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William Baziotes Biography
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1912 |
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Born June 11 in Pittsburgh, PA
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1913 |
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Family moved to Reading, PA
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1931 |
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Employed by the Kase Glass Company
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1933 |
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Moved to New York City
Studied art at the National Academy of Design under artists such as Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll
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1933 - 1936 |
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Attended the National Academy of Design
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1936 |
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Hired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as a teacher at Queen's Museum
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1938 |
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Began WPA Easel Painting Project
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1941 |
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April 12, married Ethel Copstein
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1947 |
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Awarded the Walter M. Campana Memorial Purchase Prize by the Art Institute of Chicago
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1948 |
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Founded and taught at the Subject of the Artist art school, New York, NY
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1949 - 1952 |
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Taught painting at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and New York University
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1950 - 1952 |
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Taught at the People's Art Center for the Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
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1961 |
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Awarded the Frank Logan Medal by the Art Institute of Chicago
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1952 - 1963 |
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Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York, NY
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1963 |
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Died June 5, 1963 in New York, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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"Peggy Guggenheim e la Nuova Pittura Americana, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
"Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds," The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
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2007
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"Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism," Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
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2005
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"Ecole de New York: Expressionnisme Abstrait: oeuvres ur papier," Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France
"Informalismo y Expresionismo abstracto en las colecciones Guggenheim," Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo, Bilbao
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2004 - 2005
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"William Baziotes," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (solo exhibition)
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2004
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"Pioneering Spirits: Contemporary Art from Arizona Collections," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
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2002
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"Perspectives II: Five Decades of Seminal Work," Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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"William Baziotes: The Poetic Spirit," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo exhibition)
"Vital Forms: American Art in the Anatomic Age, 1940-1960," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
"Surrealism: An American Attitude," Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2000
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"Modern Odysseys, Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century," Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
"Art at Work: Forty Years fo the Chase Manhattan Collection," Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Expresionismo Abstracto," Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
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1999
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"Modern Odysseyes: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century," Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
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1996
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"Baziotes, Kamrowski and Pollock," Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
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1993
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"Expressive Heads," Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY
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1989
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"Abstract Expressionsim," Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1987
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"William Baziotes: A Commemorative Exhibition," Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL and Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (solo exhibition)
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1984
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"William Baziotes, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
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1982
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"In Our Time: Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948-1982," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1978
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"William Baziotes: A Retrospective," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY and Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (solo exhibition)
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1973
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"American Art at Mid-Century," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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1965
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
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1959
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"Documenta 2," Documenta, Kassel
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1957
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"The magical Worlds of Redon, Klee and Baziotes," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1956
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"Large Scale Paintings II," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1953
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Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Stable Gallery, New York, NY
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1952
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, OH
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1948
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"Recent Paintings by Baziotes," Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
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1944
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Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, New York, NY (first solo exhibition)
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1943
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Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, New York, NY
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1942
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"First Papers of Surrealism," Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York, NY
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1936
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Municipal Art Gallery, New York, NY
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