JUNE LEAF

 

Born:              1929, Chicago, IL

 

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

 

2004                Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland

Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Drawings: Past and Present”

2002                Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2001                Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

2000                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1997                Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, June Leaf: Mining Mabou

Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Paintings and Sculpture

1995                Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL,  June Leaf: Prints 1952-1990

Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

1991                Virginia Lust Gallery, New York, NY, Works on Paper, 1969-1970.

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C. "A Survey of Painting, Sculpture and Works on paper,1948-1991; 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

 

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

Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Aviary”

1999                Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina "Water"

1998                Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY "Body Double"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Galleryt Group Exhibition"

1997                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"

                        Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT "Making Music"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"

1996                Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL "Women Chicago Imagists" Rockford Art Museum,                                     Rockford, IL "Women Chicgo Imagists"

1996                Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada,"Small As A Way Of Working"

1995                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York,“September Gallery Group”

Bard College, New York, “Sniper’s Nest: Art that has lived with Lucy R. Lippard”

                        Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL, “Prodigal Daughter”

1994-95          Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Winter Gallery Group Exhibition”

1994                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,“Waterworks”

                        La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, “Deplacements”

1993                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Gallery Group Exhibition”

Art Gallery, Mt. St. Vincent Univ., Nova Scotia, Canada, “Terra Firma - Five Immigrant Artists”

1992                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"

                        Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, “Collector’s Choice - 1992”

1991                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"

1990                Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"          

1989                Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art",                         Travelled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Face-Off"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer"

1988                Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, "Fantasist Realists", Travelling to: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1987                Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Drawing: 1987"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY                    

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

                        49th Parallel, New York, NY, "The Idea of the North"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”

1986                Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group Exhibition”

1986                Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, "NYC: New Work"

                        Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1983                Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, "The Painterly Figure, Veteran Expressionist Figure                         Painters"Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982                Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN

1981                The Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, "Alternative

                        Realities in Contemporary American Painting"

1976                Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada

                        Kutztown State College, PA

1975                Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

                        Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY,

                        "Contemporary Drawings"

1974                Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI, "Drawings by Contemporary American Artists"

                        Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

                        The Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, "Works on Paper"

1973                Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, NY, "Voices of Alarm"

                        New York Cultural Center, "Women Choose Women"

1972                Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

                        Byron Gallery, New York

                        University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1970                Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Human Concern and Personal Torment"

                        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