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Gertrude Barrer (1921-1997)
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Gertrude Barrer
Intruder in the City 1946
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Gertrude Barrer
Landscape #1/Paris Texas 1948
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Gertrude Barrer
Mountain Winds II 1950
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Biography |
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Gertrude Barrer was a co-founder and art editor of Iconograph, an avant-garde art/literary magazine that was influential to both the Abstract Expressionist movement and the Indian Space movement. The artist was also an active member of SPIRAL, an association of American Abstract painters who exhibited together throughout the 1950s and 60s. |
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Exhibitions |
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2001 |
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Gary Snyder Fine Arts, Abstract Expressionism Expanding the Canon, NYC |
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2001 |
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Washington Art Association Gallery, Gertrude Barrer- Edward Renouf: Different Paths from Common, A Retrospective, Washington, CT |
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2001 |
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The Silo, Four Modern Masters, New Milford, CT |
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2001 |
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David Findlay Jr Fine Art, American Modernism, NYC |
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2000 |
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David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Native American Influences on 1930s & 1940s Modernists, NYC |
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1999 |
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Monique Goldstrum, Surrelism Show, 1910-1999, Part II, NYC |
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1998 |
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David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Unknown Talent: Women Abstractionists of the 30s, 40s and 50s, NYC |
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1998 |
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Monique Goldstrum, Surrelism Show, 1910-1999, Part I, NYC |
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1998 |
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Minor Memorial Library Gallery, Gertrude Barrer Memorial Retrospective, Roxbury, CT |
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1996 |
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Snyder Fine Arts, Wheeler, Barrer, Barrell, NYC |
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1992 |
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Berman/Daferner, Gertrude Barrer: Indian Space and Beyond, NYC |
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1991 |
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Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, The Indian Space Painters, NYC |
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1962 |
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Farleigh-Dickenson University, joint show with husband Frank Russell, LIC, NY |
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1961 |
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Hudson River Museum, NYC (Spiral group show) |
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1960 |
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Mattatuck Museum, joint show with husband Frank Russell, LIC, NY |
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1960 |
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Artists Gallery, (Spiral group shows), NYC |
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1959 |
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NYC-based traveling museum show, American Abstract Artists, throughout |
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1958 |
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Riverside Museum, NYC, (Spiral group show) |
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1957 |
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Riverside Museum, NYC, (Spiral group show) |
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1957 |
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Whitney Museum, Modern Abstract Art, traveling show, NYC |
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1957 |
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Brown University, Providence, RI |
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1956 |
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Artist’s Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions) |
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1956 |
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Art Gallery, Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME |
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1956 |
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New York University, NYC |
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1956 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum Annuals, NYC |
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1952 |
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Artists Gallery, (Spiral group shows), NYC |
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1952 |
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Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL |
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1952 |
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 9 (solo exhibition) (this show opened the contemporary gallery space at the museum.) |
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1952 |
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Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA |
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1951 |
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Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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1951 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum Annuals, NYC |
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1951 |
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Riverside Museum, NYC, (Spiral group show) |
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1951 |
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Artist’s Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions) |
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1950 |
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Artists Gallery, (Spiral group shows), NYC |
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1950 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum Annuals, NYC |
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1950 |
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Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL |
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1950 |
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Kootz Gallery, Clement Greenberg/Meyer Shapiro’s “Talent of 1950”, NYC |
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1950 |
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Jessup Memorial Museum, Bar Harbor, ME |
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1948 |
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Artists Gallery, (Spiral group shows), NYC |
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1947 |
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Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA |
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1947 |
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Philadelphia Museum Annual, Philadelphia, PA |
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1947 |
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Brooklyn Museum International, Brooklyn, NY |
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1947 |
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Galerie Neuf, NYC (Solo exhibition) |
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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University of Maine, Orono, ME |
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Faleigh Dickenson University, Long Island City, NY |
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Bar Harbor Historic Society Museum, Jessup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, ME |
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The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Lorgan, Utah |
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, 1994, Salt Lake City, Utah |
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The United Nations Chapel, NYC, 1979 |
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The Cathedral at Cologne, Cologne, Germany |
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The Vatican, Rome, Italy |
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Literature |
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Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde, by Jackson Rushing, pp. 137-141, illus. p. 139, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 1995 |
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New York Times, July 31, 1992, review of Berman-Daferner one-woman show, by H. Cotter |
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The New Yorker, Aug 3, 1993 review, Berman-Daferner Gallery one-woman show p. 10 |
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New York Times, review of Baruch Indian Space show, by Roberta Smith |
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Periodicals of Abstract Expressionism, Ann Gibson, UMI Research Press, 1990 |
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Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940’s, by Michael Leja, pp. 106-108, illus. p. 108, Yale University Press, 1993 |
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Rev. Housatonic Publications, Arts and Entertainment section, April 2001, New Milford, CT |
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Voices, Gallery Section, “Barrer Work Focus of Exhibit, Sale”, by Miriam Schlicht, June 1998, Woodbury, CT |
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Waterbury Republican-American, “The Art and Life of Gertrude Barrer”, pp.8-9, illus., June 1998 |
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American Art, “New Approaches to Art History” by Ann Gibson, pp. 2-5, illus. p. 3, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1993 |
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Arrogant Purpose: Collected Essays and Criticisms, Volume II, 1945-1949, by Clement Greenberg, Essay #54, pp. 131-132. John O’Brien, Editor. University of Chicago Press, 1988 |
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Arts and Antiques, magazine, January issue, review, “Indian Space”, group show at Snyder Fine Arts October 1992, by D. Pinchbeck, p. 86 |
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Art in America magazine, February 1992 issue, “Native Abstractions”, by Lawrence Campbell, article reviewing Baruch Indian Space exhibit, pp. 98-103, illus. p. 100 |
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Art in America magazine, January 1993 issue, review of May 1992 one-woman show at Berman-Daferner, by L. Campbell, pp. 106-107 |
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Arts Magazine, “Painting Outside the Paradigm: Indian Space”, Ann Gibson, Prof. of Modern Art, Yale University, February 1983 issue |
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Arts Magazine, Review of Indian Space group show at Sidney Mishkin Gallery, March 1992 issue, p.83 |
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A Cultural History of Abstract Expressionism, Ann Gibson, Yale University, 1996 |
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Good Living Supplement, Housatonic Publications, “Artistic Zeniths”, by Jaime Ferris, pp.6-7, illus, Aug. 10, 2001 New Milford, CT |
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The Indian Space Painters: Native American Source for American Abstract Art, catalogue for College exhibition at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, by Barbara Hollister, Sandra Kraskin, Nov. 1991 |
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