ROBERT GORDY (AMERICAN, 1933-1986)

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• Lot Description
  Robert Gordy
  American, 1933-1986
  Still Life with Brick, 1971
  Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated lower right
  The brick in a field of small fruits and nuts, framed.
  
  Education:
  1956 M.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  1955 B.A., Lousiana State Univeristy, Baton Rouge, LA
  1953 Studied with Hans Hoffman
  
  Professional Experience:
  1965 Instructor, University of New Orleans, LA
  1963 Instructor, The Putney School, Putney, VT
  1962 Instructor, Sterling College, Sterling, KS
  1957 Instructor, University of Southern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
  
  Selected Awards:
  1978, 1967 Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts Purchase Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
  1973 Award Winner, "Artists Biennial," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  1971 Purchase award, "Artists of the Southeast and Texas Biennial," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  1971 Ford Foundation Fellowship
  1954 Yale-Norfolk Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  
  Selected Solo Exhibitions:
  1992, 1988, 1986, 1984 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  1987 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  1986 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  1986 Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
  1985-86 "Monotypes of Robert Gordy," University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (traveling exhibition)
  1985, 1979 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
  1984-85 "Prints and Paintings of Robert Gordy," New Orleans Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)
  1984 The Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
  1984 "Artworks '84," Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, LA
  1983 Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  1982-81 "Robert Gordy, Paintings and Drawings: 1960-1980," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  1982-81 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
  1982-81 Jacksonville Museum of Fine Arts, Jacksonville, FL
  1982-81 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
  1982-81 Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
  1982-81 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
  1979, 1977 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
  1976 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
  1975 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  1974, 1972 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
  1974 Pyramid Galleries, Washington, D.C.
  1973, 1971, 1969 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
  1973, 1971, 1969 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  1972 "Drawings and Prints," Glascow College of Arts, Scotland
  1970 Cranfill Gallery, Dallas, TX
  1968 Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, TX
  1968, 1967 Glade Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  
  Selected Group Exhibitions:
  1986 "Artist/Printmaker," The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  1985 "The Exhibition at 112 Greene Street," Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY
  1984 "Monotypes," The Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY
  "The Art of New Orleans," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
  1983 "The Human Figure," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
  "New Decorative Art," The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA and The University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
  "Southern Fiction," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
  "The American Artist as Printmaker: 23rd National Print Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  1980 "Image into Pattern," P.S.1 Gallery, New York, NY
  "American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real, The Ideal, The Fantastic-Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
  "The Figurative Tradition: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  "American Figure Painting: 1950-1980," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
  "American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  "Louisiana Major Works," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by Linda L. Cathcart, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
  1978 "21st National Print Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  "The 1970's: New American Painting," The New Museum, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
  1975 "Art USA: The South," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (traveling exhibition)
  1973 "Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  "Divergent Representation: Five Contemporary Artists," National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
  "Extraordinary Realities," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  1968 "14 Artists, Award Winners in the Southeast and Southwest Regions Selected by the National Endowment for the Arts," Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
  "New Acquisitions," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  1967 "Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  
  Selected Collections:
  Alexandria Museum and Visual Art Center, Alexandria, LA
  American Express Corp, New York, NA
  Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Dallas Museum, Dallas, TX
  Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
  Gibber Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
  National Collection of Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
  Oklahoma Fine Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  Stretcher: 28 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (72.4 x 75.6 cm.)
  The Artist,
  Ex Iowa Wesleyan University collection;
  Bequeathed by the Alden Lowell Doud Estate, Washington D.C.
  
  Alden Lowell Doud (American, 1935-1912) of Iowa City, formerly of Douds, was a former First Lieutenant and Captain of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corp. After serving in the military, he joined the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. State Department in 1967 where he became the first Assistant Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs. He authored the first drafts of several important environmental treaties including the World Heritage Convention. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation in the negotiations forming the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (INTELSAT).
  
  In 1973, Mr. Doud joined the World Bank Legal Department as its principal administrative attorney and rose to the title of Chief Counsel until his retirement in 1996. Post retirement,
  he studied at the Courtlaud Institute of Art in London and continued art studies at Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
  
  He moved to Iowa City in 1998 and served as Chairman of Board of Trustees of Iowa Wesleyan until 2005 when he received an honorary degree Ll. D. and was made Chairman Emeritus. He was a member of University of Iowa President's Club, the Members Council of the University Museum of Art, the Harvard Club of New York City, and other arts related organizations.

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