Chronology

1940

Graduated from high school, Grantie City, Illinois

1940-1943

Southern Illinois University

1943-1946

U.S. Army Signal Corp, served in New Guinea and the Philippines

1946

Graduated from Southern Illinois University, with history and philosophy majors

1947

Independent study of art

1948-1951

Studied with Hans Hofmann. Worked toward M.A. in art history, Columbia University; M.A. degree awarded 1956, with thesis on Arshile Gorky, completed under Meyer Schapiro

1951

Summer as fellow at Yaddo; exhibited at Circle in the Square

1954

First one-man show, Artists Gallery, New York City

1955

Member Hansa Gallery, New York City

1958

Exhibition, Artists Gallery, New York City

1960

Started teaching, Ohio State University; exhibition, Artists Gallery, New York City

1961

Started teaching, Philadelphia College of Art; exhibited at Ohio State University and Pennsylvania Academy shows (also 1962, 1963, 1964)

1963

First prize, National Drawing Exhibition, Philadelphia

1964

Third prize, Drawing Society Exhibition, Philadelphia

1965

American Federation of the Arts traveling show, "Drawing U.S.A."; one-man show, Swarthmore College

1967

Left Philadelphia to teach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; series of one-man shows (1967, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1984, 1986); published "Plastic Art of the Sixties," Art Journal

1969

Toulouse-Lautrec published by McGraw-Hill

1971

Cité des Arts Internationale, Paris, for six months; work in group show there

1972

"Sex in the Art of Toulouse-Lautrec," published in Human Sexuality, April

1973

Read paper, "Formalism in Dada, Constructivism and the New Arts," College Art Association

1974

Awarded CAPS grant by New York State Council on the Arts

1977

Mini-retrospective, "Works on Paper 1957-77," Everson Museum, Syracuse

1978

Winter at Ossabaw Island Project, Savannah, Georgia

1979

Summer in Taiwan, studying and painting

1980

Tour of mainland China (Hobart and William Smith Colleges grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)

1981

Exhibition, Cornell University

1983

Three months in China: Bejing, Xian, Suzhou, Shanghai

1984

Large exhibition, "Landscapes from the Past Thirty Years," Hobart and William Smith Colleges

1987

Fellow at NEH Institute, "Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts"

1987

Three months independent work in Beijing, studying and talking to painters; guest of Normal College of Foreign Languages; travel to Guilin, Yangshou, Chengde, Jinan, Hong Kong

1989

Five weeks in Taiwan, studying and painting

1989

Geneva Mural Project: 11' x 48' mural in downtown Geneva

1990

Synthesis---faculty lecture, "Another Look at Modernism"

1990

Summer in Taipei, Taiwan, studying lotus paintings at the Palace Museum

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