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Paul Jenkins Biography
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1923 |
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Born Kansas City, Missouri.
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1943 - 1945 |
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Services as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps.
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1948 - 1952 |
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Attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
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1948 - 1952 |
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Under the G.I. Bill, attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
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1953 |
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Discovers Jung's Psychology and Alchemy and the I Ching Book of Changes. Travels to Europe, to England, Italy, Spain and France. After a long stay in Taormina, begins to live and work in Paris.
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1955 |
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Returns to New York. From then on, shares his time between New York and Paris.
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1956 |
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John I. H. Baur buys Divining Rod for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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1956 |
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Peggy Guggenheim buys Osage from his exhibition at the Galerie Stadler in Paris.
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1959 - 1960 |
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Obtains a cold-water flat on East 12th Street in New York. Initiates titling his canvases Phenomena, followed by a key phrase or word, and begins to work in acrylic. Studies the writings of Kant and Goethe.
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1963 |
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Acquires his Broadway loft from Willem de Kooning where he works until December 2000.
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1964 |
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Filming of The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work, produced by Martha Jackson in New York. Works with Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai in Osaka, and travels in Japan visiting Ise. Works for several months in New Delhi.
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1966 |
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Travels to Russia and sees the icons of Andreiev Roublev in Zagorsk. The Ivory Knife is shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and receives the Golden Eagle Award in Venice.
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1967 |
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Awarded the silver medal in painting during the 30th Biennial of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His play, Strike the Puma, is produced Off-Broadway in New York.
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1968 |
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Makes a series of unique glass sculptures in Venice with Egidio Costantini.
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1971 |
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Sculpts a two-ton piece of French limestone at the Sculptors' Symposium at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.
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1973 |
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Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in New York publishes a monograph on his work, with text by Albert E. Elsen.
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1977 |
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Begins to work for several months in the Caribbean.
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1979 |
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During a long stay in the Caribbean, evidence of impasto begins to appear in the paintings.
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1980 |
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Begins construction of his sculpture Meditation Mandala in New Mexico. Named Officer of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France.
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1982 |
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Receives the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped [Very Special Arts].
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1983 |
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Named Commander of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France. Anatomy of a Cloud is published by Harry N. Abrams in New York
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1986 |
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Travels in Japan, visits Okayama to see the works of Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
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1987 |
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The Paris Opera presents his dance-drama, Shaman to the Prism Seen, with his painted decors.
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1988 |
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Travels to China to paint a decor for a performance at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for "The Return of Marco Polo,” and a series of banners for the Great Wall.
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1991 |
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Travels to Japan to attend the 10th anniversary of Tadashi Suzuki's theatre festival in Toga, and to Mito.
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1994 |
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His sculpture, Meditation Mandala Sundial is installed in the Hofstra Museum Sculpture Garden.
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1996 |
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Receives an honorary doctorate in humanities from Hofstra University.
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1997 |
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Elected to the National Academy, New York. Receives the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, together with the medal of the City of Paris.
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1998 |
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Elected an honorary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.
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2000 |
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Receives the Benjamin Clinedinst Medal from the Artists' Fellowship in New York.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta. Zurich
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2007
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Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
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2007
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Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
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2006
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Water and Color. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.
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2005
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Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille; Galleria Open Art, Prato; Redfern Gallery, London; Abbaye de Silvacane, La Roque d'Anthéron; Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
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2004
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Museo Civico, Assessorato alla Cultura di Pizzighettone.
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2003
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Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida; Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte; Redfern Gallery, London.
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2001
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Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bouvet-Ladubay, Saumur.
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2000
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The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida [retrospective, collages].
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1999
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Hofstra Museum, Hempstead; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Galerie Wild, Frankfurt; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris.
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1997
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The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Galerie Georges Fall, Paris; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
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1994
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Gallery Art Point, Tokyo. Inauguration of L'Eau et la Couleur, watercolor traveling exhibition in France; La Maison Française, New York University [collages: Homage to Jean-Louis Barrault], New York.
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1992
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Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich; Atelier Franck Bordas, Basel Art Fair and Paris; Associated American Artists, New York; Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos.
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1990
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Castello Doria, Portovenere; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris; Gallery Art Point, Tokyo.
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1988
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Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York [collages]; Galerie Régis Dorval, Le Touquet; Gana Gallery, Seoul; Galleria La Loggia, Bologna.
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1986
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Gimpel Fils, London; MR Galleria d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome; Galerie Michel Delorme, Paris; Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich; Gallery Art Point, Tokyo; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown [collages]; Focus Gallery, Lausanne; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Sante Fe and Scottsdale; Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.
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1984
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Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Dunkirk [collages]
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1981
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Palm Springs Desert Museum [retrospective], Palm Springs; I. Irving Feldman Galleries, Sarasota; Belk Art Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee; Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale; Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; French Cultural Services [collages: Homage to Jean-Louis Barrault], New York; Maison Internationale du Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris [collages]; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.
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1978
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Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe; Balcon des Arts, Paris; Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle.
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1976
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Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Basel Art Fair, Basel; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1974
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi [retrospective], Charleroi. Baukunst, Cologne; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio; Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale.
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1972
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San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco [retrospective]; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London; Abrams Original Editions, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [inauguration of traveling watercolor exhibition].
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1968
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Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris; Gallery Moos, Ltd., Toronto; Galerie Raber, Lucerne; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
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1964
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Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo; Court Gallery, Copenhagen; Kumar Gallery, New Delhi; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover [retrospective].
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1962
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Galerie Lienhard, Zurich; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles; Galleria Toninelli, Milan; Galleria Odyssia, Rome; Kunstverein, Cologne.
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1959
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Galerie Stadler, Paris.
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1956
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
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1954
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Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris; Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfort on the Main.
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| Literature |
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2003
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American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s, An Illustrated Survey. Edited by Marika Herskovic, New York School Press, New York/New Jersey.
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2002
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The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. Rizzoli International Publications, New York.
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2002
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Amerikanische Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Pinakothek der Moderne, Corinna Thierolf. Bayerischen Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich.
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1994
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Water and Color, text by Frank Anderson Trapp. PACA.
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1983
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Anatomy of a Cloud, Paul Jenkins and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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1973
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Paul Jenkins, monograph by Albert E. Elsen. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
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1971
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Paul Jenkins, by Gerald Nordland, acknowledgments by Philippe de Montebello. Universe Books, New York, in cooperation with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
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