biographie de Samuel Marcus ADLER (1898-1979)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: NAD, with Leon Kroll & Charles Louis Hinton.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1948, 1951 (J. Henry Schiedt Mem. Prize), 1952, 1953 & 1968; Univ. Illinois, 1949-53, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967 & 1971; American Painting Today, MMA, 1950; AIC; WMAA Annual, 1951, 1952, 1954 (purchase award), 1955, 1956, 1957; Art USA, New York, 1962; and many others including 23 solo exhib., 1948-72; Frank Rehn Gallery, NYC, 1970s. Other awards: artist-in-residence award, Ford Found., 1965.

Member: AEA (pres., NY Chapter, 1954-55); Woodstock Artists Assoc.

Work: WMAA; Nat. Collection Fine Arts, Smithsonian Inst., Washington DC; Joseph H. Hirshhorn Mus.; Brooklyn Mus.; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Utica, NY.

Comments: Preferred media: oil, collage. Publications: illus., Candide," World Pub., 1947; contrib., Education & the imagination, Univ. Mich. Teaching: prof art., New York Univ., 1948-; prof art, Univ. Illinois, 1959-60; visiting prof. art, Univ. Georgia, 1967 & 1968.

Sources: WW73; Lee Nordness, Art USA Now (Viking Press, 1963); Allen Weller, The joys & sorrows of recent American art (Univ. Illinois Press, 1968); Graham Collier, Form, space & vision (3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1972); add'l. info. courtesy Woodstock Artists Assoc."

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