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1909 Born in New York, New York 1998 Dies in New York, New York LOREN MACIVER 1909 Born in New York, New York 1998 Dies in New York, New York EDUCATION 1919 Art Students League, New York SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Loren MacIver: Early Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 2014 Loren MacIver’s Light, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 2012 Loren MacIver: Selected Paris Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 2008 Loren MacIver: The Poetry of Objects, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 2006 Loren MacIver: Drawings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 2002 Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York 1998 Tibor DeNagy Gallery, New York, New York. 1995 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York. 1993 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York. 1981 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1975 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey. 1979 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1966 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1965 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.. Traveled to: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. 1961 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1959 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 1958 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. 1956 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1953 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 1951 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.. Traveled to: Wellesley College Museum, Massachusetts 1950 Vassar College Jart Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York. 1949 Pierre Matisee Gallery, New York, New York. 1945 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. 1944 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1941 The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. 1940 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York. 1938 East River Gallery, New York, New York. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1982 A Curator’s Choice—1942-1963—A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, Rosa Erman Gallery, New York 1977 Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. 1976 Skowhegan: A Retrospective—1946-1976, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1975 The Art Students League of New York, Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Kennedy Galleries, New York 1969 The Elliott Collection, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City 1968 Hommage a Loren MacIver, Musee Des Beaux Arts, Lyons. Traveled to: Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musee des Ponchettes, Nice 1967 Art in Embassies, Museum of Modern Art, New York. For use in Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur J. Goldberg’s residence in Waldorf Towers. 1964 The Friends Collect, Whitney Art Museum of American Art, New York 1963 28th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Women in Contemporary Art, Women’s College Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Paintings from the Joseph N. Hirshhorn Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco 1962 XXXI Biennale, Venice, The American Pavilion, Venice 1961 Vanguard American Painting, Galerie Wurthle, Vienna. Organized by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, for the United States Information Agency. 1960 Art Across America, Munson-Willliams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York 1959 The 26th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, American Federation of the Arts, New York American Painting of the Last 25 Years, United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C 1958 The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1957 The 25th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1956 Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 1955 Italy Rediscovered, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 1954 The Ludgin Collection of Contemporary Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1953 Early Works By Modern Masters, Museum of Modern Art, New York Clowns, Museum of Modern Art, New York Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 1951 22nd Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 60th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1950 American Artists in Italy, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Paintings by Loren MacIver and Irene Rice Pereira, Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara. Traveled to Portland Art Museum, Oregon; M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco 1949 21st Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 58th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 1948 Loren MacIver: Mural Paintings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1947 20st Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 1946 Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, CA, Cincinnati Modern Art School, Cincinnati; San Francisco Museum of Art; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 1945 The Women, Art of This Century, New York Objects as Subjects, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1940 The Face of America, Museum of Modern Art, New York AWARDS 1989 Lee Krasner Award, Krasner-Pollock Foundation 1985 Francis Greenburger Award 1976 Guggenheim Fellow Member National Institute Arts and Letters 1972 Markk Rothko Foundation 1963 Urbana Purchase Prize, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois 1962 Frank G. Logan Medal, Art Institute of Chicago, 65th Annual Exhibition 1960 Ford Foundation Grant 1959 National Institute of Arts and Letters, Member 1957 Corcoran Biennial, Frist Prize SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana. Krannert Art Museum, Champaigne, Illinois. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York. Wadsworth Athenem, Hartford, Connecticut. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. .
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