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Mercedes Matter (1913-2001)


Provincetown , ca. 1937

 

 

 

Tabletop Still Life ca.1938-40

 

 

 

 

Tabletop Still Life 1954-56

 

 

 

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In Context


EDUCATION

Arthur B. Carles
Lu Duble
Maurice Stern
Alexander Archipenko
Hans Hofmann

EXPERIENCE
W.P.A. Mural projects:
Worked on projected mural with Fernand Leger
Founding member of American Abstract Artists
Founder, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

GROUP SHOWS
American Abstract Artists, 1936-42
Stable Gallery, annual shows, 1950’s
Peridot Gallery, early 1950’s
Tanager Gallery, annual exhibitions, 1950’s
Selections from collection of Mrs. Henry Epstein,
Goucher College, 1963
“Drawings,” University of Texas at Austin, 1966
Artists who had studied with Hans Hofmann, traveling
exhibition, opened at Museum of Modern Art
Painterly Representation, Ingber Gallery, 1975
and repeated shows until the late 1980’s
Visual Arts-Business and Creativity, Guilford College, 1982
Figural Art of the New York School, Baruch College Gallery, 1985
Drawing: Minneapolis College of Art, 1985
Colby College Museum of Art, 1987
Gallery of the New York Studio School
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton
Vered Gallery, East Hampton
Parrish Museum, Southampton, 1989-90
Women Artists of the Fifties, Janis Gallery

TWO-PERSON SHOWS
Gallery Schlesinger, with Fritz Bultman, 1982
American University, with Charles Cajori, 1988

ONE-PERSON SHOWS
Tanager Gallery, 1956
Weintraub Gallery, 1963
Miami University, 1970’s
Brandeis University, 1973
Yale Norfolk, 1978
Gallery of the New York Studio School, 1979
Washington Art Association, 1979
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, 1986

COLLECTIONS
Ciba Geigy
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C
Miami University
Parrish Museum, Southampton
Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Willem deKooning
Leo Castelli
Private Collections

MONOGRAPHS
Hans Hoffman, Arts and Architecture, 1945
Franz Kline, Village Scene, 1955
Earl Kerkham, Village Scene, 1955
Buckminister Fuller, Architectural Forum
Alberto Giacometti, Art News, 1960
Alberto Giacometti, Life Magazine, 1966
On Drawing
“It Is,” 1961
Catalogue, Museum at Austin, Texas, 1965
On Art Education
Art News, 1963
New York Times, Arts & Leisure, 1973

BOOKS
Text for book of photographs of Alberto Giacometti by
Herbert Matter, Abrams

TEACHING
Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) 1953-65
Pratt Institute, 1955-64
New York University, 1959-63
New York Studio School, 1964-94

VISITING
Antioch College
Brandeis University
Cincinnati School of Art
Kansas City Art Institute
Maryland Institute
Yale University
Yale Norfolk
Skowhegan
American University (Washington, D.C.)
Honorary Degrees & Awards
Philadelphia College of Art
Maryland Institute
College Art Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, 1978

 

 

 

 

 

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