doran, Valerie C. Passage/Memory/Landscape: The Paintings of Michael Mazur, Orientations, May 2002, p.61-65
1999
McQuaid, Cate. Seamless ‘Perl’; Mazur’s fine lines, The Boston Globe, May 6, 1999.
1998
Koslow-Miller, Francine. Michael Mazur, Artforum, September, 1998.
Buskirk, Martha. Michael Mazur, Art in America, September, 1998.
Temin, Christine. Mazur Retrospective Makes a Natural Fit, The Boston Globe, April 26, 1998.
McQuaid, Cate. Brushstrokes of Soothing Beauty, The Boston Globe, April 23, 1998.
1997
Wilson, Doug C. Hours Without Time: Michael Mazur ’57 Talks About Painting, Amherst, Fall 1997
Moorman, Margaret, Michael Mazur, ARTnews, Summer, 1997.
Foreman, Debbie. Landscapes of the Mind, Cape Cod Times, July 20, 1996.
Temin, Christine. Best of Show, The Boston Globe, September 20, 1996.