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Thomas Downing Biography
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1928 |
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Born, Suffolk, Virginia
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1965 - 1968 |
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Teaching Position, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.
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1970 |
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Teaching Position, New School of Visual Art, New York City, New York
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1975 |
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Teaching Position, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
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1985 |
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Died, Provincetown, Massachusetts
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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NERVE: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
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2007
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Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color School, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
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2007
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Washington Color School: Selections from the Artery Collection, International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Art Space
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2007
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Generations of the Washington Color School Revisited, The George Washington University Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington DC
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2007
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Thomas Downing: 1963-1976, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Warner Office Building, Washington DC (solo)
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2002
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Origin of the Dot, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC (solo)
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1994
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Selected Paintings: 1971-1975, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Ltd., Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1990 - 1991
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Washington Color: The First Generation Painters. Orlando Museum of Art
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1989
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Tom Downing: 1965-1970, Addison Ripley Gallery, Ltd., Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1985
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Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1985
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Addison/Ripley Gallery, Ltd., Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1985
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Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York (solo)
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1982
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Salander O’Reilly Gallery New York (solo)
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1980
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Washington Color Painters, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1980
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Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1979 - 1980
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Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1975
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Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston (solo)
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1975
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Modern Painting: 1900 to the Present. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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1975
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Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston
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1974 - 1975
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Selections from the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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| Literature |
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1973
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Bourdon, David. “Washington Letter.” Art International 17(February 1973):22.
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1967
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Campbell, Lawrence. “Reviews and Previews: Thomas W. Downing.” ARTnews 66 (Summer 1967 ):14.
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1967
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“Art: Neck & Neck,” Time 90(22 December 1967): 46.
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1967
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Baro, Gene. “Washington and Detroit.” Studio International 174(July-August 1967):50-51
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1966
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Alloway, Lawrence. “Background to Systemic,” ARTnews 65(October 1966): 31.
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1966
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Ashton, Dore. “Exhibition of Systemic Painting at the Guggenheim Museum.” Arts and Architecture 83 (November 1966): 7
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1964
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Coplans, John. “Post Painterly Abstraction.” Art International 8 (Summer 1964): 5-9.
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1962
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Ahlander, Leslie Judd. “An Artist Speaks: Tom Downing.” The Washington Post, 9 September 1962, sec. G, p. 4.
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1962
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“The Emerging Art of Washington.” Art International 6 (November 1962): 30-33.
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1956
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Edgar, Natalie. “Reviews and Previews: Thomas Downing.” ARTnews 63(February 1965):16.
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