Biography
B U R T O N S I L V E R M A N
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Born 1928, Brooklyn, NY. Education: BA Columbia University. Served AUS 1951-1953 Taught: the School of Visual Arts, NYC 1964-65; Studio Classes , 1971-to present Positions: Member of the Council, the National Academy of Design, 1976-78; 2001-2003, Membership Committee 2003-20051 Member of the Council; American Watercolor Society 1992-94
AWARDS & HONORS 2006 Berkelson Award, The National Academy Museum Biennial Exhibition 2005 Newington Cropsey Cultural Center Award for Excellence in the Arts NYC 2004 Gold Medal Lifetime Award the National Portrait Society 2002 Dong Kingman Award, The American Watercolor Society Annual, NYC Honorary Doctorate awarded by the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1997 Paul and Margaret Berkelson Prize, National Academy of Design, NYC 1997 Mario Cooper Award The AWS Annual, NYC 1996 Clara Stroud Memorial, The AWS, NYC 1995 The Silver Medal of Honor, the Annual of the American Watercolor Society, NYC 1994 Clara Stroud Memorial, AWS Annual, NYC 1992 The Joseph Isidor Medal, National Academy of Design Annual, NYC 1991 The High Winds Medal, AWS Annual NYC 1991 Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor, the George Washington University, Wash., DC 1991 Elected Hall of Fame, Pastel Society of America 1990 The Catherine Stroud Memorial Award, AWS Annual, NYC 1989 The Mary PLeisner Memorial Award, Aws Annual, NYC 1987 The Mary Pleisner Memorial Award, AWS Annual, NYC 1985 The High Winds Medal, AWS Annual, NYC 1984 The Silver Medal, AWS Annual 1983 Henry W. Ranger Puchase Prize, Nat’l Academy of Design 1982 Painting Prize, Hudson River Annual, Hudson River Museum, NY 1982 Purchase Prize, American Drawings IV, Portsmouth Museums, Va. 1982 Honorable Mention, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH 1982 The Hardy Gramatky Memorial Award, AWS Annual 1981 The Paul B. Remmey Memorial Award, AWS Annual 1980 The Barse Miller Memorial Award, AWS Annual 1979 Elected member American Watercolor Society 1979 Purchase Prize, American Drawings II, Portsmouth Museums, VA 1979 Gold Medal, AWS Annual, NYC 1977 Figure Prize, Pastel Society of America Annual, NYC 1969 Elected to National Academy of Design 1969 First Benjamin Altman Figure Prize, Nat’l Academy of Design Annual 1967 Joseph Isidor Gold Medal, NAD Annual, 1966 Thomas R. Proctor Prize, NAD Annual 1965 Henry W Ranger Purchase Prize, NAD Annual 1964 Purchase Prize, Art On Paper, Univ. of No. Carolina 1961 S.J. Wallace Truman Prize, NAD Annual PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Anchorage Museum of Art and History The Brooklyn Museum The Butler Institute of American Art* The Brigham Young Museum of Art * Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA Cornell University The Denver Art Museum The Dillard Collection, University of No. Carolina Hofstra University Museum NYC The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC The National Museum of American Art The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museums The New Britain Museum of American Art The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine The Parrish Museum of Art, Southhampton. NY The Philadelphia Museum of Art The Queensboro Community College Art Gallery, NY The Rutgers University Museum, Camden, NJ The University of Utah SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006-7 The Intimate Eye; Drawings by Burton Silverman, Brigham Young Museum of Art, Provo, UT Travelling to the Butler Institute of American Art and the Lyme Academy of Art College, Old Lyme, CT 2004 Gallery Henoch, New York City 2001 Gallery Henoch. New York City Total Arts Gallery, Taos, NM 1998 Merrill Gallery, Denver, CO. 1997 Gerold Wunderlich & Co.,NYC 1996 The Merrill Gallery, Denver, CO. 1996 Gerold Wunderlich & Co, NYC 1993 Joseph Keiffer Gallery, NYC 1991 Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD 1990 Cudahy’s Gallery, NYC 1988 Grand Central Galleries, NYC 1983 Sindin Galleries, NYC 1980 Doll & Richards Gallery, Burt Silverman; 35 years of drawing Boston. MA 1979 Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda 1977 FAR Galleries, NYC 1977 Meredith Long Galleries, Houston 1974 Harbor Gallery, LI, NY 1971 Harbor Gallery 1970 Kenmore Galleries, Phila. 1970 Gallery 52, So. Orange, NJ 1970 FAR Galleries,NYC 1967 University of Utah 1965 Kenmore Galleries, Phila. 1965 FAR Galleries 1963 Kenmore Galleries, Phila. 