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Rackstraw Downes (American/British, 1939)
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Rackstraw Downes
Three London Plane Trees Near the Track in Red Hook Park 2002
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Biography |
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1939 |
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Born in Kent, England |
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1961 |
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BA in English Literature, Cambridge University, England. |
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1961 - 1962 |
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English-Speaking Union Traveling Fellowship |
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1964 |
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BFA and MFA in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. |
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1964 - 1965 |
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Post-Graduate Fellowship. University of Pennsylvania. |
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1969 |
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Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania |
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1971 |
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Yaddo Residence Fellowship |
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1974 |
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Ingram Merrill Fellowship |
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1978 |
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CAPS |
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1967 - 1979 |
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Teaches painting at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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1980 |
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National Endowment for the Arts |
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1989 |
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Academy-Institute Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters |
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1998 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
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1999 |
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Inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. |
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Currently living and working in New York City |
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Exhibitions |
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2004 |
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Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York., Sept. 23 – Oct.30 -solo
Drawing as Part of the Process, New York Studio School -solo |
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2003 |
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Water-Flow Monitoring Installations on the Rio Grande near Presidio, TX, -solo
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas -solo
Celebrating Central Park. 1853-2003, Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Skowhegan 2002003 Faculty Exhibition. ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Facing Reality. The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism. Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York |
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2002 |
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poly.auto.gragh.y. Center Gallery, Fordam University at Lincoln Center, New York
Looking at America. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut |
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2001 |
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ReAppearance, Realism in Contemporary Art. Simmons Visual Arts Gallery, Brenan University, Gainesville, Georgia. (exh. cat.)
Fresh Kills: Artists respond to the Closure of the Staten Island Landfill. Snug Harbor Cultural, Staten, New York. (exh. cat.) |
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2000 |
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York. -solo
Inside/Out. The Space of Landscape & Architecture. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Making Choices. Modern Art despite Modernism. Museum of Modern Art. New York. Curated by Robert Storr. (exh. cat.)
Crossing State Lines: Texas Art From The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Texas.
New York Perspectives II. MB Modern, New York.
Landscape 2000. The New Topography. Late Twentieth Century American Landscape Painting. The University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.
In the Spirit of Landscape V. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Artists in Maine. Hay Gallery. Portland, Maine.
Elogio de lo Visible, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. (essay by Fernando Huici) |
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1999 |
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The Chinati Paintings, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. -solo
Green Woods and Crystal Waters, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. (exh. cat.)
Darkness and Light, Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, West Virginia.Contemporary
American Realist Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. (exh. cat.) |
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1998 |
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Working Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York. -solo
Summer, Lennon,Weinberg, Inc., New York.
Beyond The Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Asheville Art Museum.
Tendences Actuelles de la Peinture a Houston, Texas, oeuvres sur papier, Musee de l¢ Echevinage, Santes, France (exh. cat. with artist’s statement).
Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington.
Malcolm Morley, Ellen Phelan, Rackstraw Downes. Suzanne Hillsbury Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996-97 Gallery Exhibitions, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Landscape, Seen & Unseen, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Traveling exhibition: Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
CityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. |
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1997 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York. (exh. cat., with essay by Hayden Herrera) -solo |
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1994 |
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Amherst College, Massachusetts. -solo |
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1992 |
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. -solo |
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1991 |
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Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. -solo |
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1988 |
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Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas. -solo |
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1987 |
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Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. (exh. cat.)-solo |
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1984 |
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Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. (exh. cat., with essay by John Yau)-solo |
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1980 |
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Kornblee Gallery, New York. -solo
Tatischeff & Company, New York. -solo |
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