Born: Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Lakeville, CT
EDUCATION
1958 - 62 | BFA in Painting, Philadelphia College of Art, PA |
1962 - 65 | MFA in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 | "Harry Kramer: A Selection of Drawings and Paintings"; The Re Institute, Millerton, New York |
2005 | Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY |
2003 | Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY | |
1998 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1994 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1993 | Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, NY |
1991 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1987 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY |
1985 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY |
Elizabeth Galasso Fine Arts, Ossining, NY | |
1983 | Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY |
1981 | 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY |
1977 | Forum Gallery, Lexington, MD |
1976 | 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY |
1974 | 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY |
1973 | 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY |
1972 | Brata Gallery, New York, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 | "Death of Impressionism: Disruption and Innovation"; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA |
2014 | “Abstractly Speaking, Sculpture and Painting from the Permanent Collection of The Parrish Art Museum”, Watermill, NY |
2013 | “The Annual: 2013”, National Academy Museum, New York, NY |
2009 | “Recent Acquisitions” Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY |
2007 | “A Space for Dialogue”, The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
2007 | National Academy of Design, 1982 Annual, New York, NY |
2006 | “Peace Tower”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
2005 | “The Continuous Mark, Forty Years of the New York Studio School”, New York, NY |
2004 | “The Artists Eye: Wolf Kahn as Curator”, National Academy of Design, New York, NY |
2003 | “Good Things Come in Small Packages”, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY |
2002 | Clark Fine Art, Southampton, NY |
2002 | American Embassy, Vienna |
2001 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
National Academy of Design, 177 Street Annual Exhibition, New York, NY | |
1998 | “Old Friends”, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY | |
1996 | National Academy of Design, 172nd Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY | |
1995 | National Academy of Design, 171st Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY | |
National Academy of Design, 170th Annual Exhibition, NY, NY | |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY | |
1994 | National Academy of Design, Collection Update, New York, NY |
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, “Painting”, Buffalo, NY | |
1993 | The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY | |
Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY | |
1992 | Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY |
1991 | Group Exhibition, curated by Elita T. Agee, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY |
“Free Spirits”, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY | |
Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY | |
1988 | “At Home with Art”, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY |
“The Legacy of Surrealism in Contemporary Art”, Ben Shahn Galleries, William | |
Patterson College, Wayne, NJ | |
1987 | “The Presence of Nature: Some American Paintings”, Barbara Krakow Gallery, |
Boston, MA | |
1985 | “Exhibit A”, The Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, NY |
Snag Harbor Cultural Center, curated by John Perrault and Craig Mannister, | |
Staten Island, NY | |
“A Collection Grows: Recent Acquisitions of the Hudson River Museum”, | |
Yonkers, NY | |
“20 year Anniversary Exhibition”, New York Studio School, New York, NY | |
“First Anniversary”, Elizabeth Galasso Fine Arts Leasing, Ossining, NY | |
1984 | “Modern Art”, curated by John Yau and Ted Greenwald, New York, NY |
“Selections”, curated by Elaine de Kooning, Bologna and Landi Gallery, East | |
Hampton, NY | |
“25th Annual Invitational Exhibition: A Survey of Contemporary Art”, curated by | |
Julian Weissman, Zoltan Buki, Gary Reynolds and Peter Homitsky, Union, NJ | |
1983 | “Hand Thought”, Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY |
Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY | |
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT | |
“Six Painters”, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY | |
(Catalogue Essay by Peter Langlykke) | |
“Arrivals”, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY | |
“Twelve Years, An Anniversary”, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY | |
1981 | “The Henry Ward Ranger Fund Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, National |
Academy of Design, New York, NY | |
“46th Annual Art Exhibition”, Cooperstown, NY | |
“Abstract Painting, New York City 1981”, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra | |
University, NY (Catalogue Essay by Tiffany Bell) | |
1978 | Tyler Art Gallery, State University at Oswego, NY |
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY | |
1977 | Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin |
Rochester Business Community for the Arts | |
1976 | State University College at Alfred, NY |
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI | |
Fourcade, Droll, Inc., New York, NY | |
Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY | |
Olean Public Library, NY | |
1975 | Traveling Exhibition: State University College at Plattsburgh, NY; State |
University College at Oswego, NY; State University College at Buffalo, NY; | |
State University College at Albany, NY; State University College at | |
New Paltz, NY | |
1974 | Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina |
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY | |
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY | |
1973 | Washington Art Association of Connecticut |
1972 | Brata Gallery, New York, NY |
1971 | Brata Gallery, New York, NY |
O.K. Harris, New York, NY | |
1970 | New York Shakespeare Public Theatre, New York, NY |
1967 | Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY |
Fine Arts Federation of Connecticut | |
1965 | Philadelphia College of Art, PA |
1962 | Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA |
AWARDS
2014 | The Pollock Krasner Foundation |
2013 | The Robert Lehman Foundation |
1996 | Queens College, Faculty Research |
1995 | Queens College, Faculty Research |
1994 | Queens College, Faculty Research |
1983 | Queens College, Faculty Research |
1982 | Major Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts |
1977 | New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS |
1976 | Queens College, Faculty Research |
1973 | New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS |
1970 | United States Steel Company |
1964 | Alliance Francaise, Philadelphia |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
North Hall, United States District Court, Brooklyn, NY
The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Tyler Art Gallery, State University College at Oswego, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Best and Company, Ashland, VA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
CIBA Geigy Corporation, New York, NY
Davis, Polk and Wardwell, New York, NY
Ketcham and McDougal Foundation, NJ
McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
Monroe Development Services, Rochester, NY
Phillip Morris, Inc., New York, NY
Valley National Bank, CA
Waterman Management Corporation, New York, NY
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
REVIEWS
2007 | “The New York Times”, “In the 21st Century, The Persistence of Tradition, Martin Schwendener |
2006 | “Who’s Who in the World”, 23rd Edition |
2005 | “The New York Times, October 21 |
2005 | “Who’s Who in America” |
2003 | “The East Hampton Star”, April 17, Profile, Robert Long |
2002 | “The East Hampton Star”, June 6, “From the Studio”, Rose C.S. Slivka |
1998 | “The East Hampton Star”, Oct. 22, “From the Studio”, Rose C.S. Slivka |
“Hamptons Country”, September, “Art as Possession”, Michael M. Thomas | |
1998 | “The New York Times”, June 28, Phyllis Braff |
“The East Hampton Star”, June 25, Rose C.S. Slivka | |
1994 | “Art in America”, July 1994, Robert G. Edelman |
1993 | “The East Hampton Star”, September 9, Rose C.S. Slivka |
“The New York Observer”, March 8, Michael M. Thomas | |
1992 - 1998 | “Who’s Who in the East” |
1991 | “The New York Times”, April 28, “Abstract Work in Three Materials Pushed to the Limit”, William Zimmer |
“The East Hampton Star”, July 25, “From the Studio”, Rose C.S. Slivka | |
“Art and Antiques”, November, “In the Galleries”, Jed Perl | |
1988 | “The New York Times”, February 21, p. 18, “Ben Shahn: Surrealism’s Legacy” |
“The Sunday Star Ledger”, February 28, Newark, NJ “Surrealism, Offspring at WPC Show”, Eileen Watkins | |
“The Bergen Record”, Hackensack, NJ, February 28, p. 12, “Surreal: Even in Art There’s Nothing New Under the Sun”, John Zeaman | |
1987 | “The East Hampton Star”, April 30, p. 9, “Kramer Show”, Rose C.S. Slivka |
1986 | “The New Criterion”, December, p. 69, “Art at the Beginning of the Season”, Jed Perl |
1985 | “The New York Times”, June 14, p. C22, Vivian Raynor |
1984 | “Art in America”, February, p. 151-152, “Harry Kramer at Ted Greenwald”, Gerrit Henry |
“The East Hampton Star”, July 5, p. II 10, “From the Studio”, Phyllis Braff | |
1983 | “The New York Times”, March 20, p. 12 |
“The East Hampton Star”, April 21, p. 6 | |
“Arts Magazine”, September pp. 69-71, “Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum: To Probe and Extend the Resources of Painting”, Hearn Pardee | |
“The Sun”, June, p. 7, Sag Harbor, NY | |
“The New York Times”, June 23, p. 18, “Oils Show Bathes in Success”, William Zimmer | |
“The New York Times”, July 8, p. C14, “Six Painters at the Hudson Museum”, John Russell | |
1981 | “The New York Times”, March 1, p. 19 |
“Newsday”, March 26, p. 39 | |
“Arts Magazine”, September, p. 88-89 | |
1976 | “SoHo News”, January 22, p. 18, 41 |
“Art News”, March, p. 131 | |
1974 | “SoHo News”, February, p. 33 |
1973 | “Art News”, February, p. 85 |
“Arts Magazine”, March, p. 74 | |
“ARTFORUM”, April, pp. 85-86 | |
1972 | “Art News”, February, p. 18 |
“ARTFORUM”, April, pp. 85-86 |
TEACHING
1970 - 1999 | Queens College, City University of New York, Professor of Art |
1968 - 1969 | New York University, School of the Arts, Visiting Artist |
1971 – 1973 | New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Faculty |
1969 | Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, Visiting Critic |