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'Al James Newbill' is an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Newbill is considered part of the “second wave” of abstract expressionism. From 1950 to 1952 He studied under Hans Hoffman at the Brooklyn Museum and New School of Social Research along with his contemporaries, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Biography
Al Newbill was born on January 13, 1921, in Springfield, Missouri. He spent his childhood growing up in Detroit, Michigan. He recalls his first painting at the age of twelve, was a copy of Winslow Homer’s “The Gulf Stream.” Newbill attended the famed Cass Technical High School in Detroit. In addition to his normal workload, he enrolled in courses at the Detroit Art Museum and he studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts, currently known as The College for Creative Studies. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Newbill returned from the European theater and headed for New York City where artists were creating a new movement – abstract expressionism - one of the most important movements in 20th century American painting. During his time at the New School, Newbill studied Painting, Aesthetics, Psychology of Art, Art History, Art Criticism, and Chinese Art and Poetry.

From February 17 to March 7, 1959 Newbill showcased his work in a solo exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Notable painters of the day such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol all gained notariety through Castelli's gallery. Newbill remained in New York for fifteen years amid the exciting atmosphere generated by the Abstract Expressionists.

The lure of teaching eventually took Newbill away from New York. Starting in Queens College, Newbill would find opportunities at the University of Southern Illinois, University of California, Berkeley, University of Kansas, and Cornell University. He then became the director of the art program for the Rodman Job Corp in New Bedford Massachusetts. He finally moved to the regional campus of Ohio State University in Mansfield where he taught until 1976. Newbill lived and painted in his Jeromesville, Ohio studio until 2009. He now resides in Ashland, Ohio.

His work has been exhibited widely at prestigious institutions and galleries across the United States and remains in the permanent collection of many.

Selected Exhibits
Detroit Institute of Art - Toledo Art Museum - Santa Fe Art Museum - University of Kansas, Museum of Fine Art - Arts & Humanities Gallery, Ashland College, Ohio - Don Coburn Gallery, Ashland - New Paltz State Teachers College, New York - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York - Laurel Gallery - Stable Gallery - Mortimer Levitt Gallery - Creative Gallery - Parma Gallery - Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago - Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia - Stanley Yulish Gallery, Cleveland

Selected Collections
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri - University of Kansas, Museum of Fine Art - Gallery of the University of Illinois - Kings College, New York - Marist College, New York - Ashland College, Ohio - The Olsen Foundation Collection, NY - The Chrysler Collection, NY - The Dalad group, Ohio, Cleveland - American Recovery, Inc, Cleveland - Summit Venture Corporation, Newport Beach - Kichler Lighting, Cleveland - Paul Hamlin Interior Design, Cleveland - Clyde Jones, Jeromesville, Ohio - Robinson Noble, Fort Collins, Colorado