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Larry (Lawrence) Poons    (American, 1937)

 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Claudio (Paintings) h: 83 x w: 84.2 in / h: 210.8 x w: 213.9 cm
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Claudio 1981
 
 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Eclipt (Paintings) h: 38.2 x w: 103 in / h: 97 x w: 261.6 cm
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Eclipt 1987
 
 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Exhibition View
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Exhibition View
 
 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Invite
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Invite
 
 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Old Dominion (Paintings) h: 89.5 x w: 75.8 in / h: 227.3 x w: 192.5 cm
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Old Dominion 1980
 
 Larry (Lawrence) Poons - Untitled (Paintings) h: 27.5 x w: 21 in / h: 69.8 x w: 53.3 cm
Larry (Lawrence) Poons
Untitled 1975
 
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Biography
1937 Born: Tokyo, Japan
1957 Studied at the New England Conservatory of Music
1959 Studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
1966 Subject of film Manual of Arms, produced by Hollis Frampton
1968 Instructor, Bennington College, Bennington VT
1969 Visiting Faculty, New York Studio School, NY
1970 Subject of film with Frank Stella
1972 Instructor, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1976 Guest Lecturer, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1984 Subject of film Painters Painting: a contested history 1940-1970, produced by Emile di Antonio and Mitch Tuchman
1988 Francis J. Greenbruger Foundation Award.
1999 Subject of film documentary Larry Poons produced by ART/New York, NY
Lives in New York City, currently teaches at Art Students League, New York, NY

Exhibitions
2008 Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-75, Denver Art Museum, CO; travels to: Smithsonin American Art Museum, Washington, DC and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
"Painting: Now and Forever, Part II", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
"American Art Since 1945: In a New Light," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
2007 - 2008 "Larry Poons: Throw, Pour, Drip, Spill & Splash", Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007 "Larry Poons: Recent Paintings", Danese, New York, NY
"Larry Poons: New Paintings", Bernard Jacobson Graphics, London, UK (solo)
Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
"When Art Worlds Collide: The 60’s", Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Annual Instructors Exhibition, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
"Larry Poons: New Work", Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004 "Larry Poons: Five Decades", Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Suites From the Permanent Collection: The New York Collection for Stockholm", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2002 "Larry Poons: New Paintings", Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2001 "Larry Poons: New Paintings", Salander-O'Reilly Galleries. New York, NY (solo)
2000 Perilla Gallery, Johnstown, New York, NY (solo)
Theo Waddington Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Galeria Metta, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1998 "Places for Ray", Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
1997 "Larry Poons: Texas Canyon and Selected Paintings and Drawings", Larry Evans/James Willis and Fredrick Spratt Gallery, San Francisco, CA(solo)
"Art in Public", Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1996 Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA (solo)
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
1995 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
1994 "Speaking of Paint", Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
1993 University of Miami, FL (solo)
1992 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1991 "Larry Poons: Paintings 1971-1991", Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Beverly Hills, California(solo)
Gallery Afinsa, Madrid, Spain(solo)
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas(solo)
1990 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (solo)
"Larry Poons: Paintings, 1971-1991", Salander-O’Reillly Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
1989 Gallery One, Toronto, Canada (solo)
"Larry Poons: peintures 1976-1988", Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France (solo)
1988 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1986 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1985 Andre Emmerich Gallery. New York, NY (solo)
1984 Gallery One, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1983 Andre Emmerich Gallery. New York, NY (solo)
1982 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (solo)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Meredith Long & Co. , Houston, Texas (solo)
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada(solo)
1980 Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Galerie Artline, The Hague, Netherlands (solo)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bat Harbour Islands, Florida (solo)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Richard Hins Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1979 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Larry Poons paintings; Michael Steiner sculptures", Amerika Haus. Berlin, West Germany; Amerika Haus, Hanover, West Germany(solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas (solo)
1978 M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY(solo)
Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbour Islands, Florida (solo)
1977 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, NY(solo)
Watson/de Nagy, Houston, Texas (solo)
1976 David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, NY (solo)
1975 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland( solo)
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
1974 Knoedler Contemporary Art. New York, NY (solo)
"Larry Poons: recent paintings", Edmonton Art Gallery. Edmonton, Canada (solo)
1973 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
1972 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1971 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kasmin Ltd., London, UK (solo)
1970 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1968 Kasmin Ltd., London, UK (solo)
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1967 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1965 Green Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964 Green Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1963 Green Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Selecyed Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Museum. Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin, Ohio
American Federation of Arts, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
Bennington College. Bennington, Vermont
Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio
Denver Art Museum. Denver, Colorado
Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, Iowa
Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse, NY
Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC
IIndianapolis Museum Of Art. Indianapolis, Indiana
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). Los Angeles, California
Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston. Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Palm Springs Desert Museum. Palm Springs, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Waltham, Massachusetts
Santa Barbara Museum Of Art. Santa Barbara, California
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Van Abbemuseum. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Connecticut

Literature
2007 Ebony, David, preface, and Phyllis Tuchman, essay. Larry Poons. New York: Danese, 2007.
2004 Poons, Larry and David Ebony. Larry Poons: Five Decades. New York: Jacobson Howard Gallery, 2004
2001 Stella, Frank and David Carrier. Larry Poons: New Paintings. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 2001
1990 Robbins, Daniel. Larry Poons, Paintings 1963-1990. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1990
1989 Larry Poons: peintures 1976-1988. Paris, France: Galerie Montaigne, 1989
1983 Griffith, Laura Susan. Larry Poons and the Evolution of Stylistic Diametrics. Cleveland, Ohio: Department of Art History, Case Western Reserve University, 1983
1981 Moffett, Kenworth and Larry Poons. Larry Poons: paintings, 1971-1981. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981
1979 Poons, Larry and Michael Steiner. Larry Poons paintings; Michael Steiner sculptures. Berlin, Germany: Amerika-Haus Berlin, 1979
1974 Larry Poons:recent paintings. Edmonton, Canada: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1974
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