Brooklyn Museum, New York

Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania

John Reed Club Gallery, New York: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints on the Theme Hunger - Fascism - War

Midtown Galleries, New York

Participates in First American Artists’ Congress. Joins the Artists’ Union.

Midtown Galleries, New York, American Artists’ Congress: Membership Exhibition

Midtown Galleries, New York. Catalogue with introduction by Beril Becker

Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture

San Francisco, California: Golden Gate International Exposition. Traveled to: New York World’s Fair

Founds Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, as splinter group from American Artists’ Congress with

Meyer Schapiro, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Ilya Bolotowsky, Bradley Walker Tomlin, David Smith, and others

Elected to executive board, Sculptors’ Guild along with Chaim Gross, Robert Laurent and Hugo Robus

Solo exhibition, Midtown Galleries, New York

Participates Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Whitney Annual

Solo exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Joins ’The Irascibles’ in protest against juried painting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charter member, The Club

Participates in Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition: American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island

The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Catalogue text by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

Sao Paolo, Biennal, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Commission with Adolph Gottlieb & Robert Motherwell for B’nai Israel Synagogue, Millburn, New Jersey

The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Fifteen Americans, Catalogue by Dorothy C. Miller.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York: International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner,

sponsored by The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; traveled to: Tate Gallery, London

Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Solo exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois 61st American Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

Participates in Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Commission: designs light and candelabrum for Berlin Chapel, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

University of Illinois Art Gallery, Urbana

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, dates unknown; travels to:

San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. Catalogue, text by John I. H. Baur

Solo exhibition, Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York

Temple Aaron, St., Paul, Minnesota

Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Commission: Two interior wall sculptures installed at Temple Anshe Chesed, Cleveland, Ohio

Solo exhibition, Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture

Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, Retrospective Exhibition, catalogue, introduction by Robert Goldwater

Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York: Three American Sculptors: Herbert Ferber, David Hare, Ibram Lassaw

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Nature in Abstraction Catalogue, by John I. H. Baur

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture

U.S. Pavilion, World Fair, Brussels, Belgium

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan: Sculpture In Our Time: Collected By Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Documenta II - Kunst Nach 1945, Kassel, Germany

Columbia University School of Architecture, Avery Hall, New York

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio: Paths of Abstract Art

André Emmerich Gallery, New York.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Sculpture of Herbert Ferber; travels to:

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Texas;

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; and, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue, introduction

by John I. H. Baur; text by Wayne Anderson with comprehensive bibliography complied by Lucy Lippard

Visiting Professor: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture and Drawings

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art, John I. H. Baur, curator

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture

Commission: sculpture for Commons Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Visiting Professor: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Associate Fellow - Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, traveled to:

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Catalogue text by William S. Rubin.

Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship. Museum of Modern Art, New York: American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation,

curated by William S. Rubin and William C. Agee

Museum of Modern Art, New York: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of 20th - Century Art,

curated by: Dorothy Miller; Catalogue, by William S. Lieberman

Solo exhibition, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Rutgers University Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Herbert Ferber: Paintings and Drawings

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania: American Art Since 1945, from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC: Contemporary Sculpture

Solo exhibition, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: 200 Years of American Sculpture

Virginia Museum, Richmond: American Art Since 1945 (from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois: Sculpture and Paintings by Herbert Ferber

Included in the film ÒMasters of Modern Sculpture, Part Three,Ó by Michael Blackwood

Solo exhibition, Knoedler & Company, New York

Mellon Chair in Humanities, Visiting Professor: Rice University, Houston, Texas

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing: 1946Ð1980. Traveled to:

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa. Catalogue with essay by William C. Agee

Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky: Herbert Ferber

Rosa Esman Gallery, New York: Off the Wall: Wall Sculpture by Herbert Ferber, Donald Judd,

Sol Lewitt, Louise Nevelson, George Rickey, Christopher Wilmarth

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Decade of Transition 1940 - 1950

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: 1981 Invitational Exhibition

Solo exhibition, Weintraub Gallery, New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School, curated by Lisa Phillips; traveled to:

Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

Solo exhibition, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida: Herbert Ferber

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber New Sculpture: Semaphore Series. M. Knoedler, Zurich, Switzerland

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture and Drawings 1932Ð1983,

curated by Debra Bricker Balken and Phyllis Tuchman. Catalogue with essay by Debra Bricker Balken.

Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York 1939Ð1946, traveled to:

Cantor Art Gallery College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island

New York Solo exhibition, Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture of the Fifties and Sixties

Adams - Middleton Gallery, Dallas, Texas: Herbert Ferber

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Semaphore Series - Wall Sculpture

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: New Paintings

Adams - Middleton Gallery, Dallas, Texas: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture and Paintings

Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy: Herbert Ferber, catalogue, essay by Flaminio Gualdoni

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts: BIG Little Sculpture, curated by Phyllis Tuchman

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Illusions and Sculpture

Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden: Heland Wetterling Gallery Shows Knoedler Gallery Artists

Died in North Egremont, Massachusetts

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture and Painting from the Last Ten Years

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: A Drawing Survey. Traveled to:

Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida: Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1920s and 1950s, traveled to:

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture, The Roofed and Cage Series

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Paintings from 1958 - 1965

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York: The Founder of Sculpture as Environment: Herbert Ferber (1906Ð1991). Traveled to:

Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Catalogue essays by Dewey Mosby, Lori Verderame and Edith Ferber

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Sculpture as Environment

Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany: 40 Years of American Drawings

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York: 20th Century Sculpture, catalog essays by Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000; Part I, 1900-1950, catalogue, text by Barbara Haskell

Stamford Sculpture Walk, Stamford, Connecticut: Important Sculptors of the Late Twentieth Century

Solo exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona: Herbert Ferber: Paintings, November 2000, catalogue with excerpts

from an interview with Herbert Ferber

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000; Part II, 1950-2000, catalogue text by Lisa Phillips.

Knoedler & Company, New York: Herbert Ferber: Calligraph Emblem of Motion. Catalogue with essay by Stephen Polcari

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age 1940Ð1960. Traveled to:

Walker Art Center; Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Phoenix Art Museum, April 4-June 29, 2003. Curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport.

Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, Illinois: Herbert Ferber: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing from the 1960s.

Catalogue with essay by Debra Bricker Balken

The Jewish Museum, New York, New York My America: Art from the Jewish Museum Collection


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