1913 Born in Indianapolis, IN, November 9
1993 Died in Silver Spring, MD, October 3
Education
1953-55 New York University, School of Education
1947-48 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; also studied with Nahum Tschacbasov
1944-46 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2004
Felrath Hines: Paintings: 1958-1985, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Felrath Hines: Abstract Illusions, Paintings, 1979-1992, Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; catalogue
2001
Encore, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
1996
Felrath Hines: Explorations in Color & Form, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
1995
Felrath Hines, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; catalogue
Felrath Hines-A Survey: Works on Paper & Canvas (1947-1991), Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1993
Gudelsky Gallery, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD
1992
Felrath Hines, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1987
Felrath Hines, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1986
Felrath Hines, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1984
Recent Paintings: Felrath Hines, Pavilion of Fine Arts, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
1979
Felrath Hines, Barbara Fielder Gallery, Washington, DC
1977
Felrath Hines, Barbara Fielder Gallery, Washington, DC
1959
Felrath Hines, Parma Gallery, New York
1957
Felrath Hines, Parma Gallery, New York
1951
S. Felrath, Creative Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005-2003
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; traveling exhibition; catalogue
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the Late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Three Visions, Donna Batista Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1999
To Conserve A Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; traveling exhibition; catalogue
1995
Geometric Abstraction, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1994
Still Working: underknown artists of age in america, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveling exhibition; catalogue
1992
Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1990
Pavilion for Fine Arts, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
1989
Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD
1983
Options, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; catalogue
1979
American Paintings of the Fifties, Gallery K, Washington, DC
Pavilion for Fine Arts, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
1976
Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC
Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Two Centuries of Black American Art, organized by Museum Associates of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, catalogue essay by David Driskell; traveling exhibition. Film written and directed by Carlton Moss, produced by Pyramid Films.
1971
Art from the Chase Manhattan Bank, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
1970
Exhibition and Benefit Sale forThe Studio Museum in Harlem, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; brochure
Contemporary American Black Artists, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Eleven New York Area Black Artists, Art Center Gallery, Stout State University, Menomonie, Wisconsin
Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; catalogue
Waltann School of Creative Arts, Inc., Brooklyn, New York
1969
Professionals Who Teach: An Exhibition of Instructors at the Art Students League, 1969-1970, Gallery of Modern Art, New York
J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Twelve Afro-American Artists, Lee Nordness Galleries, New York; catalogue
Contemporary American Black Artists, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), Washington, DC; catalogue and slide set with text by Marshall W. Fishwick, published by Sandak, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions
1968
Thirty Contemporary Black Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; traveling exhibition with catalogue by Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Ruder and Finn Fine Arts
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibit by Twenty-One African American Artists, Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York
1966
The Art of the American Negro, presented by the Harlem Cultural Council Committee, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; brochure
1965
The Spiral Black and White Exhibit, Spiral Group, New York; catalogue
Sixth Annual Festival of Arts: Exhibition of Twenty-Nine African-American Artists, Temple Emanu-el, Yonkers, New York
1962
Selected Paintings, Grippi Gallery, New York; brochure
1959
The Little International Show, Olsen Foundation, New York; brochure
1958
Five Collections, Parma Gallery, New York; brochure
Untitled World, Provincetown Annual Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA; brochure
1957
Contemporary American Art, Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, DC; brochure
50th Annual Indiana Artists’ Exhibition, John Herron Art Museum (now Indianapolis Museum of Art), IN; brochure
1956
Atlanta University Library, Atlanta, GA
1955
48th Annual Indiana Artists Exhibition, John Herron Institute (now Indianapolis Museum of Art), Indianapolis, IN; brochure
Parma Gallery, New York
Society of Young American Artists, Riverside Museum, New York
1954
Nine Young Americans, John Heller Gallery, New York
About1951 For Tomorrow: A Group of 12 Expressionists, John Heller Gallery, New York
American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York
Argent Gallery, New York
Roko Gallery, New York
Selected Articles, Publications & Reviews
2002
Goodman, Jonathan, review, Art in America, October Johnson, Ken, Art in Review, The New York Times, Friday, February 1 Pardee, Hearne, New York Reviews: Felrath Hines, ARTnews, April
1996
Chambers, Joy, “Felrath Hines’ abstracts prove last are best,” Alexandria Gazette Packet, Vol. CCXII, No.3, February 22, p.12
Jones, S. A., “Felrath Hines: Explorations in Color and Form,” Ken Oda’s Art Newsletter, Vol. IV, No. 6, March, p.20
“Felrath Hines: Exploration in Color and Form at the Athenaeum,” The Metro Herald, Vol. VII, No. 5, February 2
1995
Berry, S. L., “IMA Honors Hoosier Painter,” Weekend, The Indianapolis Star, October 6, pp. C-1, C-5
Selected Articles, Publications & Reviews
1995
Dorsey, John, “Grimaldis abstract show in beautiful shape,” The Baltimore Sun, May 12
Mannheimer, Steve, “Hines remained faithful to distilled style,” The Indianapolis Star, p.17, October 22
1994
Lewis, Jo Ann, “Still Working: Late Bloomers in Full Flower,” Washington Post, D1, June 27
Zeidler, Jeanne, “Tribute,” The International Review of African American Art, Vol.11, No.1, p.3
“Tribute to Felrath Hines,” AIC News (American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works), Obituary, May
1993
Taylor, William E., “The Abstract Art of Felrath Hines: Icons of a Perfect Neutrality,” The International Review of African American Art, Vol.10, No.3, pp.12-19
“Hines’s Obituary,” Washington Post, E4, October 5
1989
Garmel, Marion, “Old article helps find artist,” Indianapolis News, A14, August 23
Ritter, Nancy, “Gallery Is On Abstract Path,” The Capitol, C2, December 1
1983
Allen, Jane Addams, “New Art from the Lively Fringes,” Washington Times, February 4
“Crosscurrents,” Science 83.4, No.10, December
1980
Van Riper, Frank, “George and Martha,” Washington Daily News, p.45 June 29
Weintraub, Boris, “George and Martha Freshen Up,” Washington Star, D-1, D-3, June 24
Rosenfeld, Megan, “New Faces in Town: The Stuarts: More than a Pair of Pretty Portraits,” Washington Post, C1, June 24
1979
Forgey Benjamin, “American Paintings of the Fifties,” The Washington Star, D-2, November
“Felrath Hines: New Paintings,” The Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC, The Washington Star, E-2, June 10
Goodman, Angela, “Unusual Careers in the Arts: Felrath Hines Art Restorer,” Black Enterprise, Vol. 9, No.7, February, p.66
1978
Driskell, David C., “Bibliographies in Afro-American Art,” American Quarterly 30, No.3, p.385
1977
Forgey, Benjamin, “P Street and Now There are Thirteen,” Washington Star, G24, February 13
1976
Forgey, Benjamin, “The Flowering of Gallery Rows,” Washington Star, G30, April 4
“Work by Felrath Hines in the Office of the Mayor to be viewed by Queen Elizabeth II,” Washington Star, July 2, p. B-4
Howell, Betje, “In Search of the Black American Artist,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, September 30
Trescott, Jacqueline, “Art Out Front For A Queen,” Washington Post, July 2
1974
Gloster, Patricia, “Interview with Felrath Hines,” at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, January 21, unpublished
Selected Articles, Publications & Reviews
1972
Thomson, Peggy, “One Man’s Crust Is Another Man’s Patina,” The Washington Post Potomac Magazine, May 28
Marr, Warren II, “A Second Renaissance,” The Crisis 79, June/July, p.200
1971
Fine, Elsa Honig, “Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement,” Art Journal 30, summer, p. 374
“Artists in the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection,” brochure
Glueck, Grace, “15 of 75 Black Artists Leave as Whitney Exhibition Opens,” The New York Times, April 6, Sec. 2, p. 50
1970
Ghent, Henri, “Black Creativity in Quest of an Audience,” Art in America 58, p. 35
Kramer, Hilton, “Black Art and Expedient Politics,” The New York Times, June 7, 19
Kramer, Hilton, “Black Artists’ Show on View in Boston,” The New York Times, May 22, Sec.1, p. 36
Kramer, Hilton, “Trying to Define ‘Black Art:’ Must We Go Back To Social Realism?” The New York Times, May 31, D17
