Born 1929, Chicago, IL
Lives and works New York, NY/Nova Scotia, Canada
EDUCATION
Institute of Design, Art Education, M.A. 1954
Roosevelt University, Art Education, B.A. 1954
New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, 1947-8
AWARDS
Honorary Degree, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Hallifax, 1996
Alumni Award, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts in painting, 1989
Englehard Award, 1986
Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, DePaul University, 1984
Distinguished Artists Awards, Canadian Council, 1984
Canada Council Senior Grant, 1983-85
Lippincott Art Fabricators Sculpture Commission, 1978
Canada Council Grant for Painting, 1978
Fulbright Government Grant to Paris for painting, 1958-59
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011
"Recent Work," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"Recent Work," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2007
"Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
“Drawings: Past and Present,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
2000
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1997
"June Leaf: Mining Mabou," Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
"Recent Paintings and Sculpture," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1995
"June Leaf: Prints 1952-1990," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
"Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1991
"Works on Paper: 1969-1970," Virginia Lust Gallery, New York, NY
"A Survey of Painting, Sculpture and Works on paper,1948-1991," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., Travelled to Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
1983
North Dakota Museum of Art, North Forks, ND
1982
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada
1981
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978
Young -Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1976
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
1974
Madison Art Center, Madison WI
1973
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
1972
Gallery Bernard, Greenwich, CT
1970
Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1969
Reed College, Portland, OR
Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago
1968
Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1966
Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1951
Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
1948
Sam Bordelon Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
"Gallery Artists: A Survey," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2011
"Refocussing The Spotlight: 21 American Painters," (curated by Michael Walls) Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2009
"About Face", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Group Exhibition
2007
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery Group Exhibition
2006
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery Group Exhibition
2004
“The Anxious Image,” (curated by Jimmy Wright) The Painting Center, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery Group Exhibition
2003
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery Group Exhibition
2002
“Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
“VitalForms,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Aviary,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1999
"Water," Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
1998
"Body Double," Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"Making Music," Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1996
"Women Chicago Imagists," Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
"Women Chicago Imagists," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
"Small As A Way Of Working," Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick,
Canada
1995
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Sniper’s Nest: Art that has lived with Lucy R. Lippard,” Bard College, New York
“Prodigal Daughter,” Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
1994-95
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1994
“Waterworks,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Deplacements,” La Chambre Blanche, Quebec
1993
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Terra Firma - Five Immigrant Artists,”Art Gallery, Mt. St. Vincent Univ., Nova Scotia, Canada
1992
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Collector’s Choice - 1992,” Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1991
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1990
"Summer," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1989
"Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art," Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Face-Off," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"Summer," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1988
"Fantasist Realists," Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, Travelling to: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1987
"Drawing: 1987," Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"The Idea of the North," 49th Parallel, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
"NYC: New Work," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1983
"The Painterly Figure, Veteran Expressionist Figure Painters," Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982
Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
1981
"Alternative Realities in Contemporary American Painting," The Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN
1976
Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Kutztown State College, PA
1975
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
"Contemporary Drawings," Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1974
"Drawings by Contemporary American Artists," Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
"Works on Paper," The Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
1973
"Voices of Alarm," Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, NY
"Women Choose Women," New York Cultural Center
1972
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Byron Gallery, New York
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1970
"Human Concern and Personal Torment," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Galerie Rue du Dragon, Paris, France
1954
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1952
Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1951
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1950
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
1948
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL
The Singer Collection
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Marina City Bank, Chicago, IL
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv