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Alcopley (American, 1910-1992)
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Alcopley
Abstraction 1952
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Alcopley
Beyond 1979
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Alcopley
Departments 1957
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Alcopley
Equilibrium 1977
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Alcopley
Fall Nocturne 1952
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Alcopley
Mirrors 1961
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Biography |
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1910 |
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Born June 19, Germany |
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1935 |
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Studied Basel, Switzerland. MD: Heidelberg, Germany |
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1936 |
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MD: Basel, Switzerland |
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1930 - 1937 |
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Studied at the University fo Freiburg, Berlin, Germany |
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1937 |
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Moved to New York, NY |
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1938 |
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Studied Art and History of Art, Columbia University, New York, NY |
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1943 |
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Became a US citizen |
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1945 - 1947 |
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S.W. Hayter's Atelier 17, New York, NY |
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1972 |
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MD h.c.: Heidelberg, Germany |
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1992 |
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Died New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2006 |
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“Que la musique sonne: Auf den Spuren von Edgard Varese” Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland |
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2005 |
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“American Abstractionists. Part 1” David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York, NY, USA |
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2003 - 2004 |
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“Textiles: On or off the Wall: Selection of Tapestries and Carpets 1920s – 1970s” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
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2003 |
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“Modern American Art 1930-1975” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, USA |
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2002 |
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“500 Work on Paper 1922 –2002” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, USA |
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2001 |
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“Abstract Expressionism: Expanding the Canon” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, USA |
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2000 |
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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2000 |
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Gallery Rood, Eastport, NY, USA |
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1999 |
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Gallery Rood, Eastport, NY, USA |
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1996 |
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1993 |
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Art in General, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1990 |
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Galerie Le Temps de Voir, Maillot Pres Sens, France |
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1990 |
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Nyhofn Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo) |
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1989 |
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Galerie Meinikow, Heidelberg, Germany (solo) |
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1948 - 1989 |
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American Abstract Artists Annual Exhibitions, New York, NY, USA |
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1988 |
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Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo) |
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1987 |
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Galerie “Le Troisieme Oeil”, Bordeaux, France (solo) |
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1987 |
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“Eight New York Artists”, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1986 |
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Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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1986 |
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Bockley Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1986 |
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“USA American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Celebration 1936-1986”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
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1986 |
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“Terminal Kunst”, as part of “Ars Electronica, Festival fur Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft”, Linz, Austria |
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1985 |
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La Galeria Mer-Kup, Mexico City, Mexico |
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1983 - 1984 |
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Textielmuseum Hall of Fame (permanent installation), Tilburg, The Netherlands |
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1983 |
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA |
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1983 |
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Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, USA |
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1983 |
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“Six Artists”, Bologna-Landis Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA |
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1983 |
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Treffpunkt Kunst, Saarlouis, Germany |
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1983 |
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Galerie Suzanne Fischer, “Altes Dampfbad”, Baden-Baden,Germany (solo) |
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1982 |
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Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1982 |
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Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France |
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1982 |
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Treffpunkt Kunst, Saarlouis, Germany (solo) |
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1982 |
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Goethe Institute, Paris, France |
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1982 |
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Musee de la Ville de Bourges, France |
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1982 |
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Goethe Institute, London, UK |
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1982 |
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Goethe Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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1982 |
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“Abstraction: Ideas in Progress”, City Gallery at Columbus Circle, New York, NY, USA |
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1981 |
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Ashby Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1980 |
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“Treffpunkt Parnass 1949-1965”, von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany |
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1980 |
