BIOGRAPHY

1909 Born in Brooklyn, New York

1926 Training at National Academy of Design, New York

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA
1992, 1989, 1986 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1985 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
1983 A 50 Year Survey, Fischbach Gallery, New York
1981 Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
1977 University of New Mexico
1974, 1972, 1969, 1967 Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1969 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1967 Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
1966 University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1962 Forum Gallery, New York
1956, 1955, 1952 ACA Gallery, New York
1948, 1947, 1946 Charles Egan Gallery, New York

AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS

2001 Emily and Danes Carlsen Award, National Academy of Design
2000 Lee Krasner Award: Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Lee Krasner Award: Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1998 Jimmy Ernst Award in Art, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Centennial Awards
1998 Lee Krasner Award: Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 Museum Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters: Hassam, Speicher Fund
1993 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1989 Emil and Danes Carlsen Award, National Academy of Design
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1987 Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1985 Grumbacher Gold Medal Art Award, National Academy of Design
Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award, National Academy of Design
1984 Oscar Williams & Gene Derwood Award, New York Community Trust
1983 Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design
1982 Grumbacher, Gold Medal Award, National Academy of Design
1980 Karoly, Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, Vence, France
1985 Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award, National Academy of Design
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1977 Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award, National Academy of Design
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1976 Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design
1975 Membership to National Academy of Design, New York
1975 Mark Rothko Grant
1973 Mark Rothko Grant
1972 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award National Academy of Arts
1970 Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1961, 1960 1959 Longview Purchase Award
1955 Yaddo Fellowship

GOVERNMENT PROJECT

1934-39 WPA Mural and Easel Division under Arshile Gorky

TEACHING

1963-90 New School for Social Research, New York
1974 Queens College, New York
1970-71 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Visiting Professor
1968 Pratt Institute, New York
1967 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Artist-in-Residence
1959-69 Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
1949-51 Brooklyn College, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
2001 176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1999 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1998 New York Perspectives, M B Modern, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1997 Forum Gallery, New York
1996 48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition,
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1995 The 50s & 60s – Fischbach Gallery, New York
1991 An Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York
166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Landscape, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Stamens and Pistils: Interpreting the Flower, 1790-1990, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1989 164th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1988 Sculpture and Paintings from the Academy’s Collection, National Academy of Design, New York
1987 162nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York Modern American Masters of Watercolor, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York Bridging the Century, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1986 Nude Self-Portraits, Prince Street Gallery, New York
Portraits, New York Studio School, New York
1985-87 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traveling to: DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, OH; and Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1985-86 City Views: Panoramas to Particulars: Works from the CIGNA Collection, CIGNA Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
1985 From Brooklyn to the Sea: Ships Seafarers and New York Harbor, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's Bounty: Natural Splendor and Domestic Opulence, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York
1984, 85 National Academy of Design, New York
1982 Realism and Reality - the Other Side of American Painting, Rutgers University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
An Appreciation of Realism, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
The Long Island Landscape: 1914-46, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
On Color, Prince Street Gallery, New York
A Curator's Choice 1942-63: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, Rose Esman Gallery, NY (The Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art)
1980 The Intimate Scale, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Paintings of New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Artist in the Park, Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York
1976-79 Painterly Representation, traveling to American colleges and museums
1974 A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nebraska
Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1972-83 National Academy of Design, New York
1964 New York, New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1959 Hallmark Award Exhibition, Wildenstein Galleries, New York
1958 Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
1956, 70, 72 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1956 Tate Museum, London, England
66th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Collectors' Choice, Tweed Gallery, University of Minnesota, Deluth, MN
1955 Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Three Collections, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1952, 69 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1952 Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955, 56, 58, 70 Acquisitions Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1948 Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1940s Critics’ Show, Grand Central Art Gallery, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Campbell, Lawrence, “Objects on Parade,” Art in America, January 1996
Stein, Robert. New York 1960, Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial, Monacelli Press, 1995
Bellamy, Peter. The Artist Project: Portraits of the Real Art World/ New York Artists 1981 – 1990, IN Publishing, New York, 1991
Campbell, Lawrence, "Herman Rose at Fischbach," Art in America, May 1990
Pisano, Ronald, Long Island Landscape Painting Volume II: The Twentieth Century, Little, Brown & Co., 1990
Martin, Alvin, American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986
Henry, Gerrit, "Herman Rose at Fischbach" Art in America, January, 1984
Glueck, Grace, "Herman Rose," New York Times, November 7, 1983
Atlas, James, "New York for Real," ARTnews, September 1983
The Art of New York, edited by Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983
Wolff, Theodore, "Giant Steps Forward by National Academy," The Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 1983
Rosenblum, Robert, A Curator's Choice 1942-1963, A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1982
Pomeroy, Ralph, "The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses," ARTS, January, 1982
Kramer, Hilton, "Artists' Show Revitalizes Fifth Avenue Academy," New York Times, March 5, 1982
Berman and Wechsler, Realism and Realities – The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960, Rutgers Publishers, 1982
Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, December 4, 1981
Wolff, Theodore, "Academy Annual," The Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 1981
Wolff, Theodore, "The Many Masks of Modern Art," The Christian Science Monitor, March 3, 1981
Alloway, Lawrence, “Art” The Nation, January 17, 1976
Finkelstein, Louis, Painterly Representation, 1975
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974
Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, April 13, 1974
Campbell, Lawrence, ARTnews, May 1972
Mellow, James R., "Rose’s Work Makes a Refreshing Show," New York Times, May 6, 1972
Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, November 1969
Campbell, Lawrence, "The City Rises," ARTnews, November 1969
Burton, Scott, "Telling and Showing," ARTnews, Summer 1967
Kramer, Hilton, "Herman Rose's New York," New York Times, May 21, 1967
Campbell, Lawrence, "Five Star Show this Winter," ARTnews, February 1962
Newsweek, February 19, 1962, interview
Porter, Fairfield, "Art in Its Own Terms,” Essays; Zoland Books, Cambridge, Mass. 1960
Porter, Fairfield, "Is Today's Artist With or Against the Past?," ARTnews, Summer, 1958
"Ten Best One Man Shows of the Year," ARTnews, 1956, 1957, 1963
Porter, Fairfield, The Nation, 1956
Porter, Fairfield, "Herman Rose Paints a Picture," ARTnews, May 1955
Hess, Thomas B., “Where U.S. Extremes Meet,” ARTnews, April 1952
Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, 1949