Ralph Humphrey - Artists - Garth Greenan Gallery

Ralph Humphrey

1932
Born: Youngstown, Ohio

1990
Died: New York, New York

EDUCATION

1951–1952, 1954–1956
Youngstown University, Ohio

TEACHING

1966–1990
Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1959
Ralph Humphrey, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, February 3–21

1960
Ralph Humphrey, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, February 2–21

1961
Ralph Humphrey: Recent Paintings, Mayer Gallery, New York, March 14–April 1

1965
Ralph Humphrey, Green Gallery, New York, May 5–29

1967
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, January 10–February 24

1968
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, February 3–29

1969
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, February 1–27
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf

1970
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, April 4–25

1971
Ralph Humphrey, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, March 20–April 8

1972
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, May 2–23

1973
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, May 12–June 2
Ralph Humphrey: Survey of Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, May 15–June 9

1974
Ralph Humphrey, Bykert Gallery, New York, April 20–May 15
Ralph Humphrey: Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, November–December

1975
Ralph Humphrey: Paintings, 1974, Bykert Gallery, New York, February 4–26
Ralph Humphrey: Paintings, 1958–1966, Bykert/Downtown, New York, February 4–26

1976
Ralph Humphrey, John Weber Gallery, New York, January 31–February 25

1976–1977
Ralph Humphrey: Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, December 16, 1976–January 22, 1977

1977
Ralph Humphrey, John Weber Gallery, New York, February 9–26

1980
Ralph Humphrey, Willard Gallery, New York, April 5–May 7

1982
Ralph Humphrey, Willard Gallery, New York, April 3–May 8
Ralph Humphrey: Paintings, 1975–1982, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, October 6–30

1983
Ralph Humphrey: Selected Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, May 14–June 11

1984
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas
Ralph Humphrey, Willard Gallery, New York, April 7–May 12

1985
Ralph Humphrey: Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, October 16–November 2

1987
Ralph Humphrey, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, January–February

1990
Ralph Humphrey: 1990, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, March 3–31
Ralph Humphrey: Frame Paintings, 1964 to 1965, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, September 8–October 6
Ralph Humphrey: A Retrospective View, 1954–1990, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, November 8–December 5

1991
Ralph Humphrey: The Late Paintings on Paper, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, September 19–October 26
Ralph Humphrey: Paintings, 1975–1985, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, October–November

1996
Ralph Humphrey: Selected Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, August 17–October 17

1998
Ralph Humphrey, Danese Gallery, New York, January 16–February 14

2000
Ralph Humphrey: Early Paintings, 1957–1967, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, November 1–December 9

2001
Ralph Humphrey: Later Paintings, 1975–1982, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, April 5–May 26

2008
Ralph Humphrey: Selected Works from the Estate, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, May 17–June 14
Ralph Humphrey: Selected Paintings, 1957–1980, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, May 31–June 28

2012
Ralph Humphrey, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, September 13–October 27

2015
Ralph Humphrey: Conveyance, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, April 2–May 16

2018
Ralph Humphrey: Monochromes, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, September 6–October 20

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1961
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October–December

1966
Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September–November

1967
Selected N.Y.C. Artists 1967, Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, April 4–May 27
Focus on Light, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, May 20–September 10
Highlights of the 1966–1967 Art Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June 18–September 4
A Romantic Minimalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 13–October 11

1968
Bykert Gallery, New York
The Art of the Real: USA, 1948–1968, Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 3–September 8

1968–1969
The Pure and Clear: American Innovations, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 13, 1968–January 21, 1969

1969
American Painting: The 1960s, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, September 22–November 8
Current Minimal Painting, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York

1969–1970
1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 16, 1969–February 1, 1970

1970–1971
Color and Field, 1890–1970, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, September 15–November 1, 1970; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, November 20, 1970–January 10, 1971; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 4–March 28, 1971

1971
The Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 25–April 18
Spray, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, April 24–May 30
Bykert Gallery, New York
Art of the Decade, 1960–1970: Paintings from the Collections of Greater Detroit, University Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, November 14–December 17

1972
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 26–June 4
Current American Abstract Painting, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
Dealers’ Choice, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, July 15–September 27

1973
Drawings, Bykert Gallery, New York, January 6–24
Gallery Toselli, Milan

1974
New Painting: Stressing Surface, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, May 4–June 23
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, May 22–July 14; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, September 12–October 24
Ten Painters in New York, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, June 15–July 6
Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, June 15–August 11

1975
22 Artists, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, January 4–25
Fourteen Abstract Painters, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, March 25–May 25
Fourteen Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, April 15–June 1
A Group Show Selected by Klaus Kertess, Texas Gallery, Houston, September 15–October 11
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

1975–1976
Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture of the ’60s and ’70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 7–November 18, 1975; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, December 17, 1975–February 15, 1976

1976
Ideas on Paper: 1970–1976, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, May 2–June 6
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1977
Paintings on Paper, Drawing Center, New York, January 15–26
Galerie Jean-Paul Najar, Paris
’75, ’76, ’77: Painting, Part I, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York, February 19–March 10; American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, April–May; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, June–July
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 10–November 10
John Weber Gallery, New York

1977–1978
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11, 1977–January 1, 1978

1978–1979
Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, December 5, 1978–January 9, 1979; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 22–May 2, 1979

1979
1979 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 1
Generation, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York
The Reductive Object: A Survey of the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 7–April 29
The Implicit Image: Abstract Painting in the ’70s, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, April 29–June 1
Color and Structure, Hamilton Gallery, New York, May 5–June 2
Texas Gallery, Houston

1980
Black, White, Other, R.H. Oosterom Gallery, New York, January 17–February 17
Current/New York: Recent Works in Relief, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, January 27–February 24
Painting in Relief, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, January 30–March 5
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 24–August 17
3 Dimensional Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, August 2–November 9
Planar Painting: Constructs, 1975–1980, Alternative Museum, New York, October 18–November 15, 1980
The Image Transformed, Art Latitude Gallery, New York, November 4–29

1981
A Seventies Selection: An Exhibition of Works from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, February 14–June 14
Abstract Mythologies, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, March 1–31
Between Painting and Sculpture, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, March 31–April 25

1981–1982
Drawing Invitational 1981, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, December 2, 1981–January 2, 1982

1982
The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery, New York
Postminimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, September 19–December 19

1983
Abstract Painting: 1960–1969, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, January 16–March 13
New Work, New York: Newcastle Salutes New York, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, October 8–November 4

1984
Parasol and Simca: Two Presses/Two Processes, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, February 3–April 4, 1984; Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 15–May 13
The Meditative Surface, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, April 1–May 16

1985
Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, February 16–March 30
Now and Then: A Selection of Recent and Earlier Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, June 1–August 31
American Abstract Painting: 1960–1980, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, June 19–August 24

1986
The Purist Image, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, November

1986–1987
The Window in Twentieth-Century Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, September 21, 1986–January 18, 1987; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, April 24–June 29, 1987

1997
A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 9–December 14

2004
A Minimal Future?: Art as Object, 1958–1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 28–July 26

2006–2007
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, August 6–October 15, 2006; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2006–January 21, 2007; National Academy Museum, New York, February 13–April 27, 2007

2008
The Idea of Nature, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, June 12–July 31
Into the Void: Abstract Art, 1948–2008, Tucson Museum of Art, July 17–September 26

2008–2009
Steve DiBenedetto, Ralph Humphrey, Chris Martin, and Andrew Masullo/Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, December 6, 2008–January 31, 2009

2009
Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, February 21–March 28
Not New: Vincent Fecteau Selects from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 25–November 8

2010
Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, June 5–August 14

2011
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, March 25–August 15

2011–2012
The Language of Less: Then and Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 8, 2011–April 8, 2012
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, October 19, 2011–February 26, 2012

2012
Susan Hartnett, Ralph Humphrey, Marilyn Lerner, and Dona Nelson, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, March 22–April 28

2014–2015
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, California, September 7, 2014–January 4, 2015

2015
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 11–June 7

2016
Shape Shifters, Luhring Augustine, New York, June 27–August 12
The Space Between Lines: Sol Lewitt, Ralph Humphrey, Thomas Chimes, Warren Rohrer, Sean Scully, Lee Ufan, Pat Steir, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, October 12–November 17

2018
Three Gallery Artists, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, July 12–August 10

2019
American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, February 14–May 19
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now, Lisson Gallery, New York, June 27–August 10

2021
13 Artists: A Tribute to Klaus Kertess’ Bykert Gallery 1966-75, David Nolan Gallery, New York, June 3–July 30
Coloring, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, August 10–December 11
Eye Control, David Lewis Gallery, New York, October 20–December 11

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

Art Institute of Chicago

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

Miami Art Museum

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

Palm Springs Art Museum

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Tucson Museum of Art

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Highlights of the 1966–67 Art Season. Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1967.

Alloway, Lawrence. Systemic Painting. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1966.

Art Gallery, Oakland University. Art of the Decade: 1960–1970. Rochester, MI: Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1971.

Art Institute of Chicago. Seventy-First American Exhibition. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.

Baltimore Museum of Art. Fourteen Artists. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.

Bellamy, Richard. Focus on Light. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1967.

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York. Ralph Humphrey: The Late Paintings on Paper. New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1991.

Brutvan, Cheryl. The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects. West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2015.

Colt, Priscilla. Color and Field: 1890–1970. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1970.

Contemporary Art Society. Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1972.

———. Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974.

———. Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980.

Danese Gallery. Ralph Humphrey. New York: Danese Gallery, 1998.

Darling, Michael. The Language of Less: Then and Now. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011.

Delehanty, Suzanne. The Window in Twentieth-Century Art. Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 1986.

Friedman, Martin L. A View of a Decade. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977.

Goldstein, Ann. A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997.

———. A Minimal Future?: Art as Object, 1958–1968. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.

Goossen, E.C. The Art of the Real: USA, 1948–1968. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968.

Green, Samuel Adams. American Painting: The 1960s. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1969.

Helmrich, Michele. Denise Green: Beyond and Between - A Painter’s Journey. Brisbane: University of Queensland, 2016.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture of the ’60s and ’70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1975.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The Reductive Object: A Survey of the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960’s. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1979.

Ithaca College Museum of Art. Selected N.Y.C. Artists 1967. Ithaca, NY: Ithaca College Museum of Art, 1967.

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

Kertess, Klaus. Seen, Written: Selected Essays. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2010.

Marano, Lizbeth. Parasol and Simca: Two Presses/Two Processes. Lewisburg, PA: Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1984.

Marian Locks Gallery. The Purist Image. Philadelphia: Marian Locks Gallery, 1986.

Miami University Art Museum. A Seventies Selection: An Exhibition of Works from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Oxford, OH: Miami University Art Museum, 1981.

Mary Boone Gallery. Ralph Humphrey: 1990. New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1990.

———. Ralph Humphrey: Frame Paintings, 1964 to 1965. New York: Mary Boone Gallery, 1990.

Nordland, Gerald. Fourteen Abstract Painters. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1975.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Pure and Clear: American Innovations. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968.

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

Pincus-Witten, Robert. Postminimalism. Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1982.

Prokopoff, Stephen S. A Romantic Minimalism. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1967.

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. Abstract Painting: 1960–1969. Queens: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 1983.

Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. Ideas on Paper, 1970–1976. Chicago: Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1976.

———. The Meditative Surface. Chicago: Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1984.

Robins, Corinne. Planar Painting: Constructs, 1975–1980. New York: Alternative Museum, 1980.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Spray. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1971.

Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery. ’75, ’76, ’77: Painting, Part I. Bronxville, NY: Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, 1977.

Scala, Joseph A. Current/New York: Recent Works in Relief. Syracuse, NY: Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, 1980.

Siegel, Katy. High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975. New York: Independent Curators International, 2006.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961.

Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation. Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation. Richmond, VA: Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, 1978.

Tannenbaum, Judith. 3 Dimensional Painting. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980.

Tucker, Marcia. The Structure of Color. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971.

University of Michigan Museum of Art. Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1978.

Whitney Museum of American Art. 1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969.

———. 1979 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979.

Wood, Mara-Helen and Ellen Price. New Work, New York: Newcastle Salutes New York. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom: Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, 1983.

PERIODICALS

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Ashbery, John. “The Perennial Biennial.” New York Magazine 12, no. 12 (1979): 70–71.

Baker, Amy. “Painterly Edge: A Conversation with Ralph Humphrey.” Artforum 20, no. 8 (1982): 38–43.

Baker, Kenneth. “Material Feelings.” Art in America 72, no. 9 (1984): 162–167.

———. “New York: Ralph Humphrey.” Artforum 9, no. 9 (1971): 74.

———. “Reviews: Ralph Humphrey.” Artforum 18, no. 11 (1980): 63.

Battcock, Gregory. “In the Galleries: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 42, no. 4 (1968): 62.

———. “Ralph Humprey.” 57th Street Review, October 1966.

Benedikt, Michael. “New York.” Art International 11, no. 4 (1967): 64.

Burton, Scott. “A Different Stripe.” Art News 66, no. 10 (1968): 36–37, 53–56.

Campbell, Lawrence. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 57, no. 10 (1959): 17–18.

———. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 58, no. 10 (1960): 14–15.

“Canvases Brimming with Color.” Life 71, no. 13 (1971): 74–79.

Davis, Douglas. “The New Color Painters.” Newsweek 75, no. 18 (1970): 84–85.

Derfner, Phyllis. “Review of Exhibitions: Ralph Humphrey at John Weber.” Art in America 64, no. 3 (1976): 106.

Domingo, Willis. “Color Abstractionism: A Survey of Recent American Painting.” Arts Magazine 45, no. 3 (1970–1971): 34–40.

Dreiss, Joseph. “Arts Reviews: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 1 (1974): 57.

———. “Arts Reviews: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 8 (1975): 7.

Frank, Elizabeth. “Review of Exhibitions: Ralph Humphrey at Willard.” Art in America 68, no. 6 (1980): 157–158.

Frank, Peter. “Review of Exhibitions: Ralph Humphrey at Bykert Uptown.” Art in America 62, no. 5 (1974): 107–108.

