1921 Born in Chicago Illinois
1936-41 Studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe at Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology)
1941-45 United States Army Air Force
1945 Returned to architecture studies at IIT
1946 Studied at Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy
1947-56 Lived in Paris
1947 Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
1949 Acted in Jean Cocteau’s film Orphee
1950 Married Claude Souvrain, Paris (divorced 1956)
1956 Returned to New York City
1961 Married Cary Ogle
1962 Son David born
1963 Daughter Nina born
1964-65 Lived in Paris
1965 Returned to New York City
1970-81 Lived in Millbrook, New York
1981-86 Lived in East Hampton, New York
1986 Moved to Vermont
1999 Died at home in East Wallingford, Vermont, on February 3
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 A Retrospective of Works on Paper, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
A Retrospective of Works on Paper, Galleria d’arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
Norman Bluhm: Gestural Structures 1960-65, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen, Germany
2009 Norman Bluhm, Jacobson Howard Gallery, Booth A 1, Art Basel, Miami Beach
A Retrospective of Works on Paper, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Norman Bluhm: Gestural Structures 1960-65, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin, Germany
2008 Norman Bluhm: 1956 – 1960, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, CA
2007 James Graham & Sons Gallery Booth, Art Chicago
The Late Paintings of Norman Bluhm, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Norman Bluhm: Selected Works from 1976 to 1989, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Norman Bluhm, Three Paintings, JG | Contemporary, New York, NY
Norman Bluhm, Works on Paper from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
2002 Ideal Abstraction, 1955-1965, Karl Benjamin and Norman Bluhm, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
Norman Bluhm Drawings, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2000 Norman Bluhm: Works on Paper 1948 – 1998, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1999 Norman Bluhm, A Tribute Exhibition,
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1998 Works from the 1950’s and 1960’s,
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno
1996 Opere 1993-1995,
Studio d’arte Zanoletti, Milan
12 Works on Paper,
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1995 Opere 1993-1995,
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno
Galleria Blu, Milano
1994 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, New York
1992 Works on paper, 1967-1991,
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno
The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1991 Works from the 1960’s (1960-65),
Washburn Gallery, New York,
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX (with James Surls and Robert Creeley)
1990 Works from the 1950’s,
Washburn Gallery, New York
Selected Works, 1954-1960,
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Washburn Gallery, New York
1988 Galerie Stadler, Paris
1987 Norman Bluhm, Works on Paper, 1947-1987, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, traveling to: Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana; Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania; The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery of Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York
Poem Prints, Norman Bluhm and John Yau, Cone Editions, New York
1986 Washburn Gallery, New York
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
1985 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 The Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
1982 Galerie Stadler, Paris
1977 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1976 Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Robinson Gallery, Houston
1975 Galerie Stadler, Paris
1974 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Vassar College Gallery of Art, Poughkeepsie, New York
Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, Venice, Italy
Galleria Il Cerchio, Milan
Galleria Rotta, Milan
1973 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
1972 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Stadler, Paris
1971 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
1970 Galerie Stadler, Paris
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1969 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1968 Galerie Stadler, Paris
1967 Poem-Paintings by Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm, Loeb Student
Center, New York University, NY
1965 Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris
1964 Galerie Smith, Brussels
1963 Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich
American Gallery, New York
Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris
1962 David Anderson Gallery, New York
1961 Galleria Notizie, Turin
Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago (with Larry Rivers)
Graham Gallery, New York (with Elaine de Kooning)
1960 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1959 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
1958 Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
1957 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 1959, McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Selections, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
2008 Ab(straction) & Rep(resentation), Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 New York School, Another View, Opalka Gallery, The Sages Colleges, Albany, NY
2004 An American Odyssey: 1945 - 1980, Circulo do Bellas Artes, Madrid (and other museums)
Recent Acquisitions: Framing the Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
Modern American Painting, from the N.Y.U. Art Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2003 Abstract per se, Red Dot, New York
2001 1950–1965, Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
2000 Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and 60s, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; traveling to Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
O’Hara, Bluhm & Goldberg, Un poeta e due pittori a New York negli anni ‘50, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Rocca, Chiavari, Genova
1998 Dreams for the Next Century, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1997 Bluhm, Burton, and Frank, Kunstruimte Wagemans, Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands
Colorflex, Apex Art C.P. New York
Torino Parigi New York Osaka. Tapié. Un Art Autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino; Espace d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi Pyrénées
1996 Pintura Estadounidense, Expressionismo Abstracto, Centro Cultural
Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
After Goya, a Subjective Look, Saragossa, Spain
1994 On Paper: Abstraction in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
1993 1ère Triennale des Amériques, Maubeuge, France
Blithe Spirit, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1992 Maîtres du XXème Siècle, Galerie Michel Bigué, Canada
1991 Inaugural Exhibition, Parts I and II, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris
1990 A Salute to the Signa Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris
1989 Past/Present, Washburn Gallery, New York
Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth Century Art, James A. Michener Center, Bucks County, PA
1988 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Drawing on the East End, 1940-88, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
New York
The Proof, Cone Editions, New York
Past/Present, Washburn Gallery, New York
Topics in American Art, Gallery Monochrome, Brussels
Des Américains a Paris 1950/65, Chateau de Jau, France
American Abstract Drawings, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris
1987 Inner Worlds - Fantastic Landscapes of the 1950’s, Sarah Lawrence
College Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York
Leo Castelli, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Michael Goldberg/Norman Bluhm: Painterly Direction: Spontaneity/Restraint -
Work of the fifties and sixties, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Post Abstract Expressionism, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
In Scale and Time, Washburn Gallery, New York
Prints from the Workshop of Cone Editions, Gallery North, Setauket, New York
1986 Ronald Bladen, Norman Bluhm, Alan Cote, Bill Jensen, Antine Nivola,
Jack Youngerman, Washburn Gallery, New York
