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Beatrice Mandelman
(
American
, 1912–1998)
Beatrice Mandelman
Skull,
ca. 1940
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1912
Born, Newark, NJ
1920 - 1925
Evening classes at the School of Fine and Industrial Arts, Newark, NJ; she met Robert Jonas. Through Jonas, Mandelman became acquainted with Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and other members of the New York vanguard.
1930 - 1932
New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1932
Pursued certificate program at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Introduced to the concepts of Cubism and School of Paris by her teacher Bernard Gussow, a social realist painter.
1938
Assistant in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Arts Project
1942
Married Louis Ribak
1943
Federal Art Project ended, eliminating Mandelman’s job in the Graphics Division.
1944
Moved to Taos, NM at the suggestion of Ribak’s teacher John Sloan. During her time there she founded the Taos Valley Art School and helped found the Taos Art Association.
1948 - 1949
Paris, France, studied with the French master Fernand Leger
1950
Selected by regional jury, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, for Metropolitan Museum exhibition “American Art Today”
Purchase prize for Figure of Toy, Fourth New Mexico Exhibition of Prints and Drawings,Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe,NM
1952
Taos Art Association was founded and the cooperative Stables Gallery was created.
1953
Taos Valley Art School closed. Ribak and Mandelman made an extended visit to Mexico.
1956
Ribak and Mandelman returned to Taos, giving up their New York dealers.
1959
Ribak and Mandelman reopened the Ribak Gallery, in their Taos home, in June.
1961
Purchase award for Dreams at Fourth Oakes’ Annual, Stables Gallery, Taos.
1979
Louis Ribak died on December 21.
1998
Died, Taos, NM
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Exhibitions
2003
“Taos Modern: Postwar Abstract Artists In New Mexico,” Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002
“Taos Modernist - Beatrice Mandelman,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001
“The Triumph of Bea Mandelman,” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
2000
“Modernism,” Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1999
One-artist show “Bea Mandelman: the 70s through 90s” Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
1997
“Taos Today - Contemporary Taos Artists>,” Arvada Center, Arvada, Colorado.
1996
“Beatrice Mandelman: Prints from the 1930s,” University of Kentucky Art Museum, Kentucky
1995
“The New Mexico Art Colony: Jewish Artists and Patrons 1875-1960,” Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver, Colorado.
1991
“Prints from the Federal Art Project, 1935-1943” Associated American Artists Gallery, New York
1990
“Albuquerque 50s,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“The Alcove Show – Life Stories,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1989
One-artist show, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1988
One-artist show, “Bea Mandelman: Early Works - Recent Works,” Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Beatrice Mandelman – Recent Work,” Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, NM
1985
“Taos Modernist Art of the 1950s,”The Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico
1983
One-artist show, “Intimate Echoes,” The New Gallery, Taos, NM
1981
One-artist show, “Bea Mandelman - Moontime: Small Paintings, 1981,” The New Gallery, Taos, NM
1980
One-artist show, Lutz-Bergerson Gallery, Taos, NM
1979
Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts.NM
1977
“Mandelman – New Work,” Kress – Sonora Gallery, Taos, NM
1975
“Fiesta de Mujeres,” (Festival of Women), Williams Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1973
One-artist show, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM
1972
One-artist show, “Space Series,” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos, NM
1971
Taos Art Association Ninth Annual Awards Show, Stables Gallery at Thorne House, Taos, NM
1970
Southwest Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.
“All Women’s Art Exhibition,” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos, NM
1969
One-artist show, “Images ’69” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos.
Fourteenth Annual Sun Carnival Art Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
1968
Taos Art Association Annual Awards Show, Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1966
Original member of Group 7, experimental painters. Group 7 exhibited at the Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1964
One-artist show, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM
1963
One-artist show, Galeria San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1962
“The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX
1961
Sixty-seventh Annual for Western Artists, Denver Art Museum, Denver, August.
One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM
1960
One-artist show, The Mexican American Cultural Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
Second Annual Exhibition of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma
1960 Circle Invitational Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
1959
Southwestern Artists Biennial Exhibition, Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Second Painting Biennial, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina,
One -artist show, Taos Art Association, Stables Gallery
1958
“Taos Now: Paintings and Sculpture from the Stables Gallery,” Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“1958 Taos Moderns” exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1957
Two-artist show with Alfred Rogoway, Taos Art Association, Stables Gallery, NM and NY
Spiral Group 12th Annual Exhibition, Artist’s Gallery, New York, NY
1956
Three-artist show with Edward Chavez and Byron Goto at John Heller Gallery, New York,NY
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Spiral Group Eleventh Annual Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
“Taos Moderns,” Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1955
Ribak and Mandelman held their first show at the Gallery Ribak in their home, with Agnes Martin.
1954
“Fact and Fantasy ’54,” Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
1952
“Taos Painting, Yesterday and Today,” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM
1951
One-artist show, Art Alliance, Santa Fe, NM
1950
One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM
1949
Fifty-ninth Annual American Exhibition, “Watercolors and Drawings,” Art Institute of Chicago
One-artist show,"Paintings of Old Mexico by B. Mandelman," Blue Door Gallery, Taos, NM
1947
“New Mexico Artists, ”Guadalupe Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“Modern Painting of the Southwest,” Blue Door Art Gallery, Taos, NM
1946
“Paintings of the Year,” Pepsi Cola Company’s Third Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design
1944
One-artist show, Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York.
1942
Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York.
1941
“Silk Screen Prints by New York Artists,” Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA
Watercolor Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
“Five Women, Five Painters, Five Methods,” A.C.A. Gallery, New York
1940
Art Institute of Chicago, Seventh Annual Exhibition, Lithography and Wood Engraving
“Color Prints,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Fifty-first Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, the Art Institute of Chicago
1939
“Exhibition - 99 Graphic Prints,” Federal Art Gallery, Federal Art Project, New York,
1934
W.P.A. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with John Sloan, Willem de Kooning, Stuart Davis and Arshile Gorky.
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