1923-2012

PAUL JENKINS (1923 – 2012)

“Independent, intuitive, technically gifted, Paul Jenkins embodies many of the strengths of the New York School.” Jonathan Goodman, Thresholds of Color, 2014 [1]

Renowned for his method of pouring paint onto canvas and paper and a contemporary of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, pre-eminent Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins achieves luminosities and jewel-like color in his sweeping works on primed canvas and paper.

Paul Jenkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923. As a young teenager, he received a fellowship to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. In those early years, on weekends and summers he also explored working in ceramics where the firing of the kiln revealed to him the transformation of color. The influence of Asian art first experienced in his youth by constant visits to the renowned Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, together with what became a lifelong study of Asian texts, left an indelible impression on his practice. Jenkins arrived at the Art Students League in New York in 1948 where he used his GI Bill to study for four years, principally with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1953, Jenkins traveled to Italy, working in oil on canvas for several months in Taormina in Sicily, then visiting Spain and settling in Paris in 1953. He would continue to work both in New York and Paris throughout his more than six decades as an artist. In the words of the late eminent art historian Frank Anderson Trapp: “Rather, he straddled the Atlantic, so to speak, and like such predecessors as Whistler, Sargent and Cassatt, brought both sides of his experiences into balance. He remains at home in either environment and moves fluidly from one to the other in the best tradition of international identity.” [2]

For Jenkins, a painting must “be a world not a thing.” [3] Crucial to investing his art with the sense of ‘being a world,’ is, as stated by the distinguished late art historian, Albert E. Elsen, persistent fluidity, a key element in its creation. In a 1950 diary entry, Jenkins noted: “The quality of moisture is life, a thing which breathes has moisture. This is a felt quality in painting.” [4] In Elsen’s view, Jenkins’ use of moisture in his work led him to develop his veils and states that thematically the veil can be found in Jenkins’ early figurative works of the late 40s and early 50s. Jenkins “sought the authenticity of what was underneath that gave the form mystery and beauty.” [5]

In addition to the abstract expressionist art in the forefront in New York City in the 50s and its protagonists, Jenkins in 1950 came upon this statement by Monet: “The light is the real person in the picture.” [6] Jenkins then went on to become drawn to the work of Turner, Georges de la Tour and the pastels of Odilon Redon which led him to further his discoveries about light.

“Two kinds of light have always drawn me. The light of Georges de La Tour, which seems to radiate from the painting and that reflected light which was most evident in Turner’s imagination. From these two sources — reflection and radiation — I have tried to achieve a kind of form in its own discovered space, a kind of light which reveals itself from within, while the reflected element affirms itself from without.” [7]

And Jenkins goes on to state: “The light which is seen from underneath must be within the form and work with the structure to be significant.” From the artist’s notebooks, circa 1955. [8]

At first, it may appear that Jenkins stained his canvases while in fact he did not. He would first prime the canvas surface before applying paint. Jenkins’ early works on canvas from the 1950s were defined by drips and pours of oil paint and enamel in varied densities. In 1959, the significant Eyes of the Dove series “opened up the negative-positive, positive-negative, the interpenetration of white ground and evident images.” [9] The term phenomena first appeared in 1959 as a preface to the titles of his works, and reflects the artist’s strong interest in Kant and in the color theories of Goethe. In 1960, he began his transition to working in acrylic with more thinly applied paint which also saw the recurrence of what the artist called his “lost and found line.” In its permanent collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art has an iconic work from this period, Phenomena When I Looked Away from 1960, one of the last paintings in oil from that time. In 1979, a heavier impasto reappeared, amalgamated with veils of differing transparencies.

