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Conrad Marca-Relli

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Conrad Marca-Relli
Born June 5, 1913(1913-06-05)
Boston, MA
Died August 29, 2000 (aged 87)
Parma, Italy
Nationality American
Field Painting
Movement Abstract expressionism

Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline Conrad Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.

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[edit] Biography

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. When he was thirteen, Marca-Relli and his parents moved to New York. In 1930 he studied at the Cooper Union for a year. He later supported himself by working for the Works Progress Administration, first as a teacher and then with mural painting divisions of the Federal Art Project during this period he won the Logan Medal of the arts. Conrad Marca-Relli served in the US Army military service during World War II (1941-1945).

After the war Marca-Relli joined the "Downtown Group"[1] which represented group of artists who found studios in lower Manhattan in the area bounded by 8th and 12th street between First and Sixth Avenues during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he was actively involved in the avant-garde art world in Greenwich Village. These artists were called the "Downtown Group" as opposed to the "Uptown Group" established during the war at The Art of This Century Gallery.

In 1949 Conrad Marca-Relli was among the founders of the "Artists' Club"[2] located at 39 East 8th Street.

He was chosen by his fellow artists to show in the Ninth Street Show held on May 21-June 10, 1951[3]. The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished.

"The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions." [4]

Conrad Marca-Relli was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists included in the Ninth Street Show and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.

Marca-Relli's early cityscapes, still lifes, circus themes and architectural motifs are reminiscent of Italian surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico. The subdued palette and architectural starkness of these paintings create a sense of loneliness and emptiness typical of the surrealists.

Throughout his career Marca-Relli created monumental-scale collages. He combined oil painting and collage, employing intense colors, broken surfaces and expressionistic spattering. He also experimented with metal and vinyl materials. Over the years the collages developed an abstract simplicity, evidenced by black or somber colors and rectangular shapes isolated against a neutral backdrop.

Marca-Relli taught at Yale University from 1954 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1960, and at the University of California at Berkeley. His first one-man show was in New York City in 1948, and in 1967 the Whitney Museum of American Art gave him a retrospective show.

In 1953, he bought a house near Jackson Pollock’s home in Springs, East Hampton. As his career progressed, he increasingly distanced himself from the New York School.

He lived and worked in many countries around the world. In his final years, he lived in Parma, Italy with his wife, Anita Gibson, whom he married in 1951.

Conrad Marca-Relli died on August 29, 2000 in Parma.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Downtown Group
  2. ^ Artists' Club
  3. ^ 9th Street Show Poster
  4. ^ Bruce Altshuler, Avant-Garde In Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1944, Chapter 9, p.171

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Conrad Marca-Relli

[edit] Autobiographical commentary on the Abstract Expressionist era and subsequent years

  • "I remember when..." by Conrad Marca-Relli in Conrad Marca-Relli, Bruno Alfieri publisher 2008, ISBN 978-88-902804-2-9, an autobiography

