BORN

1930, Indianapolis, IN

EDUCATION

1955-56

Fulbright Fellow, State Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart, Germany

1955

M.A., University of California at Los Angeles, CA

1953

B.A., Indiana University, IN

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

1993--

Professor Emeritus, Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO

1993

Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1982-93

Professor of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1959-81

Professor of Fine Arts and Director of Graduate Painting Studies, Indiana University,

Bloomington, IN

1956-59

Artist in Residence, Reed College, Portland, OR

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003

Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2001

Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, "Blue and White Ceramic Tiles"

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, "Table Top Joys: New Still-life Paintings"

1998

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, "Grilled and Roasted, Raw and Iced, New Food and Drink Still Lifes"

Hiested Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Printworks, Ltd., Chicago, IL

The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham

1997

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA, "James McGarrell: Paintings"

Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, "The Works of James McGarrell"

1996

Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, "James McGarrell: Recent Work"

1995

The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 87, "James McGarrell: Recent Paintings"

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, "James McGarrell: Blue and White: Works on Paper and Ceramic Tile"

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, 94, 91, 89

1994

William Shearborn Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO

Printworks, Ltd., Chicago, IL, 92

Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "The Near Distance: James McGarrell's St. Louis Years"

199

The Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, "James McGarrell: Ten Years of Big Paintings"

1993

Jaffe Friede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, "Young and Old: Double Portraits of 20th Century Artists"

Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 93, 89, "Young and Old: Double Portraits of 20th Century Artists"

1992

Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, "James McGarrell: Recent Paintings and Bronze Reliefs"

1990

Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL, "The Art of James McGarrell," travelled to the Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ; Art Museum, University Museum of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL

1987

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 86, 84, 81, 77, 72, 71, 69, 66, 64, 61

Peregrine Crescent Gallery, Dallas, TX

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC

1985

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Meadows Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Signet Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1984

Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT

1982

Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1981

Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy

Clarke Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 77

1980

Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR

Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN

1979

Frumkin & Struve, Chicago, IL

1970-76

Galleria il Fante de Spade, Rome, Italy, 67

1974

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France, 70, 67

Bedford House, London, England

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, 67, 65, 62, 61

1972

Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Galleria dei Lanzi, Milan, Italy

1971-72

"The Quincy Inventions,"National Museum Tour, organized by the Quincy Art Club, IL

1965

Galleria Galatea, Turin, Italy

1964

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 62, 58, 57, 55

1959

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999-2000

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK , "Green Woods and Crystal Waters: the American Landscape Tradition since 1950, "traveling exhibition: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA

Chicago Art Institute, IL, "Drawings and Watercolors by American Realists"

The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, "The Art of Time"

1999

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, "Self Images"

1997

National Academy of Design, NY, "172nd Annual Exhibition"

Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA, "Modern Realists"

Drawing Invitational, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, VA, "Mixing Business with Pleasure"

1996

SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX, "It Figures"

The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, "48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition"The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, "American Art Today: Images from Abroad"

1994-96

The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, "Fantastic and Imaginative Art," traveling exhibition

1995

American Academy Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY

1994

Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, "American Realism and Figurative Painting"

1992

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, "Under Glass & In The Round"

1991-92

National Museum Tour, a selection of work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, "Landscape in 20th Century American Awry"

1990-91

Traveling show to five major Japanese museums, curated by John Arthur, "American Figurative and Realist Painting, 1945-1990"

1989

Charlotte, NC, "Missouri Visual Artists Biennial"

Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Louise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Land and the Elements Print"

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, "The Figure,"

1988

More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Narrative and Monument"

Art Museum, at Florida International University, Miami, FL, "American Art Today: Narrative Painting"

1987

Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, "Tragic and Timelessness Today: Contemporary History Painting"

1986

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Since 1980: New Narrative Paintings"

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, "NYC: New Work"

1986

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, "American Drawings: Realism/Idealism"

1985

Payne Gallery, Moravian College; Bethlehem, PA, "Contemporary Narrative Figure Paintings"

Sherry French Gallery, NY, "Psychologically Charged!"

Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL, "American Art Today: Still-Life"

1984

Inaugural Exhibition, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, "Artists from Indiana"

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, "The Studio"

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

1983

Traveling exhibition, organized by the Gallery Association of New York State "Twentieth Century Watercolor"

1982

Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX, "Modern American Paintings"

1982

National Pinokothiki, Athens, Greece

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, "The Human Figure in Contemporary Art"

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Carnegie International Exhibition of Contemporary Art"

1980

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, "Contemporary Drawings and Watercolors"

College of Fine Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, "Realism and Metaphor"

1978

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

University of Virginia, Richmond and Boston University, Boston, MA, "The Big Still-Life"

Whitney Museum, New York (US Touring exhibition),"Art About Art"

1977

Art Museum, Boston University, Boston, MA, "Drawings by American Realists"

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, "Premio del Fiorino Biennale Internazionale d'Arte"

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, "The Chosen Object: European and American Still Life"

1975-76

Lehigh University Art Gallery, (and Asian Tour), "Contemporary American Drawings"

1975

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, "Informal Portraits, 1970-1975"

1974

Art Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL "Contemporary American Portraits"

1973

Kansas City Art Museum, Kansas City, MO, "Six Realists"

1973

Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemparanea, Arezzo, Italy, "Una Tendenza Americana"

1971

National Academy of Design, New York

1970

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Tamarind: A Decade of Lithography"

Art Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Graham Gallery, New York, “The American Scene: 1900-1970, "Artist's Abroad"

Art Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, "Realism and Figuration"

1969

Whitney Museum, New York, NY, 63, 60, 58, 56, "Annual Exhibition"

1968-69

American Pavilion, Venice Biennial (US tour), "The Figurative Tradition in American Art"

1968

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, "Untitled"

1967

Galleria Comunale, Bologna, Italy, "Il Presente Contestato"

Lausanne, Switzerland, "Salon International des Galeries-Pilotes"

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, "Untitled"

1966

Musee des Augustins, Toulouse, France, "USA Art Vivant"

1964

Kassel, Germany, "Documenta III"

1963-64

Tate Gallery, London, England, "Dunn International"

1963

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, "Selections of Works from the Art Collections at the University of Nebraska"

San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, "Directions-American Painting"

Art Institute of Chicago, IL, "66th Annual American Exhibition"

1962

Whitney Museum, New York, NY, "Fifty California Artists"

Museum of Modern Art, New York (US tour), "Recent Paintings, USA: The Figure"

1959

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "New Images of Man"

1958

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Carnegie International"

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, HONORS

1995

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Award for "lifetime contribution to a vision which has been both consistent and dedicated"

1992

Elected Member, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1985

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1967

1975

Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship , California & New Mexico, 1962

1970

Elected Correspondent Member, Academie des Beaux-Arts de L'Institute de France

1964-65

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1963

National Institute of Arts & Letters Citation and Grant

1955

Fulbright Grant for study in West Germany

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Esplund, Lance, "James McGarrell at George Adams", Art in America, May 2000

Williams, Jonathan. "Flip Sides of a Vision", Modern Painters, Spring 1998

Winter, Roger. "On Drawing."Collegiate Press, San Diego, CA

Lucie-Smith, Edward. "New Art in an Old City," The Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA, 1994

Arthur, John. "American Realism & Figurative Painting," Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1994

Beasley, James. "James McGarrell, Ten Years of Big Paintings," Springfield Art Museum, MO, 1994

Upshaw, Reagan. "James McGarrell at Frumkin/Adams,"Art in America, July 1993

LeClair, Charles. "Color in Contemporary Painting," Watson-Guptill, New York, NY, 1991

Arthur, John. "American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952-1990," Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan, 1991

Ward, John. "American Realist Painters, 1945-1980," UMI Research Press, 1988

Jencks, Charles. "Post-Modernism, the New Classicism in Art and Architecture" Rizzoli, 1987

Martin, Alvin. "American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors" Abrams, 1986

_____. "American Prints 1960-1985," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1986

Bolt, Thomas. "James McGarrell's Universe: Realism, Magic, Abstraction & the Enigmatic Narrative,"Arts Magazine,April, 1986

McGarrell, James. "Speakeasy" feature, New Art Examiner, June 1986

Cummings, Paul. "Interview: James McGarrell Talks with Paul Cummings,"Drawings, July-Aug. 1985

Bryant, Edward. "Recent Paintings of James McGarrell,"Arts Magazine, February, 1984

O'Brien, Glenn. "James McGarrell,"Artforum, May 1984

Welish, Marjorie. "James McGarrell at Frumkin,"Art in America, Summer, 1981

Baro, Gene. "James McGarrell,"Art International, June, 1981

Lipman, Jean and Marshall, Richard. “Art About Art,” E.P. Dutton. New York, 1978

_____. "A Conversation with James McGarrell," Tamarind Technical Papers, No. 5. Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1976

Davezac, Bertrand. "James McGarrell: Lumiere Variee," Galerie Claude-Bernard. Paris, 1974

Canady, John. "Art: Symbolism of Quincy Inventions," The New York Times, May 15, 1971

Antreasian, Garo & Adams, Clinton. "The Tamarind Book of Lithography," Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, 1971

Langui, Emile et al. "Figurative Art Since 1945," New York Graphic Society and Thames Hudson, New York, NY, 1971

Geske, Norman A.. "Venice 34, the Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art," Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1968

Adrian, Dennis. "James McGarrell's Current,"Art Forum, Feb, 1967

Kozloff, Max. "McGarrell,"Art International, April, 1964

Selz, Peter. "The New Images of Man," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1959

The Anderson Museum of Contempporary Art, Roswell, NM

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock

Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia

Centre Georges Pompidou, le Collection nationale d’art contemporain, Paris

Hamburg Museum of Art, Hamburg, Germany

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Saint Louis Museum of Art, MO

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Smart Gallery of Art, University of Chicago, IL

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson

University of Kentucky Museum of Art, Lexington

University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene

Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Vincent Price Collection, University of Wichita, KS

Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY