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.