James McGarrell, b. 1930
Statement: not available at this time
Education: Indiana University, University of California at Los Angeles,
and State Academy of Art, Stuttgard Germany
Awards and Grants: Fulgright Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; National
Institute of Arts and Letters Citation and Award; National Endowment for
the Arts Grants; Tamarind Institute in California and New Mexico grants;
elected Correspondent member of the French Academie des Beaux-Arts 1970;
elected to the National Academy of Design, 1992; Jimmy Ernst award of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters for "a lifetime contribution to
a vision which has been consistent and dedicated."
Employment (teaching): Reed College, Portland, OR; Indiana University
(graduate painting program for more than 20 years); Professor Emeritus,
Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO (1981-1993).
In addition, James McGarrell has served terms as Artist in Residence at
the university of Chicago, Rice University, the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield,
MA, Skowhegan, ME, Vermont Studio Center, and Dartmouth College.
Represented by: George Adams, Gallery, New York (formerly Frumkin/Adams
Gallery)
Solo Exhibitions: "Only four years out of graduate school at UCLA,
James GcGarrell was the youngest of the 23 artists exhibited in the Museum
of Modern Art's controversial "New Images of Man" exhibiton of
1959. His first solo sho was in 1955 with the Frank Perls Gallery in Southern
California. Since then he has had more than 100 soe-person exhibitons at
galleries and museums in America and Europe. . . these have included: Galerie
Claude-Bernard, Paris, France; Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan; Galleria Galatea,
Turin; II Fante di Spade, Rome; Bedford House, London; Struve Gallery, Chicago,
IL; More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.;
Galerie Siminne Stern, New Orleans, LA; and William Shearburn Fine Arts,
St. Louis, MO." (quoted from the artist's biographic summary)
A selected list of other solor exhibitons includes: Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR; Berkshire Museum, MA; St.Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO;
Utah Museum of Art; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; and University
Art Museums of New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Bridgeport, and Southern Methodist
University.
Exhibitions: James McGarrells' artwork has been exhibited internationally.
A selected list of nationala nd international survey exhibitions of contemporary
art that have featured his paintings are: five Whitney museum Annuals and
Biennials; two Carnegie Internatioanal exhibitions; Documenta in Kassel,
Germany; Dunn International at the Tate Gallery, London; "Modern American
Paintings", Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; National Pinakothiki,
Athens, Greece; "Since 1980: New Narrative Paintings", Metropolitan
Museum of Art; and Venice Biennale.
Permanent Collections: A selected list includes Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum in New York City, NY;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.; Pennsylvania Acdemy
in Philladelphia, PA; Collection Nationale d'Art Contemporain at the Centre
Georges pompidou, Paris, France; Art Museums of New Orleans, LA, St. Louis,
MO, Santa Barbara, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Hamburg, Germany; University
Museums of Arizona, Bandeis, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Oregon; and
numerous public collections of prints and drawings.
Selected written documentation: "James McGarrell's universe:
Realism, Magic, Abstraction and Enigmatic Narrative", by Thomas Bolt
in Arts Magazine (April 1986); books: Alvin Martin, American Realism:
Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors (Abrams, 1986), Charles Jencks,
Post-Modernism, the New Classicism in Art and Architecture (Rizzoli,
1987), John Ward, American Realist Painters, 1945-1980 (UMI Research
press, 1988), and John Arthur, American Realsim and Figurative Art: 1952-1990
(Miyagi museum of Art, Japan, 1991).
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