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Paul Jenkins   (American, 1923) 

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Paul Jenkins, Eric Hand
Paul Jenkins
Eric Hand
International Fine Art
Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Violet Contour
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Violet Contour
1966

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc
Paul Jenkins, Phenomenon His Domain
Paul Jenkins
Phenomenon His Domain
1966

Portrush Group, LLC
Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Drape the Shadow
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Drape the Shadow
1995

Robert Green Fine Arts
Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Nile Enigma
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Nile Enigma
1971

Robert Green Fine Arts
Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Lasting Light Break
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Lasting Light Break
1994

Robert Green Fine Arts

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Paul Jenkins, Harpoon
Paul Jenkins
Harpoon, 1957
Sold: Jun 30, 2008
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Paul Jenkins, PHENOMENA MAIZE BRINGER
Paul Jenkins
PHENOMENA MAIZE BRINGER, 1960
Sold: May 7, 1990
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Paul Jenkins, Phenomena - Heaven under
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena - Heaven under, 1961
Sold: Feb 1, 2007
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1923   Born Kansas City, Missouri.
1943 - 1945   Services as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps.
1948 - 1952   Attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
1948 - 1952   Under the G.I. Bill, attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
1953   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.
1955   Returns to New York. From then on, shares his time between New York and Paris.
1956   John I. H. Baur buys Divining Rod for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
1956   Peggy Guggenheim buys Osage from his exhibition at the Galerie Stadler in Paris.
1959 - 1960   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.
1963   Acquires his Broadway loft from Willem de Kooning where he works until December 2000.
1964   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.
1966   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.
1967   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.
1968   Makes a series of unique glass sculptures in Venice with Egidio Costantini.
1971   Sculpts a two-ton piece of French limestone at the Sculptors' Symposium at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.
1973   Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in New York publishes a monograph on his work, with text by Albert E. Elsen.
1977   Begins to work for several months in the Caribbean.
1979   During a long stay in the Caribbean, evidence of impasto begins to appear in the paintings.
1980   Begins construction of his sculpture Meditation Mandala in New Mexico. Named Officer of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France.
1982   Receives the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped [Very Special Arts].
1983   Named Commander of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France. Anatomy of a Cloud is published by Harry N. Abrams in New York
1986   Travels in Japan, visits Okayama to see the works of Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
1987   The Paris Opera presents his dance-drama, Shaman to the Prism Seen, with his painted decors.
1988   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.
1991   Travels to Japan to attend the 10th anniversary of Tadashi Suzuki's theatre festival in Toga, and to Mito.
1994   His sculpture, Meditation Mandala Sundial is installed in the Hofstra Museum Sculpture Garden.
1996   Receives an honorary doctorate in humanities from Hofstra University.
1997   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.
1998   Elected an honorary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.
2000   Receives the Benjamin Clinedinst Medal from the Artists' Fellowship in New York.
2001   Travels to Kyoto.
2008   Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta. Zurich
2007   Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
2007   Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
2006   Water and Color. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.
2005   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.
2004   Museo Civico, Assessorato alla Cultura di Pizzighettone.
2003   Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida; Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte; Redfern Gallery, London.
2001   Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bouvet-Ladubay, Saumur.
2000   The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida [retrospective, collages].
1999   Hofstra Museum, Hempstead; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Galerie Wild, Frankfurt; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris.
1997   The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Galerie Georges Fall, Paris; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
1994   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.
1992   Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich; Atelier Franck Bordas, Basel Art Fair and Paris; Associated American Artists, New York; Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos.
1990   Castello Doria, Portovenere; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris; Gallery Art Point, Tokyo.
1988   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.
1986   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.
1984   Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Dunkirk [collages]
1981   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.
1978   Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe; Balcon des Arts, Paris; Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle.
1976   Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Basel Art Fair, Basel; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1974   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.
1972   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].
1968   Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris; Gallery Moos, Ltd., Toronto; Galerie Raber, Lucerne; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
1964   Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo; Court Gallery, Copenhagen; Kumar Gallery, New Delhi; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover [retrospective].
1962   Galerie Lienhard, Zurich; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles; Galleria Toninelli, Milan; Galleria Odyssia, Rome; Kunstverein, Cologne.
1959   Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1956   Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
1954   Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris; Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfort on the Main.
2003    American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s, An Illustrated Survey. Edited by Marika Herskovic, New York School Press, New York/New Jersey.
2002    The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. Rizzoli International Publications, New York.
2002    Amerikanische Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Pinakothek der Moderne, Corinna Thierolf. Bayerischen Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich.
1994    Water and Color, text by Frank Anderson Trapp. PACA.
1983    Anatomy of a Cloud, Paul Jenkins and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1973    Paul Jenkins, monograph by Albert E. Elsen. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
1971    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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