[edit] Catalogs

[edit] External links

[edit] Books

[edit] One-man Exhibitions

  • 1947, New York, Niveau Gallery
  • 1948, Roma, Galleria Il Cortile
  • 1949, Roma, Galleria Il Cortile. New York, Niveau Gallery
  • 1951, New York, New Gallery
  • 1953, New York, Stable Gallery
  • 1955, New York, Stable Gallery
  • 1956, Los Angeles - Hollywood, Frank Perls Gallery. New York, Stable Gallery
  • 1957, Roma, Galleria La Tartaruga. Milano, Galleria del Naviglio
  • 1958, New York, Stable Gallery
  • 1959, New York, Kootz Gallery
  • 1960, New York, Kootz Gallery. Sharon (Connecticut), Playhouse Gallery
  • 1961, Düsseldorf, Galerie Schmela. San Francisco, Bolles Gallery. Boston, Joan Peterson Gallery. Lima, Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo. New York, Kootz Gallery
  • 1962, Paris, Galerie de France. New York, Kootz Gallery. Milano, Galleria del Naviglio.
  • 1963, Zürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard. Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery. New York, Kootz Gallery
  • 1964, New York, Kootz Gallery
  • 1965, Buenos Aires, Galería Bonino
  • 1967, Coral Gables (Florida), James David Gallery. Philadelphia, Makler Gallery. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art. Waltham (Massachusetts), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
  • 1968, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama. Boston, Alpha Gallery. Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • 1969, Seattle, Seattle Art Museum. Portland (Oregon), Reed College
  • 1970, New York, Marlborough Gallery. College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery. West Palm Beach (Florida), Norton Gallery and School of Art
  • 1971, Düsseldorf, Galerie Schmela. Fort Lauderdale (Florida), Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. Coral Gables (Florida), Lowe Art Museum University of Miami
  • 1972, Ibiza, Galería Carl Van der Voort
  • 1973, Madrid, Galería Ynguanzo. Auvernier (Neuchâtel), Galerie Numaga. Berlin, Galerie Bahlsen
  • 1974, Zürich, Marlborough Galerie. Philadelphia, Makler Gallery
  • 1975, Toronto, Marlborough-Goddard Gallery. Montréal, Marlborough-Goddard Gallery. New York, Marlborough Gallery. Ibiza, Galería Carl Van der Voort
  • 1977, Ibiza, Galería Lanzenberg. New York, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery
  • 1978, Barcelona, Galería Joan Prats. Fort Lauderdale (Florida), Carone Gallery
  • 1979, Fort Lauderdale (Florida), Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. New York, Marlborough Gallery. Fort Lauderdale (Florida), Carone Gallery
  • 1979-1980, Sarasota (Florida), The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
  • 1981, Chicago, Hokin Gallery
  • 1982, Washington D.C., Phoenix Gallery. Birmingham (Michigan), G.M.B. Gallery
  • 1983, New York, Alex Rosenberg Gallery
  • 1985, New York, Marisa del Re Gallery
  • 1986, Chicago, R.H. Love Gallery. New York, Marisa del Re Gallery
  • 1987, New York, Marisa del Re Gallery
  • 1989, New York, Marisa del Re Gallery
  • 1990, Parma, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli. Scottsdale (Arizona), Riva Yares Gallery
  • 1991, New York, Marisa del Re Gallery
  • 1996, New York, East Hampton, Vered Gallery
  • 1998, Venezia, Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim
  • 2000, Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe
  • 2002, Parma, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli
  • 2004, New York, Joan T. Washburn Gallery. Prato, Galleria Open Art
  • 2006, Brescia, Lagorio Arte Contemporanea
  • 2008, Milano, Rotonda della Besana

[edit] See also

[edit] Works in Museums and Public Collections

  • Allentown (Pennsylvania), James A. Michener Foundation
  • Allentown (Pennsylvania), Allentown Art Museum
  • Ann Arbor (Michigan), The University of Michigan Museum of Art
  • Atlanta (Georgia), High Museum of Art
  • Austin (Texas), Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
  • Barcellona, Museu d'Art Contemporani MACBA
  • Berkeley (California), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
  • Berlin, Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch
  • Bilbao, Guggenheim
  • Buffalo (New York), Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • Cambridge (Massachusetts), Fogg Art Museum
  • Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Art Museums
  • Chicago (Illinois), The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Columbia (Missouri), Museum of Art & Archaeology
  • Columbia (Missouri), University of Missouri-Columbia
  • Coral Gables (Florida), Lowe Art Museum
  • Denver (Colorado), Denver Art Museum
  • Detroit (Michigan), Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Fort Lauderdale,Museum Of Art Fort Lauderdale,FL
  • Hartford (Connecticut), Wadsworth Atheneum
  • Houston (Texas), The Museum of Fine Arts
  • Indianapolis (Indiana), Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • Lincoln (Nebraska), Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
  • Los Angeles (California), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Minneapolis (Minnesota), Walker Art Center
  • Minneapolis (Minnesota), Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • New Haven (Connecticut), Yale University Art Gallery
  • New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • New York, The Empire State Collection
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art
  • New York, Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank
  • Norman (Oklahoma), The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Carnegie Institute
  • Portland (Oregon), Portland Art Museum
  • Purchase (New York), Neuberger Museum of Art
  • San Francisco (California), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Sarasota (Florida), The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
  • Savannah (Georgia), Telfair Museum of Art
  • Seattle (Washington), Seattle Art Museum
  • St. Louis (Missouri), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
  • St. Paul (Minnesota), St. Paul Gallery of Art
  • Utica (New York), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
  • Venezia, Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim
  • Waltham (Massachusetts), Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
  • Washington, National Gallery of Art
  • Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Waterville (Maine), Colby College Museum of Art
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