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James McGarrell
b. 1930
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."
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 solo-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.
A selected list of other solo 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 national and 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 Academy 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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