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RONALD BLADEN BIOGRAPHY

Chronology Born: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1918 Died: New York City, 1988

Education

Vancouver School of Art, British Columbia

California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco

Awards

1968

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1964

National Endowment for the Arts

1975 Mark Rothko Fellowship

1977

National Endowment for the Arts

1988

Skowhegan Trustees & Governors Award for Service to the Arts

Teaching

1967

Hunter College, New York

1974-76

Visiting artist at Columbia University, New York

1976-88

Parsons School of Design, New York

1978-79

School of Visual Arts, New York

1981-82

Artist-in-residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

1982-83

Visiting artist, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1978-79

School of Visual Arts, New York

Solo Exhibitions

1946

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1951

Raymond & Raymond, San Francisco, CA

1953

Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1956

Paintings by Ronald Bladen, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1958

Brata Gallery, New York, NY

1960

Brata Gallery, New York, NY

1962

Ronald Bladen, Green Gallery, New York, NY

1967

Ronald Bladen, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Ronald Bladen: Sculpture, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1970

Ronald Bladen: New Work, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1971

Ronald Bladen: New Work, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1972

Ronald Bladen: A Sculpture, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Pasadena Art Museum, CA Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1977

Ronald Bladen: Outdoor Sculpture Proposal, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, in conjunction with the Public Art Council and Park Departments of Westchester and Manhattan

1980

Ronald Bladen: Models & Drawings, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY

1986

Ronald Bladen, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1987

Ronald Bladen: The Wall Sculptures, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL

1988

Ronald Bladen: Recent Sculpture, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Ronald Bladen: The 1950s, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1990

Ronald Bladen, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY Ronald Bladen: Abstract Expressionist Paintings of the Late 1950s, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990-92

Ronald Bladen: Early and Late, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; traveled to Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, BC

1992

Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1995-96

Ronald Bladen: Drawings and Sculptural Models, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC; traveled to Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY

1998

Ronald Bladen: Sculpture, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany

1999

Ronald Bladen: Selected Works, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, NY

2004

Ronald Bladen: From Expressionism to Minimalism, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL Ronald Bladen: Paintings from the Fifties, Danese, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

1944

Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, Oil, Tempera on Panel and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

1945

Paintings by Bernard Bolter and Ronald Bladen, Reid Hyde, San Francisco, California

1946

Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, Oil, Tempera and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1950

[Lucille Austin, Ronald Bladen, Henry Dietrich, and Eileen Reynolds], Raymond & Raymond, San Francisco, California

1955

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

1958

Brata Gallery, New York, NY

1959

Two-person show with Sylvia Stone, Brata Gallery, New York, NY

1963

“Paintings, Drawings and Prints owned by Local Collectors,” The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Center

1964

Invitational Show, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY

1965

Concrete Expressionism, Loeb Student Center, New York University, NY Sculpture from All Directions, World House Galleries, New York, NY

1966

Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Organized by Kynaston McShine. 68th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Aussetellung: Serielle Formationen, Studio Galerie, J.W. Goethe Universitas, Frankfurt, West Germany Sculpture ’67, City Hall, Toronto, organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Structural Art, American Federation of Art, Travelling Exhibit. Organized by Lucy Lippard.

1967

Bladen, Grosvenor, von Schlegell, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art Rejection Art, University of Omaha Fine Arts Festival, Nebraska Projects for Macrostructures, Richard Feigen, New York, NY Sculpture and Architecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Scale Models/Drawings, Dawn Gallery, New York, NY Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1967: Sculpture from Twenty Nations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1967-68

Scale as Content: Ronald Bladen, Barett Newman, Tony Smith, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1968

Minimal Art, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands 4. documenta: Kassel ’68, Museum Fridericianum, Galerie Schöne, Aussicht, and Orangerie Auepark, Kassel, Germany Annual Exhibition 1968: Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1969

Minimal Art, Städtische Kunsthalle and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 14 Sculptuors: The Industrial Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1970

Ronald Bladen/Robert Murray, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia American Sculpture, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln Inaugural Exhibit, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1971

Sonsbeek 71, Park Sonsbeek, Arnheim, The Netherlands

1972

Visiting Artists: Ronald Bladen and Allan d’Arcangelo, Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison American Drawings, Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

1973

Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Works in Spaces: Stephen Antonakos, Ronald Bladen, Sam Gilliam, Robert Irwin, Dorthea Rockburne, San Francisco Museum of Art Art in Space: Some Turning Points, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan [The City is for People], Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, California