1962 Davis Galleries, NYC 1958 Davis Galleries 1956 Davis Galleries GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 American Art Invitational, Denver, CO, Summer Exhibits, Gallery 1261 2005 Life on Paper, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco CA 3rd annual Salon des Arts, Denver Co 180th Annual Exhibition The National Academy of the Design, NYC 2004 Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, w/ Harvey Dinnerstein, Delaware Art Museum America Seen, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale MI The Nude, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, 2003 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC Salon d’Arts Denver, CO 2002 American Watercolor Society, Annual Exhib., NYC Invited, the Butler Institue of American Art Annual, Youngstown, OH 2001 The National Academy of Design Annual, NYC Representation Represented V, The Arnot Museum, NY The Artists of America, 20th Annivesary Exhbition, Denver, CO 2000-79 Annual Exhib., American Watercolor Society NYC 1999-59 Annual Exhib., National Academy of Design, NYC 1997 Realism in 20th Century American Art , The Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, ME 1996 Realist Invitational, The Merrill Gallery, Denver 1994 The Face of America: Watercolors by 50 Contemporary Artists, Old Forge, NY 1994 Getting Real; Contemporary Realism from the collection of Philip Desind; The South Bend Regional Museum, South Bend,Indiana 1994 The Figure; Carol Siple Gallery, Denver 1991-93 International Waters Travelling Exhibition in Canada, UK and USA 1993 Annual Exhib.,The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (Also for the years 1972,’76,’77,’79,82 &’88 ) 1993 The Self; Self-portraits from the James Goode Collection; The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museums, Wash., DC 1992 Masters of Figurative Art, Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, AR 1990 AWS International Exhibit, The Mexico City Museum of Art. 1987 Mainstream America; The Collection of of Philip Desind, The Butler Institute of American Art. 1987 Art and the Law, The West Collection, St. Paul. MINN. 1983 The National Drawing Invitational, Kansas State Univ. 1982 The Hudson River Annual, The Hudson River Museum, NY 1982 American Drawings I, I, III, IV, Portsmouth Museums, VA ( also for the years 1976,’79’ & ’80 ) 1980 20th Century Prints, The Parrish Museum of Art, Southhampton, LI, NY 1978 The Childe Hassam Fund Invitational, Amer. Inst.of Arts & Letters, NY (Also for the years 1976, 1974) 1977 American Drawing Invitational, San Diego Arts Festival 1975 The Figure, Penn State Univ.Museum, PA 1973 Travelling Exhibition, Pratt Institute Graphic Center, NYC 1968 The Collection of Walter & Lucille Fillin, Hofstra Univ. Museum, NY 1966 Realists 66, The San Diego Arts Festival, San Diego, CA 1965 Annual Exhibition, The Silvermine Guild, Silvermine , CT 1964 Four Realists, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 1963 75 Years of American Realism, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, NYC 1962 Contemporary American Realistic Painting, Albany Institute of Arrt & History, NY 1961 Contemporary Realists II, Huntington Hartford Museum 1961 A Realist View, The National Arts Club, NYC 1957 The Artist As Reporter; Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Davis Galleries, NYC 1949 The Annual of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Phila.,PA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Burton Silverman “A New Look At Protest; the Eight since 1908” with Harvey Dinnerstein ARTnews, Feb 1958 “Homage to Thomas Eakins” book review Book World, June 1968 New York Herald Tribune “Art for Pablo Picasso’s Sake”, book review Book World Dec. 1967, NY Herald Tribune “Painting People”Watson Guptil, NY 1977 “A Portfolio of Drawings” Kenmore Press, Phila. 1970 “Breaking the Rules of Watercolor” Watson Guptill, NY 1983 “Rediscovering Realism” US Art, July, 1990 “What Makes Art Great” American Arts Quarterly, July 1991 “Great Portraits” The Artists Magazine; Aug 1991, “Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycot” Esquire Magazine, Dec. 1964 with Harvey Dinnerstein Clayborne Carson, “The Boycott That Changed Dr. King’s Life” Drawings by Burt Silverman and Harvey Dinnerstein The New York Times” Jan, 1996 Elizabeth Case “Drawing the Human Figure; An interview with Burt Silverman” June 1981 Frank Whitaker, “Four Realists” American Artist, Oct. 1964 Pat Van Gelder “Burt Silverman Captures the Moment”, American Artist June 1972 Robert McGrath, Philip Saietta “Sight and Insight, the Art of Burton Silverman”, Madison Square Press, 1999 Steven Heller, Review, ARTSmagazine, January 1984 William Shawn, Introduction, 25 Years of New Yorker Profiles, Exhib. Catalogue Grand Central Galleries. 1988 BIBLIOGRAPHY Whos’s Who in American Art, 1991,1995- 2000 to present Who’s Who, 1994; Anniversary Edition 1995 also ‘96 through 2004 Who’s Who in the East 1993, ‘95-present Click here to return to Biography |