Chronology
1906 | Born April 30, New York. |
1927 | Columbia University: awarded Bachelor of Science Degree, New York. |
1927-30 |
Studies sculpture at the Beaux Art Institute of Design, New York. |
1930 | Studies at National Academy of Design, New York. |
1936 | Participates in First American Artists Congress. Joins the Artists Union. |
1937 | Midtown Galleries, New York. |
1940 | Founds
Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, as splinter group from American
Artists Congress (with Meyer Schapiro, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Ilya Bolotowsky, Bradley Walker Tomlin, David Smith and others). |
1941 | Elected to executive board, Sculptors Guild (along with Chaim Gross, Robert Laurent and Hugo Robus). |
1950 | Joins The Irascibles in protest against juried painting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charter member, The Club. |
1962-63 | Visiting Professor: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1965-67 | Visiting Professor: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
1967 | Associate Fellow: Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. |
1979 | Mellon Chair in Humanities, Visiting Professor: Rice University, Houston, Texas. |
1991 | Died in North Egremont, Massachusetts. |