Untitled
Linoleum flooring and wood cutting board
13.5 x 6.7/8 x 14.5 inches
DB 84
Don Baum
Thoroughbreds
Mixed media
13 x 7 7/8 x 17 inches
DB 83
SOLD
Fort Knox
1983
14 x 19.5 x 15.5 inches
Mixed media on wood
DB 86
SOLD
17 Windshield
c. 1950
Mixed media
19 x 27 x 9 inches
DB 82
SOLD
Sphinx
1991
Sandwich series
Found paint - by - number, painting / construction
16 x 20 x 1
DON BAUM
BORN: Escanaba, MI 1922
EDUCATION:
1954, School of Design, Chicago
1947, Ph. D. , University of Chicago
1943, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1940, Michigan State College, East Lansing,
TEACHING
1993-96 Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago
1988-92 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1955-65 Painting Instructor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1948-84 Professor of Art, Roosevelt University, Chicago (Chairman, Art
Department 1970-84)
HONORS AND AWARDS
1998 Special Achievement Award for Service to the Visual Arts, Chicago
Arts Coalition
1996 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994 Association of Corporate Art Curators' Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Arts
1989 Illinois Arts Alliance, Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award
1984 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
Pauline Palmer Prize, for work in the Eightieth Exhibition by Artists of
Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago
1983 Commission for the State of Illinois Building, Chicago
1977 Cliff Dwellers' Award of Merit for Outstanding Contribution in the Arts
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1999 What Chicago Needs Is More Artists Like Don Baum, Carl Hammer
Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1991 Don Baum: Domus II, John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan
City, IN
1990 Don Baum: Domus, Siena Heights College, Adrian, MI
1989 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
Art Center of Battle Creek, MI
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1988 Don Baum: Domus, Madison Art Center, WI. Traveled: State of Illinois
Gallery, Chicago; Illinois State Museum, Springfield; Calder Fine
Arts Center, Grand Valley; State University, Allendale, MI; Rockford
College Art Gallery, Clark Arts Center, Rockford, IL; Krannert Art
Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
1987 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1985 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1984 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1982 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1981 Don Baum: A Review of Works From 1947-1981, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
1980 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1965 Don Baum Constructions, John L. Hunt Gallery, Chicago
1961 Don Baum: Paintings-Drawings-Collages-Constructions,
Park Art Center, Chicago
1956 Ruth White Gallery, New York
Max Segal Bookstore, Chicago
1955 Esquire Theater Gallery, Chicago
1954 Players' Guild, Chicago
Collages, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI
1952 Ziegfield Theater, Chicago
Collage and Monotypes by Don Baum, 750 Studio, Chicago
1949 Paintings and Monotypes by Don Baum, Leonard Linn, Inc. , Winnetka,
IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1997 Portfolio 97’, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
How to Describe a Sunset, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Transformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and
Design, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA.
Traveled: Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR
1996 1968, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, Arts Club of
Chicago
1995 Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Let's Play House: Artists and the Domestic Environment, Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
More Than Real, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
1994 Still Working: Underknown Artists of Age in America, The New
School for Social Research and Parsons School of Design, New York. Traveled: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. ; Chicago Cultural Center; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Portland Museum of Art, OR
Chicago Imagism: A 25 Year Survey, Davenport Museum of Art, IO
Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, Arts Club of
Chicago.
The Aesthetics of Athletics: Artists View Games, Sports, Exercise,
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Beyond Bounds II: A Barely Contained Affair!, Gallery of Art, Johnson
County Community College, Overland Park, KS
The Object Redux: Re-Used, Re-Newed and Re-Invented, Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Hyde Park Art Center Sixth Annual Just Good Art Benefit Auction, Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago
1993 The First Union League Club Art Invitational, Union League Club,
Chicago, IL
Pets: Artists and an American Obsession, Charles A. Wustum Museum of
Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Recent Acquisitions, Milwaukee Art Museum
Randolph Street Gallery 1993 Benefit Auction, Randolph Street Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1992 Face to Face: Self Portraits by Chicago Artists, Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition in Conjunction with 40 Years of Paint-By-Number
Paintings from the Collection of Michael O'Donoghue, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
The Home Show: Objects For and About the Home, Center Galleries,
College of Art and Design-Institute of Music and Dance, Detroit, MI
Assemblage, Main Gallery, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC
Seventy-Second Annual Artist Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago,
IL
1991 Contemporary Visual Art Invitational, Augustana Art Gallery, Augustana
College, Rock Island, IL
11:59, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Home Sweet Home, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contents: A Survey on the Human Experience, Suburban Fine Arts
Center, Highland Park, IL
1991 Revelations: Artists Look at Religions, Gallery 2, School of the Art
Institute, Chicago
1990 The Seen Word: Text and Context, A Gallery Guide, Krannert Art
Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Altered States, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Outdoor Sculpture Show: Chicago Artists from Chicago Galleries,
Sculpture Works/Klein Art Works, Chicago
For the Birds: Artists Examine Aviary Abodes, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Object/Obsession, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
Regarding Art: Artworks about Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI
Seventieth Annual Artist Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago
1988 Seymour Rosofsky and the Chicago Imagist Tradition, UWM Art
Museum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hothouse, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Chicago Now, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN
In the Folk Tradition: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Mitchell
Museum, Mount Vernon, IN
Chicago by the Square Foot, Randolph Street Gallery Betsy Rosenfield
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sixty-Eight Annual Artist Members Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago
The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1987 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
The House Show, Missouri Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Recent Art from Chicago, Artists Space, New York
Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions, Rockford Art Museum
Sixty-Sixth Annual Artists Members Exhibition, Arts Club of
Chicago
Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, Indianapolis Museum
of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985 New Traditions in Sculpture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Traveled: Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; Freeport Art Museum, IL; St. Xavier College, Monmouth, IL; Peoria Art Guild, IL; Parkland College, Champaign, IL
Basically Boxes, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collection Artists Select: Inaugural Exhibit, State of Illinois Art Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Artist Members: Works on Paper and
Sculpture, Arts Club of Chicago
1984 Eightieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Artist Members: Paper and Sculpture,
Arts Club of Chicago
Small But Hot!: Sculpture by Seventeen Artists, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
Sculptural Invitational, College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio
Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
1983 Contemporary Chicago Imagists, Illinois Wesleyan University, Merwyn
and Wakeley Galleries, Bloomington
Remains to Be Seen, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Fans, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
The House That Art Built, California State University, Fullerton
Chicago Artists: Continuity and Change, Printers Square, Chicago, IL
Habitats, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1982 Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, Arts Club
of Chicago
Hot Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Poetic Objects, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Chicago Imagists, Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper
Gallery, MO
Chicago Now, Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1981 Collage and Assemblage, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Traveled:
Tampa Museum of Art, FL; Alexandria Museum, Visual Arts
Center, LA; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, VA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
City Sculpture, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
Collector's Choice, St. Louis Art Museum
The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, Lawndale Annex Gallery,
University of Houston
Hats, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1980 Collage I, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Selections from the Collection of Arthur Paul and the Paintings and
Drawings of Arthur Paul, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago
Some Recent Art from Chicago, Ackland Art Museum, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sixtieth Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, Arts Club
Chicago
1980 Professors of Art in Northern Illinois, The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell,
Chicago, Traveled: Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Highland Park Library, IL; Fine Arts Gallery, Triton College, River Grove, IL; Libertyville Arts Center, IL
Art Work: Chicago Corporations Collect, Chicago Public Library Cultural
Center
Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
1979 Thirty-First Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield
100 Artists 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago
1978 The Flower Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
The Art of Playboy from the First Twenty-Five Years, Chicago Public
Library Cultural Center
1976 Historic Panoramic Abra Cadabra, Hyde Park Art Center
Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!, Gallery 2269, Chicago
1975 Dolls and Other Effigies, John Micharl Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI
1973 Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
1972 Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Traveled:
New York Cultural Center
Santi-Cloth, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Point Counterpoint: Don Baum and June Leaf, Galerie le Chat Bernard,
Chicago
1971 The New Curiosity Show, Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago
Art after Art, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Astrology is the Clock of Destiny, Hyde Park Art Center
Beyond Illustration: The Art of Playboy, Rotunda della Besana, Milan. Traveled: Royal College of Art, London; Koniklijk Museum voor
Schone Kunst, Antwerp; Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands; Kunstverein, Hannover, West Germany; Neu Galerie im Altenkurhaus, Aachen, West Germany; Kunstverein Munchen, Munich; Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lusanne, Switzerland; Central Museum of Art Tokyo.