The pioneering Martha Jackson Gallery mounted Jenkins’ first solo exhibition in New York in 1956 and went on to represent the artist for nearly two decades. Another pioneer, the Zoe Dusanne Gallery in Seattle, held Jenkins’ first solo exhibition in the U.S. in 1953. His first solo exhibition in Paris was in 1954 at Studio Paul Facchetti, where two years earlier Jackson Pollock’s first Paris exhibition took place, organized by Alfonso Ossorio and Michel Tapié. In 1956, Jenkins began to show in group exhibitions in London with Arthur Tooth & Sons, where he had his first solo exhibition in the UK in 1960. Throughout his long creative life, Paul Jenkins showed his work consistently internationally. In 1961 he began longstanding affiliations with Galerie Karl Flinker in Paris and in 1972, with Gimpel Fils in London. Implementing Jiro Yoshihara’s 1958 invitation, Jenkins worked with the Gutai group in Osaka in 1964. Gutai works from Jenkins’ collection formed the nucleus for the seminal exhibition “Under Each Other’s Spell”: New York and Gutai, at the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton in 2009 and curated by Ming Tiampo. In 2014, Robert Miller Gallery in New York mounted an overview exhibition of works on canvas from 1960.

Jenkins’ first U.S. retrospective was organized by Gerald Nordland for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1972) and Philippe de Montebello for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1971). Additional retrospectives include the Musée Picasso, Antibes (1987); Palm Springs Art Museum (1980); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi (1974); Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover (1964); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (1962).

Jenkins’ works are held in major international museum and private collections and continue to be exhibited in worldwide venues. In 2018, the Redfern Gallery in London held a major solo exhibition with an essay by art historian Gail Levin. Some group exhibitions in 2018 include: Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofía, Madrid. The Masters: Art Students League Teachers and Their Students, Hirschl & Adler, New York; The Masters: Works on Paper, 511 Projects, New York. Post-War American Art, Waterhouse & Dodd, New York.

© Estate of Paul Jenkins

NOTES
[1] Jonathan Goodman. Thresholds of Color. Exhibition catalogue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 2014.
[2] Frank Anderson Trapp. Exhibition Catalogue, Paul Jenkins Broken Prisms, Gimpel Weitzenhoffer, New York 1986.
[3] Albert E. Elsen, Paul Jenkins, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1973, p 22.
[4] Elsen, p 24
[5] Elsen, p 25
[6] Elsen, p 27.
[7] Elsen, p 28.
[8] Elsen, p 48.
[9] Elsen, p 66.

CV

Born, 1923, Kansas City, Missouri
1937-43, Kansas City Art Institute
1948-52, Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor
Died, 2012, New York, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954.
Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfort am Main, 1954.
Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1955.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1956.
Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1957.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1958.
Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1959.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1960.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960.
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960.
Galerie d’Art Moderne, Stuttgart, 1960.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1961.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1961.
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961.
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1962.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1962.
Galerie Lienhard, Zurich, 1962.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962.
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 1962.
Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan, 1962.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1963.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1963. 
Gallery Moos, Toronto, 1963.
American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, 1964.
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964.
Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1964.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1964.
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1964. 
Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1965.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1965
Gallery of Modern Art, Scottsdale, 1965.
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1965.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1966.
Galerie Agnes LeFort, Montreal, 1966.
Hope Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, 1966.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1966.
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris, 1968.
Gallery Moos, Toronto, 1968.
Galerie Raber, Lucerne, 1968.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1968.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1969.
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1970.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1970.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1971.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1971.
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 1971.
Abrams Original Editions, New York, 1972.
Gimpel Fils, London, 1972.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1972.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1972-1973 (travels to the Amarillo Art Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Lauren Rodgers Memorial Library and Art Gallery, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Witte Memorial Museum).
Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, 1973.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1973.
Lindenwood College Art Gallery, St. Charles, Missouri, 1973.
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1973.
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, 1974.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 1974.
Gimpel Fils, London, 1974. 
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1974.
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi (retrospective), 1974.
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, 1975.
Galerie Tanit, Munich, 1975.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris and Basel Art Fair, Basel, 1976.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1976.
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, 1976.
Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 1977.
Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, 1977.
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, 1977.
La Galerie Cours Saint-Pierre, Geneva, 1977.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1977.
Sears Bank & Trust Company, Chicago, 1977.
Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, 1977.
Gimpel & Weitzenoffer Gallery, New York, 1978.
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, 1978.
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, 1978. 
Balcon des Arts, Paris, 1978.
Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, 1978. 
Galleria d’Arte Narcisco, Turin, 1978.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1979.
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, 1979.
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, 1979.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, 1980. (retrospective)
Elaine HOrwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, 1980.
Gimpel Fils, London, 1980. 
Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 1980.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1980.
Belk Art Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, 1981.
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, 1981.
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, 1981.
French Cultural Services, New York and la Maison International du Theatre, Theatre du Rond-Point, Paris, 1981.
Gimpel & Weitzenhofer Gallery, New York, 1981.
I. Irving Feldman Galleries, Sarasota, 1981.
Nicoline Pon Gallery, Zurich, 1982
Gimpel Fils, London, 1982.
I. Irving Feldman Galleries, Detroit, 1982.
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris, 1982.
Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 1982.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 1983.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1983.
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris, 1983.
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, 1983.
Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 1983.
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, 1984.
Musee d’Art Contemporain, Dunkirk, 1984.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1985.
Gallery Moos, Toronto, 1985.
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris, 1985.
Gallery Art Atrium, Stockholm, 1985.
FIAC, Gipel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, Paris, 1985.
Gimpel Fils, London, 1986.
MR Galleria d’ Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, 1986.
Galerie Michel Delorme, Paris, 1986.
Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich, 1986.
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, 1986.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 1986.
Focus Gallery, Lausanne, 1986.
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe and Scottsdale, 1986.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1986.
Galerie 63, Klosters, 1987.
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, 1987.
Musee Picasso, Antibes, 1987. (retrospective)
Galerie Regis Dorval, Lille, 1987.
Galleri Atrium, Stockholm, 1987.
Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago, 1988.
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, 1988.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1988.
Galerie Regis Dorval, Le Touquet, 1988.
Gana Gallery, Seoul, 1988.
Galleria La Loggia, Bologna, 1988.
Musees de Nice, Gallerie de Ponchettes, 1988.
Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Nice, 1988.
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, 1990.
Castello Doria, Portovenere, 1990.
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, 1990.
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 1991.
Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich, 1992.
Atelier Franck Bordas, Basel Art Fair and Paris, 1992.
Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute, 1992.
Associated American Artists, New York, 1992.
Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland, 1992.
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, 1993.
Yoshii Gallery, Paris, 1993.
Associated American Artists, New York, 1993.
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, 1994.
Pasquale Iannetti Gallery, San Francisco, 1994.
L’Eau et la Couleur, traveling watercolor exhibition in France, 1994.
La Maison Francaise, New York University, New York, 1994.
Artcurial, Paris, 1995.
Centre d’art contemporaine, Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur, 1994.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, 1994.
Chateau Musee Grimaldi, Cagnes sur mer, 1995.
Associated American Artists, New York, 1995.
Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, 1996.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 1997.
Galerie Georges Fall, Paris, 1997.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, 1997.
Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, 1998.
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt, 1999.
Galerie Patrice Trigano Paris, 1999.
Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York, 1999.
Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, 1999.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, 2000.
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, 2000.
Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York, 2000.
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, 2000.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, 2001.
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur, 2001.
Chateau Haut-Gleon, Les Corbieres, 2002.
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida, 2003.
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, 2003.
Redfern Gallery, London, 2003.
Musee Civico, Assessorato alla Cultura di Pizzighettone, 2003. 
Palais des Beau-Arts, Lille, 2005.
Redfern Gallery, London, 2005.
Galleria Open Art, Prato, 2005.
Abbaye de Silvacane, La Roque d’Antheron, 2005.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California, 2005.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, 2005.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California, 2006.
Maison des Princes de Perouges, 2006.
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2006.
Galleria Open Art, Cornic Art Fair, Venice, 2007.
Redfern Gallery, London, 2007. 
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, 2007.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California, 2008. 
D. Wigmoe Fine Art, New York, 2009.
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, 2009. 
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Instituion, 2009.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, Carolina, 2009. 
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2010.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, 2010.
Palazzo Pacchiani, Prato, 2010.
Galleria Open Art, Prato, 210. 
UB Anderson Gallery, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2010
Galleria Civica Ezio Mariani di Seregno, 2010.
The Reffern Gallery, London, 2011.
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, 2012.
Galleria Open Art, Prato, 2014
Museo di Pittura Murale, Prato, 2014.
Redfern Gallery, London, 2014.
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2015
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, 2015.
Chapel of Meditation, Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, New York, 2016.
Wigmore Fine Art, New York, 2016.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Group 1954, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954.
Divergences, Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 1954.
Artistes Etrangers en France, Petit Palais, Paris, 1955.
Signes Autres, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1955.
Inaugural Exhibition, Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1955. 
Phases de l’art contemporain, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, 1955.
Kunst 1955, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany, 1955.
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1956.
Divergences, Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 1956.
Forecasts, American Federation of Arts (traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art), 1956.
Recent Drawings USA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956.
New Trends in Painting, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1956.
Recent American Watercolors, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956.
Annual, Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.
Recent Developments in Painting, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1957.
The Exploration of Painting, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1957.
Forty-one Watercolorists of Today, Musee des Ponchettes, Nice, 1957. (Organized by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and selected by Dorothy Miller)
Young America-Thirty American Painters and Sculptors under Thirty-five, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957.
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958.
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1958.
An International Selection, Signa Gallery, East Hampton (chosen by Michel Tapie), 1958.
Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958 (Traveled to The Phillps Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Los Angeles County Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Saint Louis Art Museum).
Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1959.
Kunstverein, Cologne, 1959.
Sculpture, Krannert Museum, Champaign-Urbana, 1959.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Museum, Champaign-Urbana, 1959.
Arte Nuova, Palazzo Graneri, Turin, 1959.
Gutai Osaka Festival, Osaka, 1959.
An Exhibition of Avant-Garde Paintings, Memphis Broos Museum, 1960.
New Forms-New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960.
Recent Developments in Painting III, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1960.
American Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1960.
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1961.
Recent Developments in Painting IV, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1961.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Kranner Art Museum, Champaign Urbana, 1961.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1961. 
Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961.
The Sixty-Fourth American Exhibition, Art Institue of Chicago, 1961
The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute of American Art, Pittsburgh, 1961.
Art Since 1950, World’s Fair, Seattle, 1962.
Selections 1934-1961, American Artists from the Collection of Martha Jackson, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1962.
Gegenwart bis 1962, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1962.
Recent Developments in Painting V, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1962.
Paris Comparisons, Musee du Louvre, 1962.
Primitives to Picasso, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1962.
Premier, Salon International de Galeries Pilotes-Artistes et Decouvreurs de notre temps, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 1963.