1950’s American Artists in Paris, Denise Cadé Gallery, New York
1985 The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
Painting as Landscape, Views of American Modernism 1920-1984,
Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
New York
Action/Precision: 1980-85, Washburn Gallery, New York
30 Ans, Galerie Stadler, Paris
Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris
1984 Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
Zurier Collection, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1983 Art with the Touch of a Poet: Frank O’Hara, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Twenty Years of Art in France: 1960-1980, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz; Kunsthalle, Tubingen; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
Group Show, Galerie Stadler, Paris
1982 Recent Trends in Collecting Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
American Artists Abroad 1900-1950, Washburn Gallery, New York
Poets and Artists, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
1981 Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York
University, New York
1980 Contemporary American Art, Civici Musei et Galleria d’Arte, Udine, Italy
From Matisse to American Abstract Painting, Washburn Gallery,
New York
1979 Americans in Paris: The 50’s, California State University, Northridge
Art Gallery, Northridge, California
1978 Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1977 New York: The State of Art, New York State Museum, Albany
Drawing and Collage: Selections from the N. Y. U. Art Collection,
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York
1976 Around 10th Street: Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Michener Collection, University Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Salute to 76, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
1975 Color in Language, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveling to Bogota, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Mexico City, Mexico
Inaugural Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Selections from the Martha Jackson Collection, University Art Gallery,
SUNY/Albany, Albany
1974 American Art in Upstate New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo;
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany
1973 The Harold Rosenberg Collection, Montclair Museum, Montclair,
New Jersey
Art on Paper, 1973, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, University of Maryland, College Park; Finch College, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
1972 1972 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Contemporary American Painting, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York
Twelve Painters, Galleria d’Arte Pietra, Milan
From the Fifties, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1971 Art in the Embassies Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
Art on Paper, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greensboro, North Carolina
Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Accessions 1970/1971, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture from the N. Y. U. Collection,
Museum of the Hudson River, Yonkers, New York
1970 Recent Years, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Wallworks III, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
The Director’s Choice, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture from New York Galleries,
Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
The Vincent Melzac Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1969 Espaces Abstraits, Galleria d’Arte, Cortina
Selected Paintings from the Michener Collection, University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas
1968 Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, a traveling exhibition to: The Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967 The 180 Beacon Collection of American Art, 180 Beacon Street, Boston
Large Scale American Paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York
1966 Some Friends Revisited, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton
December Exhibition, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Two Decades of American Painting, International Council of the The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi
1965 A University Collects, New York University Art Collection, The American
Federation of Arts, New York University, New York
Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; U. S. Embassy, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth.
U.S.A. Nouvelle Peinture, Paris
1964 Recent Accessions Exhibition, Department of Art, University of Massachusetts
XXème Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
28 Peintres d’aujurd’hui à Paris, Galerie André Schoeller, Paris
An 7, Galerie Smith, Brussels
American Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Intuiciones y Realizaciones Formales, Centro de Artes Visuales,
Instituteo Torcuato de Tella, Buenos Aires
1963 Forum 63, Centrum voor Kunstbachten, Ghent
Robert Keene Gallery, Southampton
Longview Foundation Grants, 1962, Longview Foundation, Dillard University,
New Orleans
Eleven Americans, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Accrochage, Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich
An 6, Galerie Smith, Brussels
Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art/Art in Embassies; London,
Greece, India, Australia, New Zealand
An Exhibition of the Jean Outland Chrysler Collection, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk
1962 The James A. Michener Collection of Twentieth Century American Paintings, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Exposition Inaugurale, Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris
Contemporary Painting V, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London
L’Incontro di Torino, Palazzo della Promotrice al Valentino, Turin
Bluhm, Gallizio, Onishi, Shiraga, Tapies, Twombly, Accademia Filarmonico Letteraria, Alba
1961 American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
G. David Thompson Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Six Decades of American Painting, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Artisti Americani, Galleria Notizie, Turin
Premio Lissone, Lissone, Milan
64th Annual American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago
Recent Developments in Painting IV, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1960 Summary, 1959-1960, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Sixty American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Recent Developments in Painting III, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London
Contemporary American Painting, Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
20th Annual Exhibition, Society for Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago
To Be Continued, The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas
1959 Monogram (with Dubuffet and Rauschenberg), Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Opening of the New Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
Exposition: 100 Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Documenta II, Kassel
Actualités, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London
Abstract Impressionism, Arts Council Gallery, London
1958 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Incontro Italia-America, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Gutai 9, Osaka, Japan
The Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Collection of Vincent Melzac, Watkins Gallery, American University,
Washington, D.C.
New York Artists, Allyn Gallery, Southern Illinois University
1957 New Aspects of Space, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Gutai 8, Osaka, Japan
Rome-New York Art Foundation, Rome
New Work, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1956 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
Exposition Internationale de l’Art Actuel, Tokyo
1955 Paris 55, Stockholm
1953 Peintres américains en France, Galerie Craven, Paris
ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS
2005 “Norman Bluhm: Works on Paper from the 70s, 80s, and 90s,” Catalog for the exhibition at James Graham & Sons, New York (essays by James Harithas and John Yau
2000 “Norman Bluhm,” a monograph published by Edizioni Mazzotta (essays by James Harithas, Raphael Rubinstein, and Luigi Sansone)
2000 “Norman Bluhm, Opere su carta 1948-1999,” (Edizioni Mazzotta, Milan) catalogue of the 2000 exhibition at Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano
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