W A L T E R   H A T K E  

Curriculum Vitae

 

1513 Lenox Road, Schenectady, NY 12308

Phone: 518-346-1584     e-mail:  hatkew@union.edu     Fax: 518-388-6567

 

Exhibitions:

            2004    Solo Exhibition, Gerald Peters Gallery, NYC   

                        Three by Five to Eleven by Fourteen, Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, NM

            2003    Art of the 20th Century, Park Avenue Armory, intrnt'l exhib., NYC

                        U.S. Artists, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA

                        Hudson River Painters, Then & Now, Gerald Peters Gallery, NYC

                        Re-Presenting Representatioalism, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

                        Works on Paper, Park Avenue Armory, international exhibition, NYC

            2002    Solo Exhibition, Upstate Diary, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

                        Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression, GP Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

            2001    Contemporary Selections, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

            2000    Solo Exhibition, MB Modern, NYC

                        Scapes: Air, City, Land, Sea, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        Solo Exhibition, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY

            1999    Drawings, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        Enduring Vision, 18 Hudson River area painters, Mandeville Gallery,

                              Union College, Schenectady, NY

                        The Trompe l'Oeil Tradition, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            1998    Work represented and shown by Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

                        Still Lifes, national exhibition, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        Art Miami, international exposition of contemporary art, Miami, FL

                        Landscapes, 40 American painters invitational, John Pence Gallery

            1997    Gallery Group, Gerold Wunderlich & Co., NYC

                        Realism in 20th-Century American Art, Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME

                        Plain Pictures:  Images of the American Prairie, Joni Kinsey, Curator.                     Traveled: University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City; Amon Carter                              Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Joslyn Museum of Art Omaha, NE

            1996    Space, Light and Form:  Recent Works, Babcock Galleries, NYC

                        Water Marks, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

                        A Tribute From his Friends: in Memory of Daniel J. Robbins, Museum of

                             Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

            1995    Solo Exhibition, Mulvane Art Museum,Washburn University, Topeka, KS

                        Collector's Exhibition, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

                        Works on Paper, Babcock Galleries, NYC

            1994    Hudson Valley Sampler, Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY

                        The Art Show, Art Dealers Asc. of America, 7th Regiment Armory, NYC

                        Invitational, Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

                        18th Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Norman R. Eppink

                        Art Gallery, Emporia State University, KS

                        Interiors, Champion International Corp. Gallery of Art, Stamford, CT

            1993    Solo Exhibition, Babcock Galleries, NYC

                        Works on Paper, international exhibition, 7th Regiment Armory, NYC

                        The Artist As Native, curated by Alan Gussow. Traveled: Middlebury                   College Museum of Art, VT; Babcock Galleries, NYC; Albany Institute                             of History & Art, NY; Westmorland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA;

                            Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

           

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            1992    Major Works, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        Recent Contemporary Work, Babcock Galleries, NYC

                        Landscapes & Seascapes, Past & Present, John Pence Gallery

                        Solo Exhibition, Babcock Galleries, NYC

            1991    New Horizons in American Realism, Flint Institute of Arts, DeWaters Art

                             Center, MI; Traveled: Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL;

                             Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

                        American Narrative Painting & Sculpture [from the Metropolitan Museum                          of Art, NYC], Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY

                        Fall Exhibit, Laighton Galleries, Schenectady, NY

            1990    Solo Exhibition, Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD

                        Solo Exhibition, General Electric Research & Development Center,

                        Niskayuna, NY

            1989    Solo Exhibition, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

            1988    The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

            1987    American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, National Academy of

                             Design, NYC. Traveled: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,

                             MA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Arkansas Art                          Center, Little Rock, AR

            1986    Solo Exhibition, Emison Gallery of Art, DePauw University,

                        Greencastle, IN                                                                                               

                        161st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC

                        American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, San                   Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled: De Cordova and Dana                   Museum, Lincoln, MA; 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; Madison Art Center, WI

            1985    Contemporary Landscape from Central Pennsylvania, Center Gallery,

                             Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

                        Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss,

                             Boise Gallery of Art, ID

            1984    Solo Exhibition, Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA                   Chicago International Art Exposition, IL

                        National Midyear Show, Butler Inst. of American Art, Youngstown, OH

                        A New Look at American Landscape Painting, Frumkin/Struve Gallery,                             Chicago, IL; Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI

                        Personal and Intimate Images, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

            1983    Solo Exhibition, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

                        Tulip Time, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA

                        American Realism: 1930's/1980's, Summit Art Centrer, NJ

                        Chicago International Art Exposition, IL

                        Painters of Central Pennsylvania, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University,                   State College, PA

            1982    Members' Gallery Invitational, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

                        Recent Landscapes, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                        Aspects of Contemporary Realism, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson

                        College, Wayne, NJ

           

 

 

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            1981    Mantegna to Rauschenberg: Six Centuries of Prints, Babcock Gallery,

                             NYC; Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA

                        Purchase Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

                        33rd Artists Exhibition, Des Moines Art Museum, IA

                        Collectors' Gallery XV Marion Koogler McNay Art Inst.,San Antonio, TX

            1980    Solo Exhibition, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

                        Contemporary Naturalism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY

                        Summer Invitational, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

                        Solo Exhibition, The Art Gallery, Topeka Public Library, KS         

            1979    Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of

                             Arts and Letters, NYC

            1977    Solo Exhibition, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

            1976    Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro

                        Works on Paper, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

                        Contemporary American Art, Civic Center, Milwaukee, WI

            1975    Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of

                             Arts and Letters, NYC

                        New Talent, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, NYC

 

Collections:    [in addition to numerous private collections]

 

            Art Institute of Chicago, IL

            Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

            The Boston Company, MA

            Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC and London, UK

            Continental Insurance Companies, NYC

            Emison Gallery of Art, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

            Exxon Corporation, NYC

            General Foods, White Plains, NY

            Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City, MO

            Amarada Hess Corporation, NYC

            International Baha'i Center, Haifa, Israel

            Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan

            Lehman Brothers, NYC

            Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, NYC

            Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

            Michigan Bell, Detroit, MI

            Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

            Nanjing University, China

            Northern Trust, Chicago, IL

            Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

            Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

            Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, NYC

            Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

            Stephens Incorporated, Little Rock, AR

            Topeka Public Library, KS

            Union College, Schenectady, NY

            University of Iowa, Iowa City

            William Allen White School of Journalism, University of Kansas, Lawrence

            Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

            Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL

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Awards:

            National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship

            Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant for Painting

            Vermont Studio Center, Institutional Fellowship Award

            Humanities Faculty Development Grants, Union College

            Research Initiation Grant [for study in Italy], Pennsylvania State University

            Research Grants, College of Arts & Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

            Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting, Skowhegan, ME [declined]

                                                                                                                                                                   

Visiting Artist / Critic / Lecturer:

 

The American University, Washington, DC                    Smith College, Northampton,  MA Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH            Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH                                 Swarthmore College, PA         

DePauw University, Greencastle, IN                 Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO      University of Evansville, IN

Otterbein College, Westerville, OH                               Yale University, New Haven, CT                                                                     

 

Education:      University of Iowa, Iowa City, MFA 1982, MA 1981

                        DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, BA 1971

                        Great Lakes Colleges Association, New York City Arts Program, 1969

                        Assistant to the Director, Perls Galleries, NYC, 1974-77

                        Work assisting sculptor Alexander Calder, NYC, 1974-76

                        First Apprentice & Painting Assistant to Jack Beal, NYC, 1972-73

 

Teaching:        Professor of Fine Arts, Painting & Drawing, Union College,

                        Schenectady, NY, 1987-present; Pennsylvania State University 1982-86

                                Invested as May I. Baker Professor of Fine Arts, Union College, 1997

 

Other:

Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State, invited participant, 1997 - 2000

Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State, invited participant, 1986 -1989

Cover Image:  Three Grange Halls, poems by Jordan Smith, Swan Scythe Press, U.C.-Davis, 2002

                [ptg. used: Between]

Cover Image:  The Compact Reader, Bedford/St.Martin's Press, 2001, [ptg. used: Branches]

Cover Image:  His Third Her Second, novel, Paul Estaver, SOHO Press, 1988 [ptg. used: The Gate's Light] Cover Image:  The Household of Continuance, poems by Jordan Smith, Copper Beech Press,                      Brown University, 1992 [ptg. used: Raiment]

