1912

Born: Bronx, New York

1999

Died: New York

EDUCATION

1928-1934

New York City College

1951-1952

Atelier Zadkine, Paris

TEACHING

1960-1970

Adjunct Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York

1967

Visiting Associate Professor of Sculpture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

1970

Guest Artist, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota

Guest Artist, St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

1981

Milton Avery Professor of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1958

New York is the Textile Town, Union Dime Savings Bank, Sixth Avenue Branch, New York, December-January

1960

Sugarman Sculpture, Widdifield Gallery, New York, February 9-March 5

1961

Sugarman Polychrome Sculpture, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, October 31-November 24

1964

George Sugarman, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, March 10-April 4

1965

George Sugarman, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, November 13-December 4

1966

George Sugarman, Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, May 3-28

1967

George Sugarman, Fischbach Gallery, New York, May 6-27

George Sugarman, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zürich, June 29-July 29

George Sugarman, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, September 25-October 20

1968

George Sugarman: New Sculpture, Fischbach Gallery, New York, April 13-May 9

1969

George Sugarman: New Sculpture, Fischbach Gallery, New York, April 5-24

1969-1970

George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthalle Basel, September 21-October 26, 1969; Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, West Germany, November 28, 1969-January 4, 1970; Haus am Waldsee Museum, Berlin, January 16-February 22, 1970; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March 14-April 26, 1970

1971

George Sugarman, Gallery 118, Minneapolis, May 7-30

1974

George Sugarman, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, October 8-November 9

George Sugarman, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, October 21-December 31

1977

George Sugarman, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, November 15-December 3

1978-1979

George Sugarman, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, December 2, 1978-January 3, 1979

1979

George Sugarman, Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel, February 7-28

1980

George Sugarman: Relief Collages and Models for Large-Scale Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, January 5-26

George Sugarman: New Works, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, November 15-December 31

1981

The Sculpture of George Sugarman, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 5-May 17; Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, May 30-August 23

George Sugarman, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, September 12-October 24

1981-1982

Shape of Space: The Sculpture of George Sugarman, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 6, 1981-January 31, 1982; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 15-April 24, 1982; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, August 28-October 10, 1982

1984

George Sugarman, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, October 3-November 3

1985-1986

George Sugarman: Painted Wood Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 27, 1985-February 9, 1986

1987

George Sugarman: Drawing Ahead of Time, Todd Capp Gallery, New York, April 3-26

1990-1991

George Sugarman: Collages, Paper and Paint, Washburn Gallery, New York, December 5, 1990-January 19, 1991

1992

George Sugarman: Collages at University of Tampa, Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, January 15-February 22

George Sugarman: Sculpture at NCBN Plaza, NCBN Plaza, Tampa, January 15-April 17

George Sugarman, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy, June

1993

George Sugarman, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, November 15-December 25

1998

George Sugarman, Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building, Hunter College, City University of New York, February 18-April 11

2002

George Sugarman: “Yellow to White to Blue to Black,” Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, November 6-December 21

2002-2003

Al Held and George Sugarman: The Early Sixties, Washburn Gallery, New York, November 26, 2002-January 25, 2003

2004

George Sugarman: Painted Aluminum Sculpture, 1977-1996, Washburn Gallery, New York, January 8-February 28

2006

George Sugarman: White Painted Aluminum Sculpture, Washburn Gallery, New York, March 8-April 18

2010

Stuart Davis, George Sugarman: “Shapes” of the Space, Washburn Gallery, New York, October 1-December 18

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1956

Sculptors Selected by Painters, Tanager Gallery, New York

1957

Group Show, Brata Gallery, New York, October 25-November 14

1958

New Sculpture Group, Hansa Gallery, New York

1959

Mixed Mediums, Widdifield Gallery, New York, November 10-December 5

1960

New Sculpture Now, Dwight Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 22-March 24; Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 6-May 9

New Sculpture Group, Stable Gallery, New York, September 27-October 15

1960-1961

Annual Exhibition 1960: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 7, 1960-January 22, 1961

1961

New Sculpture Group, Holland-Goldowski Gallery, Chicago, March 10-April 6

Eighty Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 12-April 16

Sculpture Guild Annual, Lever House, New York, October 17-November 12

1961-1962

1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October 27, 1961-January 7, 1962

1963

65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, January 5-February 18

Contemporary Sculpture, Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 21-March 20

Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, April 12-May 27

Art Since 1950, American and International, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World's Fair, April 21-October 21

1963-1964

Ten American Sculptors, American Section, VII Bienal de São Paolo, September 28-December 31, 1963; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 10-April 19, 1964; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 4-July 1, 1964; City Art Museum, St. Louis, July 21-August 23, 1964; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, October 16-November 22, 1964

1964

Ten Sculptors from the São Paolo Biennial, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, March 5-28

Recent American Sculpture, Jewish Museum, New York, October 14-November 29

Seven Sculptors, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, November 9-December 7

1964-1965

Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 9, 1964-January 31, 1965

1965

American Sculpture, 1900 to 1965, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, April 1-25

Concrete Expressionism, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York, April 6-29

1966

26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, April 8-May 10

Art of the United States, 1670-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 27-November 27

1966-1967

Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary American Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 16, 1966-February 5, 1967

1967

The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, May 4-June 18

American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 28-June 25; Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 15-October 19

1968

L'art vivant, 1965-68, Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France, April 13-June 30

International Pavilion, Venice Biennale, June 22-October 20

1968-1969

1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968-February 9, 1969

1969

Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 29-June 30

1970

L'art vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France, July 16-September 30

Monumental Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, September 13-November 1

American Sculpture, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, September 11-November 15

1970-1971

Contemporary American Sculpture: 1970 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 12, 1970-February 17, 1971

1971

Contemporary American Drawings, French & Co., New York, May 15-June 23

1973

Contemporary American Art: 1973 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 10-March 18

1973-1974

Woodworks: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Wood, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 1973-January 14, 1974; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, January 18-February 24, 1974; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 1-26, 1974; Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, April 4-May 3, 1974; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 25-August 11, 1974; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, August 16-September 27, 1974

1974

Space, Scale, and Urban Plaza: Sculpture for the Plaza, One Illinois Center, Chicago, June 14-September 14

1974-1975

118 Artists, Landmark Gallery, New York, December 22, 1974-January 10, 1975

1975

Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, September 17-October 19

1975-1976

Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 3-November 20, 1975; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, January 21-February 29, 1976; New Orleans Museum of Art, April 1-May 16, 1976

1976

200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 16-September 26

Ten Approaches to the Decorative, Alessandra Gallery, New York, September 25-October 29

1976-1977

Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50's, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, December 20, 1976- January 7, 1977

1977

Maquettes for Large Sculpture, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, March 30-April 30

Patterning and Decoration, Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, October 7-November 30

1979

Contemporary Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 18-August 7

1979-1980

The Decorative Impulse, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 13-July 21, 1979; Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, November 1-December 9, 1979; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, January 16-February 15, 1980; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, March 21-May 18, 1980

1980

Painting in Relief, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, January 30-March 5

10 Abstract Sculptures: American and European, 1940 to 1980, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, March 18-April 19

Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture, Audience, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 19-April 30

With Paper, About Paper, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, September 12-October 26

1981

Decorative Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York, January 11-February 20

Sculptors: Drawings and Maquettes, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, January 13-February 14

1985

Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, May 29-July

1986

Beyond Formalism: Three Sculptors of the 1960s, Hunter College Art Gallery, City University of New York, September 18-October 24

1990

Color in Art: American Expressions from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, September 22-December 2

1990-1991

Painted Forms: Recent Metal Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, December 19, 1990-February 20, 1991

1994

Paper Works, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook, March 9-April 16

1997

Colorflex, Apex Art C.P., New York, May 29-June 28

1998

Sculptors Draw, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art, New York, September 9-October 10

1999

Stella, Pfaff, Sugarman, Tatunz, New York, February 2-March 20

2002

Linger, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, June 13-July 26

2003

Inside/Outside/On the Wall, Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, New York, June 19-August 31

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Austin Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany

Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

Kunsthaus Zürich

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Purdue University North Central, Westville, Indiana

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, Ohio

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Anderson, Dennis and Glenn Lowry. The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.

Armstrong, Tom. 200 Years of American Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum of

American Art, 1976.

Art Institute of Chicago. 26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.

Art Institute of Chicago. 65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

Ashton, Dore. Modern American Sculpture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1967.

Bard, Joellen. Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50's. New York: Education, Art & Service, 1977.

Berger, Maurice. Beyond Formalism: Three Sculptors of the 1960s. New York: Hunter

College Art Gallery, City University of New York, 1986.

Busch, Julia. A Decade of Sculpture: The 1960s. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1974.

Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo. George Sugarman. Tokyo: Contemporary

Sculpture Center, 1993.

Day, Holliday T. Shape of Space: The Sculpture of George Sugarman. Omaha: Josyln Art

Museum, 1981.

Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute. 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of

Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Pittsburgh: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1962.

Fondation Maeght. L'art vivant, 1965-68. St. Paul de Vence, France: Fondation Maeght, 1968.

Fondation Maeght. L'art vivant aux États-Unis. St. Paul de Vence, France: Fondation Maeght, 1970.

Goldin, Amy. Art in a Hairshirt: Art Criticism, 1964-1978. Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press

Editions, 2011.

Goldin, Amy. Patterning and Decoration. Miami: Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, 1977.