1974

Less is More: The Influence of the Bauhaus on American Art, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florda Outdoor Sculpture 1974, Merriewold West Gallery, Far Hills, New Jersey [Competition Exhibition], Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida

1975

Monumental Sculpture in the 1970’s for Civic, Private and Corporate Places, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas Ronald Bladen, Ernest Briggs, Judy Rifka, Stuart Shedlesky, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Contemporary Drawing, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne Competition Exhibition, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida; New York Cultural Center, NY The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection, The Clocktower Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY

1976

200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Nine Sculptors, Nassau County Museum, Long Island, New York; P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY PARC Exhibit, City University of New York, Graduate Center Mall, NY

1977

Project: New Urban Monuments, Akron Art Institute, Ohio Ronald Bladen: 3 Outdoor Sculpture Proposals, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York Sculptor’s Drawings, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Maquettes for Large Sculpture, Monique Knowlton Gallery New York, NY

1979

Sculpture: Bladen, Kipp, Witkin, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne

1980

10 Abstract Sculptures: American and European, 1940–1980, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York International Sculpture Conference, Washington, DC Arte American Contemporanea, Civici Museo e Gallerie di Storia e Arte, Udine, Italy

1981

Ronald Bladen, Michael Goldberg, Vincent Longo, Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, NY The Modern Room, Emily Carr Gallery of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Vancouver

1982

CAPS Benefit Show, New York, NY Sculpture Now: Contemporary American Sculpture, Park West Gallery, Michigan Skowhegan Faculty Show, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

1983

Sculpture: The Tradition in Steel, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York Beyond the Plane: American Constructions, 1930-1965, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton Artist Call, Leo Castelli Galery, New York, NY Museum of Drawers, Travelling Exhibit. Europe, Israel and the United States.

1984

Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Drawing V., Oil and Steel Gallery, New York Drawings by Sculptors, collection of John E. Seagram and Sons, Inc., New York, NY; La Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal, Canada The Ways of Wood, Queens College, New York, NY

1985

Matter and Spirit, Suzzane Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont Ontogeny: Sculpture and Paintings by the 20th Century American Sculptors, New York Studio School Preview and Review – Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY 50 at 50 West, 50 West Gallery, New York, NY Action Precision, Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1986

Sculpture: Ronald Bladen, Jim Clark, Judy Pfaff, Connie Reyes, Sorkin Gallery, New York Sculpture on the Wall, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1987

In Scale and Time: Ronald Bladen, Ilya Bolotowsky, Norman Blum, Alan Cote, Bill Jensen, Washburn Gallery, New York Sculpture, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

1987-88

Group Exhibition, Saint Peters Church, New York, NY Works on Paper by Twenty-two American Artists, Travelling Exhibition. China: Beijing Art Institute, Shangai Art Museum, and Hong Kong Arts Festival; Snugharbor Cultural Center , New York, NY

1988

Envoys, New York Studio School

1988-89

Past/Present, Washburn Gallery, New York

1991

Circa 1960, Washburn Gallery, New York

1993

Fantastic Wanderings, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

1995

The Collection Egido Marzona, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria

1995-96

Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum, New York, NY. Travelling Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California. 1996

Group Exhibition, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Laguna Art Museum, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1997

Ronald Bladen, Edward Dugmore – Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY Sculptures and Drawings, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Abstracted Presence, Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York, NY Power of Abstraction, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY Sculptors’ Draw, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

2004

A Minimal Future: Art as Object, 1958-1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

2005 Sculpture, Danese, New York

Selected Bibliography

1965

Ashton, Dore. “3 Centuries of American Painting: New York Commentary.” Studio International 170, no. 868, August 1965, pp. 87-88, ill. Robins, Corinne. “Six Artists and the New Extended Vision.” Arts Magazine 39, no. 10, September-October 1965, pp. 19-22, ill.

1966

Sandler, Irving. “Ronald Bladen: ’…Sensations of a different order…’.” Artforum 5, no. 2, October 1966, pp. 32-35, ill. Smithson, Robert. “Entropy and the New Monuments.” Artforum 4, no. 10, June 1966, pp. 26- 31, ill.

1967

Lippard, Lucy R. “Ronald Bladen’s Black Triangle.” Artforum 5, no. 7, March 1967, pp. 26-27, ill. Perreault, John. “A Minimal Future?: Union-Made.” Arts Magazine 41, no. 5, March 1967, pp. 26, 28-29, ill. Fried, Michael. “Art and Objecthood.” Artforum 5, no. 10, June 1967, pp.19 & 23. Mellow, James R. Art International II, no. 2, February 1967, p. 66, ill. Siegel, Jeanne, Arts Magazine 41, no. 4, February 1967, pp. 56-57, ill. Waldman, Diane. Art News 65, no. 10, February 1967, p. 10.

