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Paul Jenkins

(American, 1923–2012)

Paul Jenkins

Phenomena Franklin's Kite, 1974

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Biography

Timeline

1923: Born in Kansas City, MO
1943 - 1945: Served as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps
1948 - 1952: Attended the Art Students League in New York, NY
1953 - 1954: Lived and worked in Paris, France
1953: Traveled to Europe (England, Italy, Spain, and France)
1955: Returned to New York, NY
1963: Acquired his Broadway loft from Willem de Kooning where he worked until December 2000
1964: Filming of The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work, produced by Martha Jackson
1967: Awarded the silver medal in painting during the 30th Biennial of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1977: Began to work for several months in the Caribbean
1980: Named Officer of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France
1982: Recipient, the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped [Very Special Arts]
1983: Named Commander of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France
1987: His dance-drama,Shaman to the Prism Seen, with his painted decors was presented at the Paris Opera, Paris, France
1996: Recipient, honorary doctorate in humanities from Hofstra University, Long Island, NY
1997: Elected to the National Academy, New York, NY; received the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, together with the medal of the City of Paris, France
1998: Elected an honorary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales, UK
2000: Received the Benjamin Clinedinst Medal from the Artists' Fellowship in New York, NY
2012: Died on June 9, in New York, after a short illness

Exhibitions

2012: Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, USA (solo)
: Local Color. The San Jose Museum of Art, California, USA
: Abstract Expressionism: Then and Now. Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
: Un Art Autre? Artistes Autour de Michel Tapié, Une Exposition. Christie's, Paris, France
2011: Fragments 1915-2011: Modern and Contemporary Collage. ACA Galleries, New York, USA
: Colour Moves Surface. Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
: American Masterworks: 150 Years of American Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art. Vero Beach Museum, Florida, USA
: The Armory Show. D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, Pier 92, USA
: Gloria F. Ross: Rebirth of Modern Tapestry. Jane Kahan Gallery, New York, USA
: The Redfern Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Galleria Open Art, Prato.(solo)
: Palazzo Pacchiani, Prato.(solo)
: Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space, Color and Light, University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
: Action Painting in the Chrysler. Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA
: Under Each Other’s Spell: Gutai and New York. UB Art Galleries, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
: Into the Void: Abstract Art, 1948-2008. Tucson Museum of Art, USA
: Modern Drawings: Tracing 100 Years. Academy Art Museum, Easton, USA
: Galleria Civica Ezio Mariani di Seregno, Italy (solo)
2010: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA (solo)
: Hidden in Plain Sight: Art Treasure from Regional Collections. Erie Art Museum, USA
2009: D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL (solo)
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY (solo)
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (solo)
2008: Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2007: Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (solo)
"Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
: Galleria Open Art, Cornice Art Fair, Venice.(solo)
2006: Water and Color, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (solo)
: Galleria Open Art, Prato.(solo)
2005: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France (solo)
Redfern Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (solo)
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004: Museo Civico, Assessorato alla Cultura di Pizzighettone, Pizzighettone, Italy (solo)
Redfern Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2003: Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL (solo)
Redfern Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2001: Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saumur, France (solo)
2000: The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy (solo)
Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL(solo)
1999: Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY (solo)
Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France (solo)
1997: The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1994: Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Pasquale Iannetti Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1992: Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Atelier Franck Bordas, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland and Paris, France (solo)
Associated American Artists, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland (solo)
1990: Castello Doria, Portovenere, Italy(solo)
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France (solo)
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1988: Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France (solo)
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Régis Dorval, Le Touquet, France (solo)
Gana Gallery, Seoul, South Corea (solo)
Galleria La Loggia, Bologna, Italy (solo)
1986: Gimpel Fils, London, UK (solo)
MR Galleria d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galerie Michel Delorme, Paris, France (solo)
Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
Focus Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1984: Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
1981: Retrospective, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (solo)
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Maison Internationale du Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris, France (solo)
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1978: Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Balcon des Arts, Paris, France (solo)
1976: Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, France (solo)
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1974: Retrospective, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, France (solo)
Baukunst, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
1972: Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Abrams Original Editions, New York, NY (solo)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
1968: Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris, France (solo)
Gallery Moos, Ltd., Toronto, Canada (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964: Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Retrospective", Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (solo)
1962: Galerie Lienhard, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, France (solo)
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galleria Toninelli, Milan, Italy (solo)
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy (solo)
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1959: Galerie Stadler, Paris, France (solo)
1956: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1954: Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France (solo)
: Selected Public Collections:

Public Collections

: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, PA
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Tate Gallery, London, UK
: The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: San Francisco Museum of Art, San Fransisco, CA
: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, PA
: Centre Georges Pompidou and Musée national d'art Moderne, Paris, France
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Literature

2010: Paul Jenkins: On the Rim of Time. Prato, Galleria Open Art, 2010 (catalogue).
2009: Olsen, Sandra H. Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space Color and Light. New York: D. Wigmore Fine Art, 2009 (catalogue)
2007: Paul Jenkins:Recent Paintings. London, UK: Redfern Gallery, 2007 (catalogue)
Harrison, Helen A. Paul Jenkins in the Fifties: Space Color and Light. New York: D. Wigmore Fine Art, 2007 (catalogue)
2006: Selz, Peter. Paul Jenkins: the 70s. Mill Valley, CA: Robert Green Fine Arts, 2006 (catalogue)
2005: Minturn, Kent. Paul Jenkins: Paintings1954-1960. London, UK: Redfern Gallery, 2005 (catalogue)
Œuvres Majeures. Lille: Fondation Demeures du Nord, 2005 (catalogue)
: Paul Jenkins: Inner Cosmologies. Prato, Galleria Open Art, 2005 (catalogue)
1994: Trapp, Frank Anderson. L'Eau et la couleur, Water and Color. Angers, France: PACA, 1994 (catalogue)
1991: Bonafoux, Pascal. Conjunctions and annexes. Paris, France: Editions Galilée, 1991
1988: Verdet, André. Euphories de la couleur. New York, St-Paul-de-Vence: Imago Terrae, 1988
1973: Elsen, Albert E. Paul Jenkins (monograph). New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973
1971: Nordland, Gerald. Paul Jenkins. New York: Universe Books, 1971 (catalogue)

Paul Jenkins

(American, 1923–2012)

Paul Jenkins

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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