1906 : Born, St. Louis, MO
1992 : Died, East Hampton, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1950- Peridot Gallery, New York
1951 - Peridot Gallery, New York
1952 - Miller-Pollard Gallery, Seattle
Peridot Gallery, New York
1953- Peridot Gallery, New York
1954 - Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
1957 - Stable Gallery, New York
1959 - Stable Gallery, New York
1961- Kootz Gallery, New York
1962- Kootz Gallery, New York
1963-64- Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrospective, Exhibition; traveled to: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis; University, Waltham, MA; Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, MD, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1965- Kootz Gallery, New York
1966 - Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia
1968 - Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Southampton College, Southampton, NY
1969 - Berenson Gallery, Miami
1970 - The Century Association, New York
1971 - Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1972 - Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas
1975 - Martha Jackson Gallery and Finch College Museum of Art, New York; Retrospective of Drawings and Paintings,a Joint Exhibition that traveled to Guild HallMuseum, East Hampton, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy
Cooper Union, New York
1976- Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
Robinson Galleries, Houston
Martha Jackson Galleries, New York
Faire Internation d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1977 - Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, NY
1978 - Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York
Himmelfarb Gallery, New York
1979 - Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
1981 - Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1983 - Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
1984- Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, NY
1985 - Art Views, East Hampton, NY
1986 - Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
1988 - The Century Association, New York
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
1989- Berry Hill Galleries, New York
1992 - Benton Gallery, Southhampton, NY
1993 - Joan Washburn Gallery, New York
1994 - Joan Washburn Gallery, New York
1997- Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY
1998 - "James Brooks," Washburn Gallery, New York
1999 - ACA Galleries, Munich
"James Brooks Paintings and Drawings from 1949 - 1951," Washburn Gallery, New York
2002 - "James Brooks: Five Decades," Washburn Gallery, New York
COMMISSIONS AND AWARDS
1934 - First Award, designs for Hempstead, Long Island
Post Office Murals (not executed)
1936 - Mural, US Post Office, Little Falls, NJ
1937 - Mural, Queens Public Library, Federal Arts Project, (since demolished)
1938 - Mural, Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, Federal Arts Project (painted over 1950, restored, 1980)
1952 - Fifth Prize, Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1957 - First Painting Prize and Logan Medal, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1961 - Norman Waite Harris Silver Medal, Art Institute of Chicago
1962 - Ford Foundation Purchase Award for Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1969 - Guggenheim Fellowship
1973 - Awarded Membership, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Awarded NEA Grant
1976 - Poster Commission, Mobil Corporation
1980 - Commission for Mobil Corporation Headquarters, Fairfax, VA
1985 - Gold Medal, National Arts Club, New York
1986 - Spaeth Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Bank of New York, NY
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY
Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit, MI
Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Hirshorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Int'l Minerals and Chemicals Corporation, Skokie, IL
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miles Metal Corporation, New York
Munson-William Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Nebraska University Museum, Lincoln, NE
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
New York State Administration Center, Albany, NY
New York University, New York
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Building, Toledo, OH
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pepsico Company, White Plains, NY
Philip Morris International
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Rockefeller University, New York
St. Louis Art Museum, MO
Tate Gallery, London, England
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA
Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Union Carbide Corporation, New York
University Art Museum, Berkley, CA
University of Houston, Houston, TX
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
University of Texas, Austin, TX, Michener Collection
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
1933 - Frank Rehn Galleries, New York
Feragil Gallery, New York
1934 - Morton Gallery, New York
Feragil Gallery, New York
1946 - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
Grand Central Moderns, New York, "Critic's Choice"
1947- Art Institute of Chicago, IL, "Abstract and Surrealist Art"
1950 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Painting Annual"
1951 - Brooklyn Museum, New York, "International Watercolor Exhibition"
Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, NE, "61st Exhibition"
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "40 American Painters 1940-1950"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Painting Annual"
1952 - Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Pittsburgh International"
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, "Contemporary American Painting"
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE "62nd Annual Exhibition"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Award"
Stadler Gallery, Paris, France, with Nicolas Carone and Conrad Marca Relli
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York and Galerie de France, Paris "American Advance Guard"
1954 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual"
