Jean Joseph: Biography of Exhibitions and Awards

Jean Joseph
Charlottesville, VA

Second International Hallmark Art Awards
Opened Wildenstein Galleries N.Y. 1952
Subsequently traveled for two years to the following museums:
1. Baltimore Museum of Art
2. California Palace of the Legion of Honor
3. Carnegie Institute
4. The Cincinnati Art Museum
5. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
6. The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
7. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art
8. Portland Art Museum
9. Walker Art Center (1953-1955)
Allied Artists of America 1953 New York, N.Y.
Fire House Gallery, a tapestry 3 x 5 feet (needle point, Aubusson style)
Manhasset Library (solo) paintings and tapestries 1974
Large new gallery opens in Port Washington Library, 5 large tapestries, various sizes approx. 3 or 4 feet wide up to 4 or 5 feet high. (At the time Aubusson in France gave me a price list for possible editions, as each is a unique work). Slides and photos are included here.
Invitational, 2 artists exhibition 1977 Unitarian Universalists Society, Plandome, N.Y. 1977
Sculpture Prize, Lincoln House Annual, 1980
Honorable Mention, Sculpture, Port Washington Library 1981
Honorable Mention, Water Color, Sarasota Fla. 1982
Nassau County Museum of Art, Greenvale, N.Y. L.I. Artists 1983
Invitational, Solo exhibition, 19 works, Unitarian Society 1984
Awarded Multiple Showing, Top of the Eighties" competition, Hempstead Harbor Artists Association (hereafter listed as H.H.A.A.) 1986
Silver Award, Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) monotype 1986
Photograph, Canon National Photo Exhibition, Honorable Mention 1986
Silver Award monotype chosen to be exhibited NCMA 1987
Award for "Attic", oil, NCMA 1988
Innovative Drawing show (4 24" x 35" pencil drawings, N.Y. Tech) 1989
Invitational, 9 works "The Frame" H.H.A.A. 1990
"Space", (painting) Gala opening new "Discovery" Gallery 1992
Jurors' Merit Award, "Less is More" 1993
Traveling show miniature etchings, 1994
Elected WHO'S WHO of American Women, 1995
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1998
Paintings from the Piedmont, Charlottesville, VA, 1999
6th Annual Exhibition ARTSPACE April 2000, University of Virginia. (Sculpture)

Studied: Art Students League 1930-34, Kenneth Hayes Miller, whom I regard as my mentor, George Bridgeman, Thomas Hart Benton. First instruction, age 14, with Theresa Bernstein, represented in museums throughout U.S., including Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Have been in art-related study throughout my life: museum tours, U.S.A., France, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, conducted by Ellen B. Hirschland, art historian, lecturer, curator. Five autumn seminars, Oxford University, Archaeology, Shakespeare, Bodelian Library, Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites, Jon Whitely's two seminars of the latter, 1989 &1993.