Born in 1929 in Montreal, Canada
Currently lives and works in New York, NY, United States
Education
1950 - 1954
Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina, United States
2002
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2016
Artium Doctor in Mathematics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States
Awards
2020
Guild Hall, New York, NY, United States
2018
International Print Center New York, Spring Benefit Dinner Honoree, United States
2016
Bowdoin College, Honorary Doctorate, United States
2009
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award, United States
2007
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Lee Krasner Award, United States
2003
Art Omi International, Francis J. Greenberger Award, United States
2002
National Academy of Design, Pike Award for Watercolor, United States
National Academy of Design, Adolph & Clara Abrig Prize for Watercolor, United States
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, United States
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, United States
2001
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, United States
1999
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award in Art, United States
1997
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc., Award, United States
1986
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Milton and Sally Avery Distinguished Professor, United States
1985
Brandeis University, Creative Arts Award, United States
1984
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Visiting Artist, United States
1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, F.L.M. Witkowsky Painting Award, United States
1974
National Endowment for the Arts, United States
1972
Guggenheim Fellow, United States
1963
Walter Guttman Foundation, United States
1957
Walter Gutman Emerging Artist Award, United States
1950
Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC, Entrance Scholarship, United States
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada, Merit Scholarship, Canada
Montreal Museum School, Montreal, Canada, Arthur Lismer Merit Scholarship, Canada
Residencies
1997
Artist in Residence, Bellagio Study Center, Italy
1991
Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Collections (selection)
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA, United States
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Achenbach Collection, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, CA, United States
Pitney Bowes Corporation, Stamford, CT, United States
Richard Brown Baker Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, United States
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, United States
The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, United States
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, United States
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, United States
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, United States
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, United States
University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst, MA, United States
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, United States
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States
Ross Art Collection, Ross School of Business, MI, United States
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, United States
Lannan Art Collection, Santa Fe, NM, United States
AT & T Art Collection, New York, NY, United States
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, United States
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, United States
The Continental Corporation, New York, NY, United States
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, United States
Estee Lauder Cosmetics, Inc., New York, NY, United States
Gilman Paper, New York, NY, United States
Merrill Lynch Corporation, New York, NY, United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
The National Academy of Design Museum, NY, United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, United States
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, United States
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, United States
PepsiCo, Purchase, NY, United States
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, United States
Aacken Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, United States
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, United States
Art Gallery, University of Ohio at Columbus, OH, United States
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, United States
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, United States
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Maslow Collection, Marywood University, Scranton, PA, United States
Mellon Financial Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, United States
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, United States
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, United States
Selected Artworks