Freed, Eleanor. “A Windfall for Texas.” Art in America 57, no. 6 (1969): 78–85.

Glueck, Grace. “Sexy Phones, Shoe Trees and Faucets.” New York Times, February 15, 1969.

———. “Whitney Displaying Year’s Acquisitions.” New York Times, June 10, 1970.

Goldin, Amy. “In the Galleries: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 39, no. 10 (1965): 66.

Halacs, Piri. “Painting: To See, to Feel.” Time 93, no. 22 (1969): 64.

Hamilton, George Heard. “Painting in Contemporary America.” Burlington Magazine 102, no. 686 (1960): 192–197.

Harris, Susan. ‘Ralph Humphrey.” Brooklyn Rail (September/October 2012).

Humphrey, Ralph and Priscilla Colt. “Ralph Humphrey: Statement and Critique.” Arts Magazine 49, no. 6 (1975): 56–59.

Judd, Donald. “In the Galleries: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 34, no. 6 (1960): 54.

Kozloff, Max. “Light as Surface: Ralph Humphrey and Dan Christensen.” Artforum 6, no. 6 (1968): 26–30.

Kramer, Hilton. “Cutouts, for the Squaring of the Circle” New York Times, January 21, 1967.

———. “The Abstract and the Real: From Metaphysics to Visual Facts.” New York Times, July 21, 1968.

Kurtz, Stephen A. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 68, no. 1 (1969): 20.

Larson, Kay. “Guerilla Tactics.” New York Magazine 20, no. 5 (1987): 54–55.

———. “Small Talk.” Village Voice, February 11, 1980: 74.

Levin, Kim. “Ralph Humphrey.” Village Voice, February 10, 1987, 68.

Levine, Neil A. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 64, no. 4 (1965): 16.

Lippard, Lucy. “The Silent Art.” Art in America 55, no. 1 (1967): 58–64.

Lubell, Ellen. “Arts Reviews: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 51, no. 8 (1977): 35.

Matthias, Rosemary. “In the Galleries: Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 46, no. 8 (1972): 59.

———. “Galleries: Group Show.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 2 (1972): 68–69.

Mayer, Rosemary. “New York: Group Show.” Arts Magazine 47, no. 5 (1973): 71–72.

Mellow, James R. “A Summer Show.” New York Times, May 19, 1973.

———. “New York Letter.” Art International 12, no. 4 (1968): 63–67.

Mouffarege, Nicolas A. “The Erotic Impulse.” Arts Magazine 57, no. 3 (1982): 5.

Ostrow, Saul and Shirley Kaneda. “Ralph Humphrey.” Arts Magazine 64, no. 10 (1990): 78.

Perreault, John. “Too Much of the Same.” Village Voice 12, no. 19 (1968): 18.

Phillips, Deborah C. “New York Reviews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 81, no. 7 (1982): 161.

Pincus-Witten, Robert. “New York: Ralph Humphrey.” Artforum 7, no. 8 (1969): 69.

Poirier, Maurice and Jane Necol. “The ’60s in Abstract: 13 Statements and an Essay.” Art in America 71, no. 9 (1983): 122–137.

Preston, Stuart. “Art: Two Esthetic Views: Exhibitions of John Fenton and Ralph Humphrey Are Light Years Apart.” New York Times, February 6, 1960.

Ratcliff, Carter. “New York Letter.” Art International 14, no. 6 (1970): 132–144.

———. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 70, no. 3 (1972): 57.

Raynor, Vivien. “Prints of Masters and Others.” New York Times, July 29, 1983.

———. “Ralph Humphrey.” New York Times, April 16, 1982.

———. “Cranbrook Years,’ American Design at Met.” New York Times, April 20, 1984.

Reed, David. “The Notebooks of Ralph Humphrey.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 27, no. 2 (2015):88–96.

Rose, Barbara. “It Looks Good on Paper.” New York Magazine 5, no. 21 (1972): 76–77.

———. “New York: Group Show.” Artforum 6, no. 3 (1967): 59–60.

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———. “Reviews and Previews: Ralph Humphrey.” Art News 71, no. 4 (1972): 53.

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———. “The Zeitgeist Signals Just Downstairs on 73rd St.” New York Times, November 7, 1980.

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———. “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead.” New York Times, February 16, 2007.

———. “Quieter Times for East Village’s Galleries.” New York Times, February 6, 1987.

———. “Ralph Humphrey, An Abstract Painter and A Teacher, 58.” New York Times, July 17, 1990.

———. “Ralph Humphrey: Frame Paintings, 1964 to 1965.” New York Times, September 28, 1990.

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———. “Tempus Fidget.” Village Voice 27, no. 16 (1982): 89.

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