22nd International Watercolor Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, 1963.
Art USA Now, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963.
66th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.
Abstract Watercolors by Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963.
Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts in Kolner Privatbesitz, Kolner Kunstverein, Cologne, 1964.
Larry Aldrich Contemporary, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1964.
Gutai, Osaka, 1964.
Paintings and Sculptures of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London, 1964.
Lithograhies de l’Atelier Mouriot, Redfern Gallery, London, 1965.
A University Collects-Paintings from the New York University Art Collection (organized by the American Federation of the Arts), 1965. 
Painting without a Brush, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1965.
2nd Salon International de Galeries Pilotes-Artistes et Decouvreurs de notre tempos, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 1966.
International Art: 1965-1966, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, 1966.
Peter Stuyvesant Collection: Le Musee dans L’Usine, Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1966.
Past Present, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966.
Dix Ans d’Art Vivant: 1955-65, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1967.
The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1967.The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art Collection, New York, 1967.
30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign-Urbana, 1967.
The Art of Organic Form, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 1967.
East Coast-West Coast Paintings, Museum of Art, University of Oklahmoma, Norman and the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City (traveling to the Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa), 1968.
Icon Idea, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1968.
The 164thAnnual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1969.
XXXV Mostra Internazionale, Sculture in Vetro della Fucina della Angeli, Castelli Campo, Filippo e Giacomo, Venice, 1969.
La Peinture Contemporaine de la Collection de la Baronne Alix de Rothschild, Musee des Beaus-Arts, Caen, 1970.
XXXVII Mostra Internazionale di sculture in Vetro, Palazzo Ducale, Fucina degli Angeli, Venice, 1970.
Trends in Twentieth Century Art, A Loan exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Art Galleries, University, Santa Barbara, 1970.
Michener Collection, University Art Museum, Austin, 1970.
American Paintings and Sculpture: 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illionis, Champaign-Urbana, 1971.
Abstract Expressionism, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1972.
Flowing Form, The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; The Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando; The Le Moyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, 1973.
International Glass Sculpture, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1973.
L’Espace Lyrique, Abbaye de Beaulieu, Ginals, 1973. Harold & May Rosenberg Collection, Montclair Art Museum, 1973.
100 Artists Associated wth the Art Students League of New York, Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1975.  
The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 1975-1976.
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1976.  
Aspects of Post-War Painting in America, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 1976.
Quelques Americains a Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1977.
Selections from the Larence H. Bloedel Bequest, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977.
Guggenheim Collection, The Solomon R. Guggensheim Museum, New York, 1977.
Les Americains de Paris, Paris Art Center, Paris, 1982.
Forms in Color, Indianapolis Museum, Indiana, 1982.
Apspects de la Peinture Contemporaine, 1945-1983, Musee d’art modern de Tryoes, Troyes, 1984.
Ordinary and Extraordinary Uses: Object by Arts, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 1984.
Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Tradition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1984.
Les Annees 50, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Dunkirk, 1985.
Informel, Gutail, Cobra, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1985. 
The 1950s-American Artists in Paris Part III, Denise Cade Gallery, New York, 1986.
Abstraction Lyriques: Paris 1945-1955, Espace Belleville, Paris, 1987.
The Spontaneous Gesture, Prints and Books of the Abstract Expressionists Era,
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987.
Color Pure and Simple, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, 1987.
20th Century Paintings from the Guggenheim, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1987.
Abstraction Lyrique et Aspect de l’Art Abstrait des Annees 50, 1988.
Selections from the Bequest of Nancy Hanks, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, 1988.  
La Passion de Dunkerque, Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1989.  
Le Paysage dans l’Art Contemporain, L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1989.  
The Broader Canvas: Large Format Paintings, Gimpel Fils, London, 1989.  
East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery 1957-1960, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 1990.
Globale Kunstler, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, 1990.
Masters of Contemporary Printmaking, Associated American Artists, New York, 1991.
The Helena and Kenneth Levy Bequest, Fourteen Twentieth Century Works for the Collection, The Tate Gallery, London, 1991. 
Passions, Centre d’Art Sacre, L’Hospice d’Ille sur Tet, 1992.
Beato Passio, Quinta Biennale d’Arte Sacra, San Gabriele, Italy, 1992.
Le Tondo d’Aujourd’hui, exhibition traveling in France, 1992.
L’Art Actif-Art Works: La Collection Fondation Peter Stuyvesant, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1992.
Rue du BAc-Rue de Tournon: Karl Flinker, 37th Salon de Montrouge, paris, 1992.  
Abstract Expressionism: The Haskell Collection, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, 1992. 
From Intimate to Monumental, Associated American Artists, New York, 1993.
La Forge des Anges, Sculptures en verre, Espace, Kiron, Paris, 1993.
Collection de la Fondation maeght: un choix de 150 oeuvres, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1993.
Triennale des Ameriques: Presence en Europes 1945-92, Maubeuge, 1993.
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, 1993.
Cinquante Annees de la peinture americaine 1944-1994, Palais Benedictine, Fecamp, le Chateau du Grand Jardin, Joinville, 1994.
Martha Jackson Gallery: 1953-1979, Associated American Artists, New York, 1994.
Works from the Collection, David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, 1994.
Style des Annees 40: Peintres GI, Musee de Cherbourg, 1994.
Whistler to Dine: Important Prints from the Collection, new Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, 1994.
Collecting for Stanford: Selected Acquisitions 1990-95, Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, California, 1995.
Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and 20th Century Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1995.
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, 1996.
Kunstler der Galerie, Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zurich, 1996.