1970 Famous Artists from Chicago, Art Gallery, Sacramento State College, CA.
Traveled: San Francisco Art Institute Galleries, CA. (as Surplus Slop from the Windy City) Madison Art Center, WI
Thirty Works by Thirty Artists to Celebrate the Thirtieth Year of Hyde
Park Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Don Baum Says Chicago Needs Famous Artists, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
Nonplussed Some - Some More, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1968 Fantasy and Figure: Chicago Art Since World War II, American
Federation of Arts, New York
Illinois Sculptors: Baum, Ferrai, Gallo, Mann, Schnackenberg, Urban,
Illinois Arts Council, Chicago
After the Afternoon, Participating Artists of Chicago and Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
1967 Portraits of LBJ, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Twentieth North Mississippi Valley Artists Exhibition, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
Seventieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
The Art of Assemblage, Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI
1966 Sculpture: The Heavy Show, Phalanx and Kendall College Gallery,
Evanston, IL
Furniture: An Exhibition of Furniture-Objects by Chicago Artists, Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago
Sixty-Ninth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Three Kingdoms: Mineral, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Phalanx 3: Print, Drawing and Watercolor Exhibition, Depaul University,
Loop Junior College, Chicago and Kendall College, Evanston, IL
Painting: Red, White, and Blue, Dell Gallery, Ltd. , Chicago
Black and White, Participating Artists of Chicago and Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
Toys Made by Chicago Artists, Hyde Park Art Center
1965 Exhibition Chicago: Eighty Artists, Student Union, University of Illinois,
Circle Campus; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
The New Look in Art, Ravinia Festival, IL
Eighteenth North Mississippi Valley Artists Exhibition, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
Three Kingdoms: Animal, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Deerpath Art league Invitational Exhibit of Paintings and Sculpture:
Seventeen Artists, Deerpath Art League Recreation Hall, Lake Forest, IL
Phalanx 3, Herman Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
1964 Eye on Chicago, Herman Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
The Chicago School , Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
The Sunken City Rises: Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, Phalanx,
Herman Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Chicago Retrospective, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
The Chicago School, 1948-1954, Hyde Park Art Center
1963 Twenty-Five Chicago Artists, Tacoma Art Museum, WA. Traveled:
Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1963 New Horizons in Sculpture, North Shore Art League and International
Minerals and Chemical Company, Skokie, IL
The Hollywood Image, Hyde Park Art Center and McCormick Place Art
Gallery, Chicago
The Bridge Gallery, New York
Chicago Arts Festival, McCormick Place Art Gallery, Chicago
1962 Twelve Chicago Artists, McCormick Place Art Gallery, Chicago
Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
1961 New Horizons in Sculpture, North Shore Art League and McCormick
Place Art Gallery
Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
1960 Fifth Annual Hyde Park Art Center Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
1959 Fourth Annual Hyde Park Art Center Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park Art
Center
1958 Chicago Artists Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Art
Organizations, North Exhibition Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago
Recent Works by Chicago Area Artists, Theodore Lyman Wright Art Hall,
Beloit College, WI
1957 Exhibition Momentum: Past and Present, 1020 Art Center, Chicago
Sixty-Second American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of
Chicago
1957 1957 Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago and
Chicago Art Organizations, North Exhibition Hall, Navy Pier,
Chicago
The Ravinia Festival Art Exhibit, Ravinia Festival Art Association and
Casino Gallery, IL
1956 Don Baum, Regina Kirshner: Paintings, Collages and Constructions,
Ruth White Gallery, NY
Fifty-Ninth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Momentum 1956, 72 East 11th Street, Chicago
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
The Studio, Chicago Hyde Park Art Center Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
1955 Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago Exhibition for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Aesthetics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
1954 Momentum Midcontinental, Institute of Design, Chicago
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
1953 Society for Contemporary Art Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute
of Chicago
Work of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, North Shore Art League,
Community House, Winnetka, IL
Recent Paintings by Milli Metzenberg and Don Baum, Newman Brown
Gallery, Chicago
1952 Fifty-Sixth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Artist Members, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1951 Fifty-fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Paintings by Gertrude Abercrombie and Don Baum, The New Studio,
Chicago
1950 The Modern Artists' Guild First Annual Exhibition, Mandel Brothers
Galleries, Chicago
1949 Paintings by Chicago Area Painters, North Shore Art League, Community
House, Winnetka, IL
Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Artists League of the Midwest Members Exhibition, Mandel Brothers
Galleries, Chicago
North Mississippi Valley Artists: Fifth Annual Exhibition, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
1948 Artists League of the Midwest Members Exhibition, Mandel Brothers Galleries, Chicago
Exhibition Momentum, Roosevelt College, Chicago
Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
1947 Art Knows No Barriers, Artists League of the Midwest, Chicago
Abstract Art in Tempera, Student Committee of the Renaissance Society
and Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago
1946 Fiftieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
