Nasce a
Kansas City nel Missouri, nel 1923. Si forma presso il Kansas City Art
Institute dal 1937 al 1942; dal 1948 è a New York all’Art Students League, dove
segue i corsi di Yasuo Kuniyoshi e Morris Kantor.
Nel 1951
utilizza per la prima volta la tecnica del dripping. Lo stesso anno viaggia in Europa, Italia e Spagna, trasferendosi a Parigi nel ’53
dove stringe legami con Restany, Tapié, Dubuffet e Tobey. Nel 1954 si tiene la
sua prima personale a Parigi presso lo Studio Facchetti. Dalla metà degli anni Cinquanta, l'artista divide il suo tempo tra New York e Parigi.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:
1954
Parigi,
Studio Paul Facchetti
Francoforte,
Zimmergalerie Franck
1955
Seattle, Zoe Dusanne Gallery
1956
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1957
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1958
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1959
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1960
Stoccarda,
Galerie d’Art Moderne
Los Angeles,
Esther Robles Gallery
New York,
Martha Jackson Gallery
1961
Parigi, Galerie Karl Flinker
1962
Zurigo,
Galerie Lienhard
Milano,
Toninelli Arte Moderna
Colonia,
Kolnischer Kunstverein
1963
Toronto,
Gallery Moos
Londra,
Arthur Tooth & Sons
1964
Tokyo, Tokyo
Gallery
Copenaghen,
American Art Gallery
Hannover,
Kestner-Gesellschaft, retrospettiva
1965
Copenaghen,
Court Gallery
Scottsdale,
Gallery of Modern Art
1966
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1968
Lucerna,
Galerie Raber
Parigi,
Galerie Daniel Gervis
New York,
Martha Jackson Gallery
1970
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1971
Chicago,
Richard Gray Gallery
Houston,
Museum of Fine Arts, retrospettiva
1972
San
Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, retrospettiva
Londra,
Gimpel Fils
1973
Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma Art Center
Parigi,
Galerie Karl Flinker
1974
Charleroi,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, retrospettiva
Colonia,
Baukunst Galerie
1975
Monaco,
Galerie Tanit
New York,
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer
1976
Chicago, Samuel Stein Gallery
1977
Zurigo,
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie
Ginevra, La
Galerie Cours Saint-Pierre
1978
Parigi,
Balcon des Arts
Torino,
Galleria d’Arte Narciso
Seattle,
Diane Gilson Gallery
Chicago,
Samuel Stein Gallery
1980
Palm
Springs, Palm Springs Desert Museum, retrospettiva
Londra,
Gimpel Fils
Parigi,
Galerie Karl Flinker
1982
Zurigo,
Nicoline Pon Gallery
Dallas,
Contemporary Gallery
1983
New York,
Alex Rosenberg Gallery
Parigi,
Galerie Georges Fall
Amherst,
Mead Art Museum
1985
Stoccolma,
Gallery Art Atrium
New York,
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery
1986
Roma, MR
Galleria d’Arte Contemporaneo
Tokyo,
Gallery Art Point
Losanna,
Focus Gallery
1987
Chicago,
Samuel Stein Gallery
Antibes,
Musée Picasso, retrospettiva
Stoccolma,
Galleri Atrium
1988
New York,
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery
Bologna,
Galleria La Loggia
Parigi,
Galerie Patrice Trigano
1990
Tokyo,
Gallery Art Point
Parigi,
Galerie Patrice Trigano
1991
Londra,
Gimpel Fils
New York,
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery
1992
New York,
Associated American Artists
Zurigo,
Roswitha Haftmann Gallery
1993
Parigi,
Yoshii Gallery
New York,
Associated American Artists
1994
San Francisco, Pasquale Iannetti Gallery
1995
Zurigo,
Galerie Proarta
New York,
Associated American Artists
1996
Milano, Lorenzelli Arte
1997
Zurigo,
Galerie Proarta
Parigi,
Galerie Georges Fall
Youngstown,
Butler Institute of American Art
1998
New York, Joseph Rickards Gallery
1999
Parigi,
Galerie Patrice Trigano
New York,
Joseph Rickards Gallery
2000
Vicenza,
Basilica Palladiana
Florida,
Vero Beach Museum of Art, retrospettiva
2001
Zurigo, Galerie Proarta
2003
Londra,
Redfern Gallery
Charlotte,
Jerald Melberg Gallery
2005
Prato,
Galleria Open Art
Zurigo,
Galerie Proarta
Lille,
Palais des Beaux-Arts
2007
Venezia,
Galleria Open Art
Londra,
Redfern Gallery
2009
New York,
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Jacksonville,
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
2010
Prato,
Galleria Open Art
Prato,
Palazzo Pacchiani
Sacramento,
Crocker Art Museum
2011
Londra, The Redfern Gallery
2014
Prato, Museo
di Pittura Murale
Prato,
Galleria Open Art
New York,
Robert Miller Gallery
2015
Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art
2017
Mill Valley, Robert Green Fine Arts
2018
Londra, Redfern Gallery
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE:
1954
Parigi,
Galerie Arnaud, Divergences
Parigi,
Studio Paul Facchetti, Groupe 1954
1955
Parigi,
Petit Palais, Artistes Estrangers en
France
Saarbrucken,
Saarland Museum, Kunst 1955
1956
New York,
The Museum of Modern Art (itinerante), Recent
American Watercolors
Parigi,
Galerie Arnaud, Sculpteurs et Peintres
Abstrait Américains de Paris
1957
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Young
America – Thirty American Painters and Sculptors under Thirty-five
Chicago, Art
Institute of Chicago, Annual
1958
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art (itinerante), Nature in Abstraction
Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, The
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Sculpture
1959
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Twentieth Biennial Watercolor Exhibition
1961
New York,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial
Indianapolis,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and
Sculpture Today
New York,
Guggenheim Museum, Abstract
Expressionists and Imagists
1962
Londra,
Royal Academy of Arts, Primitives to
Picasso
Parigi,
Musée de Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Antagonismes
2 L’Object
1963
Londra,
Royal Academy of Arts, Art USA Now
Indianapolis,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and
Sculpture Today
1964
Londra, Tate Gallery, Paintings and Sculptures of a Decade
1965
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Art USA Now-The Johnson Collection
1966
Amsterdam,
