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BURTON SILVERMAN BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Silverman has had 31 solo shows in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. He has appeared in numerous national and i nternational exhibitions including the National Portrait Gallery, the National Academy of Design Annuals, the Mexico City Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Art in London and the Butler Midyear Annuals, He has won 32 major prizesand awards from such annual exhibitions as at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society and the Butler Institute of American Art. He was awarded a Gold and Silver Medal from the American Watercolor Society and the National Academy of Design has honored him with 5 awards as well as the Ranger Purchase Awards in 1983 and 1965.
His paintings are represented in over two dozen public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, , the Butler Instituteof American Art. the Delaware Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, The New Britain Museum, the National Museum of American Art, the Mint Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. His work is included in numerous private collections both in the U.S. and Europe.
In 2006 A retrospective exhihibit of the Intimate Eye ;the Drawings of Burton Silverman opened at the Brigham Young Museum of Art, UT and travelled to ther Butler Institute of American Art, youngstown, OH and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, CT in 2007
FEB 2005 he was awarded the Annual Excellence in the Arts Award from the Newington Cropsey Cultural Foundation .
May and June of 2004 the Delaware Art Museum hosted the exhibition " Glorious Dignity :" Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman and and a sequential loan exhibit of these works has been shown in a 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery AL in 2006.
In May 2004 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Portrait Society of America for lifetime achievement in figurative art in 1999 received the John Singer Sargent Medal from the American Society of Portrait Artists for a similar career of disitinction.
In 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
In February of 1999 , the Butler Institute of American Art held a 25-year retrospective exhibition of his work titled Sight and Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman . The exhibit also traveled to the Brigham Young Museum in Utah (May, 1999.) A full monograph and catalog accompanied this exhibition
The artists' home and studio is in New York City
In the Spring of 1995 he conducted a seminar at the National Academy entitled "the Realist Alternative" that probed the possible reemergence of realism as a viable alternative to modernist art. It included Tom Wolfe. Sidney Goodman and Harvey Dinnerstein Click here for a list of past shows & awards
