Sigmund Abeles - Selected Biography
Education
Columbia University, NYC: MFA in Painting, 1957
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, summers 1955 & 56Brooklyn Museum School, graphics, 1956
University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.: AB in Fine Arts, 1955
Teaching Positions
Art Students League of New York,1997 - 2000
The National Academy School, advanced figure workshop 1998
University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1970 - 87, Full Prof./tenure, elected Prof. Emeritus 87
Boston University, School of Fine Arts, Assoc. Prof., 1969 - 70
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Resident Artist, 1964 - 69
Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA, Instructor, 1961 - 64
Grants & Awards
Hall of Fame Honoree for 2004, Pastel Society of America, National Arts
Club, NYC, Sept. 19, 2004
Artist Residency Program, Chateau Rochefort En Terre, Brittany, France, summer 2000
Honoralay Doctorate of Arts Degree and commencement speaker, Coastal Carolina Univ., 2000
Florsheim Foundation Grant for retrospective catalog, 1992
American Jewish Committee Academic Seminar in Israel, 198 1-82
Louis Comfort Tifany Foundation Grant for Graphics, 1967
National Council of Arts & Humanities Sabbatical Grant, 1966
National Institute of Arts & Letters Award, 1965
One Artist Exhibitions
Sigmund Abeles: Drawings, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, 2001
Sigmund Abeles, Things to Come, Burroughs/Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2001
ABELES, Recent Pastels, Drawings & Print Survey, Thomas Williams Fine Arts, London, UK, catalog, 2000
Sigmund Abeles- Print Retrospective, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, catalog w/complete print listing. 1999
Hudson River Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY, paintings, pastels, prints & dwgs., 1999
The Century Association, The Presidents Room, NYC, paintings and pastels, 1999
Sigmund Abeles, duel solo exhs.: The New York Years, 1994-98, The Brush Gallery and SA: A Survey, 1979-94 at The Whistler Museum of Art, both Lowell, MA, 1998
The Observant Hand, 40 Years of Drawing by Sigmund Abeles, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas TX., 1998, catalog
Sigmund Abeles - A 30 Year Retrospective of Drawings & Prints From the Collection of the Boston Public Library, 1993
A Traveling Retrospective, Pastels, Oils, Prints & Drawings: The Manchester Institute of Arts, Manchester, NH & New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH; McKissick Museum of Art, Univ. of SC, Columbia; The Fine Arts Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN; Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC and Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1992 -93, catalog
The Max Drawings 1985 - 92, 13 sites including: The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, The Trition Musuem of Art, Santa Clara, CA, The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Yeshiva Univ. Museum of Art, NYC, Univ. of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, The Shere Zadik Hospital Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, The Newton Free Library Gallery, MA.
Retrospective, Drawings, Sculpture, Pastels & Prints, University Art Gallery, UNH, Durham, NH, 1987
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, MB, 1985
Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, 1983
Impressions Gallery, Boston, 1981
Abeles: The First 20 Years, Prints & Drws.: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB; University Art Galleries, Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR,Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC and Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO, 1979 - 81, catalog
Sigmund Abeles Recent Drawings: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswich, ME and De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Univ. of NH/Durham, 1971 - 72, catalog
Jewett Art Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 1966
