Jake Berthot

1939 Born in Niagara Falls, NY 1941 Family moves to Clearfield, PA 1959 Moves to New York, NY 1960-61 Studies at New York School for Social Research, New York, NY 1960-62 Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, NY Teaches at , New York, NY 1976 Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy 1981 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship 1982 Resident Artist, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME Teaches at , New Haven, CT 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1992 Teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Present Lives and works in Accord, NY

One Person-Exhibitions

2006 “Ink Drawings: The Artist and Model,” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY 2005 Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY 2004 "Jake Berthot: 1968 - Present," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 2002 “The Dark Paintings,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

2001 “Jake Berthot, New Paintings,” McKee

Gallery, New York, NY 2002 "Landscape Paintings & Drawings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 "Trees: Drawings and Texts," Humanities Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 1998 “Paintings and Drawings,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1997 “New Paintings and Drawings,” McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1996 “Drawings,” McKee Gallery, New York, NY “Enamel Drawings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1995 “Jake Berthot: The Red Paintings,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “Jake Berthot,” Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1994 “Jake Berthot: The Kristin Paintings and Works on Paper,” David McKee Gallery, New York, NY “Jake Berthot : Paintings and Works on Paper,” David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1992 “Jake Berthot - Paintings,” Toni Oliver Gallery, Sydney, Australia. “Jake Berthot - Paintings,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “Jake Berthot - Etchings,” Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY 1991 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Gallerie Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden 1989 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1988 “Paintings/Drawings,”N ielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY “Jake Berthot : A Retrospective,” Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1987 Galerie Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden “Drawings,” David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1986 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Meadows Art Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1984 “Jake Berthot: Matrix #28,” University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA “Drawings,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1983 "Etchings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1982 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1978 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Galerie De Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany 1976 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1975 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1974 Lockskey-Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1973 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland OR Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany Cunningham Ward Gallery, New York, NY 1972 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1971 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1970 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 "Self Reliant Spirit," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 “Summer Surprises,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 2001 “Jake Berthot and Harvey Quaytman,” 2000 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA "small works BIG IDEAS," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA "In the Spirit of Landscape V," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA David McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1999 "I n t h e S p i r i t o f L a n d s c a p e I V ," N i e l s e n Gallery, Boston, MA 1998 “In the Spirit of Landscape III,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York, 1983- 1998,” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA. 1997 “After the Fall - Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970,” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY 1995 “Ordinary Object - Extraordinary Experience,” Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition,” The American Academy of Arts

and Letters, New York, NY

1991 "Jake Berthot, Harvey Quaytman, John Walker," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 "Invitational, Small Paintings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “A Debate on Abstraction: The Persistence of Painting,” The Berth & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY “The Question of Drawing,” South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL 1988 “This Was Pratt: Former Faculty Centennial Exhibition,” Pratt Institute, New York, NY “Works on Paper,” Nina Freundenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY “Revelations Drawing/America,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK “New York, Beijing,” Beijing Art Institute, Beijing, China “Sightings Drawing with Color,” Pratt Institute, New York, NY 1987-88 “Contemporary American Art,” Sara Hilden Museum, Suomi, Finland 1987 “New York Beijing: 22 American Artists/Works on Paper,” Beijing Art Institute, Beijing, China 1986 “Structure/Abstraction,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI “Courtesy David McKee,” Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA “Drawings from the 80's - Chatsworth Collection,” Carnegie Mellon University

Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA “Collectors' Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK “A Print Review,” Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY “National Drawing Invitational,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK 1985 “Contemporary Drawings from the Last Three Decades,” The , New York, NY Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “An Invitational,” Condeso/Laler Gallery New York, NY “Abstraction/Issues,” A three gallery show at Tibor de Nagy, Oscarsson Hood, Sherry French, New York, NY “Contrast of Form,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Jake Berthot, Stephen Davis, Stephen Greene,” Malinda Wyatt Gallery, New York, NY “A Centennial Exhibition: Visiting Artists,” Kansas City Art Institute, MO 1984 “Berthot+Rotterdam+Ryman+Tapies+Twom bly,” Storrer Gallery Zurich, Switzerland “Heroic/Poetic,” School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY “ An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. “The Meditative Surface,” Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Location : A 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

