George Ortman
born 1926 Oakland, CA
Education
1947-49 California College of Arts and Crafts, Berkeley
1949 Atelier 17, New York
1949-1950 Atelier Andre L'hote, Paris
1950-51 Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art, NY
Selected One-Man Exhibitions
1953 Tanager Gallery, NY
1955 Wittenborn Gallery, NY
1957 Stable Gallery, NY
1960 Stable Gallery, NY
1961 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston
1962 Howard Wise Gallery, NY
Fairleigh-Dickenson University, NJ
1964 Cincinnati Museum of Art
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
1965 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1966 Dallas Museum of Art
Akron Art Institute
Portland Museum of Art, ME
Milwaukee Art Center
Harkus-Krakow Gallery, Boston
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1967 Howard Wise Gallery, NY
Princeton University Museum of Art
1969 Howard WIse Gallery, NY
Honolulu Academy of Art Museum
Middlebury College, VT
1970 Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI
Reed College, OR
1971 Indianapolis Museum of Art
1972 Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, NY
1976 Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit
1981 Cranbrook Academy of Art
2002 Mitchell Algus Gallery, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
1950 Salon de Mai, Paris
1956-58 "Stable Annual", Stable Gallery, NY
1959-60 "New Forms, New Media", Martha Jackson Gallery, NY
1960 "Artists Under 35", Whitney Museum of American Art
"New Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, NY
1961 "American Sculpture", Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
1962 "Annual", Chicago Art Institute
1963 "Toward a New Abstraction", Jewish Museum, NY
"60 Years of American Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art
- "The Formalists", Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
1964 "Sculpture Annual", Whitney Museum of Art
"American Painting", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"History of Geometric Painting in America", Whitney Museum of American Art
"Carnegie International", Pittsburgh
1965 "Tokyo Biennial", Tokyo
"A Decade of American Drawings", Whitney Museum of American Art
1967 "Tamarind Print Exhibition", Museum of Modern Art, NY
1969 "Carnegie International", Pittsburgh
1970 "Opening Exhibition", Indianapolis Museum of Art
1971 "Opening Exhibtion", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"Selection", Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
1972 "Bi-annual", Whitney Museum of American Art
1975 "Rainments of the Lord", Art Institute of Chicago
1977 "The Spirit of Art", Indianapolis Museum of Art
1981 "New Acquisitions", Guggenheim Museum, NY
1984 "New Acquisitions", Cleveland Museum of Art
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
National Academy of Design, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Detroit Institue of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum
Milwaukee Art Center
Minneapolis Museum of Art
DeCorova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Honolulu Academy of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Newark Museum of Art, NJ
Oakland Museum of Art, CA
University of California, Berkeley
Awards
1965 Guggenheim Fellowship
1966 Ford Foundation grant
1994 Elected member National Academy of Design
2003 Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award
Teaching
1960-65 School of Visual Arts, NY (co-chairman of Fine Arts Dept. 1963-65)
1963-65 New York University
1969 Princeton University
1969-70 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Artist in Residence
1970-91 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit (Head, Graduate School Painting Dept.)