Michel Tapie-Un Art Autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Espace d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi-Pyrenees, 1997.
Egidio Costantini-Vetro un Amore, Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra, Sant’Apollonia, Venice, 1997.
Francis Jenkins Mathieu, Associated American Artists, New York, 1997.
Ligne Courbe-Curved Line, Musee de l’art contemporain de Montreal, 1998.
On Paper, Associated American Artists, New York, 1998.
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 1998.
Regard sur l’estampe en France de 1945 a nos jours, 1998.
Three Americans: Francis, Jenkins, tobey, Galerie Wazzau, Davos, 1998.
Masters of Color and Light, Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1998.
Suspicion-Art in the Cinema, Haifa Museum of Art, 1999.
Les Annees de Combat, La Galerie Arnaud, Revue Cimaise 1951-1962, 1999.
Vision Nouvelle, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1999.
Le Mouvment Phases de 1952 a l’horizon 2001, Centre Culturel Noroit, Arra, 200.
10h Anniversary, Centre d’art contemporain, Bouvet Ladubay, 2001.
Artists after Moby Dick, Hofstra Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York, 2001.
Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2001.
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 2001.
Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 2001-2002.
Tresors du XXw Siecle dans les Collections Angevines, Presence d’Art Contemporain, Angers, 2003.
Tradition and Innovation in European Modernist Drawings and Watercolors, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, 2003.
Selections from the Haskell Collection, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida, 2004.
Modernism and Abstraction, Palm Springs desert Museum, 2004.
New Acquisitions 2005, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 2005.
Beyond Representation-Abstract Art in the South, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, 2005.
Geometric Abstraction: Two Generations, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, 2006.
L’Evnolee Lyrique: Paris 1945-1956, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 2006.
A Century of American Art, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, 2006-2007.
A Selection of 20th Century Contemporary Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture, Redfern Gallery, London, 2007.
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007.
182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy, New York, 2007.
Les Formes de la Couleur, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur, 2007.
Shining Spirit-Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2007.
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, 1950-2006, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2007.
Freedom to Experiement: American Abstraction 1945-75, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, 2007.
East End Artists, Past and Present, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2007.
Dialogue, Galerie Iris Wasszu, Davos, 2008.
Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, Past and present, Robert Miller Gallery, new York, 2008.
En memorie de Rodolphe Stadler, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2009.
Juicy Paint, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 2009.
184th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, 2009.
Exploring the Black and White: 1930s-1960s, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, 2009.
Under Each Other’s Spell: Gutai and New York, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, 2009.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Art Treasures from Regional Collections, Erie Art Museum, 2010.
Action Painting in the Chrysler, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, 2010.
Modern Drawings: Tracing 100 Years, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2010.
Under Each Other’s Spell, Gutai and New York, UB Anderson Gallery, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2010.
Into the Void: Abstract Art, 1948-2008, Tucson Museum of Art, 2010. 
Gloria F. Ross: Rebirth of Modern Tapestry, Jane Kahan Gallery, New York, 2011.
The Armory Show, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, Pier 92, 2011.
American Masterworks: 150 Years of American Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art, Vero Beach Museum, Florida, 2011.
Colour Moves Surface, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, 2011.
Fragments 1915-2011: Modern and Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, 2011.
Abstract Expressionism: Then and Now, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, 2012.
Un Art Autre? Artistes autour de Michel Tapie, une Exposition, Christie’s Paris, 2012.
Local Color, The San Jose Museum of Art, California, 2012.
Made in the USA-Expressionists to the Color Field Painters, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, 2013.
The Redfern Gallery at 90, Redfern Gallery, London, 2013.  
Antoine Helwaser Gallery, New York, Red, 2013.
Berry Campbell, New York, Masters of Expressionism in Postwar America, 2014.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich, American Art – Modern bis Pop, 2014.
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Color, 2014. 
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, 2014.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gravity’s Edge, 2014.
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Circle of Friends, 2015.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Abstraction, 2015.
Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, New York, A Tribute to David K. Anderson, 2015.
Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, New York, Martha Jackson Graphics, 2015.
The Art Students League, New York (travels to Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, New York), On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York, 2015-16.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Baltimore Museum, Maryland
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesmmlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Des Moines Art Institute, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France|
Fonds National de L’art Contemporain du Ministere de la Culture et de la Communications, Paris, France
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza art Collection, Albany, New York
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
Guild Hall, Easthampton, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Hofstra Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York
Honolulu Museum, Hawaii
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Kenyon College Art Gallery, Ohio
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 
Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Musee d’art contemporain, Dunkirk, France
Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Musee d’art moderne et contemprain, Toulouse, France
Musee d’art modern, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Musee Picasso, Antibes, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Diego Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas 
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Swope Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
Tate Gallery, London, England
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
University of Arizona Museum of Fine Arts, Tucson
University of Buffalo Art Galleries, State University Of New York at Buffalo, New York
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts