W A L T E
R H A T K E
Curriculum
Vitae
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Phone: 518-346-1584
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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,
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,
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, '
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, '
E. Christian Filstrup, 'The
Alphabet of Things in
Judith Tannebaum, '
Hilton Kramer, 'Drawings,' The New York Times, Friday, 11 June
1976, mention in group show review