AN UPDATING OF 2001 ACTIVITIES

Sigmund Abeles
Vitae 2001

One Artist Exhibitions:
Things to Come: Sigmund Abeles, Pastels, Oils, Drawings and Prints,
Burroughs/Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, Mar. 3 - April 1. Curator, Kay Teer.
Sigmund Abeles, Drawings and Works on Paper, Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, ME, Dept. of prints and drawings, Sept.8 - Dec. 2, 2001.
 Group Exhibitions:
Le Vernissage, Annual Benefit Art Exhibition, Auction & Sale, Rochefort-en
Terre, artist resident grantees, Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland
Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, auction Jan 12, exh. Dec. 19 - Jan.
12, 2001.
Workshop Traditions: Printmaking in Boston Since 1960, Boston University Art
Gallery, Boston, MA, March 1 - April 8.  Co-curators, Emily Moore and
Christopher T. Newth.
New Acquisitions, Gift of America Series, Vietnam: Helicopters and Kids,
intaglio, gift of Milton Leitenberg, National Academy Museum, NYC, Fall, 2001.
176th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy, Nat. Acad. Museum, NYC, May
22 - June 24. NYC
Artists Go to War, The Old Print Shop, NYC, July 9 - Aug. 31.
Pastel Society of America’s 29th Annual Exhibition, “For Pastels Only”,
Joseph V. Giffuni Foundation Award, National Arts Club, NYC, Sept. 8
- 30.
Selections from the State Art Collection, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery,
Initial Exhibition, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, S.C., Sept. 20 - Nov.
22, 2001. Color repro. Annunciation with Shepard, represented by this pastel
and bronze, Mod Woman with Glasses.
Professional Painters Exhibition, The Century Association, NYC, Oct. 16 -

Visiting Artist & Lectures:
Syracuse University, School of the Arts, Syracuse, NY, slide lecture on my
life & work and two day visit with critiques of undergraduate and graduate
painting and drawing students, Oct. 16 & 17.
(upcoming)
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, slide lecture on my life and work, Oct. 24.
University of New Hampshire, Dept. of the Arts, slide lecture of works after
moving to NYC and day long master class in figure drawing to seniors and
graduate students, Nov. 28 & 29.


Public Collections:
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Mama, You Know I Never Paid Matisse No
Nevermind!, pastel, 2000, museum purchase.
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Conversing Couple, pastel, 198? ,
purchased by election by The Gibbes Young Collector’s Club.
Portland Museum of Art, Dept. of Drawings & Prints, 16 figure
drawings, gift of the artist.

Representation: The Old Print Club, NYC; Cheryl Newby Fine Arts, Pawleys
Island, SC.

Private Collections:
Nora Lavori, Couple, NL, SA, Fits Like a Glove, pastel, 2000.
Joe & Beatrice Tananbaum, 2 drawings of Eli Wiesel, pencil, Woman with Cat,
litho, The Pensioner, etching.
Frank H. Pearl, Wash., DC, Innocent Red Series, Mireille With Manakin, Both
Robed, pastel, 2000 and A Domestic Pair; Geese, lithograph.   
Neal Fiertag, Paris, France, Morning Prayers, Brooklyn, #1, pastel, 1987.
Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Baltimore, MD., Reflections in Isabel’s Pond,
Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France, 2000, oil on prepared paper, purchased
at Le Vernissage, Annual Benefit Art Exhibition, Auction & Sale, Rochefort-en
Terre, artist resident grantees, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute, College
of Art, Baltimore, MD.

Bibliography:
American Artist,“Interior Compositions, Figure Painter Donna Suprenant seeks
to unite the physical and spiritual presence of her models” by E. Lynne Moss,
mentioned as a teacher/mentor at end of article, pg. 80. January 2001.
American Artist magazine, Musings on Drawings, A Lifelong Passion for Drawing
Has Defined My Career as an Artist and Teacher by Sigmund Abeles includes 26
reproductions, one by the artists, the others, master drawings from many eras
and nations, including the cover image, pages 72 - 79, May’s Special Issue on
Drawing, 2001.
Portland Museum of Art, Members’ Magazine, Drawn to the Figure: Works by
Sigmund Abeles, Exhibitions and Collections, pg. 5, bk & wht repro.,
Sept./Oct. 2001.
Coast, Alternatives, Sigmund Abeles - Master of Fine Arts by Robert Gross,
page 28, Myrtle Beach, SC, Vol. IV, #23, April 26 - May 10. w. photo of
artist and writer.
The Print Quarterly, review of ABELES, catalogue of solo exhibition at Thomas
Williams Fine Arts, London, GB by Reba White Williams, pages 328 & 329 with
full page repro. of A Domestic Pair; Geese, Sept. 2001, Vol. XVIII, Number 3.
The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Contempory Artists, Vol. LXI, Number 1, 2 blk. & wht. repros.