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Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany |
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1980 |
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College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA (solo) |
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1979 |
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Public Library, Port Washington, NY, USA (solo) |
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1979 |
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“The Language of Abstraction”, American Abstract Artists Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1978 |
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Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Koln, Germany (solo) |
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1978 |
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Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA (solo) |
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1977 |
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Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo) |
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1976 |
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Gallery Mudo, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1976 |
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Landmark Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1976 |
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“300 Artists to the Support of the NY Studio School. Exhibition of Drawings”, Grace Borgenicht, Leo Castelli, Xavier Fourcade Galleries, New York, NY, USA |
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1974 |
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Landmark Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1973 |
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University Art Gallery, University of Koln, Germany (solo) |
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1971 |
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“Art and Science”, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel |
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1969 |
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National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland |
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1969 |
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“Superlimited: Books, Boxes, Things”, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA |
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1969 |
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Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (solo) |
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1968 |
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University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, USA |
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1967 |
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Yamada Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo) |
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1967 |
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Goethe House, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1965 |
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Galerie Schueler, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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1964 |
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“Schrift und Bild”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1964 |
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“Die Kunst der Schrift”, Staatlicche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany |
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1964 |
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Byron Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1963 |
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Kaare Berntsen Gallery, Oslo, Norway (solo) |
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1963 |
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22nd International Watercolor Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA |
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1962 |
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American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition, “Wit and Whimsy in 20th Century Art” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA |
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1962 |
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1962 |
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Louis Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1962 |
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo) |
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1962 |
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Galerie van de Loo, Munich, Germany (solo) |
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1960 |
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Kyotofu Gallery, National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (solo) |
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1960 |
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Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1960 |
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Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK |
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1959 |
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Drian Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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1953 - 1959 |
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Annual exhibitions at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Salon de Mai, Comparaisons, Paris, France |
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1958 |
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Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA (solo) |
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1958 |
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Galerie van de Loo, Munich, Germany (solo) |
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1958 |
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“Ars Sacra ‘58”, International Exhibition of Stained Glass Windows at the Cathedral of Leuven, Belgium |
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1957 |
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Galerie Creuze, Paris, France |
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1957 |
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Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA |
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1957 |
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Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany (solo) |
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1957 |
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Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany (solo) |
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1957 |
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Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (solo) |
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1956 |
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Galerie St Laurent, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo) |
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1956 |
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Galerie Bing, Paris, France (solo) |
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1956 |
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Galerie d’Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo) |
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1956 |
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1956 |
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Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland |
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1955 |
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“Five Americans in Europe” Stedeljk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1955 |
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Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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1955 |
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Galerie Arnaud, Paris, France |
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1955 |
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Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France |
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1955 |
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Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France |
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1955 |
