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Biography |
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1907 |
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Born March 18, Jones Mill, Monroe County, Alabama |
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1924 |
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Enrolls at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy where he studies design and fine arts |
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1925 |
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Receives scholarship to continue studies at the Academy |
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1937 |
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Travels to Paris where he studies period textile styles at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs |
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1941 |
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Learns silk screen printing with Harry Gottlieb |
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1937 - 1942 |
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Studies with Han Hofmann at his school in New York on West 8th Street. |
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1937 - 1942 |
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Studies with Han Hofmann
Spends summers of 1939 and 1942 at Hofmann’s Provincetown, MA school
Teaches textile design at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn |
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1945 - 1946 |
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First solo exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco |
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1947 - 1948 |
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Wins first prize at San Francisco Art Association exhibition with his work Personage and Serpent
First solo show in New York at the Betty Parsons Gallery |
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1957 |
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With Elizabeth Parker and Alfonso Ossorio, Little opens the Signa Gallery in East Hampton
Solo exhibition in New York at Bertha Schaefer Gallery |
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1967 |
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Guest lecturer in painting at Southampton College, Long Island University |
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1984 |
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Dies |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"John Little: Cascading Forms," McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
"Abstraction: Summer 2008," Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2006 |
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Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA |
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1990 |
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Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY |
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1982 |
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Muestra Internacional de Arte Gráfico Feria, Internacional de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain |
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1982 |
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Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (solo) |
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1982 |
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Phoenix II, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1981 |
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Art Gallery, Fine Arts Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (solo) |
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1981 |
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Phoenix II, Washington, DC |
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1979 |
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Marchand-Parson Gallery, Shelter Island, NY |
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1978 |
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Lief Hope’s Gallery, East Hampton, NY |
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1977 |
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Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY (solo) |
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1976 |
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Buecker and Harpsicords, New York, NY |
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1973 |
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Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (solo) |
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1973 |
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Gallery North, Setauket, NY (solo) |
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1972 |
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The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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1971 |
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A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1963 |
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Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo) |
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1963 |
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East Hampton Gallery, East Hampton, NY (solo) |
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1961 |
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Latow Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1958 |
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Executive House, New York, NY (solo) |
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1958 |
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Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1958 |
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Mills College of Education Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1957 |
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Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1955 |
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY |
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1955 |
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
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1954 |
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY |
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1954 |
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Hannibal French House, Sag Harbor, NY (solo) |
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1953 |
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
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1952 |
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
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1951 |
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San Francisco Museum of Art, CA |
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1950 |
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
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1948 |
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San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1948 |
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Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1946 |
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1946 |
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA |
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