SIGMUND ABELES
WORKS IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (PARTIAL LIST):
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
British Museum, London, UK
Brookgreen Gardens, SC
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fitzwilliams Museum, Oxford, UK
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Museo de Arte, Ponce, PR
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
National Academy of Design, NYC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, NYC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philidelphia, PA
Philidelphia Museum of Art, Philidelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
AWARDS (PARTIAL LIST):
Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, Artist Fellowship Inc., New York, NY, 2017
Hall of Fame Honoree, Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, New York, NY 2004
Artist Residency Program, Chateau Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France, 2000
Honorary Doctorate of Arts Degree and commencement speaker, Coastal Carolina U., 2000
Florsheim Foundation Grant for pastel purchase to the Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, 1992
Florsheim Foundation Grant for retrospective catalog, 1987
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize for Spring Morning, pastel, 1982
American Jewish Committee Academic Seminar in Israel, 1981–1982
Elected National Academician, National Academy of Design, NY, 1977
Louis Comfort Tifany Foundation Grant for Graphics, 1967
National Council of Arts & Humanities Sabbatical Grant, 1966
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for etchings, 1965