1937
Born in Far Rockaway, New York
1955-1957
Studies at Syracuse University, New York
1959
Receives degree from Boston Museum School and Tufts University, BFA
1972
Receives CAPS Grant, New York
1975
Receives CAPS Grant, New York
1979
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
1983
Receives Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
1985
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
1993
Member of the National Academy of Design
1994
The Elizabeth Foundation Prize for Painting, New York
1997
Receives Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2002
April 8 dies in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1962
AIA Gallery, London
1964
Ward-Nasse Gallery, Boston
1966
Royal Marks Gallery, New York
1967
Ohio State University
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1969
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1971
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
University of Rochester, New York
Onnasch Galerie, Cologne
1972
Mikro Galerie, Berlin
1973
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Galerie Ostergren, Malmo, Sweden
Henri 2, Washington, D.C.
1974
Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York
1975
David McKee Gallery, New York
1976
Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1977
David McKee Gallery, New York
Charles Casat Gallery, La Jolla, California
1978
David McKee Gallery, New York
Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1980
David McKee Gallery, New York
Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1981
Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1982
David McKee Gallery, New York
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo, Sweden
Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
1983
Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Storrer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1984
Galleria Katariina, Helsinki, Finland
David McKee Gallery, New York
1986
David McKee Gallery, New York
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo, Sweden
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1987
Paintings 1986, David McKee Gallery, New York
The Ateneum, Helsinki, (with Sean Scully)
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia
1988
Hoffman/Borman Gallery, Los Angeles
David McKee Gallery, New York
1989
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Persons & Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, Paris
Tony Oliver Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1991
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
McKee Gallery, New York
1993
McKee Gallery, New York
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1994
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Room, New York
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1996
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Henie - Onstad Center, Oslo, Norway
Artists Association Trondheim, Norway
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
McKee Gallery, New York
1997
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1998
McKee Gallery, New York
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1999
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2000
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
McKee Gallery, New York
2002
Harvey Quaytman 1937-2002: A Tribut to the Man and his Work, Four Decades, Nielsen Gallery, Boston
2003
Harvey Quaytman: A Survey of Paintings and Drawings 1969-1998, McKee Gallery
2005
Harvey Quaytman: Flying the Colors, McKee Gallery
2007
Harvey Quaytman: The Rust Paintings, McKee Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1962
Redfern Gallery, London
1964
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1965
Painting Without a Brush, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1967
University of Illinois Biennial, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
1968
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Small Paintings for Museum Collections, American Federation of Arts, (traveling exhibition 1969)
1969
Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Parker Street 470, Boston, MA
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Young Painters, School of Visual Arts, New York (selected by Willam Agee)
Beautiful Paintings and Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art
L'Art Vivant aux Etats Unis, Foundation Maeght, France (compiled by Dore Ashton)
Drawings and Watercolors by Young Americans, Akron Art Institute
For Your Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1970
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1971
The Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Annual Invitational, Kent State University, Ohio
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1972
Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawings by New York Artists, Utah Museum (compiled by Dore Ashton)
Annual, Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art
1973
Young American Artists, Gentofte Radhus, Charlottenlund (traveling exhibition)
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
4 Painters, Poindexter Gallery, New York
Contemporary American Drawings, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Acquisitions 1972-73, Power Galley of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia
1974
Curators Choice, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Recent Acquisitions, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
New York Artists, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Contemporary Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (selected by Dore Ashton)
The New Image, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1975
14 Abstract Painters, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
1976
Drawing Today in New York, Rice University, Houston (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary Art in Atlanta Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1977
A Painting Show, Projects Studio at P.S. #1, Institute for Arts and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
New Painting in New York, University of Texas at Austin
1978
Constructs, 644 Broadway, New York
Recent Acquisitions in the Print Department, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
The Implicit Image: Abstract Painting in the 70's, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Contemporary American Abstractionists, University Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Kunstler zeigen Kunstler, Gallerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland
Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: Collection of the McCrory Corporation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (traveling)
1980
L'Amerique aux Independants 1944-1980, Grand Palais, Paris
1981
Three American Painters, Axiom Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1982
On the Surface, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Constructivism in the Geometric Tradition, Denver Art Museum (traveling exhibition)
Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1983
Selected Drawings, Jersey City Museum, NJ
Opening Group Show, Galerie Norballe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eight Painters, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1984
