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Emerson Woelffer (American, 1914-2003)
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Emerson Woelffer
A Bird for John 1981
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Emerson Woelffer
Day Sleep 1948
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Emerson Woelffer
Morning Earth 1955
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Emerson Woelffer
Sand and Sea 1957-1958
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Emerson Woelffer
Untitled 1999
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Emerson Woelffer
Young Crow 1956
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Biography |
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1914 |
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Born, Chicago, IL |
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1935 - 1937 |
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Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1938 |
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Joined WPA Arts Program |
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1949 |
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Moved to Yucatan, Mexico |
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1957 - 1959 |
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Moved to Forio d'Ischia Naples, Italy |
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1960 |
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Moved to Los Angeles, CA |
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1969 - 1973 |
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Teacher, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
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1984 |
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Pollock-Krasner Grant |
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1988 |
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Francis Greenberger Award, In conjunction with S.R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC |
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1974 - 1989 |
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Teacher, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
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1991 |
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Honorary Doctorate Degree, Otis Parsons Art Institute/New School of Social Research, Los Angeles, CA |
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2003 |
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Died in Los Angeles, CA |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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"Synchronies Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2007 |
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"Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection," UAM, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
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2007 |
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"The Structure of Improvisation," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2006 |
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"California Modern," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
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2005 |
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"Pairings II," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2005 |
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"Into the Unknown: Abstraction from the Collection," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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2004 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Life in the Abstract,' Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO (Retrospective Exhibition) |
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2003 |
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Emerson Woelffer, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Ed Ruscha (Retrospective Exhibition) |
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2003 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Poets and Other Figures,' Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2002 |
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Emerson Woelffer: The Real Thing/ Abstractions, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2002 |
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Black Mountain College, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
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2002 |
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The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collection, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT |
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1996 |
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'Art in Chicago, 1945-1995', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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1996 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Selected Works of a Career', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Fifty Years of Work', Hyundai Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
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1995 |
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'Assemblage & Collage', Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 |
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'Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century', Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 |
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'Trilogy: Three Approaches to Collage', Everts, Darrow, West Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA |
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1995 |
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'Air-Conditioned Abstraction', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1994 |
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'Works on Paper', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1993 |
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'Collage', Brian Gross Fine Art San Francisco, CA |
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1993 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Recent Paintings Inspired by 'Girl Before a Mirror'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1993 |
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'Emerson Woelffer', Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1992 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: A Modernist Odyssey', Otis Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
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1992 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Selected Paintings from Four Decades', Manny Silverman Gallery & James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1992 |
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'American Abstract Drawings: 1930-1987', Curated by Townsend Wolfe, The Art Gallery of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA |
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1991 |
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'Paradox', Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM |
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1990 |
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'Functionists High', American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1990 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Collages 1978-1982', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1987 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Recent Work', Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1986 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: Recent Collages', Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA |
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1984 |
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'Emerson Woelffer: New paintings', Gruenebaum Gallery, NYC |
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1978 |
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Emerson Woelffer: Paintings and Collages, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, (catalogue with introduction by Robert Motherwell) |
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1976 |
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Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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1975 |
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Woelffer: Recent Paintings, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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1974 |
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Emerson Woelffer, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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1974 |
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Emerson Woelffer: A Survey Exhibition, The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA |
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1970 |
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Emerson Woelffer: 1956-69, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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1968 |
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Woelffer 4Os, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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1964 |
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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1962 |
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Emerson Woelffer: Work from 1946 to 1962, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalogue with essay by Gerald Nordland) |
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1961 |
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La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, CA |
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1961 |
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Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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1960 |
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Emerson Woelffer, Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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1959 |
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Emerson Woelffer, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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1958 |
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Emerson Woelffer, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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1956 |
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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1953 |
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Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, MA |
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1952 |
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Lithographs by Emerson Woelffer, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1951 |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1951 |
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Tibor deNagy Gallery, New York, NY, April |
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1951 |
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Emerson Woelffer: Paintings 50-51, The Artist's Gallery, New York, NY |
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1950 |
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Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1950, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
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1949 |
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Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina |
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1949 |
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Emerson Woelffer, The Artist's Gallery, New York, NY |
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1946 |
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Woelffer: Drawings, Paintings, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL |
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