1969

Pinney, Marguerite. “Top Canadian Sculptors to have Major Show Here.” Vancouver Province, January 29, 1969. Reise, Barbara. “’Untitled, 1969’: A Footnote on art and Minimal-Stylehood.” Studio International 177, no. 910, April 1969, pp.166, 171-172, 178, ill.

1970

Kline, Katherine. Art News 68, no. 10, February 1970, p. 14. Nemser, Cindy. Arts Magazine 44, no. 4, February 1970, p. 64. Pincus-Witten, Robert. Artforum 8, no. 7, March 1970, p. 81, ill. Vinklers, Bitite. Art International 14, no. 3, March 1970, pp. 93-94, ill. “Major Bladen and Murray Exhibit.” Artweek I, no. 12, March 21, 1970, p. 3.

1971

Domingo, Willis. Arts Magazine 45, no. 8, Summer 1971, pp. 52-53, ill. Henry, Gerrit. Art International 15, no. 5, June 1971, pp. 81-82, ill. Linville, Kasha. Artforum 9, no. 10, June 1971, pp. 86-87, ill. Wolmer, Bruce. Art News 70, no. 4, Summer 1971, pp. 10-11, ill.

1972

Schjeldahl, Peter. The New York Times, January 23, 1972, sec. 2, p. 21, ill. Henry, Gerrit. Art News, 70, no. 10, February 1972, pp. 12-13. Wolmer, Denise. Arts Magazine, 46, no. 4, February 1972, p. 57. Ratcliff, Carter. Art International 16, no. 3, March 1972. Jürgen-Fischer, Klaus. “Ronald Bladen.” Kunstwerk 25, no. 2, March 1972, pp. 16-21, ill. Schwartz, Barbara. Craft Horizons 32, no. 2, April 1972. Baker, Kenneth. “Ronald Bladen.” Artforum 10, no. 8, April 1972, pp. 79-80, ill. Bell, Jane. Arts Magazine 47, no. 3, December 1972/January 1973, pp. 78-79, ill. Henry, Gerrit. Art News 71, no. 8, December 1972, p. 73.

1973

Kingsley, April. Artforum 11, no. 6, Feburary 1973, p. 89, ill. Welish, Marjorie. Art International 17, no. 1, January, 1973, p. 74.

1974

Kingsley, April. “Ronald Bladen-Romantic Formalist.” Art International 18, no. 7, September 1974, pp. 42-44, ill.

1977 Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, December 30, 1977, sec. C, p. 24, ill. Kingsley, April. “Art for All.” Village Voice, December 12, 1977, p. 86.

1978 Hess, Thomas B. New York, January 9, 1978, p. 58, ill. Kingsley, April. Village Voice, February 23, 1978, p. 64.

1980 Cohen, Ronny H. Artforum 9, no. 11, September 1980, pp. 72-73, ill.

1982 Glueck, Grace. “Artist’s Artists.” Art News 81, no. 9, November 1982, p. 90, ill. Statement by Louise Bourgeois on Ron Bladen.

1986 Brenson, Michael. The New York Times, February 7, 1986, sec. 2, p. 2, ill. Sorkin, Emily. “The Schulpture of Ronald Bladen.” Arts Magazine. McDonnell, Joseph. Art/World, vol. 10, no. 5, February 1986, pp. 1-2. Masters, Greg. Arts. 60, no. 7, March 1986, p. 139, ill. Cohen, Ronny. “From X to Now.” ARTforum 24, no. 9, May 1986, pp. 100-101, ill.

1987 Ellis, Stephen. “Expanded Pictograms,” Art in America 75, no. 4, April 1987, pp. 204-9, ill.

1988 Gibson, Eric. “In Rememberance.” Sculpture 7, no. 3, May – June 1988, pp. 34-35, ill.

Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, February 4, 1988, sec. B 16. Obituary Brandon Sun (Brandon Manitoba), February 6, 1988. Obituary. Bladen, Barbara. “Sculptors Death Stirs Up Glow,” The New York Times, February 8, 1988, p. C 9. Brenson, Michael. Review, The New York Times, March 4, 1988. Rubinstein, Meyer and Daniel Wiener. Review, Flash Art, May-June 1988, p. 103, ill. Gibson, Eric. “In Rememberance,” Sculpture, May-June 1988, pp. 34-35, ill.

1989 Smith, Roberta. Review, The New York Times, February 24, 1989. Larson, Kay. Review, New York Magazine, February 27, 1989, p. 150. Smith, Robarta. “From the 50’s, A Series of Brushes with Greatness,” The New York Times, March 19, 1989. Yau, John. “A Month of Valentines,” Cover, Februrary 1989. Kuspit, Donald. Review, ARTforum. May 1989, p.149, ill. Westfall, Stephen. Review, Art in America, July 1989.

1990 Yau, John. Review, ARTforum. Summer 1990, p. 61.

1991 Ronald Bladen: Early and Late, exhibition catalog, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (curator: Bill Berkson) Baker, Kenneth. “Several Visions of Ronald Bladen.” Datebook, June 9, 1991. Crohn, Jennifer. Review, Arts Magazine, November 1991, p. 89, ill.

1992 Berkson, Bill. “Bladen: Against Gravity.” Art in America, January 1992, pp. 80-85, ill.

1995 Ronald Bladen: Early and Late, exhibition catalog, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (curator: Douglas Dreishpoon)

1996 “Report from San Francisco; Bay Area Bravura.” Art in America, September 1996, pp. 45- 47, ill. Cotter, Holland. “Warm Minimalism Rooted in Poetry,” The New York Times, November 1, 1996, ill. Knight, Christopher. “An Enlightening Show of Abstract Expressionism.” The New York Times, February 2, 1996, ill.

1998 Ronald Bladen: Sculpture, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Bielfeld. (curator:Thomas Kellein) Bell, J. Bower. “Abstracted Presence,” Review, February 1, 1998, p. 43. “Ronald Bladen erstmals in Europa,” Neue Westfalische, June 16, 1998. “Metergobe Minimal Plastiken,” Neue Westfalische, June 6, 998. “Westfalen-Blatt,” Kultur, June 5, 1998. “Kunstwerke von Ronald Bladen fur Kunsthalle – Suggestive Skulpturen,” Neue Westfalische, May 29, 1998. “Premiee in der Kunsthalle,” Neue Westfalische – Westfalen-Blatt, May 28, 1998. “Dramaturgie der Kraft,” Der Kunsthandel, Lg. 90 (1998), Nr. 7, July 7, 1998. “Leer-Stoff – Bladen and Demand in Der Kunsthalle,” Ultimo, July 8, 1998, ill. “Dominaz und Asthetic der reinen geometrischen Form,” Kultur/NRM, July 1998, ill. Kunstwerke von Ronald Bladen fur Kunsthalle, Suggestive Skulturen, Kultur/NRW, July 1998, ill. “Zeitgenossche Kunst,” Feuilleton, August 1, 1998. “Extreme Bezuge,” Kultur, August 24, 1998. “Der Verfremdete Raum-Skultpuren von Ronald Bladen un Fotos von Thomas Demond in der Bielefelder Kunsthalle,” Bielefeld Journal, Herbst 1998, pp. 32-33, September 4, 1998.

1999 Johnson, Ken. “A Romantic Pushes Minimalism to the Maximum,” The New York Times, February 19, 1999, ill. Schwendencer, M. “Minimal to the Max, P.S. 1 Reveals the Romantic Behind the Rational Art of Ronald Bladen,” Time Out, New York, March 18-25, 1999. Stevens, Mark. “Maximal Minimalist,” New York Magazine, March 8, 1999, ill. Meyer, James. “Ronald Bladen: P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York,” ARTforum, May 1999, p. 174, ill.

2004 Kipling, Kay. “More than Minimal: a Selby Gallery exhibition this month sheds new light on the diverse and often dramatic work of the late Ronald Bladen,” Sarasota Magazine, February 1. 2004, ill. Jenkins, Susan L. “Ronald Bladen.” In A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968. Ed. Anne Goldstein. Los Angeles, CA: The Museum of Contemporary Art & Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004. 172-75, ill.

2005 Sheets, Hilarie M. “Underrated Overrated: Which artists have been overlooked? And which have we been looking at too much?” ARTnews, January 2005, pp. 100-109, ill.

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Boston Federal Reserve Bank, Massachusetts City Hall, Springfield, Ohio J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California Albert A. List Foundation, New York The Marine Midland Bank, Buffalo, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina Peoria Civic Center, Illinois San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Schmaeler Gallery, Dusseldorf, West Germany Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., New York King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Social Security Building, Baltimore, Maryland State of New York, Albany South Mall, New York Henry Wallace Agricultural Building, Des Moines, Iowa Newark Museum, New Jersey Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina