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1916
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Born, June 8, St. Paul, Minnesota |
| 1924 | Begins painting at age 8 |
| 1936 | Enrolls at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Leaves before end of academic year to paint and sculpt on his own |
| 1936 - 7 | Creates small brass sculptures which employ biomorphic and geometric forms that recur in his paintings |
| 1937 |
Moves to New York City Assistant to sculptor Paul Manship |
| 1941 | Artist's Gallery, New York. First one-man exhibition |
| 1943 |
Willard Gallery, Forms in Brass, Solo exhibition Meets Evelyn Gracey, a poet |
| 1944 |
Participates in Forty American Moderns at Howard Putzel's 67 Gallery with Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Graves, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Mark Tobey Participates in Spring Salon for Young Artists at Peggy GuggenheimÕs, Art of This Century, with William Baziotes, David Hare, Motherwell, Pollock and Hedda Sterne |
| 1945 |
Solo exhibition, Willard Gallery, 7 Paintings. Group show, Howard PutzelÕs 67 Gallery, A Problem for Critics with Arshile Gorky, Gottlieb, Hofmann, Lee Krasner, and Rothko Participates
in Autumn Salon at Art of This Century with Baziotes, Willem
de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko, |
| 1946 |
Marries Evelyn Gracey Solo exhibition at Willard Gallery |
| 1947 |
Birth of daughter, Joanna Solo exhibition at Peggy GuggenheimÕs Art of This Century Included in The Art Institute of ChicagoÕs, 58th Annual Exhibition and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition |
| 1948 | Solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery |
| 1949 |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Contemporary American Painters |
| 1950 |
The Museum of Modern Art acquires Number 11: A Presence, 1949 |
| 1951 |
Included in a photograph of the Irascibles, Life magazine, January 15 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship Moves to Sloatsburg, New York Lectures at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America Solo exhibition of Watercolors at Betty Parsons Gallery |
| 1952 |
Birth of son, Jonathan. The Whitney Museum of American Art acquires The Magnificent, 1950-51 |
| 1954 |
Moves to Monsey, New York Peggy Guggenheim gives Spirit to Tel Aviv Museum as part of a bequest of 27 paintings including works by Baziotes, Andrˇ Masson, Pollock, and Yves Tanguy |
| 1958 |
Moves to Suffern, New York Participates in Nature in Abstraction, at the Whitney Museum of American Art |
| 1959 |
Receives Ford Foundation Grant |
| 1959 - 61 | Teaches painting at the New School for Social Research, New York |
| 1961 |
Awarded M.V.Kohnstamm Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, 64th Annual American Painting and Sculpture Exhibition Participates in VI Bienial do Museu de Arte Moderna in S‹o Paulo, Brazil |
| 1963 | First retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum acquires Sky Presence (Morning), 1962-63 |
| 1964 | Museum of Modern Art, New York acquires Radiance, 1962-63 |
| 1965 |
Second prize, 29th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Included in New York School: The First Generation-Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Solo exhibition, The Katonah Gallery, New York |
| 1966 |
Delivers Convocation Lecture at Minneapolis School of Art Receives the Arts Award for Excellence from the National Council |
| 1967 | Receives the National Endowment for the Arts Award for Individual Artists |
| 1969 |
Museum of Modern Art acquires Desert, 1940, Fugue Number 2, 1943, and Chavade, 1951 Whitney Museum of American Art acquires Presence, Ramapo Mist, 1969 Included in The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1969 - 70 | Museum of Modern Art organizes a traveling exhibition, Richard Pousette-Dart: Presences |
| 1970 - 74 | Teaches painting at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York |
| 1971 | First trip to Europe, visits Paris, Chartres, Rome, Florence and London |
| 1973 |
Summers in Provence, France Included in the Whitney MuseumÕs Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, with daughter Joanna |
| 1974 |
Joins Andrew Crispo Gallery Solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art Receives mural commission for North Central Bronx Hospital, New York |
| 1975 | Travels to Antibes, France. Stays near Picasso Museum. |
| 1979 |
Participates in symposium, Abstract Expressionsim: Idea and Symbol, sponsored by University of Virginia, panelists include Lee Krasner and Robert Motherwell. Gail Levin, Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, presents a paper, Richard Pousette-Dart's Painting and Sculpture: Form, Poetry and Significance |
| 1980 | Joins Marisa del Re Gallery, New York |
| 1981 |
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Solo exhibition at Marisa del Re, Presences: Black and White, 1978-80. Cited by Hilton Kramer in The New York Times as the YearÕs Best Exhibition |
| 1982 |
Exhibits in the Main Pavilion, Venice Biennale The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Presence, Ramapo Horizon, 1975. |
| 1983 |
Milton Avery Distinguished Professor of Arts, Bard College Included in the exhibition, Modern American Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Richard Pousette-Dart: Works on Paper, Hope Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1985 |
Included in the exhibition, Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-46, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1986 |
Solo exhibition Transcending Abstraction: Richard Pousette-Dart Paintings 1939-1985, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Participates in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
| 1987 |
Included in Solomon R. GuggenheimÕs exhibition, Peggy GuggenheimÕs Other Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Path of the Hero, 1950 |
| 1989 | Individual Visual Artist Award, Arts Council of Rockland County, New York |
| 1990 |
Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to do monumental bronze door entitled, Cathedral Commissioned to design the Interfaith Center, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights Solo exhibition, White Paintings, Marisa del Re Gallery Joins ACA Galleries, New York. Solo exhibition, Paintings from Five Decades |
| 1990 - 92 |
Traveling exhibition, Richard Pousette-Dart, organized by The Indianapolis Museum of Art Travels to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, and The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia |
| 1991 | Solo exhibition, Recent Paintings, ACA Galleries, New York |
| 1992 |
Retrospective exhibition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Dies October 25, New York City |
| 1993 | Retrospective exhibition, ACA Galleries, New York, Munich, Germany |
| 1994 | Exhibition at the American Embassy, Bonn, Germany |
| 1995 |
Solo exhibition at Trans Art, Cologne, Germany Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart joins Knoedler & Company, New York |
| 1996 |
Solo exhibition, Richard Pousette-Dart, Paintings from the 40Õs and 50Õs, Knoedler & Company, New York Richard Pousette-Dart: Photographs, Zabriskie Gallery, New York. |
| 1997 - 98 |
Richard Pousette Dart (1916-1992), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. Richard Pousette-Dart: Eye of the Center, Knoedler & Company, New York Richard Pousette-Dart: Still-Life Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York |
| 1998 |
Richard Pousette-Dart, The Studio Within, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Richard Pousette-Dart, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida |
| 1999 | Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings, Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
| 2000 | Solo exhibition, Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings to Paper, Black to White. Knoedler & Company, New York |
| 2001 |
Richard Pousette-Dart: Contemplating the Sublime, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan |
| 2001 - 02 | The
Living Edge, Richard Pousette-Dart, 1916-1992, Works on Paper, Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Traveled to:
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida |
| 2002 |
Richard Pousette-Dart: Works Selected from 1974-1991, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida |
| 2003 |
Richard Pousette-Dart, Mythic Heads and Forms, Paintings and Drawings from 1935-1942, Knoedler & Company, New York Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings and Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California |