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June Leaf Biography
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1947 - 1948 |
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New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
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1954 |
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Institute of Design, Art Education, M.A.
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1954 |
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Roosevelt University, Art Education, B.A.
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1958 - 1959 |
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Fulbright Government Grant to Paris for painting
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1978 |
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Lippincott Art Fabricators Sculpture Commission
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1978 |
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Canada Council Grant for Painting
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1984 |
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Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, DePaul University
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1984 |
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Distinguished Artists Awards, Canadian Council
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1983 - 1985 |
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Canada Council Senior Grant
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1989 |
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National Endowment for the Arts in painting
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1996 |
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Honorary Degree, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Hallifax
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1996 |
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Alumni Award, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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Lives and works in New York, NY and Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2011
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“Refocussing The Spotlight: 21 American Painters,” (curated by Michael Walls) Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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2010
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2009
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About Face, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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2008
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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2008
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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2006
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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“Three Islands,” Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
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2004
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Drawings: Past and Present” (solo)
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2004
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“The Anxious Image,” (curated by Jimmy Wright) The Painting Center, New York, NY
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2003
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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2002
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“Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2002
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Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (solo)
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2001
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Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S. (solo)
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2000
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1999
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Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina "Water"
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1998
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Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY "Body Double"
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1997
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
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1997
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Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, June Leaf: Mining Mabou (solo)
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1996
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Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL "Women Chicago Imagists" Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL "Women Chicgo Imagists"
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1996
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Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada,"Small As A Way Of Working"
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1995
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York,“September Gallery Group”
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1995
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Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, June Leaf: Prints 1952-1990 (solo)
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1994 - 1995
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Winter Gallery Group Exhibition”
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1994
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Waterworks”
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1993
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Gallery Group Exhibition”
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1992
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Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, “Collector’s Choice - 1992”
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1991
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
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1991
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Virginia Lust Gallery, New York, NY, Works on Paper, 1969-1970. (solo)
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1990
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"
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1989
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Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art", Travelled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1988
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Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, "Fantasist Realists", Travelling to: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
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1988
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Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1987
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Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Drawing: 1987"
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1986
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper"
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1985
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Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada (solo)
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1983
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North Dakota Museum of Art, North Forks, ND (solo)
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1983
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Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, "The Painterly Figure, Veteran Expressionist Figure Painters"Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1982
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Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada (solo)
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1982
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Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
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1981
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The Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, "Alternative
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1981
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Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1978
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Young -Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1976
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Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1976
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Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada
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1975
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Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
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1974
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Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI, "Drawings by Contemporary American Artists"
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1974
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Madison Art Center, Madison WI (solo)
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1973
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Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1973
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Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Voices of Alarm"
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1972
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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1972
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Gallery Bernard, Greenwich, CT (solo)
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1970
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Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1970
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Human Concern and Personal Torment"
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1969
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Reed College, Portland, OR (solo)
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1968
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Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1966
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Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1965
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Galerie Rue du Dragon, Paris, France
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1954
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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1952
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Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1951
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
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1951
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Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1950
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
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1948
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
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1948
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Sam Bordelon Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL
The Singer Collection
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Marina City Bank, Chicago, IL
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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