Group Exhibitions; partial list
100 Years/100 Artists; Views of 20th. Cent. Art in South Carolina, S.C. State Mus., Contemp. Amer. Realism on Paper from the Collection of Jalane & Richard Davidson Gifted to the Chicago Art Instit., New York
Artists/Mentors, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC, 1999
Psychologically Charged: S. Abeles, Gregrory Gillespie, Paul Matthews, Jerome Witkin, Univ. of VT. 1996; SUNY-Plattsburg, NY, 1997
Figures Dwgs.: S. Abeles, Sidney Goodman & Jody Mussoff, Atrium Gallery, Univ. of CT, Storrs, 1992
With Nothing On, New Orleans Mus. of Art, 1990, Man-Woman-Child, John Szoke gallery, NYC, 1989
The Animal Kingdom, Assoc. Amer. Artists Galleries, NYC, 1986
Contemp. Figure Dwg., Minn. College of Art & Design, MI, 1985
Works on Paper, Abeles, Basilitz, Chia, Dine, Harris & Mazur, Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1988
Prints USA, Pratt Ctr. NYC;
Contemp. Amer. Realism on Paper from the Collection of Jalane & Richard Davidson, Penn. Acad. of Fine Arts & Chicago Art Instit., 1982
American Portrait Drawings, Nat. Portrait Gallery, Wash, DC, 1980
A Selection of Amer. Art, The Skowhegan School, 1946 -76, Instit. Contemp. Art, Boston, MA, 1976
Living Amer. Artists & The Figure, Penn. State Univ. Mus. of Art, 1974
16 Amer. Artists of Protest, Mus. of Contemp. Art, Chicago, IL, 1971
Amer. Contemp. Prints, Instit. of Contemp.Art, London, GB
Human Concerns/Personal Torment, Whitney Mus., NYC
Dwgs. by Young Americans, Mus. of Art, Ogunquit, ME, 1969
Protest & Hope, New School for Soc. Research, NYC, 1967,
Whitney Annual, Sculpture & Prints, NYC, 1966
New Talent in Printmaking, AAA Galleries, NYC, 1965
Permanent Collections
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Mus. of San Francisco, CA; The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Bates College Mus. of Art, ME; Boston Public Library; The Brooklyn Mus.; The British Museum, London, GB; The Butler Art Instit., Youngstown, OH; Cleveland Mus. of Art, Colby College Mus. of Art, ME; The Currier Gallery of Art; The Fitzwilliams Museum, Oxford, GB; Fogg Art Museum & Harvard Semitic Mus., Cambridge, MA, Honolulu Acad. of Art; Indianapolis Mus. of Art, IN; Kalamazoo Instit. of Arts; Library of Congress; Judah Magnes Mus., Berkeley, CA; The Metropolitan Mus. of Art, NYC; The Minneapolis Instit. of Arts; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Museo de Arte, Ponce, PR; Rhode Island Sch. of Design Mus. of Art; Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston; The Mus. of Modern Art, NYC; Nat. Acad. of Design, NYC; New York Public Library; Penn. Acad. of Fine Arts; Phil. Mus. of Art; John & Mabel Ringling Mus. of Art, Sarasota, FL; Salt Lake Art Ctr.; San Diego Mus. of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, Victoria & Albert Mus., London, GB & Yale Univ. Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Private Collections, partial list
Udo & Iris Bensch, Geneva, Switzerland. Bill & Deborah Binnell, NYC & CT, Alfred Brendel, London, GB, William & Lisa Carl, Boston, Richard Davidson, Chicago IL, Neil Feitag, Paris, France, Joseph Fuery & Lee Grant, NYC, Eric Greenleaf, NYC, John & Lisa Hall, NYC, Edwin & Thayer Hockberg, NYC, Linda & Douglas Honnold, Evanston, 11, Nora Lavori, NYC, Hal & Barbara Laeger, Englewood, NJ, Kit & Geraldine Laybourne, NYC & LA , Albert & Kate Merck, MA, Yasuteru Miyamoto, Tokyo, Japan, Frank H. Pearl, Wash. DC, Joe & Bernice Tanenbaum, Roslyn, NY, Sela Ward, LA, CA, Thomas Williams, London, GB.
Former Students
Dominic Cretera, Leonard Dusfresne, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Ganson, Betsy Garand, Brenda Garand, France Hibert, John Hopkins, Hung Yu Ji, Leslie Enders Lee, Scattergood Moore, Catherine Nash, Robert Neffson, Lorraine Shemesh, Janis Theodore, Janet Wentworth, Homer Yost
Representation
Thomas Williams Fine Art LTD, London
Hitchcock & Eve, Chatham, New York
The Old Print Shop, NYC, Cheryl Newby, Fine Arts, Pawleys Island, SC