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Lee Bontecou Biography
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1931 |
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January 15. Born in Providence, Rhode Island. Raised in New York and Nova Scotia
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1954 |
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Spends summer at the Skowhegan School, Maine
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1952 - 1955 |
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Studies at the Art Students League, New York City, with William Zorach (1887–1966), as well as Morris Kantor (1896–1974) and Robert Brackman (1898–1980). Receives a Merit Scholarship (1954–55) and a Ball Grant (1955–56) [Note: the Ball Grant was funded by something called the Dream Ball, aimed at raising funds for scholarships. On page 18 of the 1955-56 Art Students League catalogue it states: “Scholarships resulting from the Scholarship Ball entitled “The Dream Ball” are granted annually by the Board of Control upon thorough investigation of the financial need, serious intent and potential talent of the applicant. They are available only to those who been cash-paying students at the League for at least three months on a five-day-a week basis prior to application."
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1956 |
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Fulbright Scholarship, Rome
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1956 - 1957 |
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Lives in Rome, on a Fulbright Fellowship
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1958 |
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Returns to New York, moves into a lower East Side loft on Avenue C
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1959 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
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1960 |
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Forms a personal acquaintanceship with Joseph Cornell
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1960 |
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Mademoiselle Woman of the Year
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1962 |
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By 1962 she moves to a studio on Wooster Street, New York City
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1963 |
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2nd Prize, 28th Biennial of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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1964 |
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New York State Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
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1965 |
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She begins living with William Giles, her husband, on Greene Street, but continues to work at her Wooster Street studio
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1966 |
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First Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
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1970 |
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Joins the faculty of Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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1991 |
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Retires from teaching
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2003 |
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Francis J. Greenburger Award
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2004 |
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Elected to the American Academy of Arts and LettersThe Skowhegan Medal for SculptureHonorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, City University of New York
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2005 |
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International Association of Art Critics award for best monographic exhibition in a national museum is awarded to Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective co-organized with the UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles. UCLA Hammer Museum (2003).
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2007 |
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Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Lee Bontecou lives and works in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007 - 2008
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Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, October 1, 2007–March 7, 2008.
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2007
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Knoedler & Company, New York:Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings, March 15–April 28. Catalogue with text by Elisabeth Sussman. (solo)
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2006
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Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 11–June 4.
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2005
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Organic Abstraction: Homage to Ruth Duckworth at 85, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, January 11–February 26, 2005.
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2005
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2-D from 3-D: Contemporary and Historical Drawings by Sculptors, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, October 6 – November 23, 2005.
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2005
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Part Object, Part Sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 30, 2005–February 26, 2006. Catalogue with text by Helen Molesworth (exhibition curator), Briony Fer, Rachel Haidu, David Joselit, Rosalind E. Krauss, and Molly Nesbit.
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2005
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Knoedler & Company, New York:Lee Bontecou: Selected Works, Gallery Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, October 11–22, 2005. (solo)
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2004
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Knoedler & Company, New York, NY:Lee Bontecou: Drawings 1958–1999, May 6–July 30 (extended through August 11). Catalogue. (solo)
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2004
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX:The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures, September 21, 2003–January 4, 2004. John Elderfield, Visions of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art, published on the occasion of the exhibition.
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2004
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American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY:Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, May 19–June 20, 2004.
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2004
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:54th Carnegie International 2004–5 , including a monographic exhibition of works Lee Bontecou. October 9, 2004–March 20, 2005. Catalogue with essay by Elizabeth A.T. Smith.
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2003
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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence:Crisis Response, November 8, 2002–January 12, 2003
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2003
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH:Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, October 26, 2003–January 1, 2004. Catalogue with essays by Agnes Gund and Arabella Ogilvie-Makari.
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2003
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago:Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, co-organized with the UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles. UCLA Hammer Museum, October 5, 2003–January 11, 2004; traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 14–May 30, 2004, and thence to The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, NY, July 28–September 27, 2004. Elizabeth A.T. Smith, curator, with Ann Philbin. Catalogue with essays by: Donna De Salvo, Mona Hadler, Donald Judd, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, and Robert Storr. (solo)
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2002
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Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California:True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, March 2–May 19, 2002, traveling.
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2002
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Leo Castelli Gallery, New York:Vertigo, April 26–June 7.
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2001
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Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York:Personal Abstractions: Lee Bontecou, Gay Outlaw, Diana Cooper, January 9–February 24.
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2001
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Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles:Lee Bontecou: Drawings, 1962–1998 (solo)
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2000
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Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York:Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, May 14–August 27, 2000
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2000
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Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California:Sculpture by Richard Artschwager, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain
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1999
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Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York:Drawing from the 60s & 70s: Joe Baer, Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse, and Agnes Martin, April 30–May 29, 1999.