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL "Contemporary American Painting"
1954 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA "Pennsylvania Academy Annual"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Younger American Painters"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Painting Annual"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Sculpture, Painting and Drawing Annual"
1955 - University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, "Contemporary American Painting"
Artist's Gallery, New York, "Graphics Gala"
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Pittsburgh International"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Painting Annual"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "The New Decade, 35 American Painters and Sculptors," traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; University of California, Los Angeles; Colorado Springs Art Center, CO; City Art Museum, St Louis, MO
1956- Museum of Modern Art, New York, "12 Americans"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual" Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY "Acquisitions 1954-1957"
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Fourth Biennial"
Art Institute of Chicago, IL, "62nd American Exhibition"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Painting Annual"
Denver Art Museum, CO, "63rd Annual Exhibition"
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, "American Paintings, 1945-57"
Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1958- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "American Painting"
1958- Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Pittsburgh International"
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, "Jong Amerika Schildert"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Painting Annual"
1958 - Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan, "The International Art of a New Era, United States of America, Japan, Europe"
Galleria La Tartaraga, Rome, Italy
1959- Art Nuova, Torino, Italy
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Inaugural Selection"
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, "Fifteen Invited Works"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "New York and Paris, Painting in the 1950's"
Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveling to Milano, Brasil, Berlin, etc., "New American Painting"
Rensseleer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY "Contemporary American Drawing"
Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, "Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Americain"
Documenta II, Kassel, Germany
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Painting Annual"
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, "26th Biennial Exhibition"
1960 - Kootz Gallery, New York, NY, "American and European Artists"
DeCordova Museum, Linclon MA, "Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis"
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, "Avante Garde Paintings"
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "60 American Painters"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Business Buys American Art"
Biennial of Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
1961 - St. Paul Gallery and St. Paul School of Art, Minnesota
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, "Contemporary Painting and Sculpture"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists"
Art Institute of Chicago, IL, "64th American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture"
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Pittsburgh International"
1962- Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "East Hampton Collectors"
Museo des Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Annual Exhibit of Painting and Sculpture."
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Summer Selection"
Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA, "Art Since 1950"
Art Institute of Chicago, IL "65th Annual American Exhibition"
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "Artists of the Kootz Gallery"
Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, "American Art Since 1950"
1963- University of Illinois, Urbana, "Contemporary American Paintings and Sculpture"
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "Biennial Exhibition"
1963 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI "Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings"
"Exhibition of Living Art", Ireland
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Recent Acquisitions"
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "A Selection from the Collection of the University of Nebraska"
Instituto Pamamerico de Arte, Panama, "Drawings and Watercolors"
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, "Abstract Watercolors and Drawings"
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, "Painting Annual"
Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Dunn International Exhibition, New Brunswick, Canada and London, England
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "Acquisitions and Proposals"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "Festival of the Arts"
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Pittsburgh International"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Van Gogh and Expressionism"
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Annual Exhibition"
"New Directions in American Painting" traveling to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA;Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Issac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA; Atlanta Art Assoc., Atlanta, GA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.
1965- Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture"
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. "Contemporary Art Acquisitions 1962-65"
American Federation of the Arts, NY "Inform and Interpret"
1966 - Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, "Art of the United States, 1670 - 1966"
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, "Six Artists in Sarasota"
McCluny Gallery, Knoxville, TN, "Fourth Annual National Invitational Exhibition."
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, "Sculpture and Painting Today"
Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, "Annual Exhibit"
1967- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America"
180 Beacon Hill, Boston, MA, "The 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Painting Annual"
Gallery Without Walls, Buffalo, NY, "Grand Opening of Our New Gallery"
1968 - Miami Art Center, Miami, FL, "Workshop Masters, Past and Present"
Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, HI, "Signals in the Sixties"
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "Paintings from the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY"
Star Turtle Gallery, NY, "Tenants of Sam Wapnowitz"
Art Association of Indianapolis, IN, "Paintings and Sculpture" Kent State University, Kent State, OH, "Second Kent Invitational"
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, "Painting as Painting"
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, "American Paintings on the Market Today"
"Critic's Choice", New York State Arts Council of the Arts and State Colleges of New York, traveling to State Colleges:Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY, "Martha Jackson Collection"
1969 - Museum of Modern Art, NY, "The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation" and "20th Century Art from the Nelson Rockefeller Collection" Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "The Owens-Corning Collection"
Art Association of Indianapolis, IN, "1969 Paintings and Sculpture"
John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wilmington Art Center, Wilmington, DE "Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture from New York Galleries"
National Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, "American Contemporary Paintings, Sculpture and Graphics"
Alonzo Gallery, NY, "Mr. and Mrs. Painting and Sculpture"
1970 - Boston University, Boston, MA, "Centennial-American Artists of the Sixties"
Martha Jackson Gallery, NY, "Christmas Group Show"
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, "The Recent Years"
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY, "The Abstract Tradition"
Henderson Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Wateremedia Painting"
New School for Social Research Art Center, NY, "Museum Leaders Collect"
1971- Art Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie IN, "Collages by American Artists"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY "Museum Pieces of the Post-War Era"
1972 - Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, "Annual Exhibition"
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY, "Artists of Suffolk County, Contemporary Prints"
1973 - University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, "Visual R&D, A Corporation Collects: The Ciba Geigy Loan Collection"
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, "Exhibition of Newly Elected Members"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "21 Over 60"
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park
1973- "The Private Collection of Martha Jackson" traveling to Finch College Museum, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington,DC "American Art Mid-Century Exhibition"
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, "Collector's Gallery VII Exhibition"
1974- Art Train, Long Island, NY, "The East End Arts and Humanities Council"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY "Prints by Artists"
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY "The Private Collection of Martha Jackson"
The Century Association, New York, NY "Members Exhibition"
Benson Gallery, Bridge Hampton, NY, "Six Artists of the Hamptons"
1974 - Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton, NY, "Opening of the New Gallery"
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY "Martha Jackson Gallery Collection"
1975 - Sotheby Parke Bernet, NY, "Artists of the Hamptons, Painting and Sculpture; Auction to Benefit Guild Hall"
State University of New York at Albany Art Gallery "The Martha Jackson Gallery Collection" traveled to: Koehler Cultural Center, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
The Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield MI, "Drawings by Contemporary American Artists"
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "34th Biennial"
1976 - Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, NY, "Lowe Art Gallery's Contemporary Painting - Review of the New York Gallery Arts Scene 1974-75"
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, "Three Decades of American Art from New England Collections: A Retrospective of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1946-76"
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY, "Contemporary Paintings"
Grace Borgenicht, Leo Castelli, Xavier Fourcade, Inc. NY, "300 Artists to the Support of the New York Studio School Drawing Benefit"
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, "Mural Size Paintings"
1976 - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and other Museums, "American Prints and Posters"
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "The Art in Poetry"
Grey Art Gallery, New York University and Civic Museum of Udine, Italy, "Project Rebuild"
Martha Jackson Gallery, NY "Salute to '76"
Wichita Falls Museum, Wichita Falls, TX, "Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection"
Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY, "American Paintings 1900-1976, Abstract Expressionism and Later Movements 1955-75"
Brooklyn Museum, NY, "Thirty Years of American Printmaking"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "Artists and East Hampton, 100 Year Retrospective"
1977 - Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, "Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection"
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, "Thirty Years of American Art, 1954-1975," Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Lawrence P. Bloedel Bequest.
Perth International Survey of Drawings, Perth, Australia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "American Post-War Painting from the Guggenheim Collection"
Empire State Cultural Center, Albany, NY, "New York and the State of Art"
1977 - "USA: Prints from America," traveling exhibition throughout Japan
Kennedy Centers, NY, "Artists Salute Skowhegan"
S.G. Matthews Gallery, San Antonio, TX, "Figure to Abstraction"
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY "Twentieth Century Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Parson's School of Design, NY, "New York WPA Artists, Then and Now"
Southern Methodist University Gallery, Dallas, TX
1978 - Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, "Great Graphics"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "From the Guild Hall Art Collection"
Hofstra University, NY "Art for the People, New Deal Murals for Long Island"
Philadelphia College of Art, PA, "Seventies Paintings"
1979 - Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ, "Drawing the Line"
Tampa Bay Art Center, FL, "Two Decades of Abstraction"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Survey of Modern American Art"
American Cultural Center of the US Embassy, Paris, France, "The Pollock Years, 1946-56"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "The Fiftieth Anniversary"
Pensacola Museum, Jackson, MI
Ingber Gallery, NY, "Past, Present and Peculiar"
1980- Civici Musei Gallerie di Storia e Arte, Commune di Udine, Italia, "Arte Americana Contemporane"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "Prints, 1980"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "The Collection, 1900-80"
Zabriskie Gallery, NY, "The Pollock Years, 1946-56, Abstract Artists of East Hampton"
Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1981- Knoedler Galleries, NY, "New York Museums Salute Guild Hall"
Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany, "American Painting, 1930-80"
Landmark Gallery, NY "Drawings, 1981"
Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC, "5 Living Artists Who Were on the Federal WPA Arts Project Who Have Achieved WideRecognition" with de Kooning, Neel, Bolotowsky, and Lassaw
Rice University, Houston, TX, "Aspects of Abstraction"
Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT, "Abstract Expressionist Lives," with de Kooning, Motherwell, Pousette-Dart and Stamos
1983 - Phoenix II, Washington, DC, "Drawings"
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, "25 Artists"
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, "Chase Manhattan, The First Ten Years of Collecting", traveling exhibition
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, NY, "Prints by East Hampton Artists"
University of Texas, Austin, "Images of Texas"
1984 - Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, "Then & Now, Part II"
1984 - Alex Rosenberg Gallery, NY, "The Hampton, Scene: Then & Now"
The Armstrong Gallery, NY, "The Artist's Mark - Drawings"
Ingber Gallery, NY, "The Return of Abstraction"
1985 - Amarillo Art Center, "Eight Modern Masters"
Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Painting as Landscape"
National Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC. "Martha Jackson Memorial Exhibition"
Ingber Gallery, NY, "Survival of the Fittest"
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Curator's Choice"
National Academy of Design, NY, "Member's Exhibition"
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, "East Hampton Star 100th Anniversary Exhibition"
Arbitrage Gallery, NY and Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY, "A Show of Hampton Artists"
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Art on Paper"
1986 - Alex Rosenberg Gallery, NY, "Free Space: Artist's Use of Floating Form in Two Dimmensional Art"
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, "Opening Exhibition"
The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY, "Curator's Choice"
1987- Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT, "Color: Pure and Simple"
Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine, "The Modernist Tradition: Painting and Sculpture from the 1950's to the 1980's"
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, "Contemporary Editions Prints and Sculpture"
New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ, "Styles of Painting from the New York School-Selections from the Ciba Geigy Collection"
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY "Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters"
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NY, "Looking at the WPA"
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, "American Masters"
1988 - CDS Gallery, NY, "The Irascible"
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Drawings on the East End, 1940-1988"
1989- Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, "Works from Museum Collection" Bernice Stein Baum Gallery, NY, "Elders of the Tribe"
1990 - Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "The East Hampton Avante-Garde"
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY "Artist - Photographer - Artist"
1991- Rene Fotouhi Fine Art Gallery, East Hampton, NY, "Black and White - Twentieth Century Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Prints"
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, "Aspects of Collage"
1992 - Benton Gallery, Southampton, "Four Solo Exhibitions: Jorg Madliner, Elaine de Kooning, Syd Solomon, James Brooks"
Renee Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, "20th C. Prints of the East End"
Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, "Paths to Discovery: The New York School"
Stuart Levy Gallery, NY, "American Vanguard, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner & Friends"
1993 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and the High Museum of Art, GA,"Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper,"also travelled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NC
"The 1940's", Washburn Gallery, NY
Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, "Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends"
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, "Multiples"
Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY "Wall to Wall"
Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, "Arnold Hoffmann: The Screen Print Workshop"
1994 - Washburn Gallery, NY, "Top Flight
Washburn Gallery, NY, "Major Paintings and Works on Paper"
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY, "Reclaiming Artists of the New York School"
Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, "Drawing: A Contemporary View"
1995 - Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY "Abstract Expressionists, 40s, 50s, & 60s", travelled to a Galarie Rabb, Berlin
The Museums at Stony Brook, NY "Silkscreen, Arnold Hoffman Jr. and the Art of the Print"
Parrish Art Museum, NY, "Power and Patronage: State Sponsorship in the Arts in the 1930s"
Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, "The Matter of Synthesis, Collage & Assemblage"
1996 - Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridghampton, NY, "Old Friends"
Elkon Gallery, Inc., NY "Gestural Abstraction"
1997 - DC Moore Gallery, NY, "A Tribute to Grace Borgenicht"
Kraushaar Gallery,NY, "William Kienbusch: An Artistic Dialogue"
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, "Founders and Heirs of the New York School"
Centro Cultural, Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., Polanco,Mexico, "Pintua Estadounidense, Expresionismo Abstracto"
1999 - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno,The Grand Canary Islands and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid "A Rebours"