Juror:  Columbus Arts Festival, national competition, Columbus, OH, 1998

Juror:  Realism Today, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN, 1985

Juror:  1992 Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, sponsored by:  Albany Institute of History and Art,

                The Schenectady Museum, and University Art Gallery [State University of New York at Albany] Plain Pictures Symposium, To Recover a Continent:  New Perspectives on the American Prairie,

                University of Wisconsin Press, 1999; contributor

Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX;

                featured on CBS' "Sunday Morning," 1996

Looking at Pictures, narrated by Vincent Price, PBS television special on the Sheldon Museum of Art,

                features painting Rooms on Broadway, shown in detail and discussed, 1988 - present

Art for Tanglewood, Boston Symphony Benefit, 1982 [ptg. included: Picture of Roy's House]

The National Tribute to Alexander Calder, reconstructed mobile sets for 'Socrate' [Erik Satie, 1919], after         original plans by and consultation with Alexander Calder, Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, 1977

W A L T E R   H A T K E                    Selected Bibliography                      5

 

 

Anna Audette Held, 100 Creative Drawing Ideas, Shambhala/Random House, 2003, contributor

 

Art in America, October 2002, page 22, color exhibition announcement for Upstate Diary at Gerald Peters

 

Jordan Smith, Upstate Diary, Gerald Peters Gallery, 2002, catalog, essay, biography, color reproductions

 

John Arthur, Rachel Seligman, Walter Hatke, Union College, 2000, essay, color reproductions

 

Robert F. Sayre, Recovering the Prairie, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999, text, quotes, color     reproductions

CD-ROM, Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,    selection of paintings and c.v.

Joni L. Kinsey, Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996,               exhibition catalog / book with text and color reproduction

Rhode Island School of Design, Museum Notes, 1996, text and reproduction

 

Alan Gussow, The Artist as Native, Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993, exhibition catalog / book with statement,    biography, color reproduction

Joseph Andrew Phillips, 'Gaining Recognition,' The Sunday Gazette [NY Capital Region], 28 June 1992,           feature article with half-page color reproduction of painting and photo portrait showing studio

Christopher R. Young, New Horizons in American Realism, Flint Institute of Art, Michigan,1991,     exhibition catalog with text, biography, color reproductions

John Arthur, Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Paintings and the American Tradition,  Little,          Brown & Company, 1989, book with text and color reproductions    

Hilton Kramer, 'An Antidote to the Postmodern Blues:  "'Realism Today' at the National Academy,"

                New York Observer, 28 December 1987, article with mention

National Academy of Design, Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection,

                National Academy of Design, 1987, catalog / book with text, biography, reproduction

Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Public Library, The Music Lover's Birthday Book, 1987, color           reproduction

Claire Rossini, Leslie Schwartz, Walter Hatke: Paintings and Drawings, William Weston Clarke Emison         Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, 1986, catalog, essay, blk/wht & color repros.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, American Realism:  Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors,                 Harry Abrams, 1985, catalog / book with text and color reproduction

Saramma Methratta, 'By the Light of an Artist,' Research / Penn State, September 1985, cover and article        with color reproductions

Donald Lambert, 'Walter Hatke,' American Artist, October 1992, article with color reproductions

 

Dorothy C. Miller, Robert Rosenblum, J. Walter Severinghaus, Art at Work:  The Chase Manhattan                Collection,  E. P. Dutton, 1984, book with listing and color reproduction

Janice Oresman, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Art Collection, 1982, color cover reproduction and    additional listings

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, New York Graphic Society, 1981,          catalog / book with text and reproduction

John Russell, 'The Many Faces of Naturalism,' The New York Times, Sunday, 10 August1980, review with

                discussion of work and half-page black & white reproduction

Vivien Raynor, 'Walter Hatke,' The New York Times, Friday, 20 June 1980, review of solo exhibition

 

E. Christian Filstrup, 'The Alphabet of Things in Walter Hatke's Art,' World Order, Fall 1977, article with         black & white reproductions

Judith Tannebaum, 'Walter Hatke,' Arts Magazine, September 1977, solo show review and reproduction

 

Hilton Kramer, 'Drawings,' The New York Times, Friday, 11 June 1976, mention in group show review