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Louis Schanker (American, 1903-1981)
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Louis Schanker
Untitled circa 1940
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Biography |
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1903 |
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Born: Bronx, NY |
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1918 |
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Quit school and joined the Sparks Circus in Macon, Georgia, then the Barnum and Bailey Circus and travelled through the USA |
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1919 |
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Studied: Cooper Union, New York, NY |
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1919 |
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Studied: Art Students League (with Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery), New York, NY |
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1919 |
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Studied: Educational Alliance, New York, NY |
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1919 |
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Shared a coldwater studio on East Broadway in New York with the Soyer brothers, Chaim Gross and Adolph Gottlieb |
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1931 - 1932 |
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Studied: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France |
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1933 - 1934 |
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Relocated to Palencia, Mallorca, Spain (visited Madrid, Toledo, and Barcelona) |
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1933 - 1934 |
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Public Works Administration Project, PWAP, Washington, DC |
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1935 |
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Became a member of "The Ten" [Whitney Dissenters, with Ilya Bolotowsky, Jack Kufeld, Ben-Zion, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Joe Solomon, Tschacbasov, Lou Harris, and Ralph Rosenborg], New York, NY |
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1935 |
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Studied Woodcuts with Werner Drewes, New York, NY |
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1937 |
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Founding Member, American Abstract Artists, New York, NY |
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1937 |
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Commissioned casein wax mural: WNYC radio station, New York, NY |
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1939 |
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Commissioned mural, New York World's Fair(Science and Health building), New York, NY |
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1938 - 1941 |
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Graphic Arts Supervisor (Murals Division) for the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project, New York, NY |
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1938 - 1941 |
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Member, the Mural Painters Guild, New York, NY |
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1942 - 1943 |
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Instructor, New School of Social Research, New York, NY |
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1959 |
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Instructor, Walker Art Centre, University of Minnesota |
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1963 |
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Sabbatical from Bard and returned to Europe: Toledo, Spain, Rome and Sicily, Greece |
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1949 - 1964 |
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Instructor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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1981 |
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Died: New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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1978 |
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Retrospective Exhibition, Associated American Artists, New York, NY |
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1974 |
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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1959 |
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Walker Art Centre(solo), University of Minnesota |
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1943 |
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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1937 |
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American Abstract Artists' (AAA) first annual exhibition, New York, NY |
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1936 |
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Gallery Secession, New York, NY |
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1936 |
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Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1935 |
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Montrose Gallery, New York, NY |
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1933 |
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Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY (first solo exhibition) |
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1933 |
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Art Centre Gallery, New York, NY |
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1933 |
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Bibliotheque Nationale(solo), Madrid, Spain |
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1930 |
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Marie Harriman Gallery(group), New York, NY |
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1929 |
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Marie Harriman Gallery(group), New York, NY |
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1927 |
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Woodstock, NY |
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1922 |
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Anderson Galleries on 57th Street and Park Avenue, New York, NY |
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1922 |
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The Morton Gallery, New York, NY |
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Literature |
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Literature Oral history interview with Louis Schanker, [circa 1963], Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
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Peter Hasting Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art |
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