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Louis Schanker Biographie
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1918 |
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Quit school and joined the Sparks Circus in Macon, GA
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1919 |
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Studied at Cooper Union, New York, NY
Studied at the Art Students League with Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery, New York, NY
Studied at the Educational Alliance, New York, NY
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1931 - 1932 |
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Studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
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1933 - 1934 |
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Public Works Administration Project, PWAP, Washington, D.C.
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1935 |
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Became a member of "The Ten", New York, NY
Studied Woodcuts with Werner Drewes, New York, NY
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1937 |
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Founding Member, American Abstract Artists, New York, NY
Commissioned casein wax mural: WNYC radio station, New York, NY
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1939 |
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Commissioned mural, New York World's Fair (Science and Health building), New York, NY
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1938 - 1941 |
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Graphic Arts Supervisor (Murals Division) for the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project, New York, NY
Member of the Mural Painters Guild, New York, NY
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1942 - 1943 |
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Instructor at the New School of Social Research, New York, NY
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Instructor at the Walker Art Centre, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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1949 - 1964 |
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Instructor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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1978
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Retrospective, Associated American Artists, New York, NY (solo)
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1974
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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1959
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Walker Art Centre, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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1943
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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1937
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American Abstract Artists' (AAA) first annual exhibition, New York, NY
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1936
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Gallery Secession, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1935
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Montrose Gallery, New York, NY
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1933
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Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Art Centre Gallery, New York, NY
Bibliotheque Nationale, Madrid, Spain
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1930
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Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, NY
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1929
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Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, NY
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1922
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Anderson Galleries, New York, NY
The Morton Gallery, New York, NY
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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