SAPPORO Triennial, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Two-Person Show, Galerie Grafiart, Turku, Finland
Location: A 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Small Works / Recent Painting, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA / Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1985
Abstract Painting as Surface and Object, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
Charcoal Drawings: 1880-1985, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
Abstraction/Issues, 3 gallery show at Tibor de Nagy, Oscarsson Hood, Sherry French, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Three Generations, Jay Gorney Modern Art, NY
This Way/This Way: Geometric Abstract Vocabularies, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1986
New Abstract Drawing, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York; Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Structure/Abstraction, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Courtesy David McKee, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1987
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Abstract Painting, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, NY
Harvey Quaytman & Sean Scully, The Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Art in the Residence Tunis, Tunisia
1987-1988
Logical Foundations, Pfizer Inc., New York
Winter, curated by the Advisory Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
Formal, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989
A Debate on Abstraction: The Persistence of Painting, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, curated by Vincent Longo
Paintings by Harvey Quaytman, Han Schuil & Alan Uglow, Germans Van Eck Gallery, NY
1989 Ljubljana Bienale 18, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Jugoslavija
50 Years of Collecting: Art at IBM, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
1990
The Image of Abstract Painting in the 80's, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Jake Berthot, Harvey Quaytman, and John Walker: Exhibition for Three Painters, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Mind and Matter: New American Abstractions, Chosunilbo, Seoul, Korea (traveling exhibition)
1991
Physicality: An Exhibition on Color Dimensionality in Painting, Hunter College, New York (traveling exhibition)
Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (traveling exhibition)
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1992
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Tony Oliver Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Drawings Only, Galerie Denise Cade, New York
"Not For Sale," Loans from the Private Collections of New York Art Dealers, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1993
"25th Anniversary Show," Henie - Onstad Center, Oslo, Norway
1994
The Painting Center, New York
Works Selected by Dore Ashton, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York
Significant Artists Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Works on Paper, Gaugh/Langford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1996
Formal Abstraction/New York, An exhibition of small works by New York Artists, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, CA
National Drawing Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center, AR
Working on Paper: Berthot, Jensen, Lees, Quaytman, and Walker, Nielsen Gallery, Boston
1997
48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York
1998
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
1999
Then and Now: Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2000
A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940-2000, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge Contemporary American Drawings from a Private New York Collection,
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Texas
Minimalism Then and Now, collection based installation, Berkeley Art Museum, CA
2001
Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Galerie Storrer
2004
March Heat, Nielsen Gallery
The Art of the Definite, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Christian Science Church, Boston, MA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Denver Museum of Art, CO
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Henie - Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, VT
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kent State University,OH
Kuntsthalle Malmo, Sweden
The Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck, Denmark
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New York University, New York
Pasadena Art Museum, California
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Pori Museum, Finland
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ
South East Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christie
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Winthrop House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Worcester Museum of Art, MA
Wright State University Art Museum, Dayton, OH
Yale Museum of Art, New Haven, CT
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Peter Schjeldahl, "Harvey Quaytman," New York Times, March 7, 1971.
Dore Ashton, Harvey Quaytman: Recent Paintings, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 1973.
Gerald Nordland, Fourteen Abstract Painters, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of
California at Los Angeles, 1975.
April Kingsley, "Harvey Quaytman," Art in America, September 1975.
Jeff Perrone, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTFORUM, April 1978.
Carter Ratcliff, "Harvey Quaytman at David McKee," Art in America, October 1980.
Dore Ashton, American Art since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1982.
Stephen Westfall, "Harvey Quaytman," Arts Magazine, December 1982.
Stephen Westfall, "Harvey Quaytman at David McKee," Art in America, April 1985.
Steven Henry Madoff, "Plain (or Plane) Absence: New Paintings by Harvey Quaytman,"
Arts Magazine, April 1985.
Steven Henry Madoff, "The Return of Abstraction," ARTnews, January 1986.
Vivien Raynor, "Harvey Quaytman," New York Times, January 17, 1986.
John Yau, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTFORUM, April 1986.
Mari Rantanen and Kimmo Sarje, "From Paintings to Pictures," Sean Scully & Harvey Quaytman,
Ateneum, Helsinki, 1987.
Ned Rifkin, 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., 1987.
Brigitte Rubin, "Shake Hands With the Viewer," Dagens Nyheter, February 14, 1987.
Carl Little, "Harvey Quaytman at David McKee," Art in America, April 1987.
John Loughery, "Harvey Quaytman," Arts Magazine, April 1987.
Mari Rantanten, "The Time of Puritanism is Over," Taedi Arts, April 1987.
Ken Sofer, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, April 1987.
Paul Richard, "Painting in Past Tints," Washington Post, April 11, 1987.
Margaret R. Lazzari, "The Erosion of Abstraction," ArtWeek, May 9, 1987.
Michael Brenson, "True Believers Who Keep the Flame of Painting," New York Times, June 7, 1987.
Jane Addams Allen, "The Battle of the Biennials," The World and I, July 1987.
David Carrier, "Corcoran Gallery 40th Biennial," The Burlington Magazine, July 1987.
Steven Henry Madoff, "An Inevitable Gathering," ARTnews, September 1987.
Charles Hagen, "40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings," ARTFORUM,
October 1987.
