NORMAN BLUHM

1921 Born in , IL 1999 Died in East Wallingford, VT

EDUCATION

1936-41 Studied architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology), Chicago, IL 1941-45 Army Air Force 1945 Returned to architecture studies at Armour Institute of Technology 1946 Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy 1947 Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, , France

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 “The Late of Norman Bluhm,” Station Museum of Contemporary Art, , TX James Graham & Sons Gallery Booth, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2005 “Norman Bluhm, Works on Paper from the 70s, 80s and 90s,” James Graham and Sons, New York, NY “Norman Bluhm, Three Paintings,” JG Contemporary, New York, NY

2002 “Norman Bluhm Drawings,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA “Ideal Abstraction, 1955-1965, Karl Benjamin and Norman Bluhm,” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY

1994 Ace Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA

1992 Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1991 Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1986 Washburn Gallery, New York, NY Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1976 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1973 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

1970- Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY 1974 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

1969 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1960 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1958 Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1957 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 “Norman Bluhm: Selected Works from 1976 to 1989,” Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 “New York School, Another View,” Opalka Gallery, The Sages Colleges, Albany, NY

2004 “An American Odyssey: 1945-1980,” Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain “Recent Acquisitions: Framing the Collection,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY “Modern American , from the NYU art Collections,” Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2003 “Abstract Per Se,” Red Dot, New York, NY

2001 “1950-1965, Abstraction on Paper,” Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2000 “Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950’s and 60’s,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999 “In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY “O’Hara, Bluhm & Goldberg, Un poeta e due pittori a New York negli anni ’50,” Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Rocca, Chiavari, Genova

1998 “Dreams for the Next Century,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

1997 “Bluhm, Burton and Frank,” Kunstruimte Wagemans, Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands “Colorflex,” Apex Art C.P., New York, NY “Torino, Parigi, New York, Osaka: Tapié, Un Art Autre,” Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino

1996 Pintura Estadounidense, Expressionismo Abstracto, Centro Cultural After Goya, a Subjective Look, Saragossa, Spain

1993 1ère Triennale des Amériques, Maubeuge, France

1991 Inaugural Exhibition, Parts I and II, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

1990 A Salute to the Signa Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

1989 Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth Century Art, James A. Michener Center, Bucks County, PA

1988 American Abstract Drawings, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1987 Inner Worlds – Fantastic Landscapes of the 1950’s, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY Leo Castelli, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico Michael Goldberg/Norman Bluhm: Painterly Direction: Spontaneity/Restraint – Work of the fifties and sixties, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY Post Abstract Experssionism, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY In Scale and Time, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY Prints from the Workshop of Cone Editions, Gallery North, Setauket, NY

1985 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

1967 Large Scale American Painting, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

1966 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1961 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1958 Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY