Dewitt Hardy
The following is from the artist who is a resident of York County, Maine. He has become known in New England for his watercolors of small Maine and New Hampshire towns. Often they show deterioration and abandoned buildings. He also specializes in male and female nudes and floral nature studies and occasionally does a self portrait.
DEWITT HARDY
South Berwick, Maine
BORN:
St. Louis, Missouri, June 1940
EDUCATION:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
RESIDENCE:
South Berwick, Maine
POSITIONS HELD
Curator and Associate Director of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, Maine
Instructor, University of Maine at Augusta
Instructor, Heartwood College of Art, Arundel, Maine
GROUP SHOWS
1998 "Portland Museum Biennial", Portland, Maine
1997 "A Brush With Greatness" Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine
1995 "The Ogunquit Tradition: Ogunquit Painting Today",
Van Ward Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 "The Figure", Point Gallery, York, ME
1995 "The Face Of America", Old Forge Museum, Old Forge, NY
1994 "Maines Heritage and Tradition", Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine
1994 "Self-Portraits", James Goode Collection,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nudes", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "On the Edge, Maine Painting, 1950-1990",
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1993 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Perspectives on Realism", Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Two Views of the Nude", Blackthorne
1990 "Gallery Group", Gallery Henoch, NY
1988 "Contemporary Figure Drawings", Robert Schoelkopf, NY
1998 "All Maine Biennial" University of Southern Maine
1986-7 "American Realism", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1984 "Portland Museum Drawing Biennial", Portland, ME
1983 "Monserrat Drawing Invitational", Monserrat MA
"American Realists Works on Paper", Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1978 "All Maine Biennial", Brunswick, ME
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, CA
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Museum, British Columbia
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Bowdoin College Museum, ME
British Museum, London, England
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH
Casco Northern Bank
Chemical Bank, NYC
Cleveland Museum, OH
Collection de la Tortue, Paris, France
Davidson College
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Drury, College
Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hirshhorn Collection, Washington D.C.
Indiana State University, Evansville, IN
Janss Collection
Kalamazoo Institute of Art
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Michigan State University
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Portland Museum, Portland, ME
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Rockford College
Sheldon Swope Museum, Terre Haute, IA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Southern Illinois University
St. Lawrence University, NY
University of Georgia
University of Maine, Orono
University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
University of Utah
Whittenberg University, Springfield, OH
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
American Artist, June 1976, "DeWitt Hardys Line Language" by Ellye Bloom
The Maine Times, May 5, 1989, "Hardy Country"
American Artist, November 1981, "The Watercolor Page: DeWitt Hardy"
The New York Times, February 20, 1981, "Watercolors by DeWitt Hardy"
The Café Review, Summer 1998, accompanying poems by Donald Hall
Alex Hay- In his 1960's paintings and sculptures, Alex Hay depicted the formal properties of everyday objects. His works where a cross between minimalism, hyperrealism, and Pop Art. During that same period he worked as an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg and created stage designs for the choreographic works of Merce Cunningham. After 1963, Hay performed with the Judson Church Theater. In 1969, he left New York and moved to the small mining town of Bisbee, (Arizona, U.S.), where he distanced himself from the world of art. Although he participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2004, his work after 1969 has rarely been seen.
Biography
1930 Born in Valrico, Florida
1953-1958 Attended Florida State University
1959 Moved to New York City
1962-64 Performed with Judson Dance Theater and in concert
1964 Assistant stage manager during Merce Cunningham world tour
early 1970's Moved to Bisbee, Arizona
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, Alex Hay: New Paintings
(17 May - 27 July)
2002 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, Alex Hay: Work from the 60s
(31 October - 18 January 2003)
1971 New York Cultural Center (in association with Fairleigh Dickinson
University), New York, recorded and performed activities since 1962
(20 April - 9 June)
1969 Kornblee Gallery, New York (19 April - 8 May)
1968 Kornblee Gallery, New York (27 April - 27 May)
1967 Kornblee Gallery, New York (June)
Group Exhibitions
2010 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Collecting Biennials
(16 January - 28 November)
2009 Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, permanent collection
2006 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 9 Evenings
Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966 (4 May - 9 July)
Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, Nothing and Everything
(7 September - 28 October). Exhibition travelled: Fraenkel
Gallery, San Francisco (30 November - 27 January 2007)
2005 Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Amy Granat, Alex Hay, Chuck
Nanney, Peter Young (16 March - 14 May). Exhibition travelled: Galerie
Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris (31 May - 25 June)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, The Painted World
(23 October 2005 - 13 March 2006)
2004 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004 Biennial Exhibition
(11 March - 30 May)
1998 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pop Abstraction
(21 February - 19 April)
1992 Davis Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1977 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Downtown), Pop Plus:
Selections from the Permanent Collection (20 June - 15 August)
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the
Permanent Collection: Sculpture from the 60s (13 March - 16 April)
1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the
Permanent Collection (7 June - 8 October)
1971 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Selections from the
Permanent Collection (22 December - 17 January 1972)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm American Artists
1970 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Five Years Acquisitions by
the Friends (5 June - 24 June)
1969 Seth Siegelaub, New York, One Month (1 - 31 March); Alex Hay's
contribution was for 13 March.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Recent Acquisitions,
15 May 1968 - 18 April 1969 (6 May - 22 June)
1968 Rolf Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Program I (29 May - mid-September)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Made with Paper (20 January -
25 February)
Hayward Gallery, London, Pop Art (9 July - 3 September)
1964 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Group Exhibition: Richard Artschwager,
Christo, Alex Hay, Robert Watts (2 May - 3 June)
Dance/Performance Pieces
1994 Christmas Cantata Bisbee, Arizona
1993 Bird Bisbee, Arizona
1985 Christmas Cantata Bisbee, Arizona
1975 Christmas Cantata Bisbee, Arizona
1971 Performance Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(20 and 21 April)
1970 Ear-Shot Argument 14th Street YMCA, New York
1969 Breakfast Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969 Ann Grinstein Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1966 Grassfield "9 Evenings," 25th Street Armory, New York
1966 Topsoil Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
1965 Gonzales Goddard College, Goddard, Vermont
1964 Rio Grande Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1964 Leadville TV Stage Studio, New York
1963 Colorado Plateau Judson Dance Theater, New York
1962 Prairie Judson Dance Theater, New York; "Once Festival," Ann Arbor, Michigan
Public Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Literature
Books and Catalogues
Lippard, Lucy. Pop Art (New York: Frederick Praeger, 1966), p. 131, illustrated p. 113.
Klüver, Billy. 9 evenings: theatre and engineering (New York: RGA Press, 1966), p. 5.
Battcock, Gregory, ed. Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.,
New York, 1968), p. 35, illustrated p. 390.
Gablik, Suzi and John Russell. pop art redefined (London: Thames and Hudson,
1969), illustrated nos. 45, 46, 48, 49, and color plate XIII.
Kosuth, Joseph. Alex Hay: Recorded and Performed Activities Since 1962, exh. cat. (New York Cultural Center, 1971), illustrations only [double sided leperello].
Sundell, Nina, ed. Rauschenberg/Performance 1954-1984, exh. cat. (Cleveland Center
for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 1983).
Davidson, Susan and Walter Hopps, eds. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, exh.
cat. (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997), illustrated p. 254, installation
illustration, p. 312.
Joseph, Branden. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 2003), pp. 209, 213, 216, 226-28, 231, 276, performance illustrations pp. 212, 218, 229, 275.
Iles, Chrissie, et al. Whitney Biennial 2004, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), 2004, illustrated p. 186, detail pp. 128 - 129.
Morris, Catherine, et al. 9 evenings reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering, 1966, exh. cat. (MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2006, performance illustration p. 67.
Schall, Jan and Storr, Robert, eds. Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City), 2008, illustrated on the cover and p.87.
Reviews
Campbell, Lawrence. "Richard Artschwager, Christo, Alex Hay and Robert Watts," Art
News (Summer 1964), p. 15. [Shown: Egg on Plate with Knife, Fork, and
Spoon and Lightbulb]
Judd, Donald. "Four," Arts Magazine (September 1964), pp. 69-70.
Bowers, Faubion and Daniel Kunin, "The Electronics of Music," Aspen no. 4 (Spring
1967), item 5, n.p.
T[abachnick], A[nne]. "Reviews and Previews: Alex Hay," Art News (Summer 1967), pp. 20, 22 (illustration).
G[ollin], J[ane]. "Reviews and Previews: Alex Hay," Art News (May 1968), pp. 14-15.
K[urtz], S[tephen] A. "Reviews and Previews: Alex Hay," Art News (Summer 1969),
p. 16.
Johnson, Ken. "Alex Hay: Work from the 60s," The New York Times (29 November
2002), p. E36.
Rosenberg, Karen. "The Return of a Pop Pioneer: Making It Big," Village Voice (18-24
December 2002), p. 55.
Princenthal, Nancy. "The Everyday of Yesterday," Art in America (March 2003),
pp. 110-113, illustrated in color pp. 110-113.
Godfrey, Mark. "Alex Hay," frieze (April 2003), pp. 98-99, illustrated in color pg. 98.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Touching All Bases At the Biennial." The New York Times (12
March 2004), pp. E27 and E38.
Heartney, Eleanor. "The Well-Tempered Biennial," Art in America (June/July 2004),
pp. 71-77.
Maine, Stephen. "Weathered Wood & Churning Crowds," The New York Sun (28 June 2007), p. 21, illustrated.
Smith, Roberta. "Alex Hay," The New York Times (20 July 2007), p. E29.
Boucher, Brian. "Alex Hay at Peter Freeman," Art in America (November 2007),
pp. 207-208.