Edward J. Sozanski, "Quaytman Lends Romantic Touch to the Geometric," The Philadelphia Inquirer,
December 3, 1987.
Peter Clothier, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, May 1988.
Charles Hagen, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTFORUM, December 1988.
Ellen Handy, "Harvey Quaytman," Arts Magazine, January 1989.
Gary Catalano, "Problem of lines by no means straightforward for artist," Melbourne Age, March 1990.
Marika Wachtmeister, "Harvey Quaytman," Femina,(Finland) March 3, 1990.
John Etra, "Family Ties," ARTnews, May 1991.
Elwyn Lynn, "There's Life After Mondrian with a New York Hero," The Australian, June 1991.
Ellen G. Landau, "Cruciformed," ARTFORUM, December 1991.
Ellen Handy, "New York Review," Arts Magazine, January 1992.
Ruth Bass, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, February 1992.
Walter Thompson, "Harvey Quaytman at McKee," Art in America, March 1992.
Hovey Brock, "Harvey Quaytman at McKee," ARTnews, May 1993.
Kenneth Baker, "Quaytman at Haines," San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1994.
Kenneth Baker, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, Summer 1994.
Kenneth Baker, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, January 1996.
Janet Koplos, "Harvey Quaytman at ROOM," Art in America, 1996.
Peter Serck, "Nestor - utenfor trendene," Klassekampen, January 1996.
Steve Mumford, "Jake Berthot and Harvey Quaytman - McKee Gallery," Review, September 15, 1996.
Judd Tully, "Interview with Harvey Quaytman," August 1997.
Ken Johnson, "Harvey Quaytman," The New York Times, February 20, 1998.
"All in the Family," ARTnews, February 1998.
Mark Roskill, "Harvey Quaytman’s Ink Drawings, 1993-96," Drawing, Vol. XIX, No. 3, Winter-Spring 1998.
Mario Naves, "Fear of Formless Art; Quaytman’s Cure: A Cross," The New York Observer,
September 25, 2000.
Ann Landi, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, New York Reviews, October 2000.
Deborah Everett, "Harvey Quaytman - New Paintings," NY Arts, Review, October 2000.
Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, curated by Vincent Longo and Laura Sue Phillips, catalogue designed by Tim Laun, 32 pages, illustrated in color, January 2001.
“Harvey Quaytman,” GalleryGuide.org: Artist Portfolio, [web page]; http://www.galleryguide.org/
ArtistPortfolios/mckee/quaytman/quaytman.asp. [Accessed August 15, 2001].
Ken Johnson, “Harvey Quaytman, 64, Painter Known for Geometric Works,” The New York Times, Obituaries, Monday, April 15, 2002.
Stephanie Cash and David Ebony,” Obituaries, Harvey Quaytman,” Art in America, Art World, June 2002.
Andrea Crawford,” A Minimalist Master,” ARTnews, (Obituaries), June 2002.
“Harvey Quaytman,” exhibition brochure, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, September 14 - October 19, 2002.
“Four Decades of Paintings by Harvey Quaytman to Open at Nielsen on September 14,” Nielsen Gallery News, Volume 6, No.1, September 2002.
“Harvey Quaytman: a tribute to the man and his work, Nielsen Gallery, Boston,” The Art Newspaper, No.129, October 2002.
Karen Rosenberg, This Week, Art, Solo Galleries, New York, September 22, 2003.
Karen Rosenberg, This Week, Art, Solo Galleries, New York, September 29, 2003.
David Cohen, Gallery Goings, The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, October 2, 2003.
Mario Naves,”Calm, Stately Cruciform Shapes Excite Respect, Not Enthusiasm,” The New York Observer, October 13, 2003.
Curt Barnes, "Harvey Quaytman - A Tribute," New York Art World, [web page]; http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews-nyaw/rev-quaytman-barnes.html [Accessed October 22, 2003].
Donald Goddard, " Harvey Quaytman: A Survey of Paintings and Drawings 1969-1998," New York Art World, [web page]; http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/quaytman.html [Accessed October 22, 2003].
Hilarie M. Sheets, "Harvey Quaytman," ARTnews, January 2004.
Lilly Wei, “Quaytman’s Crossing,” Art in America, March 2004.
Michael Klein, "Comments on Collecting Drawings," Collecting Drawings Today, Panel Discussioon, Microsoft Art Collection, brochure, Seattle 2004.
Michael Brennan, "Harvey Quaytman," The Brooklyn Rail, April 2005.
Mario Naves, "Quaytman's Colors," The New York Observer, Arts & Entertainment, April 19, 2005.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
“Harvey Quaytman: The Rust Paintings,” The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, June 14, 2007.
Constance Wyndham, “Harvey Quaytman at McKee,” ARTnews, Summer 2007