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Biography
born in Bronx, NY
Education
B.A, New York University
M.A., Boston University, Boston, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Teaching
1971– 93 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
1984 Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center, Harvard University
Grants
2000 Artist Resource Trust Grant
1994 Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
1976 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1976 Yaddo Residency
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001
University of Massachusettes, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
1998
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
1995
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
Margaret Lipworth Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1987
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984
Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980
Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1977
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
1975
Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
1974
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
" Recent Drawings and Water colors”, Hayden Corridor Gallery; MIT Cambridge, MA
1973
Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1972
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
"Tracing the Sublime" Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2002
"Transcendnent and Unrepentant" Rosenwolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
“Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI “Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999
“Current Abstract Painting,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA “Unlocking the Grid,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of RI, Kingston, RI
1998
“Group Show,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Order/Disorder: Natalie Alper, Lydia Dona, Mary Heilmann & Jacqueline Humphries, “Bell Gallery; List Visual Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
“Drawing Invitational”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1991
“American Abstraction at the Addison”, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
1987
“Drawings from the Eighties,” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1985
“Drawing National” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1982
“A Private Vision: Graham Gund Collection” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1977
“Invitational American Drawings”, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1976
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
“Boston Watercolor Today” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1975
Contemporary Drawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Works on Paper” Parsons-Truman Gallery, New York, NY
1974
“New Talent” Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1973
“New American Graphic Art” Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
“Boston Collects Boston” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971
“Traveling Fellows” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Selected Museum Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for the GraphicArts, San Francisco, CA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Selected Bibliography
2001 Betsy Siersma, “Undercurrents,” Catalogue, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1999
Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 19 Gregory Wallace, Art New England, April/May
1998
Barry Schwabsky, “Between Matter and Spirit,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA Ricardo Viera, “Interview with the Artist,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 25
Joanne Silver, The Boston Herald, February 20
1996
Ann Wilson Lloyd, Art in America, January
Barry Schwabsky, “Abstraction and Entropy,” Catalogue: “Order, Disorder,” List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1995
Mary Sherman, The Boston Herald, May 5 Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 25
1994
Addison Parks, The Christian Science Monitor, September 26
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, September 29
Charles Giuliano, The Improper Bostonian, September
1992
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, May 28
1991
Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post, June 8
1989
Stephen Westfall, Catalogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Sunday Globe, May 28
Francine Koslow, Contemporanea, October
David Raymond, Art New England, September 3
Francine Koslow, Art Forum, October
David Bonetti, Art News, November
1987
Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "College Presents Energetic Abstractions," The News & Courier/The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, November 22
Michael Phillips, Catalogue, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984
Nancy Miller, Catalogue, Helen Shlien Gallery
Kenneth Baker, The Boston Phoenix, March 17
1983
Sarah McFadden, Art in America, May
1982
The List, 6th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
Nan Burks Freeman, "Boston Makes Its Mark," Drawing Magazine, June
Christine Temin, "Natalie Alper's Quiet Corners," The Boston Globe, May 18
Pamela Allara, "A Boston School: Four Artists,"Tufts University Catalogue
1980
Nan Freeman, Art New England, July
Pamela Allara, Art News, September
The List, 5th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
1979
Josephine Withers, Women Artists in Washington Collections
1978
Benjamin Forgey, Art News, January Martha McWilliams Wright, Art International, January
Ann H. Murray, Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Catalogue, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1977
Washington Calendar Magazine, October
Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, October 16
Christopher C. Cook, Catalogue, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1976
Kay Larson, Art News, April
Robert Taylor, Boston Water Color Today, February 1
1975
Channing Gray, Providence Journal
1974
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, May 5
1973
Boston Collects Boston, Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, March 11