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Louise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988)
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Biography |
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1899 |
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Born: Kiev, Russia |
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1905 |
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Moved to the U.S and settled in Rockland, Maine |
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1929 - 1930 |
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Studied visual and performing arts, including dramatics at the Art Students League |
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1931 |
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Attended Hans Hofmann’s school in Munich, Germany |
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1932 |
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Returned to New York and assisted Diego Rivera on murals for the WPA Federal Art Project |
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1937 |
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Joined the WPA as a teacher for the Educational Alliance School of Art |
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1947 |
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Studied etching with Stanley William Hayter at his Atelier 17 in New York |
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1949 - 1950 |
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Worked in marble and terra-cotta and executed her totemic Game Figures |
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1957 - 1959 |
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Became a president of the Artist’s Equity New York chapter |
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1959 |
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Received a grand Prize for work in the Art USA exhibition at the New York Coliseum |
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1966 |
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Became vice-president of the International Association of Artists
Received Honorary Degree from Western College for Women in Oxford, OH |
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1969 |
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Received a MacDowell Colony Medal in Peterborough, NH |
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1973 |
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Received a honorary degree from Smith College in Northampton, MA and Columbia University in New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Received a National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan |
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1988 |
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Died: New York, NY |
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2000 |
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Was the subject of a set of Louise Nevelson commemorative stamps issued by the U.S Postal Service |
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Exhibitions |
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2013 |
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Midnight Party - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Louise Nevelson: Black - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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2012 |
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Louise Nevelson - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selections From The Estate: 1954-1987 - Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA |
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2011 |
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Louise Nevelson - Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
Rediscoveries 1 - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Louise Nevelson: Collages - Pace Prints, New York City, NY
Louise Nevelson 1899 – 1988 - The Architect of Shadow - Artiscope, Brussels |
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2010 |
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Louise Nevelson, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany(solo)
Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, VA
Louise Nevelson, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME |
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2009 |
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Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, U.K (solo)
Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Louise Nevelson: Collages, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy(solo)
The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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2008 |
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Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Doppio Songo Dell' Arte (Art's Double Dream), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN |
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2007 |
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De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Light Time and Three Dimensions, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson, The Jewish Museum, New York ; travelled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA(solo) |
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2007 |
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The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson, The Jewish Museum, New York ; travelled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco |
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2006 |
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Louise Nevelson: Small Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA(solo)
Louise Nevelson: The Architecture of the Light, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY(solo) |
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2005 |
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Louise Nevelson: Ceramics and Sculpture, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA(solo)
Collecting for the Cause: Activist Art in the 1960s and '70s, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Continuum : 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, ACA Galleries, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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Picasso to Pop: A Growing Contemporary Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Louise Nevelson, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA(solo) |
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2003 |
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Louise Nevelson: Selections from the Farnsworth Art Museum, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Going Modern at the Allen: American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Imagine - Selections from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami, Miami, FL |
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2002 |
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True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Louise Nevelson: Structures Evolving, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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2001 |
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Louise Nevelson, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France(solo)
Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
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Drawings, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Louise Nevelson, Sculpture and Collages, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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1998 |
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Louise Nevelson: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1940s, Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY(solo)
The 60s in the Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY |
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1997 |
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Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Assemblage: More Than Meets The Eye, Choate House Gallery, Pace University Pleasantville, Pleasantville, NY |
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1994 |
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Louise Nevelson, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy(solo)
The Box: From Duchamp to Horn, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY |
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1991 |
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10 Sculptors of the New York School, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1986 |
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Louise Nevelson, Michel Soskine Inc., New York, NY(solo) |
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1983 |
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Nuclear Weapons Freeze Benefit Exhibition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1967 |
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Louise Nevelson,The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA(solo)
Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Literature |
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2009 |
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The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend(edited by Brooke Kamin Rapaport). Yale University Press: New Haven |
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1990 |
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Lisie, Laurie. Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life. Simon & Schuster/ Summit Books: New York, 1990 |
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1981 |
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Wilson, Laurie. Louise Nevelson: Iconography and Sources. New York: Garland, 1981 |
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1976 |
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Nevelson, Louise. Dawns + Dusks: Louise Nevelson (taped conversations with Diana MacKown). New York: Scribner, 1976 |
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1972 |
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Glimcher, Arnold B. Louise Nevelson. New York: Praeger, 1972 |
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