Rackstraw Downes (American/British, )

Timeline

1939
Born in Kent, England
1961
BA in English Literature, Cambridge University, England.
1961–1962
English-Speaking Union Traveling Fellowship
1964
BFA and MFA in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
1964–1965
Post-Graduate Fellowship. University of Pennsylvania.
1969
Marjorie Heilman Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1971
Yaddo Residence Fellowship
1974
Ingram Merrill Fellowship
1978
CAPS
1967–1979
Teaches painting at the University of Pennsylvania.
1980
National Endowment for the Arts
1989
Academy-Institute Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1998
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1999
Inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Currently living and working in New York City
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Exhibitions

2004
Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York., Sept. 23 – Oct.30 -solo
Drawing as Part of the Process, New York Studio School -solo
2003
Water-Flow Monitoring Installations on the Rio Grande near Presidio, TX, -solo
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas -solo
Celebrating Central Park. 1853-2003, Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Skowhegan 2002003 Faculty Exhibition. ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Facing Reality. The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism. Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York
2002
poly.auto.gragh.y. Center Gallery, Fordam University at Lincoln Center, New York
Looking at America. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
2001
ReAppearance, Realism in Contemporary Art. Simmons Visual Arts Gallery, Brenan University, Gainesville, Georgia. (exh. cat.)
Fresh Kills: Artists respond to the Closure of the Staten Island Landfill. Snug Harbor Cultural, Staten, New York. (exh. cat.)
2000
Robert Miller Gallery, New York. -solo
Inside/Out. The Space of Landscape & Architecture. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Making Choices. Modern Art despite Modernism. Museum of Modern Art. New York. Curated by Robert Storr. (exh. cat.)
Crossing State Lines: Texas Art From The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Texas.
New York Perspectives II. MB Modern, New York.
Landscape 2000. The New Topography. Late Twentieth Century American Landscape Painting. The University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.
In the Spirit of Landscape V. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Artists in Maine. Hay Gallery. Portland, Maine.
Elogio de lo Visible, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. (essay by Fernando Huici)
1999
The Chinati Paintings, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. -solo
Green Woods and Crystal Waters, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma. (exh. cat.)
Darkness and Light, Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, West Virginia.Contemporary
American Realist Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. (exh. cat.)
1998
Working Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York. -solo
Summer, Lennon,Weinberg, Inc., New York.
Beyond The Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape, Asheville Art Museum.
Tendences Actuelles de la Peinture a Houston, Texas, oeuvres sur papier, Musee de l¢ Echevinage, Santes, France (exh. cat. with artist’s statement).
Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington.
Malcolm Morley, Ellen Phelan, Rackstraw Downes. Suzanne Hillsbury Gallery, Detroit, Michigan.
1997–1998
Best of the Season: Selected Works from 1996-97 Gallery Exhibitions, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Landscape, Seen & Unseen, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Traveling exhibition: Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
CityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
1997
Marlborough Gallery, New York. (exh. cat., with essay by Hayden Herrera) -solo
1994
Amherst College, Massachusetts. -solo
1992
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. -solo
1991
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. -solo
1988
Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas. -solo
1987
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. (exh. cat.)-solo
1984
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. (exh. cat., with essay by John Yau)-solo
1980
Kornblee Gallery, New York. -solo
Tatischeff & Company, New York. -solo
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