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Melville Price    (American, 1920-1970)

 Melville Price - Maze
Melville Price
Maze
 
 Melville Price - Untitled
Melville Price
Untitled 1959
 
 Melville Price - Untitled #245 (Maze Series) (Paintings) h: 24 x w: 36 in / h: 61 x w: 91.4 cm
Melville Price
Untitled #245 (Maze Series) 1950
 
 Melville Price - Winter Square
Melville Price
Winter Square
 
  

Biography
1920 Born, Kingston, NY
1939 Federal Art Project, WPA
Joseph Stella and Franz Kline become mentors
1936 - 1941 Studied at the Arts Students League, New York, NY; New School for Social Research, New York, NY; New York University, New York, NY
1942 Moved to Woodstock, NY
1946 Moved to New York, NY
1948 Makes breakthrough with "Maze Series" of paintings
1949 First Solo Exhibition
1951 Included in 9th St. Show
1950 - 1952 Taught at the Museum School, Philadelphia, PA
1962 Begins to show at Gallery Mayer, NY
1968 Lived in Spain for a year
1958 - 1970 Taught at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
1970 Dies, Tuscaloosa, AL

Exhibitions
2008 Abstraction: Summer 2008, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Melville Price, Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA
2000 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
1998 Melville Price, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1996 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
1978 Modern Painters at the Corcoran: Melville Price, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Melville Price: 1920-1970," Frame House Gallery, Inc., Louisville, KY
1974 Gallery 641, Washington, D.C.
1970 Melville Price: Retrospective, 1920-1970, Frame House Gallery and J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Ky
1968 Instituto De Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain
1961 - 1964 Fox Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ
1958 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1957 Penn State University, University Park, PA
1955 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1953 - 1955 Contemporary D Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ
1954 Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1948 - 1952 Lolas Gallery, New York, NY
Hugo Gallery, New York, NY
Bodley Gallery, New York, NY
1948 - 1952 Iolas Gallery, New York, NY; Charlie Egan Gallery, New York, NY; Bodley Gallery, New York, NY; Hugo Gallery, New York, NY
1951 Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
9th Street" Show, the first annual "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual", Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1950 Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
1949 Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
1943 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1942 Riverside Museum, New York, NY
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