99
North Main
Rochester, VT 05767
(802) 767-9670
CHARLES CAJORI
2338 Litchfield Road
Watertown, CT 06795
(860) 274-3795
CHARLES CAJORI Is represented by David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, NY
and Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Born 1921, Palo Alto, California. Studied Colorado Springs Art Center 1939, Cleveland Art
School 1940-42, Columbia University 1946-48, Skowhegan 1947, 1948 (summers).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (with Barbara Grossman)
2008 Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2007 David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
2005 David Findlay Jr. Gallery New York, NY
2004 Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2003 New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2002 Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2000 New York Studio School, New York, NY
1996 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1992 Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
1992 Lightner Gallery, Keuka College, NY
1988 New York Studio School, New York, NY
1988 American University, Washington, DC
1988 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
1985 Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1980 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
1977 American University, Washington, DC
1976 Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH
1976 University of Texas, Austin, TX
1976 Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Kirkland College, Clinton, NY
1969 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1964 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1963 Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY
1961 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1961 Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1960 Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1959 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1958 Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
1956 Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1955 Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Abstraction” David Findlay Jr., New York, NY
2006 “The Figure in American Painting 1985-2006” Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME.
2006 “David Findlay Jr. Salutes The National Academy Museum….” New York, NY
2006 “Twelve New York Painters,” David Findlay Jr., New York, NY
2006 Invitational Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2007-1983 Annuals, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2005 “About Paint” Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2005 “Continuous Mark” New York Studio School, New York, NY
2004 “Transforming the Page” National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2004 “Drawing Now” New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2003 “A Fine Line” National Academy of Design, New York City
2002 Abstraction to Representation, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2002 Artist’s Eye, Jane Freilicher Curator, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2002 Two Person Show with Barbara Grossman, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2002 “Founding Five” David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Decade of American Figurative Drawing” Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2001 American Academy of Arts and Letters. Invitational
2000 “Figurative Painting Now, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Jane Piper and Her Circle, State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2000 “Figuration : Two Views” Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1999 Artists/Mentors, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City
1999 “Approaching the Figure”, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1998 “Drawing Plus One”, New York Studio School, NY
1998 “Aspects of Representation”, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
1998 “Gallery Artists Choose Artists”, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Contemporary Selections, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
1996 Connecticut Artists Collection, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
1995 Artist Collection, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1995 10 x 10 Artists Selection, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1993 Drawing Invitational, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1992 Connecticut Artists Collection, CCSU, New Britain, CT
1991 “Invitational” Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Biennial ‘91, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1990 Faculty Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1990 “Connecticut Now,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1989-90 “ American Collection,” National Academy Museum, New York City and Tour
1989 “Quest” New York Studio School, New York, NY
1987 Selection of Moderns, Madison Gallery, Madison, CT
1987 “Drawing Invitational,” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1986 “Works of the Figure, Allegheny College, PA
1984 Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, NY
1984 American Drawings, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1983 “Connecticut Painters,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1982 “On Color,” Prince Street Gallery, New York< NY
1979 “Recent Acquisitions,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1978 “Six Draughtsmen,” Westminster College, PA
1977 “10th Street Days,” New York, NY and Tour
1974 “The Figure–8 Artists,” Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1971 “American Drawing–71,” Iowa State University
1971 Contemporary Figure Drawing, Glassboro State, NJ
1970 Three Artists, Loeb Center, New York, NY
1970 National Institute of Arts and Letters, NY “Invitational Exhibition”
1969 “Five Figurative Painters, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1969 Drawings of the Sixties, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1969 Artists Abroad, Graham Gallery, New York, NY and Tour
1969 National Institute of Arts and Letter, NY “Invitational Exhibition”
1968 Humanist Tradition, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1968 Painting, University of Texas, Austin,TX
1967 “20th Century Painting,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1967 “New York Artists,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1967 “Ten Drawings by Ten Artists,” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1967 American Drawings, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1967 “Protest and Hope,” New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1966 Weatherspoon Annual, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1966 “Drawings &,” University of Texas, Austin, TX
1965 Decade of American Drawings, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1964 67th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
1964 “Some Paintings to Consider,” Santa Barbara, CA
1962 “American Abstract Drawing,” Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY and Tour
1962 “The Figure,” Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
1962, 57 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1961, 57 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1961 International Selection, Dayton, Art Museum, Dayton, OH
1959-60 “100 Works on Paper,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston and Tour
1959 Corcoran Biennial, Washington, DC
1959 Watercolor Annual, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
1958 Festival of Two Worlds, Spoletto, Italy
1956 “Painters and Sculptors on 10th St.” Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1955 Vanguard, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1953-56 Artist’s Annuals, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1952 Three Person Show (Cajori, Morris, Slivka), Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American University, Washington, DC
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corporation, Ardsley, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Connecticut Artists Collection, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu, HI
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Lakeview Museum of Art and Sciences, Peoria, IL
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Mitchener Collection, Austin, TX
Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New York University, New York, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IL
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Wright State University, Dayton, OH\
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 Jimmy Ernst Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters.
2006 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Purchase Prize
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2000,1994, Benjamin Altman Figure Prize, National Academy Museum, New York
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1985 Ralph Fabri Prize, National Academy Museum, New York
1984 Ranger Fund Purchase Award
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1980,76,75 Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1979 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1970 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award
1962 Longview Foundation Purchase Award
1959 Distinction in Arts, Yale University
1952-53 Fulbright Grant to Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
New York Studio School, New York 1964-present
Studio School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 1986 summer
Queens College-CUNY, Queens, New York 1965-1986
Cooper Union, New York 1956-1965
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 1964 summer
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1964
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1961 summer
University of California, Berkeley, CA 1959-1960
Philadelphia Museum School, Philadelphia, PA 1956-1957
American University, Washington, DC 1955-1956
Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 1950-1956
VISITING CRITIC
American University, Washington, DC
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Boston University, Boston, MA
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Rider University, Exhibition Catalogue, Interview, Harry Naar
2007 The New York Sun, September, Review, John Goodrich
2006 “One Hundred New York Painters”, Cynthia Maris Dantzic. Shiffer Publishing
2006 Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. Wake Forest University, NC
2006 Art in America, January, Review, Jonathon Goodman
2005 www.artezine.com #12 Review, Robert Sievert
2005 Brooklyn Rail, June, Review, Benjamin La Rocco
2004 The New York Sun, Nov. 26-28. Review. Maureen Mullarkey
2003 Art New England, June - July, Article, Steve Starger
2000 New York Times, April 28, Review, Ken Johnson
2000 Review, May 1, ‘Review’, John Goodrich
2000 New York Observer, May 22, Review, Mario Naves
2000 New York Studio School Exhibition Catalogue, Martica Sawin
1998 Western Carolina University Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Godfrey
1996 Dartmouth College Exhibition Catalogue, Karen Wilkin
1992 New York Times, December 6, Review, Vivian Raynor
1992 Central Connecticut State University Exhibition Catalogue, Andrew Forge
1989-90 Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 2, Interview, Gary Lenhart
1989 Art in America, May, Review, Lawrence Campbell
1981 Arts, April, Review, Norman Turner
1980 New York Times, May 7, Review, Vivian Raynor
1979 The Drawing Society, November-December, “Teaching Drawing,” Gerald Monroe
1977 Art in America, “10th St. Days,” Interview with Lois Dodd and Cajori
1976 Arts, June, Review, Joseph Dreiss
1976 New York Times, May, Review, Hilton Kramer
1975 Arts, May, “Matisse Influence,” Larry Rosing
1975 Art in America, March-April, Review, Pat Mainardi
1974 Soho Weekly News, December 12, Review, John Gruen
1972 Kirkland College Exhibition Catalogue, Eli Friedensohn
1965 The Artist and the Nude, Ed. Mervin Levy, Clarkson N. Potter
1964 Studio International, May, Review, Dore Ashton
1963 Art International, July, Review, Dore Ashton
1963 Art News, March, “Cajori: Figure in the Scene,” Louis Finkelstein
1963 New York Post, March 21. Review, Irving Sandler
1963 Arts, May-June, Review, Donald Judd
1961 Scrap, March, “Cajori,” Louis Finkelstein
1961 Art International, May, Review, Irving Sandler
1958 Art News, April, Review, Fairfield Porter
1958 Arts, May, Review, A.V.
1956 Art News, March, Review, James Schuyler
1956 Arts, March, Review, James R. Mellow
1956 Art News, March, “Abstract Impressionism,” Louis Finkelstein
1955 Washington Times Herald, May 1, Review, Leslie Judd Portner
1954 New York Times, February 7, Review, Stuart Preston
1952 Art News, November, Review, B.G.
1952 New York Times, November 15, Stuart Preston