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JOHN SENNHAUSER (1907-1978)
BORN: 1907 Rorschach, Switzerland (Naturalized Citizen, USA)
EDUCATION:
1926-27 Royale Academy of Venice, Italy 1930-33 Cooper Union Art School, New York, NY 1936 Florence Royale Academy of Fine Arts, Fresco
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1936 Leonardo DaVinci Art School, New York, NY 1939 Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1942 Theodore Kohn Gallery, New York, NY 1947 Artists' Gallery, New York, NY (also 1950, 1952) 1953 Gallery Neuf, New York, NY 1954 Brown University, Providence, RI 1955 University of Maine, Orono, ME 1956 Black Mountain College, NC 1958 Tirca Carlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1956 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (also 1957, 1959) 1961 Knapick Gallery, New York, NY 1963 Meierhans Art Gallery, Bucks County, PA (also 1968) 1964 Harry Salpeter Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Eleven Cantos of Divine Comedy Series, Lenox Library, Welles Gallery, Lenox, MA 1979 San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA 1980 Martin Diamond Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY (two-man show in 1982) 1983 Felicita Foundation, Mathes Cultural Center, Escondido, CA 1988 Retrospective, 1937-1950, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
NATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1935 National Academy of Design, NY International Art Center, NY 1936 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1952) 1940 George W. Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, MA Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1942 American Non-Objective Paintings Annuals, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY (also 1943, 1944) 1947 Abstract and Surrealist American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1947-49 American Abstract Artists, The Western Association of Art Directors: Michigan State College, East Lansing, MI; Hansline University, St. Paul, MN; Charles H. Worsturm, Racine, WI; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, CA; Boise Art Association, Boise, ID; Washington State College, Pullman, WA; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Mills College, Oakland, CA. 1948 Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolor & Drawings Annual, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (also 1950, 51, 53, 55, 56) 1948-49 Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The American Federation of Arts: Art Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, OH; San Francisco Museum of Arts, San Francisco, CA; Modern Institute of Art, Beverly Hills, CA; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX; Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. 1949 Contemporary American Painting Annual, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (also 1950) 1949 Artists' Gallery, New York, NY 1951 Contemporary Art in the United States, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Abstract Painting in America, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK 1952 Selections from Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual of the Whitney Museum, The American Federation of Arts 1953 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC (also 1954-55) Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture in America, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1955 National Graphic Gala, Artists' Gallery, New York, NY 1957 Metropolitan Museum: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Root 1958 Collage in America, Zabriskie Gallery, Sponsored and traveled by the American Federation of Arts, Washington, DC 1969 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 1972-73 Geometric Abstractions of the 1930's, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY; traveled by the American Federation of Arts, Washington, DC 1982 Martin Diamond Fine Arts Gallery, NY 1983 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1934-1944, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (catalog) 1987 Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America 1934-1955, Selections from the Peter B. Fisher Collection; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Amherst College, MA; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1988 Foundations of the American Avant-Garde, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 Between Two Worlds, Credit Sussie, New York, NY Masters of Geometric Abstraction 1935-1955, Beth Urdang Fine Art, Boston, MA 1990 The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection, American Abstraction 1930-1945, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (catalog) 1991 Circa 1950: A Group Exhibition of Prints and Drawings in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Dorothy Dehner, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY Synthesis: Abstraction and Surrealism in America, Struve Gallery Chicago, IL 20th Century Modern, in collaboration with the Morgan Gallery by: Kansas City Art Galleries, 20th Century Consortium, and Thomas McCormick Works of Art, Kansas City, MO 1992 Theme and Improvisation: Kandinskyand the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Dayton Art Institue, Dayton, OH; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (catalog) 1994 On Paper, Abstraction in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Selections from the Museum of Non Objective Painting: American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s, Snyder Fine Arts, New York, New York 1998 American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s: The J. Donald Nichols Collection, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (catalog)
INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1930 Dance International, New York, NY (also 1937) 1943 International Watercolor Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY (also 1949, 51, 52, 53) 1952-53 Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries, The Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO 1953 The Classical Tradition in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
FOREIGN GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1937 National Swiss Annual, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland 1950 Realities Nouvelles, 5th Salon, Paris, France Gallery Takante, Copenhagen, Denmark Museo D'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Stadelikjk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland 1955 Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1970 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, India
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
American Museum of Immigration, New York Art Institute of Chicago, IL Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, India Dallas Museum of Art, TX Ertigen Collection Fine Arts Museum of Houston, TX McCrory Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY University of Georgia Museum, GA Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
GALLERY AND MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
44th Street Gallery, New York A.C.A. Gallery, New York American British Art Center, New York Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX Annuals of The American Abstract Artists Since 1945 Annuals of The Federation of Modern Painters And Sculptors Since 1959 Arron Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Mart Gallery, New York Backgrounds Gallery, Detroit, MI Betty Parson Gallery, New York Black Mountain College, North Carolina Blow Associates, Washington, DC Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH East Hampton Gallery, New York Felicita Foundation, Mathes Cultural Center, Escondido, CA. Fine Arts Museum of Houston, TX David Findlay, Jr. Gallery, New York, NY Gallerie Neuf, New York Hrischel & Adler, New York, NY IBM Gallery, New York Jessup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, ME Mayer Gallery, New York Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Mortimer Brand Gallery, New York Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, Ca New School of Social Research, New York New York University, New York The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Pinacotheca Gallery, New York Riverside Museum, New York Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, IL Snyder Fine Arts, New York, NY Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL Studio Guild Gallery, New York Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL The Arts Club, Washington, DC The Contemporaries, New York The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Vendome Gallery, New York, NY
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MEMBER OF:
The American Abstract Artists since 1945, Served as Secretary and Treasurer in 1950-52. The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors since 1959. Served as President in 1966-68 Associate Member, International Institute of Arts and Letters, Zurich, Switzerland, since 1953 Art Guild, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1977 Who's Who in American Art since 1950 International Who's Who in Art and Antiques, Cambridge, England since 1973 Dictionary of International Biographies, Cambridge, England Works and material microfilmed by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
MUSEUM WORK AND LECTURING
1943-45 Assistant to the Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation - Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the S.R. Guggenheim Museum)
TEACHING:
1936-39 Leonardo DaVinci Art School, New York 1939-42 Contemporary Art School, New York
FILM:
Collage, filmed by Prof. S. Dworkin, distributed by Sterling Educational Films, New York
AWARDS:
1951 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -- Purchase Award Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK -- Purchase Award 1971 & 1972 The Mark Rothko Foundation, New York -- Grant Award
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
American Abstract Artists. American Abstract Artists: Three Yearbooks (1938,1939 & 1946). New York, NY: Arno Press, 1969, p.231.
Artner, Alan A. Forgotten Pioneers: Recalling those who Waged the Battle for Abstract Art. Chicago Tribune, Sunday, March 27, 1988, sec. 13, p. 16.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, 1953, p.220.
Fort, I.S. John Sennhauser: Martin Diamond Fine Arts. Arts Magazine 55, December 1980, p.53.
Holtzman, Harry; Susan C. Larsen and Necia Gelker. Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America 1934-1955: Selections from the Peter B. Fisher Collection (exhibition catalog). Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1987, p.65.
Lane, John R.; and Larsen, Susan C, Eds. Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (exhibition catalog). p.135, p. 215.
Larson, Susan. American Abstract Artists: The Language of Abstraction. p. 3
Lorenz, Marianne. "Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde." Antiques & Fine Art, January/February 1992, p.58
__________. Levin, Gail. Theme and Improvisation: Kandinskyand the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1992
Lukach, Joan M. Hilla Rebay: In Search of the Spirit in Art. New York, NY: George Braziller, 1983.
Macklenburg, Virginia. American Abstraction 1930-1945: The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection, National Museum of American Art, 1990, p.159-161.
Rich, Daniel; and others. Abstract and Surrealist American Art. Chicago, IL: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p.55.
Strickler, Susan E.; and Elaine D. Gustafson. The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s & 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection (exhibition catalog). Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1991, p.22, 44, 74, 75.
Struve, Keith; and Susan C. Larsen. John Sennhauser: A Retrospective 1937-1950 (exhibition catalog). Chicago, IL: Struve Gallery, 1988.
Taylor, Sue. Art News 88, no. 1, January 1989, p.154.
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