Edward Dugmore (February 20, 1915 – June 13, 1996) was an

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painter with close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in the post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States. His paintings have been seen in hundreds of group exhibitions over the years.

Biography

Edward Dugmore was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 20, 1915. He underwent traditional art training at the Hartford Art School before going to Kansas City in the summer of 1941 to study with Thomas Hart Benton at the

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. He entered the Marine Corps in 1943, and upon his discharge, taught painting and drawing at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Connecticut. In 1948, Dugmore took advantage of the

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and moved out west to San Francisco to further his studies in art at the

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. There he studied with

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, who was influential on his development, both as an artist and a close friend. Dugmore also became a lifelong friend of fellow student and artist Ernest Briggs. During this time, he co-organized an artists collaborative gallery called the Metart Gallery. In 1951 he moved to Guadalajara, Mexico to study at the

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, where he received his M.F.A. He moved to New York City in 1952 and began exhibiting along with other

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artists at the

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, where he subsequently had three solo exhibitions. His paintings have been in exhibitions in important museums, institutions and art galleries over the course of eight decades beginning in the 1940s. Some of the museums and institutions in which his paintings have been seen include: Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana;

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, Greenville, South Carolina; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago,

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, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,

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(organized by MoMA); among others. His work is in the permanent collection of several prominent museums including the

in Buffalo, the

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in Washington D.C., the

in Washington, D.C., the

in Minneapolis, and the

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in Houston. Dugmore received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966,

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grants in 1976 and 1985, and the

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Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. In 1992 he was elected into the

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as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. Edward Dugmore died June 13, 1996, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Chronology

Solo exhibitions

*2014 – ''Ancient Evenings'', Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY *2006 – ''Three Monumental Paintings'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *2003 – ''Selected Works: Mostly from the 1960s'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *2000 – ''Selected Works: 1956–1969'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *1998 -''The Passionate Eye'', Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT *1997 – Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY *1996 – Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA *1994 – ''A Survey of Works on Paper'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *1992 – ''Paintings of the 1960s'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *1991 –

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, New York, NY *1991 – ''Burning Bright, Paintings 1950–1959'', Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *1990 – The Carlson Gallery, San Francisco, CA *1975 – H. Marc Moyens, Alexandria, VA *1973 – Green Mountain Gallery, New York, NY *1972 –

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, Des Moines, IA *1965 – M.I.A. Gallery, Great Falls, MT *1965 – Town Wharf Gallery, Blue Hill, ME *1963 – Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY *1961 – Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY *1960 – Howard Wise Gallery, Cleveland, OH *1959 – Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL *1956 –

, New York, NY *1954 –

, New York, NY *1953 – Sheldon Street Studio, Hartford, CT *1953 –

, New York, NY *1950 – Metart Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected public collections

*Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY *Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY *Civic Museum and Gallery, Udine, Italy *Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. *Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA *Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. *Housatonic Community College, Stratford, CT *Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, MI *Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna Beach, CA *The Menil Collection, Houston, TX *Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR *San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA *University of Guadalajara, Mexico *University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL *Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN *Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC *Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Awards

*1995 –

(Lifetime Achievement Award) *1992 –

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(Lifetime Achievement Award) *1985 –

Grant *1980 – American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award *1976 –

Grant *1966 – John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship *1962 – M.V. Kohnstamm Award, 65th Annual, Art Institute of Chicago

Teaching

*1973–82 – Part-time instructor of painting at Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD *1972 – Visiting Artist, Des Moines Art Center and Drake University, IA *1970 – Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis *1965 – Artist-in-residence at the Montana Institute of Fine Arts under the Auspices of The American Federation of Arts, Great Falls, MT *1964 – 1972 – Part-time instructor of painting at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY *1961 – 1962 – Visiting Artist, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL *1946 – 1949 – Teacher of painting and drawing, St. Joseph's College, West Hartford, Ct.

References

Bibliography

April Kingsle
''Suitcase Paintings, Small Scale Abstract Expressionism''
Georgia Museum of Art, 2007, page 56, plate 41 Marika Herskovic
''American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey,''
(New York School Press, 2003.) . pp. 110–113 Marika Herskovic
''New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,''
(New York School Press, 2000.) . p. 31; p. 36; pp. 118–121 Nicholas Fox Weber, essa
''The Passionate Eye – Paintings by Edward Dugmore''
published by the Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, 1998 Susan Landaue
''The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism''
Laguna Art Museum, 1996 Stuart Shedletsk
''Still Working: Underknown Artists of Age in America''
Parsons School of Design, 1994 Dore Ashton, essa
''Edward Dugmore, Burning Bright: Paintings 1950–1959''
published by Manny Silverman Gallery, 1991 Irving Sandle
''The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism''
Harper and Row, 1970

External links

Manny Silverman Gallery

Archives of American Art, ''An Oral History Interview with Edward Dugmore, May 13 – June 9 1994''
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