Artist: Arthur Lerner
Title:Abstract Portrait, 1961-2
52.25″ x 42″
(132.72cm x 106.68cm)
Created: 1961-62
Oil/Canvas
Signed Lower Left
Farhat Art Museum Collection
Arthur Lerner history of accomplishments :-
One Person Exhibitions
2013 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
2000 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2000 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1973 Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
1972 Skokie Arts Council, Skokie, IL
1972 Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
1964 Anna Werbe Gallery, Detroit, MI
1963 John L. Hunt Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two- & Three-Person Exhibitions
2009-10 Facing Modigliani, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
1983 Galeria, Chicago, IL
1973 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
1963 John L. Hunt Gallery, Chicago, IL
1962 Old Town Art Center, Drawing Exhibition
1960 Old Town Art Center, Drawing Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 “Collaborations II,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 “Artists Respond to Genocide,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2012–13 “Face Forward: The Art of the Self-Portrait,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Chicago Odyssey, Printworks Gallery, Chicago Il
2010 Cover Stories, Printworks Gallery, Chicago Il
2005-06 TheChicago Six, The Art Center, Highland Park, Il.
2005-06 The Art of the Bookplate, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Il.
2005 Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002 Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2001 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2001 Self Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2000 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Z Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Seascapes, Frick Gallery, Belfast, Me.
1988 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Santa Rosa Jr. College, Santa Rosa, CA
1987 When Sculptors and Painters Draw Art Institute of Boston, MA
1986 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Self Portraits Then and Now ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 The Object Revitalized Pain Art Center, Oshkosh, WI
1984 Realism, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL
1983 Chicago Artists: Continuity & Change Printers Square, Chicago, IL
1982 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1981 Illinois Artists, Illinois Sate Museum Mt. Vernon, IL
1980 Gilman Gallery Exhibitions since 1965, Chicago, IL
1966 Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Art Institute of Chicago
1965 One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings University of Michigan Museum of
Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1964 John L. Hunt Gallery, Chicago, IL
1962 John Gibson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1962 Hastings College Invitational Print Exhibition Hastings, NE
1961 John Gibson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1961 Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1960 Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1958 Galleria Schneider, Rome, Italy
1958 Galleria La Permanente, Florence, Italy 1958 Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
1955 Robert North Gallery, Chicago, IL 1955
Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1954 American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition
1952 University of Minnesota Invitational Print Exhibition
1952 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Print Annual 1952 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn,
NY, Print Annual
1952 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Print Annual
Teaching
1996 Professor Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
1961/96 Professor of Art, City Colleges of Chicago
1986/87 Distinguished ProfessorRichard J. Daley College, Chicago
1986 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1955/57 Ray-Vogue School of Art, Chicago
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
1981/82 National Endowment for the Arts
1963 Award for Drawing, Chicago Festival of the Arts Minneapolis, MN
1961 Frank B. Hubacheck Purchase Award for Drawing First All-Illinois Biennial of Prints,
Drawings and Watercolors, Art Institute of Chicago
1957/58 Fulbright Grant for Study in Italy
1952/53 James Nelson Raymond Foreign Travel Fellowship
Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
The National Museum of American Art
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Sam Koffler Collection)
U.S. State Department Cultural Division, Washington, D.C. Continental Bank of Illinois,
Chicago, IL
Northern Trust Bank of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Kemper Insurance Companies, Long Grove, IL
Harry S. Truman College Collection, Chicago, IL
Joseph Shapiro Collection, Chicago, IL
Jenner and Block, Inc., Chicago, IL
Hahn, Holland and Grossman, Chicago Il
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
United Airlines, San Francisco and Tokyo
And other public and private collections
Education
1957-58 Istituto Statale di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
1953 Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, France
1952 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A.
1951 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.
Farhat Cultural Center 
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