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With a career that spanned over 70 years, Harold Baumbach holds a well-deserved reputation as a distinguished American painter. He was admired by critics Lawrence Campbell and Fairfield Porter and respected by his friends and fellow painters Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Baumbach had 24 one man shows in New York galleries, many in the vital 30's and 40's when his reputation flourished, and his work is in the permanent collections of major American institutions including the Whitney, the Albright, the Hirshhorn and the RISD museums.
NY Times arts writer Michael Kimmelman described Baumbach as a "...painter of dissonant color and irascible temperment..." whose early figurative work, over time "...became increasingly abstract explorations in color and spatial relations." Baumbach had a lifelong commitment to his aesthetic vision. He painted until he was almost ninety.
Solo Exhibitions
Contemporary Arts Gallery, NYC (9): 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943
ACA Gallery, NYC: 1944
Salpeter Gallery, NYC (2): 1945, 1947
Barone Gallery, NYC (3): 1958, 1961, 1961
Gallery Mayer, NYC: 1960
Rose Fried Gallery, NYC: 1966
Thibault Gallery, NYC: 1960
University of Iowa Museum: 1973
Cerebus Gallery, NYC: 1975
Lacarda Gallery, NYC: 1976
Summit Gallery, NYC: 1979
Brooklyn College Museum, Brooklyn: 1992
Po Gallery, Providence, RI (3): 1994, 2004, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Metropolitan Museum
Whitney Museum
Brooklyn Museum Biennial
Philadelphia Arts Alliance
Pennsylvania Academy
Chicago Art Institute
Corcoran Gallery
Carnegie Institute International
Baltimore Museum
Virginia Museum
Albright Museum
Butler Institute of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Permanent Collections
Whitney Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Albright Museum
Hirshhorn Museum
Fleisher Art Memorial (Penn. Academy)
Chrysler Museum
University of Iowa Museum
University of Arizona Museum
New York University
Duke University
Press
The Providence Journal, Dec 1994 (pdf)
Art Scene, The Providence Journal, Dec 2003 (pdf)
Harold Baumbach: An American Modernist: Selected Paintings,
Art New England, May 2004 (pdf)
The Providence Journal, May 2007 (pdf)
Harold Baumbach, 98, a Painter Who Explored Color and Space - NY Times, Jan 4, 2002 (pdf)
Born: September 12, 1903
Education: Educational Alliance, 1920; Pratt Institute, 1921
Taught painting at Brooklyn College 1946-1966
and at the University of Iowa 1975-1977