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Exhibition
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Painter
Joe Lasker, born in New York, has been praised by
Art News for his "extraordinary technique and
engaging wit." "There is a psychological
warmth and penetration in the work... especially stimulating
canvasses... marvellously effective... a tour de force,"
says The New York Times.
Born
in New York in 1919 and educated there at the Cooper
Union, he is represented in the permanent collections
of dozens of museums and corporate collections, including
the Whitney Museum and the National Academy of Design
in New York; the Hirshhorn and the Smithsonian in
Washington, the Museums of Art in Philadelphia and
Baltimore, the California Palace of the Legion of
Honor in San Francisco and the Tel Aviv Museum in
Israel; and Aramark Corporation in Philadelphia, First
National Bank of Chicago and the 3M Collection in
Minneapolis. Between 1951 and 2003, he had 14 one-man
shows at Kraushaar Galleries in New York.
Prizes
include the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim Fellowship, National
Institute of Arts and Letters grant, Edwin Austin
Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting and
the Isidore Gold Medal from the National Academy of
Design, where he is a National Academician and former
Secretary.
He
has written and illustrated dozens of children's books,
including the prize-winning Merry Ever After and The
Boy Who Loved Music (Viking Press), a National Library
Association Notable book written by his son, David.
"I
feel that much art of the last 50 years has something
missing, namely narrative. Without narrative there
would be little left of the art of the Old Masters,
of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. There
would be no Guernica by Picasso," Joe Lasker
says.
Joe
Lasker One-man shows:
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Kraushaar Galleries, New York: 1951, 1955, 1959, 1964,
1970, 1974, 1979, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000,
2003
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Philadelphia Art Alliance
Joe
Lasker Group exhibitions: many national and international
shows, including:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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National Academy of Design
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Barbican, London, England
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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Cincinnati Art Museum
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Carnegie Institute
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Department of State
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West Corporation
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