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francis cunningham biography Francis Cunningham PERSONAL HISTORY 1931 Born in New York City 1953 A.B. Harvard College 1953-56 U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Captain 1955-59 The Art Student's League, New York City (Studied with Edwin Dickinson and Robert Beverly Hale) 1992 The National Academy of Design, Elected Associate 1994 The National Academy of Design, Elected Academician SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 "Saints" St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY 2008 “Exploring the Still Life” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2005 “A Generalist Painter” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2004 “From Israel to Iceland” (Online exhibition) Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2004 “Summer in the Berkshires” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2003 “Dealer’s Choice” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2002 “Forty Years of Painting” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2000 “Landscapes” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 1998 Pro Persona Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 1995 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen, Denmark, Life Size Nudes 1989 Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 1987 Danish Consulate, Icelandic and Danish Landscape, New York City 1982 New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture: Life-size figure paintings, New York City 1975 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City 1971 Welles Gallery, Lennox, Massachusetts 1971 Michelson Gallery, Washington D.C. 1970 Distelheim Galleries, Chicago, Illinois 1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City 1969 The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City 1966 Harry Salpeter Gallery, New York City 1964 Waverly Gallery, New York City SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2005 “Garden Party” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2004 “Conversations” Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and New York 2004 “Bread and Fruit” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2003 “Recent Landscape Paintings” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2003 Pennsylvania Academy, Pennsylvania 2003 National Academy of Design, NYC 2002 “Paintings of Israel” Gallerie Susanne Hojriis, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002 Federation of Modern Painters, New York City 2002 “Painting” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2002 “Using Double Vision”, Manhattan, NY 2001 “Creative Mind”, Manhattan, NY 2001 “Summer Landscapes” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, New Jersey 2001 “50th Anniversary” Federation of Modern Painters, ASL, NYC 2001 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY (Instructors and Hale Invitational) 2001 Federation of Modern Painters, New York, NY 1999 The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (4 American and selected Israeli Landscapes) 1995 First Street Gallery, New York, NY: The Human Presence (4 Person Show) 1986-present The Century Association, New York City (Annually) 1969-present National Academy of Design, New York City (Annuals) 1994 Hunter College, New York City. Invitational 1994 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: The Allegorical Table 1993 Hunter College, New York City. Invitational 2005 “Dealer’s Choice” Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 1993 Franciscan Province, New York, NY. Saints and Monastics (2 person) 1989 Art 54, New York City, Figure, Form and Landscape 1980 Harmon Gallery, Naples, Florida: Contemporary American Realists 1979 Forum Gallery, New York City, Landscapes (two man show) 1974 Butler Institute of American Art, Toungstown, Ohio 1974 Lowe Art Museum, Tampa, Florida: Contemporary Portraits 1973 Lincoln, Nebraska: The Sense of Place 1972 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio 1971 Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Realist Invitational 1971 Suffolk Museum, Stonybrook, New York: The Contemporary Figure 1967 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio 1966 Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1966 Flint, Michigan: Realism Revisited GRANTS AND AWARDS 2004 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal, Artists Equity, New York 1998 Giula Palermo Award 1998 Giula Paleruo Award 1997 Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Italy, New York 1997 Audubon Artists Annuals, New York 1993 Mervin Honig Award 1985 Joseph Raskin Award 1980 Certificate of Merit 1977 Minnie Stern Award 1977 Salmagundi Award 1974 Artist in Residence, The Sense of Place, Manhattan, Kansas 1973 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 1968 Purchase Award, Berkshire Museum 1965 Peebles Award, Berkshire Museum PUBLICATIONS 1998-present Articles in Linea, The Art Students League of New York 1964 Illustrated Fundamentals of Roentgenology, By Dr. Lucy Frank Squire, Harvard University Press 1962 Polykleitos' Diadoumenos': Measurement and Animation, with D.E. Gordon, The Art Quarterly, 1962 TEACHING 2004-present Occasional master classes at the Art Students League; The National Academy of Design; Betzalel, Jerusalem; The Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem 1983-1985 Founder and Co-director, The New York Academy of Art 1980-1983 Founder and Co-director, The New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture 1980-1983 The Art Students League of New York 1962-1980 The Brooklyn Museum Art School 1962-1965 The City College of New York |