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June Leaf    (American, 1929)

 June Leaf - Bernetta (Paintings) h: 53 x w: 61 in / h: 134.6 x w: 154.9 cm
June Leaf
Bernetta 1988
 
 June Leaf - Brotherhood (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 11 x w: 8.5 in / h: 27.9 x w: 21.6 cm
June Leaf
Brotherhood circa 1980
 
 June Leaf - Buster Brown (Paintings) h: 21 x w: 20 x d: 9 in / h: 53.3 x w: 50.8 x d: 22.9 cm
June Leaf
Buster Brown 2006
 
 June Leaf - Coastal Landscape (Paintings) h: 48 x w: 48 in / h: 121.9 x w: 121.9 cm
June Leaf
Coastal Landscape 2006
 
 June Leaf - Green Scroll with Figures (Sculptures) h: 17.5 x w: 17 x d: 11.2 in / h: 44.4 x w: 43.2 x d: 28.4 cm
June Leaf
Green Scroll with Figures 2007
 
 June Leaf - Kneeling figure (Sculptures) h: 12 x w: 9 x d: 2 in / h: 30.5 x w: 22.9 x d: 5.1 cm
June Leaf
Kneeling figure 2006
 
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Biography
1929 Born: Chicago, IL
1947 - 1948 New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
1954 Institute of Design, Art Education, M.A.
1954 Roosevelt University, Art Education, B.A.
1958 - 1959 Fulbright Government Grant to Paris for painting
1978 Lippincott Art Fabricators Sculpture Commission
1978 Canada Council Grant for Painting
1984 Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, DePaul University
1984 Distinguished Artists Awards, Canadian Council
1983 - 1985 Canada Council Senior Grant
1986 Englehard Award
1989 National Endowment for the Arts in painting
1996 Honorary Degree, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Hallifax
1996 Alumni Award, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Exhibitions
2004 Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2004 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Drawings: Past and Present” (solo)
2004 “The Anxious Image,” (curated by Jimmy Wright) The Painting Center, New York, NY
2003 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 “Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (solo)
2001 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S. (solo)
2000 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina "Water"
1998 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY "Body Double"
1997 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1997 Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, June Leaf: Mining Mabou (solo)
1996 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL "Women Chicago Imagists" Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL "Women Chicgo Imagists"
1996 Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada,"Small As A Way Of Working"
1995 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York,“September Gallery Group”
1995 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, June Leaf: Prints 1952-1990 (solo)
1994 - 1995 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Winter Gallery Group Exhibition”
1994 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Waterworks”
1993 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Gallery Group Exhibition”
1992 Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, “Collector’s Choice - 1992”
1991 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
1991 Virginia Lust Gallery, New York, NY, Works on Paper, 1969-1970. (solo)
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"
1989 Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art", Travelled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, "Fantasist Realists", Travelling to: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Drawing: 1987"
1986 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper"
1985 Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada (solo)
1983 North Dakota Museum of Art, North Forks, ND (solo)
1983 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, "The Painterly Figure, Veteran Expressionist Figure Painters"Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada (solo)
1982 Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
1981 The Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, "Alternative
1981 Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1978 Young -Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1976 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1976 Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1975 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1974 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI, "Drawings by Contemporary American Artists"
1974 Madison Art Center, Madison WI (solo)
1973 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1973 Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Voices of Alarm"
1972 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1972 Gallery Bernard, Greenwich, CT (solo)
1970 Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1970 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Human Concern and Personal Torment"
1969 Reed College, Portland, OR (solo)
1968 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1966 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1965 Galerie Rue du Dragon, Paris, France
1954 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1952 Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
1951 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1951 Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1950 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1948 Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1948 Sam Bordelon Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL
The Singer Collection
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Marina City Bank, Chicago, IL
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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