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BIOGRAFIE
| 1899 | born in Kiev, Ukraine |
| 1905 | Moved to Rockland, USA |
| 1929 1930 | visual and performing arts, including dramatics at the Art Students League |
| 1931 | Hans Hofmann’s school in Munich, Germany |
| 1932 | returned to New York and assisted Diego Rivera on murals for the WPA Federal Art Project |
| 1937 | joined the WPA as a teacher for the Educational Alliance School of Art |
| 1947 | studied etching with Stanley William Hayter at his Atelier 17 in New York |
| 1949 - 1950 | worked in marble and terra-cotta and executed her totemic Game Figures |
| 1957 - 1959 | became a president of the Artist’s Equity New York chapter |
| 1966 | vice-president of the International Association of Artists |
| 1988 | died in New York, USA |
| 2000 | subject of a set of Louise Nevelson commemorative stamps issued by the U.S Postal Service |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2019 | Galerie Gmurzynska, New |
| 2018 | Pace Prints, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Pace Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, New York |
| 2017 - 2018 | Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| 2017 | McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm San Jose Museum of Art, California Pace Prints, 32 East 57th Street, New York Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts |
| 2016 | Pace Palo Alto, California Pace London, 6 Burlington Gardens Fondazione Marconi moderna e contemporanea, Milan |
| 2015 | Baker Museum, Artis—Naples, Florida Collage and Assemblage, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 2014 | Cardi Gallery, Milan Die Galerie, Frankfurt |
| 2013 | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA Fondazione Roma Museo, Rome Civita Sicilia, Naples L & M Arts, Venice, California Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
| 2012 | Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, USA Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Florida |
| 2011 | Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, USA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA Collages, Pace Prints, New York, USA The Architect of Shadow, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium Pace Prints, New York Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills Artiscope, Brussels |
| 2010 | Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA Naples Museum of Art, Florida Pace Prints and Pace Primitive, New York Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida The Williams A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
| 2009 | Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England Pace Gallery, New York, USA Louise Nevelson: Collages, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Mara Coccia Arte Contemporanea, Rome Galleria il Ponte, Florence PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA |
| 2007 | San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA Pace Gallery, New York, USA The Jewish Museum, New York, USA de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA |
| 2006 | Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland |
| 2005 | Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA ACA Galleries, New York, USA Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida Galerie Dreiseitel, Cologne Bobby Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica |
| 2004 | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, USA Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, Indiana Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul |
| 2003 | Farnsworth Art Museum, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA Galerie Jean-Gabriel Mitterand, Paris Locks Gallery, Philadelphia Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island, New York Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut |
| 2002 | Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York |
| 2001 | Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
| 2001 - 2002 | Lowe Art Museum, Miami |
| 2000 | Bobby Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Lisbon |
| 1999 | Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA Everson Art Museum, Syracuse The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Locks Gallery, Philadelphia Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at Educational Alliance, New York News Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury, England |
| 1998 | Washburn Gallery, New York, USA Ubu Gallery, New York, USA Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Portland Museum of Art, Maine Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo U.J.A. Federation of New York, New York |
| 1997 | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA Choate House Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, USA Gallery Nova, Ronco s/Ascona PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles ACA Galleries, Munich Locks Gallery, Philadelphia Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris PaceWildenstein, New York Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Baldwin Gallery, Aspen Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris |
| 1995 | Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Palm Beach |
| 1994 | Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Ubu Gallery, New York, USA Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
| 1993 | The Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York |
| 1992 | The Pace Gallery, New York Wildenstein Tokyo, Japan Bellas Artes, Santa Fe Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach |
| 1991 | Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA The Forum Gallery, Jamestown Community College, New York Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville |
| 1989 | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago The Pace Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach |
| 1987 | Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, Pennsylvania |
| 1986 | Michel Soskine Inc., New York, USA Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Claude Bernard Gallery, New York The Pace Gallery, New York San Jose Museum of Art, California Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris |
| 1985 | Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco The Pace Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | Charles Burchfield Arts Center, State University of Buffalo, New York The William A Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, Florida Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston |
| 1983 | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Gibbes Museum, Athens, Georgia The Pace Gallery, New York Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York |
| 1982 | Wildenstein & Co., Tokyo Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston |
| 1981 | Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Galerie de France, Paris Pace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Kauffman Galleries, Houston, Texas Wildenstein & Co., London |