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1999
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York:The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000
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1999
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Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York:Lee Bontecou, 1958–1972, October 21–November 24. (solo)
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1999
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The American Century : Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, April 1999- March 2000
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1999
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Lee Bontecou 1958 - 1972, Leo Castelli, 59 East 79th Street, N.Y.C October 21 - November 24th, 1991
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1998
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The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock:Twentieth Century American Drawings From the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, February 13-March15, 1998. Traveling to: Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV, September 6-November 8, 1998; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, December 11, 1998-January 30, 1999; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, February 21-April 18, 1999; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, May 16-July 11, 1999; Boise Art Museum, ID, August 8-October 17, 1999; Mobile Museum of Art, AL, November 7, 1999-January 9, 2000; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, January 30-March 26, 2000; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, April 23-June 19, 2000; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, July 16-September 10, 2000; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI, October 15-December 31, 2000. Catalogue with text by Gerald Nordland, et al.
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1996
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY:Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy: Hannelore Baron, Lee Bontecou, Nancy Grossman, Eve Peri, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Lenore Tawney, June 13–September 3, 1996.
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1996
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Weatherspoon Arts Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greenboro:From a Curator’s Point of View: Making Selections and Forging Connections—Bontecou, Hesse, Judd, LeWitt, Marden, Morris, Smithson. Catalogue with essay by Douglas Dreishpoon.
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1996
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasNational Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California:Kingdom of Flora
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1996
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PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York:‘50/50: Fifty Artists from Fifty Years of Skowhegan (Anniversary Exhibition & Raffle).
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1996
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Reliefs 1959-'60, Bonnefanten Museum of Maastricht, Holland, September 12, 1995-February 4, 1996
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1995
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Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California:Lee Bontecou: Early Drawings (solo)
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1995
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Bonnefanten Museum of Maastricht, Holland:Lee Bontecou: Reliefs, 1959–60, September 12, 1995-April 4, 1996 (solo)
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1994
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Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, California:Fine Lines
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1994
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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick:Printmaking in America: Collaborative Presses and Prints, 1960–1990The Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
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1994
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James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California:Animal Farm
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1994
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Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York:Bontecou, Higgins, Moskowitz — Work From the 1960s
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1994
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Jay Gorney Modern Art, New YorkAkron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio:Selections from the Collection
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1993
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York:The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptors’ Drawings
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1993
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California:Lee Bontecou: Sculpture and Drawings of the 1960s, March 28–May 16. Traveled to: Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, September 19–November 14; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 2–February 27, 1994. (solo)
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1993
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Sculpture and Drawings of the 1960's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, March 28 - May 16
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1993
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Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, September 19- November 14
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1991
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Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts:Smith Collects Contemporary, May 3–September 15.
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1987
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Centro Cultural Arts Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico:Leo Castelli and His Artists: 30 Years of Promoting Contemporary ArtMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas:20th Century Art in the Museum Collections; Direction and Diversity
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1987
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Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island:Alternative Supports: Contemporary Sculpture on the Wall
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1986
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Sculpture Center, New York, New York:The Sculptural Membrane, catalogue
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1986
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Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island:Definitive Statements: American Art 1964–66
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1984
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Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, New York:Socialites and Satellites
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1984
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Whitney Museum, New York: The Third Dimension, traveling to: Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California:
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1984
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Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts:Dorthy C. Miller: With an Eye to American Art
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1984
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The Third Dimension, Whitney Museum, New York, New York, December 6, 1984 - March 3, 1985; travels to: FortWorth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, May 12, 1985- July 21, 1985; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, August 21, 1985 - October 17, 1985; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, November 7, 1985 -January 6, 1986
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1983
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Seigel Contemporary Art, New York:Nocturne
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1982
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La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California:Castelli and His Artists: Twenty-Five Years, traveling to: Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, Colorado; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
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1982
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Contemporary Art Museum, Austin, Texas:The Americans: Collage 1950–82
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1982
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Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York:Universal Limited Art Editions: A Tribute to Tatyana Grosman
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1982
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Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, New York:Women’s Art: Miles Apart, traveling to: Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida
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1982
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Universal Limited Art Editions: A Tribute to Tatyana Grosman, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, New York, August 3 - September 28
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1981
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Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California:Selections from Castelli,
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1981
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Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut:The New Dimensions in Drawing
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1981
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The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, New York:Heresies, ULAE: Works by Lee Bontecou, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Alexander Liberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, and Andre Voznesenski, June 9–13, 1981.
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1980
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Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California:Ed Ruscha, Billy Bengston, Edward Kienholz, Lee Bontecou, Ed Moses, Craig Kauffman — Paintings
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1980
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Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, New York: The Eclectic Mood in Black
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1980
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Tyler Museum of Art, Texas:New York Collection Portfolio
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1980
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Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland:Reliefs
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