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John Button    (American, 1929-1982)

 John Button - Lifeguard with Skywriting (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 20 x w: 14 in / h: 50.8 x w: 35.6 cm
John Button
Lifeguard with Skywriting 1977
 
 John Button - Untitled (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 16.8 x w: 13.8 in / h: 42.7 x w: 35.1 cm
John Button
Untitled 1956
 
 

Biography
Prize, Silvermine Guild of Artists Norwalk, CT
Teaching, Graduate School of Fine Arts University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
Studies with Williard Cummings New York
Teaching, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Skowhegan, ME
Teaching, College of Art, Architecture & Planning Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
University of California Medical Center San Francisco
Studies with Howard Warshaw & Altina Barrett Beverly Hills, CA
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts New York
Died New York, NY
University of California Berkeley
Califorina School of Fine Arts San Francisco
Born San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions
1995 Mexico 1958, Fischbach Gallery New York
1994 - 1995 The City: New York Visions 1900-1995, ACA Galleries, Lizan-Tops Gallery East Hampton, NY
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, Okakyu Museum Japan
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, Kagoshima Dity Museum of Art Tokyo
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Japan
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, The Museum of Art Kintetsu, Osaka
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
1994 - 1995 New York Realism Past and Present, Tampa Museum of Art Tampa, FL
1994 - 1995 Male Desire, Mary Ryan Gallery New York
1993 The Collection: Porter's Circle, Parrish Art Museum Southampton, NY
1993 Excellence in Watercolor, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit, NJ
1992 Studies Enroute, Benton Gallery Southampton, NY
1991 John Button's New York, Fischbach Gallery New York
1991 John Button's New York, Fischbach Gallery New York
1989 - 1990 John Button: Retropective Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art Manchester, NJ
1989 - 1990 John Button: Retropective Exhibition, Stamford Museum and Nature Center Stamford, CT
1989 - 1990 John Button: Retropective Exhibition, Rahr-West Museum Manitowoc, WN
1989 - 1990 John Button: Retropective Exhibition, Utah Museum of Fine Arts Salt Lake City
1988 The Face of the Land, Southern Allleghenies Museum of Art Loretto, PA
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Maison Art Center Madison, WN
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Univ of Texas Austin
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern Univ Evanston, IL
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Akron Art Museum Akron, OH
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1985 - 1987 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park Lincoln, MA
1986 John Button: The Last Works, Fischbach Gallery New York
1985 - 1986 City Views: Panoramas to Particulars, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection Philadelphia, PA
1984 John Button: An American Painter, The College Gallery, Keane College Union, NJ
1984 John Button: Paintings and Gouaches, Visual Arts Museum School of Visual Arts, New York
1984 Art and Friendship: A Tribute to Fairfield Porter, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton, NY
1982 An Appreciation of Realism, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica, NY
1982 Contemporary Realist Painting: A Selection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1980 Fischbach Gallery
1979 New York Now, Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, AZ
1978 Fischbach Gallery New York
1976 A Selection of American Art: The Skowhegan School 1946-1976, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
1976 America 1976, , Dept of the Interior at the Cororan Gallery of Art Washington, DC
1963 - 1974 Kornblee Gallery New York
1973 The Male Nude, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra Universiy Hempstead, NY
1970 J.L. Hudson Gallery Detroit
1969 Contemporary Portraits, Museum of Modern Art New York
1968 Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie, New York
1967 Franklin Siden Gallery Detroit
1965 Eight Landscape Painters, The Int. Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York
1965 Eight Landscape Painters, Festival Dei Due Mondi Spoleto, Italy
1962 Selections from the Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art New York
1955 - 1959 Tibor de Nagy Gallery New York
1954/55 Stable Annual, Stable Gallery New York
1952 Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles
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