| 1980 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago The Pace Gallery, New York Wildenstein & Co., New York Phoenix Art Museum Seattle Art Museum Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
| 1979 | Louise Nevelson, Pace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona Louise Nevelson, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 1978 | Charles Burchfield Center, State University of Buffalo, New York Galleria Corsini, Intra, Italy Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas Pace Editions, New York Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson City, Michigan Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach |
| 1977 | The Pace Gallery, New York Pace/Columbus, Ohio Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase Truman Gallery, New York |
| 1976 | Galleria Il Tritone, Biella, Italy Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome Vandervelde Gallery, Inc., Beverly Hills Villa Pignatelli, Naples Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| 1975 | Galleria d'Arte l'Arcipelago, Turin Galleria Il Centro, Naples Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach Nevelson at Pace/Columbus, Ohio Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston New Gallery, Cleveland Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Galleria d'Arte Spagnoli, Florence The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Ala Gallery, Iran America Society, Tehran Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
| 1974 | High Museum of Art, Atlanta William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio C.W. Post Center Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin The Pace Gallery, New York Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Pace/Columbus ADI Gallery, San Francisco Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas High Museum of Arts, Atlanta William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City |
| 1973 | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Studio Marconi, Milan Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg |
| 1972 | The Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto Pace Graphics, New York The Pace Gallery, New York Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston Graphics Gallery, Boston, |
| 1971 | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Pace/Columbus, Ohio |
| 1970 | Galleria Galatea, Turin, Italy Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Galleria d'Arte Iolas-Galatea, Rome University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1969 | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Louise Nevelson, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands Akron Art Institute, Ohio Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris Pace/Columbus, Ohio The Pace Gallery, New York Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston Bürgermeister-Ludwig-Reichert-Haus, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein, West Germany Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin |
| 1968 | Benjamin Galleries, Chicago The Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York The Pace Gallery, New York |
| 1967 | Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1966 | Ferus-Pace Gallery, Los Angeles The Pace Gallery, New York Pace/Columbus, Ohio |
| 1965 | David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto Lotte Jacobi Photography and Art, Hillsboro, New Hampshire The Jewish Museum, New York Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf |
| 1964 | The Pace Gallery, New York Kunsthalle, Bern Galatea-Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin The Pace Gallery, Boston Gimpel-Hanover Gallery, Zurich |
| 1963 | Balin-Traube Gallery, New York Hanover Gallery, London Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Sidney Janis Gallery, New York |
| 1962 | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Daniel Cordier and Rudolph Stadler Gallery, Frankfurt |
| 1961 | Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden The Pace Gallery, Boston Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Galerie Schwarz, Milan |
| 1960 | Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago The David Herbert Gallery, New York |
| 1959 | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
| 1958 | Esther Stuttman Gallery, New York Grand Central Moderns, New York |
| 1957 | Grand Central Moderns, New York |
| 1956 | Grand Central Moderns, New York |
| 1955 | Grand Central Moderns, New York |
| 1954 | Marcia Clapp Gallery, New York otte Jacobi Gallery, New York |
| 1946 | Nierendorf Gallery, New York |
| 1944 | Nierendorf Gallery, New York |
| 1943 | Nierendorf Gallery, New York Norlyst Gallery, New York |
| 1942 | Nierendorf Gallery, New York |
| 1941 | Nierendorf Gallery, New York |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 1985 | National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan |
| 1973 | honorary degree from Smith College in Northampton, USA and Columbia University in New York, USA |
| 1969 | MacDowell Colony Medal in Peterborough, USA |
| 1966 | Honorary Degree from Western College for Women in Oxford, USA |
| 1959 | grand Prize for work in the Art USA exhibition at the New York Coliseum |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Albany Mall Project, Albany, New York Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania Anderson Collection Museum at Stanford University, California Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois City of Binghamton, New York Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh The Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Saint Peter’s Church, New York The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Danforth Art Museum, Framingham State University, Massachusetts Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, California Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington, D.C. Fukutake Collection, Okayama, Japan Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo High Museum of Art, Atlanta Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Hospital Corporation of America, Chicago The Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, New York Indiana University, Bloomington The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Jewish Museum, New York Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center, New York, Kawamura Memorial Museum, Sakura, Japan Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign Lindquist Center, The University of Iowa Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City of Scottsdale, Arizona Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungje, Korea Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence Storm King Art Center, Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York Tate Gallery, London Temple Israel, Boston The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio University of Nebraska Art Galleries - Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut |
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