Andrews, Benny, “The B.E.C.C.” (Black Emergency Cultural Coalition), Arts 44, summer, pp.18-20
Greene, Dr. Carroll, “Museums: Black is Bountiful,” Art Gallery 13, No.7, A16, April
Kramer, Hilton, “Is Politics Submerging Black Art?” Courier Journal and Times, June 7
Paris, Jean, “Black Art Experience in Art,” Long Island Press, Jamaica, New York, June 14
1969
Canaday, John, “New Black Artists,” The New York Times, October 8
Driscoll, Edgar J., Jr., “Showcase for Black Artists,” Boston Sunday Globe, July 6, A73
Fine, Elsa Honig, “The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity,” Art Journal 29, fall, p.34
Genauer, Emily, “Art and the Artist,” New York Post magazine, February 8, p.14
Ghent, Henri, “Do Our Critics Scorn Realism? Black Art,” The New York Times, October 26, Sec. 2, p.27
Glueck, Grace, “Negroes’Art is What’s In Just Now,” The New York Times, February 27, p. C34
“Selrath,” (sic) The Crisis, March, Vol. 76, No.3, pp.132-133
Hollingsworth, Alvin, “Wealth of Expression in Black Artists’ RISD Show,” Providence Sunday Journal, Rhode Island, June 29
Kramer, Hilton, “Art: Imposition of a Racial Category: 12 Afro-Americans at the Nordness Gallery,” The New York Times, January 25, Sec.1, p. 23
1968
“Blacks Talk Back to the Whitney Museum,” New York Amsterdam News, November 23
Canaday, John, “Art: Modern Museum Honors Dr. King,” The New York Times, Thursday, October 31, Sec.2, p. 53
1969
“Negro Art To Be Shown,” The Crisis 76, No.3, March, 132:33
1966
Bearden, Romare, “Art of American Negro on Exhibit in Harlem,” New York Amsterdam News, July 16, pp. 35, 46
Siegal, Jeanne, “Why Spiral?” Art News, 65, September, pp. 48-50, 67, 68
Selected Articles, Publications & Reviews
1959
Burckhardt, Edith, “Reviews and Previews: Felrath Hines,” Art News 58, March, p.58
DeMott, Helen, “In the Galleries: Felrath Hines,” Arts 33, March, p. 65
1957
Hale, Herbert D., “Reviews and Previews: Felrath Hines,” Art News 55, February, p.54
Krasner, Bela, “Fifty-Seventh Street in Review: In the Tschacbasov Manner,” Art Digest 25, May 1, p. 30
Young, Vernon, “In the Galleries: Felrath Hines,” Arts 31, February, p. 64, review
Burckhardt, Edith, “Reviews and Previews: Felrath Hines,” Art News 55, February, p.54
P.S., “Felrath Hines,” Review of Parma Gallery Show,” The New York Times, January 23
1955
Feinstein, Sam, “Fortnight in Review: Society of Young American Artists,” Art Digest 29, May 15, p.33
Rosenblum, Robert, “Fortnight in Review: Parma Group,” Art Digest 29, May 1, p.22
1954
Tyler, Parker, “Reviews and Previews: Eight Young Americans,” Art News 53, December 70
Burrows, Carlyle, “Young Moderns,” New York Post, December
George, LaVerne, “Nine Young Americans,” Arts Digest 29, December 15, Vol. 29, No. 6. p. 21, review
1951
Cole, Mary, “S. Felrath,” The Arts Digest, February 15, Vol. 25, p.23
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues and Books
2004
Halford-MacLeod, Johanna, Felrath Hines: Abstract Illusions, Paintings, 1979-1992, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2002
Passantino, Erika D., Encore, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1996
Hajdu, David, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
1994
Shedletsky, Stuart, Still Working: underknown artist of age in america, Parsons School of Design, New York, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
1993
Bearden, Romare and Harry Henderson, A History of African- American Artists From 1792 to the Present, Pantheon Books, New York
1990
Schwartzman, Myron, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
1981
Igoe, Lynn Moody, 250 Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography, R. R. Bowker Company, New York and London
1976
Driskell, David C., Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Alfred A. Knopf, New York
1973
Fine, Elsa Honig, The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues and Books
1973
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason, Afro-American Artists: A Bio-bibliographical Directory, Trustees of the Boston Public Library
Public and Corporate Collections
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Hampton University Museum, Virginia
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Ariel Capital Management, Chicago, IL
Chase Manhattan Bank
Philip Morris Companies
Prudential Life, Washington, DC
Shearson Hamill and Company
Sallie Mae
Academic Positions
1969-72 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1968-72 Art Students League, New York
Professional Activities
1980-1984 Chief Conservator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1972-1980 Chief Conservator, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
1962-1972 Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962-1964 Supervisory Conservator, Fine Arts Conservation Labs, New York