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Melville Price Biography
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1939 |
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Federal Art Project, WPA
Joseph Stella and Franz Kline become mentors
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1936 - 1941 |
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Studied at the Arts Students League, New York, NY; New School for Social Research, New York, NY; New York University, New York, NY
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1942 |
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Moved to Woodstock, NY
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1946 |
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Moved to New York, NY
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1948 |
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Makes breakthrough with "Maze Series" of paintings
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1949 |
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First Solo Exhibition
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1951 |
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Included in 9th St. Show
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1950 - 1952 |
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Taught at the Museum School, Philadelphia, PA
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1962 |
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Begins to show at Gallery Mayer, NY
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1968 |
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Lived in Spain for a year
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1958 - 1970 |
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Taught at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
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1970 |
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Dies, Tuscaloosa, AL
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Abstraction: Summer 2008, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2007
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Melville Price, Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA
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2000
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Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
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1998
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Melville Price, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
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1996
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Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1978
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Modern Painters at the Corcoran: Melville Price, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Melville Price: 1920-1970," Frame House Gallery, Inc., Louisville, KY
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1974
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Gallery 641, Washington, D.C.
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1970
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Melville Price: Retrospective, 1920-1970, Frame House Gallery and J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Ky
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1968
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Instituto De Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain
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1961 - 1964
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Fox Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ
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1958
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University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
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1957
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Penn State University, University Park, PA
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1955
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Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1953 - 1955
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Contemporary D Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ
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1954
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Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1948 - 1952
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Lolas Gallery, New York, NY
Hugo Gallery, New York, NY
Bodley Gallery, New York, NY
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1948 - 1952
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Iolas Gallery, New York, NY; Charlie Egan Gallery, New York, NY; Bodley Gallery, New York, NY; Hugo Gallery, New York, NY
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1951
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Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
9th Street" Show, the first annual "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual", Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1950
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Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
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1949
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Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
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1943
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Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1942
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Riverside Museum, New York, NY
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