1996 Don Baum Says: Chicago Has Famous Artists, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago (co-curated with Ruth Horwich)
Grab Bag, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1994 Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Death, Reverence, and the
Struggle for Equality in America, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago (co-curated with Bruce Linn)
55th Hyde Park Art Center Anniversary Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago (co-curated with Ruth Horwich)
1993 Matta: Works from Chicago Collections, Arts Club of Chicago
1990 Visions: Expressions beyond the Mainstream from Chicago Collections,
Arts Club of Chicago
1988 Works by Chicago Women, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Veron, IL
Urgent Messages, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
Alice Lauffer: A Retrospective Exhibition, Illinois State Museum,
Springfield; State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago
1983 Raoul Hague: Sculpture, Arts Club of Chicago
1975 Made in Chicago: Some Resources, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
Lithuanian-American Women Artists, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1974 Pauline Simon Retrospective, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1972 Space Oddity, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Santi-Cloth, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Avick, Garcia, Kenna, Quiriconi, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Miyoko Ito, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1971 Astrology is the Clock of Destiny, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago Antigua, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Exquisite Corpse, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Harris, Kowalski, Lamantia, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Klement, Simon, Scarff, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1970 Hilson, Bushman, Nichols, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Halkin, Brumfield, Paulsen, Borge, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Mahmoud, Hickman, Long, Ferstman, Hyde Park Art Center
Preview, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Marriage Chicago Style, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1969 Don Baum Says Chicago Needs Famous Artists, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
False Image II, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Thirty Works by Thirty Artists to Celebrate the Thirtieth Year of the Hyde
Park Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1969 Made in Macomb, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Non Plussed Some More, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1968 False Image, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
After the Afternoon, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Non Plussed Some, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1968 The Body, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Hairy Who III, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1967 Boutin - Bubalo, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Illinois Painters I, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago
DeKalb, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Hairy Who II, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1966 Toys, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Furniture-Objects, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Hairy Who, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Three Kingdoms: Mineral, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1965 Three Kingdoms: Vegetable, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Three Kingdoms: Animal, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago School 1960-1965, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1964 Elena Cibula, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago School 1955-1960, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago School 1948-1954, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
New Acquisitions of Hyde Park Collectors, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago
The World of Pure Painting (The Florsheim Collection), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1961 Collage & Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago III,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago II, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Chicago I, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Past & Present, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1959 Jane Richmond, Jane Stevens, Marianne Leland, Janina Marks, Betty
Francis, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1956 Marta Huth, Victor Victoring, Robert Kuennen, Robert Natkin, Natsuko
Takehita, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Constance Cohen, George Cohen, Miyoko Ito, Seymour Rosofsky,
Richard Hunt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1955 Gertrude Abercrombie, Leah Balsham, Walter Boyer, Laura Van
Pappelendam, Margaret Via, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1997 Juror, Distilled Life, Prairie State College Foundation, Chicago Heights
Juror, 21st Annual Baer Competition Beverly Art Center
1979-95 Exhibition Advisory Committee, Chicago Cultural Center
1977-79 International Exhibitions Committee, Washington, D. C.
1974-86 Board of Trustees, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(Chairman, Exhibitions Committee, 1974-79)
1973 American Commissioner, United States entry in Sao Paulo Bienal,
Made in Chicago. Traveled: National Collection, Washington D. C. ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1971-82 Trustee, Koffler Foundation Collection, Chicago
1970-82 Visual Arts Consultant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Arthur Anderson Consulting, Chicago
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN.
Equitable Life Assurance Society, Northbrook, IL.
First National Bank of Chicago
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City
Illinois Collections, State of Illinois Center, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Madison Art Center, WI.
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D. C.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Art, Philadelphia
Rayovac Corporation, Madison, WI.
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.
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