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Groupe Espace, Paris, France |
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1955 |
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“American and Japanese Abstract Artists” in 7 museums in Honolulu, HA, USA |
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1955 |
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American Cultural Centers of the US State Department, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1953 |
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Galerie di Segni, Nice, France |
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1953 |
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Centre Saint-Jacques, Paris, France |
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1953 |
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Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY, USA (solo) |
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1951 |
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“9th Street Show”, New York, NY |
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1951 |
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Leibniz College Art Gallery, Tubingen, Germany (solo) |
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1951 |
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Amerika Hauser (US State Department), Frankfurt-am-Main and Wiesbaden, Germany (solo) |
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1951 |
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Highfield Theater, Falmouth, MA, USA (solo) |
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1950 |
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Passedoit Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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1949 |
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Old Lecture Hall, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA (solo) |
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1948 |
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Galerie Bettie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland (solo) |
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1947 |
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New Jersey State Teacher’s College, Montclair, NJ, USA (solo) |
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1947 |
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Old Lecture Hall, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA (solo) |
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1946 |
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Ashby Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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Literature |
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Willard, C., ed., “Eye to I”, Art in America, March-April 1966. p.57. |
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Seuphor, M., Ecritures. Dessins d’ Alcopley, text in French by Michel Seuphor, drawings by Alcopley. Book design and typography by Dick Elffers, Amsterdam. Translation into English by Louise Varese, NY, and into German by Paul Ohime Tubingen. Published by Les Nourritures Terrestres, Paris, 1954. |
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Seuphor, M., Dictionaire de la peinture abstraite, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1957, p.19. |
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Seuphor, M., Abstract Painting. Fifty Years of Accomplishment from Kandinsky to the Present, Harry N. Abrams Inc., NY, 1962. |
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Seuphor, M., Ebauche d’une Erreur, a poem by Michel Seuphor with translation into drawings by Alcopley. Edition of 800. UNA Editions, NY, 1981. |
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Silberberg, A., ed., One Man Two Visions, L.Alcopley – A.L. Copley, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1993. |
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Spur, B., Ed., “Sigurjon Olafsson and His Sculptures”, yearbook 1986, Sigurjon Olafsson Museum, Reykjavik, pp.15-25. |
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Stevens, M., De Kooning: An American Master, Knoph, NY, 2004. |
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Tully, J., “Alcopley’s Varying Velocities”, L.Alcopley. The Late Works. UNA Editions, NY, 1993. |
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Tully, J., New Art City, Manhattan at Mid-Century., Knoph, NY, 2005. |
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Wehmeyer, G. and Alcopley, Edgard Varese, drawings by Alcopley. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensberg, 1977. |
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Grohmann, W., “Kunst an den Freiburger Universitatsbauten Alcopley”, Quadrum, Review Internationale d’Art Modeme, Bruxelles, 1960, No.9, pp.28-29. |
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Grohmann, W., Alcopley Voies et Traces, drawings by Alcopley, edition 140, numbered: (a) 1-75 with an original drawing, (b) I – LXV. Translation from German into French by Francois Mathey, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris; German to English by Joseph Freeman, NY. Published by R. Jahrling-Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1961. |
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Hartney, E., “L.Alcopley at Art in General”, Art in America, February 1994, pp. 101-102. |
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Ijima, T., “L’echange artistique entre l’Est et l’Ouest par l’intermediare de la calligraphie”, Bokubi 58, 1956, pp.6-12. |
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Ijima, T., “Science and Art”, Bokubi No. 16, July 1952, pp.2-4. |
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Ingolfsson, A., “Art in the Family”, Iceland Review, No.29, 1991, pp.41-44. |
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Kalow, G. and Alcopley, “Flugblatter (Flying Leaves)” , poems in German by Gert Kalow, drawings by Alcopley. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg, 1988. |
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Kiesler, F., Inside the Endless House, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1966, pp.566-569. |
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De Kooning, W., and Kline, F., “On Works of Mr. Alcopley”, Bokubi - Beauty of Black and White, No.16, Kyoto, July 1952, p.11. |
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Read, H., Concise History of Modern Painting, Thames & Hudson, London, 1959, p.286. |
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American Abstract Artists Anniversary Print Portfolio, with lithographs of 46 artists. Edition of 140 plus 10 artists’ proofs on Arches Vellum by Atelier Franck Bordes Lithographe, Paris. Published by American Abstract Artists, NY, 1987, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. |
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Amichai, Y., Jerusalem, portfolio of 6 lithographs with a poem in Hebrew by the Israeli poet Yahuda Amichai with translation by Ted Hughes. Burston Graphics Center of the Israel Museum; Artist’s Notebook No.8, Jerusalem, 1982, edition of 80. |
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Anon, Arts and Architecture, October 1955, p.13. |
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Anon, “Moment of Truth”, (the relationship between art and science, Alcopley and A.L.Copley), The Observer, London, Sunday, Jan. 30, 1966. |
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Anon, “ Alcopley Drawings”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Catalogue No. 65, (in Hebrew and English), 1969. |
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d’Arbeloft, N., An Artist’s Workbook: Line, Shape, Volume, Light, Studio Vista, London, 1969 and, van Nostrand-Reinhold Co., NY, 1969. |
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Blucher, H., Alcopley, Byron Gallery, NY, 1964. |
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Brase, S.E. and Alcopley, “Einsichten”, drawings by Alcopley to Poems by S.E. Brase, dedicated to Martin Heidegger on his 70th birthday, Eberhard Albert Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1959. |
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Cherry, H., Portfolio of reproductions of drawings, by Alcopley, Jim Bohary, Reuben Kadish, Kyle Morris, Richards Ruben, and Edvins Strautmanis, with text “ Six Artists”, by Herman Cherry, Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY, 1983. |
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Cherry, H. and Alcopley, Poems of Pain and Other Matters, poems by Herman Cherry, drawings by Alcopley, UNA Editions, NY, 1976. |
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