“Small Works: New Abstract Painting,” , Easton, PA; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1983 “Six Painters,” The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY “Homage to Arthur Dove,” Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY “Recent Acquisitions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Nocturne,” Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, NY “Newcastle Salutes New York,” Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, England “ARS '83,” Art Museum of the Athenaeum, Helsinki, Finland “Hassam & Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1982 “The Painting Show,” Maryland College of Art, Baltimore, MD “Artists Choose Artists,” CDS Gallery New York, NY 1981 "Abstract Mythologies," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “New Works on Paper,” Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX “Works on Paper,” Skidmore College Art Gallery, Sarasota Springs, NY 1980 “L'Amerique aux Independants 1944-1980,” Grand Palais, Paris, France "Painterly Abstraction,” Brockton Art

Museum, Brockton, MA “Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: The McCrory Collection,” Albright -Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1979 "Material in Motion," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA “American Art: 1950 to the Present,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Milwaukee Art Center , WI “New Painting -New York,” Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England 1978 “8 Abstract Painters,” Institute of Contemporary Art , , PA “Silence and Slow Time,” Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 1977 “From Women's Eyes,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA “Recent Acquisitions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Painting 75 76 77,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; The American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1976 “Venice Biennial,” US Pavilion , Venice, Italy “Critical Perspectives in American Art,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA “Contemporary Art in Atlanta Collections: Paintings and Drawings,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 1975 “Corcoran Biennial,” Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC “Painting Endures,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Fundamental Painting,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Holland 1974 “Choice Dealers/ Dealer's Choice ,” New York Cultural Center, New York, NY “Recent Abstract Painting,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY “Drawings,” Fine Art Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI “Continuing Abstraction in American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1974 “Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 1973 “Annual,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Paris Biennial,” Paris, France 1972 “New American Abstract Painting” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY “8 New York Painters,” University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 1971 “Beaux-Arts 25th Anniversary,” Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH “Contemporary Drawings,” Chicago Art institute, Chicago, IL “Recent Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Highlights of the 1970-71 Season,” Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT “Aspects of Current Painting, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1970 “Painting and Sculpture Today,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,

IN “Beautiful Painting and Sculpture,” Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY L'Art Vivant aux Etats-unis,” Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France “Works on Paper,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA “Drawings by Young Americans,” Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH 1969 “Annual,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1966-67 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY 1963-64 Feiner Gallery, New York, NY; Riverside Museum, NJ; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Public Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia. , Baltimore, MD Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Moderna Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Prudential Insurance Company, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY University of Kentucky Art Museum, Louisville, KY Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Selected Articles and Reviews

Albright, Thomas “Some Tough and Compelling Art, ” San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 1970. Ames, Elizabeth. “Great Teachers,” Horizon, January- February 1982. Ashton, Dore. “Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910 to 1980,” Arts Magazine, November 1985. American Art Since 1945. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Jake Berthot: Paintings and Drawings 1981. New York, NY: David McKee Gallery, 1982. “Jake Berthot,” Arts Magazine, January

1979. 8 Abstract Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1977. “Jake Berthot,” Arts Magazine, June 1974. “Peinture, Peinture--O, Painterly Painting,” Plural, September 1973. “Jake Berthot Paints Quietness,” Arts Magazine, November 1971. “New York Commentary: Downtown, Uptown, All Around the Town,” Studio International, January 1971. Baker, Kenneth Artforum, January 1971. Balkeston, Oswell. Art Review, England, April 27, 1979. Berthot, Jake. Untitled Essay, M/E/A/N/I/N/G #2 New York, 1987. “Artists on Art,” Review, Vol. 2 & 3, No. 1, 1979. Boenders, Frans. “Langzaaman,” Kunst & Cultur, November 1988. Bonetti, David. “Jake Berthot finds the Golden Mean,” The Boston Phoenix, June 8, 1988. Exhibition Catalogs Jake Berthot, New Paintings, essay by Andrew Forge, McKee Gallery, New York, NY, 2001 Painting Endures, Boston, MA: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1975. Jake Berthot, Locksley-Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1974. Chapman, George. “Painterly Painting -Into the Seventies: Robert Motherwell, Robert Ryman and Jake Berthot,” Rutgers Art Review, 1980. Cohen, David. “Jake Berthot: New Paintings and Drawings,” The New Criterion, February 1998.

