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Beatrice Mandelman (American, 1912-1998)
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Beatrice Mandelman
Brazil Dyptych #1 1989
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Beatrice Mandelman
Canyon (50-P65) 1959
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Beatrice Mandelman
Jazz II #1710 1987
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Beatrice Mandelman
Music No. 12 1/2 circa 1995
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Beatrice Mandelman
Music No. 19 1/2 circa 1995
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Beatrice Mandelman
Rendezvous #6 1987
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Biography |
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1912 |
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Born, Newark, NJ |
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1920 - 1925 |
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Evening classes at the School of Fine and Industrial Arts, Newark, NJ; she met Robert Jonas. Through Jonas, Mandelman became acquainted with Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and other members of the New York vanguard. |
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1930 - 1932 |
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New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
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1932 |
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Pursued certificate program at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Introduced to the concepts of Cubism and School of Paris by her teacher Bernard Gussow, a social realist painter. |
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1938 |
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Assistant in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Arts Project |
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1942 |
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Married Louis Ribak |
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1943 |
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Federal Art Project ended, eliminating Mandelman’s job in the Graphics Division. |
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1944 |
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Moved to Taos, NM at the suggestion of Ribak’s teacher John Sloan. During her time there she founded the Taos Valley Art School and helped found the Taos Art Association. |
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1948 - 1949 |
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Paris, France, studied with the French master Fernand Leger |
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1950 |
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Selected by regional jury, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, for Metropolitan Museum exhibition “American Art Today”
Purchase prize for Figure of Toy, Fourth New Mexico Exhibition of Prints and Drawings,Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe,NM |
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1952 |
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Taos Art Association was founded and the cooperative Stables Gallery was created. |
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1953 |
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Taos Valley Art School closed. Ribak and Mandelman made an extended visit to Mexico. |
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1956 |
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Ribak and Mandelman returned to Taos, giving up their New York dealers. |
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1959 |
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Ribak and Mandelman reopened the Ribak Gallery, in their Taos home, in June. |
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1961 |
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Purchase award for Dreams at Fourth Oakes’ Annual, Stables Gallery, Taos. |
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1979 |
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Louis Ribak died on December 21. |
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1998 |
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Died, Taos, NM |
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Exhibitions |
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2003 |
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“Taos Modern: Postwar Abstract Artists In New Mexico,” Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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2002 |
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“Taos Modernist - Beatrice Mandelman,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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2001 |
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“The Triumph of Bea Mandelman,” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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“Modernism,” Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY |
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1999 |
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One-artist show “Bea Mandelman: the 70s through 90s” Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1997 |
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“Taos Today - Contemporary Taos Artists>,” Arvada Center, Arvada, Colorado. |
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1996 |
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“Beatrice Mandelman: Prints from the 1930s,” University of Kentucky Art Museum, Kentucky |
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1995 |
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“The New Mexico Art Colony: Jewish Artists and Patrons 1875-1960,” Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver, Colorado. |
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1991 |
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“Prints from the Federal Art Project, 1935-1943” Associated American Artists Gallery, New York |
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1990 |
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“Albuquerque 50s,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“The Alcove Show – Life Stories,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
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1989 |
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One-artist show, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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1988 |
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One-artist show, “Bea Mandelman: Early Works - Recent Works,” Georgetown Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Beatrice Mandelman – Recent Work,” Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, NM |
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1985 |
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“Taos Modernist Art of the 1950s,”The Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico |
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1983 |
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One-artist show, “Intimate Echoes,” The New Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1981 |
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One-artist show, “Bea Mandelman - Moontime: Small Paintings, 1981,” The New Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1980 |
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One-artist show, Lutz-Bergerson Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1979 |
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Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts.NM |
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1977 |
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“Mandelman – New Work,” Kress – Sonora Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1975 |
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“Fiesta de Mujeres,” (Festival of Women), Williams Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM |
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1973 |
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One-artist show, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1972 |
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One-artist show, “Space Series,” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos, NM |
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1971 |
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Taos Art Association Ninth Annual Awards Show, Stables Gallery at Thorne House, Taos, NM |
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1970 |
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Southwest Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.
“All Women’s Art Exhibition,” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos, NM |
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1969 |
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One-artist show, “Images ’69” Gallery of Modern Art, Taos.
Fourteenth Annual Sun Carnival Art Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas |
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1968 |
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Taos Art Association Annual Awards Show, Stables Gallery, Taos, New Mexico |
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1966 |
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Original member of Group 7, experimental painters. Group 7 exhibited at the Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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1964 |
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One-artist show, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1963 |
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One-artist show, Galeria San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
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1962 |
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“The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX |
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1961 |
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Sixty-seventh Annual for Western Artists, Denver Art Museum, Denver, August.
One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM |
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1960 |
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One-artist show, The Mexican American Cultural Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
Second Annual Exhibition of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma
1960 Circle Invitational Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM |
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1959 |
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Southwestern Artists Biennial Exhibition, Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Second Painting Biennial, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina,
One -artist show, Taos Art Association, Stables Gallery |
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1958 |
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“Taos Now: Paintings and Sculpture from the Stables Gallery,” Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“1958 Taos Moderns” exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM |
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1957 |
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Two-artist show with Alfred Rogoway, Taos Art Association, Stables Gallery, NM and NY
Spiral Group 12th Annual Exhibition, Artist’s Gallery, New York, NY |
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1956 |
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Three-artist show with Edward Chavez and Byron Goto at John Heller Gallery, New York,NY
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Spiral Group Eleventh Annual Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
“Taos Moderns,” Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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1955 |
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Ribak and Mandelman held their first show at the Gallery Ribak in their home, with Agnes Martin. |
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1954 |
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“Fact and Fantasy ’54,” Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY |
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1952 |
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“Taos Painting, Yesterday and Today,” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM |
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1951 |
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One-artist show, Art Alliance, Santa Fe, NM |
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1950 |
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One-artist show, La Galeria Escondida, Taos, NM |
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1949 |
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Fifty-ninth Annual American Exhibition, “Watercolors and Drawings,” Art Institute of Chicago
One-artist show,"Paintings of Old Mexico by B. Mandelman," Blue Door Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1947 |
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“New Mexico Artists, ”Guadalupe Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“Modern Painting of the Southwest,” Blue Door Art Gallery, Taos, NM |
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1946 |
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“Paintings of the Year,” Pepsi Cola Company’s Third Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design |
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1944 |
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One-artist show, Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York. |
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1942 |
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Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York. |
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1941 |
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“Silk Screen Prints by New York Artists,” Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA
Watercolor Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
“Five Women, Five Painters, Five Methods,” A.C.A. Gallery, New York |
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1940 |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Seventh Annual Exhibition, Lithography and Wood Engraving
“Color Prints,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Fifty-first Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, the Art Institute of Chicago |
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1939 |
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“Exhibition - 99 Graphic Prints,” Federal Art Gallery, Federal Art Project, New York, |
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1934 |
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W.P.A. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with John Sloan, Willem de Kooning, Stuart Davis and Arshile Gorky. |
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