'Action Abstract in Blue, 1997' by John Willenbecher, Paris, Guggenheim, New York Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney

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Signed, verso, 'John Willenbecher' (American, born 1936) and dated July 1997
Ex-collection: Davis Polk & Wardwell, NY, NY.

John Willenbecher … Read more Signed, verso, 'John Willenbecher' (American, born 1936) and dated July 1997
Ex-collection: Davis Polk & Wardwell, NY, NY.

John Willenbecher was born in Pennsylvania and has lived in New York City for most of his life. In 1958, he graduated from Brown University with a BA and subsequently attended New York's University Institute of Fine Arts (1958-1961). His degrees were in art history and he is primarily considered a self-taught artist. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Willenbecher has exhibited widely and with success. His works are held in numerous private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Albright Knox Art Gallery, New York City
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa
Bayly Art Museum, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, The Marilouise Hessel Coll., Bard College
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence RI
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Arts Club of Chicago
Centre of Art and Culture, Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y.
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Me.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, Mass.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mi
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y.
New York Public Library, New York City
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2003 John Willenbecher: Two Decades of Painting 5 Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2003 John Willenbecher: City University of New York Graduate Center
1996 John Willenbecher: The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque,
1993 John Willenbecher 1972 and 1992 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
1986 John Willenbecher The New York Academy of Sciences, New York City
1982 The Hamilton Gallery, New York City
1980 The Hamilton Gallery, New York City
1979 John Willenbecher The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.
1978 John Willenbecher Fine Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
John Willenbecher Wright State Univ. Art Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
John Willenbecher Univ. of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, Mass.
1977 The Hamilton Gallery, New York City
1976 John Willenbecher The Arts Club, Chicago, Ill.
The Olympia Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
John Willenbecher Art Gallery of Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1975 John Willenbecher The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
1973 The A.M.Sachs Gallery, New York City
1971 The Lambert, 910 Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
1970, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago

AWARDS and COMMISSIONS:
2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
1994 Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation fellowship
1990-93 Commission for outdoor pavillion for Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
1986 Commission by the State of New Jersey for the Dept. of the Environment
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1982 G.S.A. Commission for Federal Building, Providence, R.I.
1980-92 Art Commission of the City of New York
1980 Environmental project for Art Across the Park, Central Park, New York City
1979 Tetrahedron 2 at Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York
1978 Burning Tetrahedron at Artpark, Lewistown, N.Y.
1977 Artist In Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1974 and 1980 Residencies at the MacDowell Co
The Richard Feigen Gallery, New York City
1963 The Feigen+Herbert Gallery, New York, NY
The Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles See less