Corbett, William. “Jake Berthot,” Art New England, July/August 1988. Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, February 1992. Davis, Douglas. “The New Color Painters,” Newsweek, May 4, 1970. Dent, Kyle. “Jake Berthot at the Lannan,” The Native Sun, December 1988. Domingo, Willis. “Galleries,” Arts Magazine, February 1971. Feaver, William. London Observer, May 6, 1979. Forge, Andrew “Geometry, Turning into Place, Notes on Jake Berthot’s Landscapes,” Modern Painters, Spring 2002 Frank, Elizabeth. Jake Berthot,” Art in America, November 1982. Gardner, Paul. “The Envelope, Please,” ARTnews, November 1987. Glueck, Grace. “Jake Berthot,” The New York Times, November 25, 1983. Goldberg, Lenore. “A Renewal of Possibilities,” Arts Magazine, March 1973. Heller, William. “Without You, We're Nothing,” Avenue Magazine, February 1991. Henry, Gerrit. “Jake Berthot,” ARTnews, Summer 1988. Hunter, Sam. Critical Perspectives in American Art, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, 1976. James, Jamie. “Self-Portraits in a Changing Landscape,” ARTnews, 1988. Karmel, Pepe. “Jake Berthot,” The New York Times, December 30, 1994. Kasher, Steven. “Jake Berthot: Recent Work,” Artforum, September 1978. Kohen, Helen. “Shadow of Future Hangs over Titillating Lannan Show,” The Miami Herald,

November 6, 1988. Langlykke, Peter. Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY: Hudson River, 1983. Larson, Kay. “Fancy Geometry,” New York Magazine, October 21 1985. Lemarche-Vadel, “Jake Berthot,” Artistes, April 1981. Bernard. Lewallen, Constance. Jake Berthot Skull Drawings. Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, 1985. Malloy, Nancy. ARTnews, March 1992. Masheck, Joseph. Pictures of Art, Artforum, May 1978. Artforum, May 1974. McQuaid, Cate “Berthot forsakes fields for forest,” The Boston Globe, November, 1998. Moorman, Margaret. “States of Grace,” ARTnews, January 1989. Morgan, Stuart & “New York: New York at the Hayward Searle, Adrian Gallery,” Artscribe, January 1979. Mumford, Steve. “Jake Berthot and Harvey Quaytman at McKee Gallery,” Review Art, September 15, 1996. Pardee, Hearne. “Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum: To Probe and Extend the Resources of Painting,” Arts Magazine, September 1983. Plagens, Peter. “Peter and the Pressure Cooker,” Artforum, June 1974. Poirier, Maurice. “Jake Berthot,” ARTnews, Summer 1986. Price, Aimee Brown “Dedicated to Contemporary Art,” Architectural Digest, (Art and Antique Annual) 1984. Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times, December 1, 1978. Reisman, David. “Jake Berthot,” Artscribe, March-April 1990.

Russell, John. “Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum,” The New York Times, July 8, 1983. Ruzick, Joseph. “Jake Berthot at David McKee,” Art in America, April 1992. Schwan, Gary. “Berthot's Expressive Artistry,” Palm Beach Post, December 16, 1988. Sharp, W. “Point of View: A Taped conversation with Four Artists,” Arts Magazine, December 1970. Shirey, David. “Downtown Scene: Hear,” The New York Times, September 12, 1970. Smith, Roberta. Artforum, May 1975. Sozanski, Edward J. “Drawings That Seem To Spring From The Artist's Subconscious,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 8, 1987. Stapen, Nancy. “Fear, Grief, Joy Jake Berthot paints palette of Emotion,” Boston Globe, April 20, 1995. Catalog essay, Jake Berthot, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1995. “Exhibit Shows Artist’s Growth,” The Boston Herald, June 10, 1988. Taylor, Robert. “Berthot Retrospective Comes Forth like the Rising Sun,” The Boston Sunday Globe, May 29, 1988. Van Proyen, Mark. “Metaphor and Ideology,” Artweek, December 22, 1984. Wahl, Kenneth. “Jake Berthot,” Arts Magazine, March 1990. Wei, Lily. “Talking Abstract,” Art in America, July 1987. Westfall, Stephen. “Jake Berthot,” Art In America, July 1986. “Abstraction Again: Paint as Image,” Arts Magazine, May 1983.

“Jake Berthot,” Arts Magazine, September 1982. Wolff, Millie. “Retrospective Shows Evolution of Jake Berthot's Art,” Palm Beach Daily News, November 2, 1988. Worth, Alexi “Jake Berthot: David McKee” ARTnews, April 1998. Yau, John. “Jake Berthot,” Artforum, Summer 1988. “A Return to the BASICS: Jake Berthot’s Recent Paintings,” Arts Magazine, March 1984. Zimmer, William. “Young New York Artists,” Avenue, January 1984. “Oil Show Bathes in Success,” The New York Times, July 8, 1983.