Gruen, John. The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists. Chicago: A

Cappella Books, 1991.

Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The Decorative Impulse. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture, Audience. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1980.

Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth University. Woodworks: An Exhibition

of Contemporary Sculpture in Wood. Hanover, NH: Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins

Center, Dartmouth University, 1973.

Jewish Museum. Recent American Sculpture. New York: Jewish Museum, 1964.

Judd, Donald. Donald Judd: Complete Writings, 1959-1975. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2005.

Kelly, James J. The Sculptural Idea. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1974.

Kotik, Charlotta. With Paper, About Paper. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1980.

Kultermann, Udo. The New Sculpture: Environments and Assemblages. New York:

Frederick A. Praeger, 1968.

Kunsthalle Basel. George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1969.

Leonard, William Albers. Monumental Art. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 1970.

Lieberman, William S. and Virginia Allen. Tamarind: Homage to Lithography. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1969.

Loeb Student Center, New York University. Concrete Expressionism. New York: Loeb

Student Center, New York University, 1965.

Max Hutchinson Gallery. 10 Abstract Sculptures: American and European, 1940 to 1980.

New York: Max Hutchinson Gallery, 1980.

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts. The Sculpture of George Sugarman. Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981.

O'Doherty, Brian. American Masters: The Voice and the Myth. New York: Random House, 1973.

O'Doherty, Brian. Object and Idea: An Art Critic's Journal, 1961-1967. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Phillips, Lisa. George Sugarman: Painted Wood Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum

of American Art, 1985.

Phillips, Lisa. Painting in Relief. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.

Rose, Barbara. American Art Since 1900: A Critical History. New York: Frederick A.

Praeger, 1967.

Rubinstein, Raphael. George Sugarman. Livorno, Italy: Edizioni Roberto Peccolo, 1992.

Rubinstein, Raphael. Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism, 1990-2002. Lenox, MA: Hard Press Editions, 2003.

Sandler, Irving. The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public. Albany, NY: Empire State Plaza Art Commission, 1987.

Sandler, Irving. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties. New

York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Seitz, William, ed. Contemporary Sculpture: Arts Yearbook 8. New York: The Art Digest, 1965.

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. American Sculpture.

Lincoln, NE: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, 1970.

Stedelijk Museum. George Sugarman. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1970.

Tuchman, Maurice. American Sculpture of the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County

Museum of Art, 1968.

Van der Marck, Jan. Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1975.

Wadsworth Atheneum. Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1963.

Walker Art Center. Eighty Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1961.

Walker Art Center. Ten American Sculptors. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1964.

Whitney Museum of American Art. 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American

Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Annual Exhibition 1960: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1960.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American

Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture

and Prints. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Art of the United States, 1670-1966. New York:

Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Contemporary American Art: 1973 Biennial

Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.

Zabriskie Gallery. George Sugarman. New York: Zabriskie Gallery, 1974.

SELECTED PERIODICALS

Adrian, Dennis. “Sculpture and Print Annual, Whitney Museum.” Artforum 5, no. 7

(1967): 55.

Alloway, Lawrence. “Monumental Art at Cincinnati.” Arts Magazine 45, no. 2 (1970): 33.

Artner, Alan G. “Norwegian Ice: Floating in Sensuous Color.” Chicago Tribune, June 23,

1974.

Ashbery, John. “Reviews and Previews: George Sugarman.” Art News 68, no. 3 (1969): 73.

Ashton, Dore. “Art U.S.A. 1962.” The Studio 163, no. 827 (1962): 84.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 168, no. 855 (1964): 42.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 169, no. 861 (1965): 22.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 170, no. 868 (1965): 86.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 172, no. 879 (1966): 44.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 175, no. 901 (1968): 321.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 177, no. 909 (1969): 135.

Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 177, no. 912 (1969): 289.

Baker, Kenneth. “The Home Forum.” Christian Science Monitor, October 21, 1969: 8.

Bongartz, Roy. “Where Monumental Sculptors Go.” Art News 75, no. 2 (1976): 34.

Brown, Gordon. “Arts Reviews: George Sugarman.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 4 (1974): 18.

Brown, Gordon. “Images: Sugarman at Fischbach.” Arts Magazine 42, no. 6 (1968): 20.

Brown, Gordon. “Month in Review: Sugarman, Henselmann, Gee, and Noguchi.” Arts Magazine 42, no. 7 (1968): 53.

Burton, Scott. “Reviews and Previews: George Sugarman.” Art News 66, no. 3 (1967): 56.

Campbell, Lawrence. “Reviews and Previews: George Sugarman.” Art News 57, no. 10 (1959): 17.

Campbell, Lawrence. “Reviews and Previews: George Sugarman.” Art News 60, no. 8 (1961): 12.