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Carl Robert Holty Biography
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1900 |
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Born June 12 in Freilburg, Germany, and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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1919 |
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Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
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1920 - 1921 |
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Studied at the National Academy of Design, New York
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1926 |
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Studied at the Hans Hoffman School, Munich, Germany
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1932 |
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Became a member of Abstraction-Creation, Paris France
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1926 - 1935 |
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Moved to Europe and traveled to Germany, Switzerland, France, North Africa and Hungary
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1939 |
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Taught at the Art Students League, New York
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1936 - 1944 |
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Member of American Abstract Artist, New York
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1948 - 1950 |
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Artist-in-Residence at the University of Georgia, Athens
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1950 |
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Taught at the Art Students League, New York
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1951 |
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Artist-in-Residence at the University of California at Berkeley (summer)
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1950 - 1952 |
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Instructor of Fine Arts at the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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1955 - 1959 |
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Instructor of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College, New York
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1961 |
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Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (summer)
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1964 - 1970 |
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Professor of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College, New York
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1970 |
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Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College, New York
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1973 |
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Died March 22 in New York
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Publications by the Artist
'A Memoir of Modrain,' Arts Magazine, Vol.31, September 1957
'The Way to Creativity,' Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 15, February 1958
'The Mechanics of Creativity of a Painter: A Memoir,' Leonardo, Vol. 1, Pergamon Press 1968
'The Painter’s Mind', with co-author Romare Bearden, Grove Press, New York 1969
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Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum of art, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey
New School for Social Research, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.M
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
University of Georgia, Athens
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1973
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Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York: Carl Holty Memorial Exhibition
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1972
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The Graduate Center Mall, The City University of New York: Carl Holty/Fifty Years: A Retrospective Exhibition
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1969
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
American Painting from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Collection
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1968
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The 1930’s Painting and Sculpture in America,
Georgia State University, Atlanta: Carl Holty: Recent Paintings
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1965
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: Some Recent Gifts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
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1963
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Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana: Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
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1959
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
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1957
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Poindexter Gallery, New York: The 1930’s
Painting in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
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1956
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Graham Gallery, New York
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1953
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J.B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
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1951
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Museum of Modern Art, New York: Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
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1950
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: American Painting Today
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1948
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Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1948
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Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York
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1946
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Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1945
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
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1944
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San Francisco Art Museum, California;
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, J. B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
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1943
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Nierdendorf Gallery, New York
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1940
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World’s Fair, New York
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1937
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J.B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
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1927
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Simonson Galerie, Paris, France: one-man exhibition
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1926
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Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, Milwaukee Art Institute
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