ELLIOT OFFNER
BORN
Brooklyn, New York, 1931
EDUCATION
Cooper Union, New York
Yale University, New Haven B.F.A. 1953 and M.F.A. 1959
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1965 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1968, 1973 IFA
Galleries, Washington, DC
1968 Wells College Art Gallery, Aurora, NY
1969 Greenwich Library Art Gallery, CT
1974 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1975 Nasrudin Gallery, Boston
1976 Temple Beth El, West Hartford, CT
1976 Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
1977 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
1978 Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
1980 Jorgenson Gallery, U. of Connecticut.
1984 Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
1985 Darien Library, CT
1987, 1992 Franz
Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1964, 1967 Forum
Gallery, NY
1979, 1984
1993
1999 Forum Gallery, NY
William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
COMMISSIONS
1960 Hammered
Bronze Sculpture, Congregation
Kehilleth Israel, Newton, MA
1962 Ten
Commandments, Congregation
B?ai Israel, Northampton, MA
1976 St.
Francis of Assisi, St. Charles
Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
1978-1986 Fiften
foot high relief sculpture for Veda Corporation, Arlington, VA
1978 Holocaust
Memorial Figure, Cathedral of
St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1980 Pheasant, bronze, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA
1981 Memorial
Relief Sculpture,
Archaeological Museum, Samothrace, Greece
1982 Cockerell, Springfield, MA
1987 Great
Blue Heron, Darien Public
Library, Darien, CT
1988 Memorial
Cross, Georgetown Presbyterian
Church, Washington, DC
1989 National
Association of Letter Carriers Monument, National Association of Letter, Carriers,
Milwaukee, WI
1990 Child
with Dog, Children's Inn,
National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
Heron, Brockton, MA
1991 Bates
College Memorial Dog, Bates
College, Lewiston, ME
1992 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN
AWARDS AND HONORS
1968, 1973 Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1965 National Institute of Arts and Letters
1966, 1967 National
Council of the Arts and Humanities
1969 American Philosophical Society
1970 Ford Foundation Grant
1971 Ingram Merrill Foundation
1989, 1990 Artist
in Residence, Cambridge University
1989, 1991 Garnish
Fellowship
1992 Gold Medal, National Sculpture Society
1993 Senior Vice President, National Sculpture
Society
1995 Ellin Meter Prize, National Academy of Design
1996, 1997 Prize,
National Sculpture Society Annual Exhibitions
1999 Artist in Residence, Trinity College, Cambridge
University
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College,
Oberlin, OH
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
Darien Public Library, Darien, CT
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC
Hutton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Slater Memorial Library, Norwich, CT
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Boston Public Library, MA
Worcester Museum of Art, MA
TEACHING
1960, 1974 Instructor through Professor, Smith College,
Northampton, MA
1974 - 2006 Andrew
W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Smith College, Northampton, MA
VISITING ARTIST
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Royal College of Art, London
Boston University, MA
Please click here to be notified of upcoming exhibitions, special events and gallery news.
|
