PAUL GEORGES
AMERICAN PAINTER
1923-2002

PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002

PAUL GEORGES
AMERICAN PAINTER
1923-2002

PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 1923-2002
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EDUCATION

1942

Oregon State College, Portland, Oregon. 3 months. Drafted


1943-1945

WWII Pacific Theater. Army 3 years 9 mos 16 days 


1946-47

University of Oregon at Eugene studied with Jack Wilkinson


1947

Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown, MA summer


1949

Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris


1949-52 

Atelier Fernande Leger, Paris 

AWARDS

1960

Hallmark Purchase Prize (Fifth International) 


1961

Longview Foundation Fellowship Purchase Award


1964

Carol H. Beck, 159th Annual Exhibition of American Painting & Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts


1966

Neysa McMein Purchase Award, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY


1976

New York State C.A.P.S Grant (Creative Artists Public Service Program)


1980

Associate Member, National Academy Museum

1981

Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy 

1983  Andrew Carnegie Prize,158th Annual,National Academy

1986

- American Academy of Arts and Letters: Painting Citation

- Ranger Purchase Prize, National Academy Museum, NY

- ACADAMICIAN, National Academy Museum, NY


1990

- American Academy of Arts and Letters: Purchase Prize

- Merit Certificate,165th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NY


1991

Gladys Emerson Cook Prize, 166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NY


1992

Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation INC, NY: GRANT


1993

- Pollock-Krasner Foundation INC, NY: GRANT


1976 - 1985

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 

ARTISTS' CHOICE MUSEUM, NewYork, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2023

“Paul Georges: Abstracting the Figurative," Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK 

Catalogue Essay “Paul Georges: Abstracting the Figurative" and Curation by Jeremy Lewison (20 April-25 May)

2003

- "Paul Georges My Posthumous Series," Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, NY.  Catalog Essay by Rhonda Lieberman (March) 


2000

- "Paul Georges Recent Paintings" Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, NY, Catalog Essay “The Irony of Tradition” by Carter Ratcliff (March 29-Apr 29)
- Center for Figurative Painting, New York, “Paul Georges, The Big Idea: A Retrospective”, aka Paul Georges Museum initially May 6- August 30
- Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, (Nov 1- Dec 7)

1998

"Paul Georges: New Paintings" Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, NY, (Dec 2-31)

1996

- "Paul Georges: New Paintings" Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, NY, Oct 22-Nov-9

- “New Paintings” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, (May)

1995

- "Deciding My Fate",Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, (February)
- “Paul Georges: Self- Portrait Retrospective,” Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa,curator Stanley Grand, Catalog (Jan. - March)

1994

“Recent Paintings” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York,  (November)

1992

“Paul Georges: Paintings” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, (August)

1991

- “Paul Georges: Bassae Frieze”, Anne Plumb Gallery, NY, Catalog  2/9- 3/16

- “New Paintings” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, (Aug. 31- Sept. 30)

- “New Still Lifes & Landscapes” Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa, (Feb.1- March 6), Catalog

1989

- Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina (Nov.- Dec.)

- Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York (Sept.)

1988

“Paul Georges: Diane and Actaeon”, Anne Plumb Gallery, NY, Nov 19-Dec 23

1986

"Paul Georges: Integrity and Myth”, Anne Plumb Gallery, NY  Catalog Essay “Private Allegories, Restless Lives” by David Shapiro (Dec. 2- Jan. 10, 1987) 

1985

- William Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Ma (Feb18-      Mar14) 

- Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts (March- April)
- Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa (July)

1984

“Gods Meeting the Satellites”, Manhattan Art, New York (Oct. 13- Nov. 10), Catalog Essay by Dennis Adrian 

1983

- College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas (Oct.-Nov.)
- Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oct.- Nov.) 

1982

Zolla/ Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Feb. 1- March 29) 

1981

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (Feb. 1-March 8) 

1980

Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, “Paul Georges: Selected Paintings 1961-1980,” (Dec. 9- Jan. 18, 1981), curated by Dennis Adrian, catalogue.

1979

- Tomasulo Gallery, Fine Arts Department, Union College, New Jersey (Feb. 2- 27) 

- Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, California (Dec - Jan 19, 1980)

1976

“The Assassinated of the Sixties”, Fischbach Gallery Uptown, New York 

Political Painting show during the NYC Democratic National Convention (June 30 - July 31)

1975

Green Mountain Gallery, New York (March 7-27)

1974

Fischbach Gallery Downtown, New York (Nov. 9- Dec. 1)

1969

Dorsky Gallery, New York

1968

- "Paul Georges New Paintings," Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (January)
- Dorsky Gallery, New York (March 16-May 11)
- Union Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. (April)

1967

"Paul Georges New Paintings, "Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (Jan. 6- Feb.3)

1966

"Paul Georges New Painting," Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (Jan. 4- 29)

1965

-Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York (April 13- May 8)
- Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, Oregon (July)
- Cord Galleries, Southampton, New York (July 23 -29)  

1964

- Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (March 31- Apr. 25)

- Dartmouth College Gallery, Dartmouth, New Hampshire

1963

"Paul Georges Recent Paintings," Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Illinois (Oct. 7- Nov. 2)

1962

"Paul Georges Recent Paintings," Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

(Nov. 6-Dec. 1)

1961

- "Fertility," Great Jones Gallery, New York (Jan. 23- Feb. 19)
- Reed College Gallery, Portland Oregon

1960

“Self Portraits,” Great Jones Gallery, New York (Feb. 23- March 13)

1958

Zabriskie Gallery, New York (Dec. 8, 1958- Jan. 3, 1959)

1957

"Georges," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (April 23-May 11)

1956

- Reed College Faculty Lounge, Portland Oregon (July)
- University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

1955

Tibor de Nagy Gallery , New York (October 25-November 19) 

1954

Hansa Gallery, New York (Exhibition canceled; reviewed in Art News by Frank O’Hara)

1948

Reed College Gallery, Portland, Oregon

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