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William Austin Kienbusch (American, 1914-1980)
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William Austin Kienbusch
Gong Buoy Into Islands 1962
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William Austin Kienbusch
Night Field, Winter #2 1964
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William Austin Kienbusch
The Factory and the River
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Biography |
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1914 |
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Born: New York, NY |
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1928 - 1932 |
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Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, studied with artist/teacher Robert Osborne |
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1934 |
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(Summer) Studied watercolor with Eliot O’Hara in Kennebunkport, Maine |
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1935 |
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(Summer) Studied watercolor with Eliot O’Hara in Kennebunkport, Maine |
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1936 |
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Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University |
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1936 - 1937 |
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Studied at The Art Students League, New York, NY |
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1937 - 1938 |
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Studied at the Académie Colarossi, Paris, France; begins freindship with Abraham Rattner; they have critique sessions |
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1940 - 1942 |
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Spent Summers painting in Maine
Studied with Stuart Davis at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Studied with Anton Refregier at the American Artists School, New York, NY |
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1942 |
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Enlisted in the US Army; becomes a Sgt. Like Gorky, he teaches camouflage |
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1946 |
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Stationed in Guam; completed a mural for the Army Recreation Center.
Returned to Maine and began to develop his new style of painting |
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1950 |
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Spent Summers in Maine |
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1962 |
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Spent Summers for the rest of his life on Great Cranberry Island in Maine where he purchased a house |
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1948 - 1969 |
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Instructor, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY |
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1969 |
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Fire at his Greenwich Avenue, NY Studio; Moves to E. 80th St. , New York, NY |
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1980 |
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Died: New York, NY |
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Honors & Awards
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Drawing Prize from the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1952 |
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First Prize for Drawing , the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1952 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship (enabled travel and study in Greece), 1959 |
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Artist-in-residence, University of Maine, 1968 |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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‘Modern and Postwar American Art,’ Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL (group)
'Art of the Cranberry Isles," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR |
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2007 |
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‘Maine Modern Two,” ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA (group) |
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2006 |
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"1966-2006," Frost Gully Gallery, Freeport, ME (group) |
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2005 |
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‘The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection of Maine Art,’ University of Maine Museum of Arts, UMMA, Bangor, ME (group) |
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2001 |
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Frost Gully Gallery, Freeport, ME (group) |
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1997 |
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'Off the Wall,' Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA (group) |
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1996 |
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'William Kienbusch: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1946-1979,' Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME (solo) |
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1992 |
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'Art of Maine,' Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ (group) |
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1981 |
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'William Kienbsuch,' The Art Museum, Pinceton University, Princeton, NJ and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (solo) |
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1953 - 1973 |
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Participates in the Whitney Museum Annuals |
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1950 - 1970 |
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Active member of ‘The Club’(loft at 39 East Eighth Street) and was influenced by member tenets (Dove, Hartley and Marin remained true influences)
Exhibited at the Annuals of The University of Nebraska, University of Illinois, Toledo Museum, and Brooklyn Museum |
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1963 |
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Colby College, Waterville, ME
Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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1962 |
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Solo Exhibition, Princeton University, NJ
The Tokyo International Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan(group) |
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1961 |
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Tanager Gallery (group) |
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1960 |
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St Louis City Art Museum, St Louis, MO (group)
Art Institute of Chicago(group)
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC(group) |
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1959 |
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (group) |
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1958 |
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‘Nature in Abstraction’ (group), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1957 |
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‘Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Houston,’ Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, TX |
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1956 |
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‘Abstract Expressionism Annual’, Stable Gallery, New York, NY |
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1955 |
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‘The New Decade’, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1954 |
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Two-Person Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA |
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1949 |
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First exhibition at Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY There would be nine more Kraushaar exhibitions. |
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