Stedelijk Museum, Peter Stuyvesant
Collection
Copenaghen,
American Art Gallery, International Art:
1965-1966
1967
New York,
Museum of Modern Art, The 1960s: Painting
and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art Collection
Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, The
1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Saint-Paul-de-Vence,
Fondation Maeght, Dix And d’Art Vivant:
1955 – 1965
1971
Wilmington,
Delaware Art Museum, American Painting
since World War II
New York,
Finch College Museum, Art from the Chase
Manhattan Bank Collection
1973
San Pietroburgo, The Museum of Fine Arts, (itinerante) Flowing Form
1974
Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Inaugural Exhibition
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture
Today
1977
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, American Postwar
Painting from the Guggenheim Collection
Parigi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Quelques Américains à Paris
1982
Parigi, Paris Art Center, Les Américains de Paris
1984
Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Homer, Sargent and the
American Watercolor Tradition
Troyes, Musée d’Art Moderne de Troyes, Aspects de la Peinture
Contemporaine – 1945-1983
1985
Osaka, National Museum of Art, Action et Emotion, Peinture des Années 50, Informel, Gutai, Cobra
1987
Canberra, Australian National Gallery, The Spontaneous Gesture, Prints and books of the Abstract Expressionist era
1988
Londra, Gimpel Fils, The Fifties and the Sixties
Arles, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Naissance d’un collection
1989
Parigi, Hotel de Ville, La Passion de Dunkerque
Parigi, L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, La Paysage dans l’Art Contemporain
1991
Londra, The Tate Gallery, The Helena and Kenneth Levy Bequest,
Fourteen Twentieth Century Works for the Collection
New York, Associated American Artists, Masters of Contemporary
Printmaking
1992
Parigi, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, L’Art Actif-Art
Works: La Collection Fondation Petere Stuyvesant
Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, Abstract Expressionism: The
Haskell Collection
1993
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Collection de la Fondation
Maeght: un choix de 150 oeuvres
New York, Associated American Artists, From Intimate to Monumental
1994
New Britain, New Britain Museum of American Art, Whistler to Dine: Important Prints from the collection
1995
Stanford, Stanford University Museum of Art, Collecting for
Stanford: Selected Acquisitions 1990-95
Lawrence, Spencer Museum of Art (itinerante), Unpainted to the Last:
Moby Dick and 20th Century Art
1997
Torino, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; Toulouse,
Espace d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse, Michel Tapié – Un Art
Autre
New York, Associated American Artists, Francis Jenkins Mathieu
1998
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Masters of Color and Light, Homer,
Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
Montréal, Musée de l’art contemporain de Montréal, Ligne
Courbe=Curved Line
Ville de Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Mons, Fruits d’une
Passion
1999
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Vision Nouvelle
2001
Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s
Collection
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum; Southampton, Parrish Museum, The
Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints
2003
San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, Tradition and Innovation in
European Modernist Drawings and Watercolors
Angers, Présence d’Art Contemporain, Trésors du XXe Siècle dans les
Collections
2004
Jacksonville, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the
Haskell Collection
Palm Springs, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Modernism and Abstraction
2006
Parigi, Musée du Luxembourg, L’Envolée Lyrique: Paris 1945-1956
New York, D. Wigmore Fine Art, A Century of American Art
2007
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice
and America, 1950-2006
New York, National Academy, 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary
American Art
Londra, The Royal Academy of Arts, London Original Print Fair
2009
San Jose, San Jose Museum of Art, Juici Paint
Boca Raton, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Expanding Boundaries – Lyrical
Abstraction
2010
Norfolk, Chrysler Museum, Action Painting in the Chrysler
Easton, Academy Art Museum, Modern Drawings: Tracing 100 Years
Tucson, Tucson Museum of Art, Into the Void: Abstract Art, 1948-2008
2011
Florida, Vero Beach Museum, American Masterworks: 150 Years of
American Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art
New York, ACA Galleries, Fragments 1915-2011: Modern and
Contemporary Collage
2013
Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, Made in the USA – From the
Abstract Expressionist to the Color Field Painters
Prato, Galleria Open Art, Abstract and Figurative Art from 1900 to
the Present
2014
Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, Rothko to Richter:
Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell
Washington, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Gravity’s edge
2016
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Espace, Espaces!
Zurigo, Galeria Proarta, The Power of Colour
2017
Venezia, Palazzo Fortuny, Intuition
Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art, 100 Years of
American Printmaking
2018
Jacksonville, Museum of Contemporary Art, Painting the Picture:
Works from the Permanent Collection
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Lost, Loose and Loved:
Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968
2019
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Artistic License: Six Takes on the
Guggenheim Collection
Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art, Echoing Forms: American Abstraction from
the Permanent Collection
New York, Morgan Library & Museum, By Any Means: Contemporary
Drawings from the Morgan
