Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1917
EDUCATION
Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon), special student, 1931-36
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, B.F.A., 1936-1941
University of Pennsylvania, B.F.A., 1936-1941
Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA, 1937-1940
Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France, 1948-49
ARMY SERVICE
Enlisted, December 1941
Officer, November 1942
Captain, Corps of Engineers in charge of organizing Army War Artists, January 1943
Officicial Combat Artist, in Southwest Pacific, painting and drawing and doing field
reconnaissance intelligence from March 1943-October 1945
Received five decorations.
SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
1936 Scholarship to Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1939 Prix de Rome Collaborative Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1940 Emil Cresson Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Edwin Austin Abbey Scholarship for Mural Painting
1942 Posner Prize, Carnegie Institute
1945 Posner Prize, Carnegie Institute
1951 Second Prize, Association of Artists, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute
1960 Fellowship Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1963 Babcock Memorial Prize, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
1964 First Prize for The Family of Man, Society of International Medalists
1965 Gold Medal for Painting, Century Association, New York
1969 Gold Medal for Sculpture, Century Association, New York
1976 Grant, American Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1980 Elected, Associate, National Academy of Design, New York
1981 National Academy of Design Gold Medal
1987 Dessie Greer Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
1988 Isaac N. Maynard Prize, National Sculpture Society, New York
1989 C.P. Dietsch Prize, National Sculpture Society, New York
1991 Maurice B. Hexter Prize, National Sculpture Society, New York
1991 Edith H. and Richman Proskauer Prize, National Sculpture Society, New York
1993 Purchase Award, Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
1993 Governor's Award, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1995 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal, Artists' Fellowship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1949 Niveau Gallery, New York
1951 Grand Central Moderns, New York
1953 Grand Central Moderns, New York
1955 Rockland Foundation, West Nyack, NY
1956 Graham Gallery, New York (then Duveen-Graham)
1958 Graham Gallery, New York (then Duveen-Graham)
1963-71 Wellfleet Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1967 Yale University, New Haven, CT
1971 Graham Gallery, New York
1972 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
1976 New School for Social Research, New York
1977 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1979 Sculpture Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1979 Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, RI
1982 Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1995 Heads, Century Association, New York, NY
1995 Retrospective, Provincetown Art Association, and Museum
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1946 War Art traveled throughout Australia and United States
1962 Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and tour to Dallas, TX
1966 Eight Wood Sculptors U.S. Plywood, New York
1969 New School for Social Research
1978 Sculpture Center, New York
1978 Sculptor's Guild, New York
1982 Newport Museum, Newport, RI
1985 Fourteen Artists, National Council on the Aging, Washington, DC
1989 Simon Family Show: Sidney, Nora, Mark, Teru, North Berkshire Arts Council,
North Adams, MA
1992 Artists' Responses to WWII State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
1992 Man Revealed Graham Modern, New York
1993 Long Point - An Artist's Place Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York
1994 Contemporary Figurative Sculpture Kingsborough Community College
1994 Contemporary Sculpture Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
1994 Sculpture in the Garden Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
1994 Fresco, A Contemporary Perspective, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston College, MA
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS
1939-40 Murals, New York World's Fair and Post Offices, Scranton, PA and Washington, DC
Assistant to George Harding
1940 Murals (unfinished) Post Office, Flemingsburg, KY
1941 Murals, Fort Belvoir, VA
1956-58 Column, Menorah and Menorah Relief, Temple of Beth Abraham, Tarrytown, NY Robert Green, Architect
1958 Portable Ark, Israel Cummings Camp, Federation of Jewish Charities
1958 Wall Painting, James Daly House, Suffren, NY
1958 Frescos, South Solon Meeting House, Maine
1958 Facette wall, Walt Whitman High School, Yonkers, NY. Eli Rabineau, Architect
1962 Sculpture (destroyed), in film David and Lisa with sculptors Robert Cook and Dorothea Greenbaum
1962 Mobile, Woodland House, Hartford, CT, Lloyd Segal, Architect
1963 Medal for Family of Man Award given by Protestant Council of New York (first honoree - President John F. Kennedy)
1965-66 Sculpture, Our Lady of the Angels Seminary, Glenmount, NY. Max 0. Urban, Architect
1965-66 Entrance screen, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Max 0 Urban, Architect
1966 Playground Sculpture, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY Coffey and Levine, Landscape Architects
1967 Entrance Sculpture, 747 Third Avenue, New York, NY. Mel Kaufman Associates, Builder
1983 Mobile, Lomas-Nettleton Service Center, Dallas, TX
1984-85 Interior Sculpture and Altar Curtain, West Point Jewish Chapel, West Point, NY. Max Abramovitz, Architect
1987 Fountain Sculpture, Graham Building, City Hall Plaza, Philadelphia, PA. Cope/Linder, Architects
1988 Medal for Florence Gould Grand Prix given by Academie Francaise commissioned by Bank of New York for Gould estate
1988-89 Fountain Sculpture, World Wide Plaza, New York, NY. Skidmore Owings and Merrill-David Childs, Architect
1991 Medal for American Medallic Sculpture Association
1991 Sculpture, Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Embassy, Paris France
Art Students League, New YorkAustralian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia
Century Association, New York
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
National Academy of Design, New YorkNational Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Saint John's University Art Gallery, Jamaica, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
United States Department of Defense Historical Collection, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
POSITIONS HELD
Founder (one of three) and faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
Artist in residence, American Academy in Rome 1969-70Visiting Artist, Chautauqua Institute 1991
Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, M.F.A. program 1991-93
Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania 1975-76, 1980 and 1995
Art Students League, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum Art SchoolCastle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
Columbia University, New York
New School for Social Research
New York Studio School
Salzburg Seminar for American Studies, Salzburg, Austria
Sara Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome Commission, City of New York 1974-79
Artists Equity, Founding Member National Chapter
Artists Fellowship
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Board of Directors 1968-present
Century AssociationNational Academy of Design, ANA 1980 NA 1981 Officer and Council Member
National Sculpture Society
Sculptor's Guild
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Founding member & Board of Governors
Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Federation of Fine Arts