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CHARLES CAJORI  (1921-2013)
Born 1921, Palo Alto, California. Studied Colorado Springs Art Center 1939, Cleveland Art School 1940-42, Columbia University 1946-48, Skowhegan 1947, 1948 (summers). Died 2013, Watertown, Connecticut.


SELECTED  SOLO  EXHIBITIONS
2015 David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
2012 David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT (with Tom Doyle)
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 
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
1990 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 
1988 New York Studio School, New York, NY
American University, Washington, DC
1985 Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
1981 Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT 
1977 American University, Washington, DC
1976 Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH
University of Texas, Austin, TX 
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
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY  (Founder, 1952)
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
2018 "Presence: Encounters with the Figure," Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT 
"Richard McD Miller and his Circle," Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley Island, SC 
2017 "Inventing Downtown," Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
2013 "About Abstraction," David Findlay Jr. New York, NY
2007 "Abstraction," David Findlay Jr., New York, NY
2006 "The Figure in American Painting," 1985-2006" Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME 
"Invitational Exhibition" American Academy of Arts and Letters,  New York, NY 
2007-1983  Annuals, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2005 "Continuous Mark," New York Studio School, New York, NY
2004 "Transforming the Page," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"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 and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
"Artist's Eye, " Jane Freilicher Curator, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
New Arts Gallery, Two Person Show with Barbara Grossman, Litchfield, CT
"Founding Five," David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY
"Decade of American Figurative Drawing," Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2001 "Invitational Exhibition"  American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
2000 "Figurative Painting Now," 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
"Jane Piper and Her Circle," State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 
"Figuration: Two Views," with Barbara Grossman. Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1999 "Approaching the Figure," Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1998 "Aspects of Representation," Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
"Contemporary Selections," Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
1996 "Connecticut Artists Collection," Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT 
1995 "Drawing Invitational," Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1992 Connecticut Artists Collection, CCSU, New Britain, CT
Andrews Gallery: College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA 
1991 "Invitational," Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
"Biennial '91," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1990 "Connecticut Now," New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1989-90  "American Collection," National Academy of Design, New York, NY (Tour) 
1989 "Quest," New York Studio School, New York, NY
1987 "Drawing Invitational," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 
1986 "Works of the Figure," Allegheny College, PA
1984 Artist's Choice Museum, New York, NY
"American Drawings," New York Studio School, New York, NY
1983 "Connecticut Painters, 7+7+7," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
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, IA
"Contemporary Figure Drawing," Glassboro State, NJ 
1970 "Three Artists," Loeb Center, New York,. NY
"Invitational Exhibition" American Academy  of Arts and Letters, NY 
1969 "Five Figurative Painters," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
"Drawings of the Sixties," New School for Social Research, New York, NY 
"Artists Abroad," Graham Gallery, New York, NY (Tour)
"Invitational Exhibition" American Academy  of Arts and Letters,  NY  
1968 "Humanist Tradition," New School for Social Research, New York, NY 
"Painting," University of Texas, Austin, TX
1967 "20th Century Painting," Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"New York Artists," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
"Ten Drawings by Ten Artists," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 
"American Drawings," University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1966 "Drawings &," University of Texas, Austin, TX
1965 "Decade of American Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 
1964 "67th American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago
"Some Paintings to Consider," Santa Barbara, CA
1963 "28th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1962 "American Abstract Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY (Tour)
"The Figure," Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
"57th Whitney Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Humanities of the 60's - Man in Modern Sculpture, Drawing & Painting," The New School, NY
1961 "International Selection," Dayton," Art Museum, Dayton, OH
1959-60  "100 Works on Paper," Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA (Tour)
1959 Corcoran Biennial, Washington, DC
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, CT
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
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
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 Jimmy Ernst Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2006 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Purchase Prize
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2000 Benjamin Altman Figure Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
(also received in 1995, 1987, 1983)
1985 Ralph Fabri Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
1984 Ranger Fund Purchase Award
1982 National Academy of Design, Member
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1980 Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
(also received in 1976, 1975)
1979 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1970 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award
1962 Longview Foundation Purchase Award, Yale University, CT
1958 Distinction in Arts, Yale University
1952-53 Fulbright Grant to Italy

SELECTED TEACHING
New York Studio School, New York, 1964-2006
Studio School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece, 1986 summer
Queens College - CUNY, Queens, New York, 1965-1986
Cooper Union, New York, 1956-1966
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

SELECTED 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