1923 Born Kansas City, Missouri.
1943 - 1945 Services as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps.
1948 - 1952 Attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
1948 - 1952 Under th
1923 Born Kansas City, Missouri.
1943 - 1945 Services as a medical corpsman in the US Naval Air Corps.
1948 - 1952 Attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
1948 - 1952 Under the G.I. Bill, attends the Art Students League in New York, studies with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor.
1953 Discovers Jung's Psychology and Alchemy and the I Ching Book of Changes. Travels to Europe, to England, Italy, Spain and France. After a long stay in Taormina, begins to live and work in Paris.
1955 Returns to New York. From then on, shares his time between New York and Paris.
1956 John I. H. Baur buys Divining Rod for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
1956 Peggy Guggenheim buys Osage from his exhibition at the Galerie Stadler in Paris.
1959 - 1960 Obtains a cold-water flat on East 12th Street in New York. Initiates titling his canvases Phenomena, followed by a key phrase or word, and begins to work in acrylic. Studies the writings of Kant and Goethe.
1963 Acquires his Broadway loft from Willem de Kooning where he works until December 2000.
1964 Filming of The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work, produced by Martha Jackson in New York. Works with Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai in Osaka, and travels in Japan visiting Ise. Works for several months in New Delhi.
1966 Travels to Russia and sees the icons of Andreiev Roublev in Zagorsk. The Ivory Knife is shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and receives the Golden Eagle Award in Venice.
1967 Awarded the silver medal in painting during the 30th Biennial of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His play, Strike the Puma, is produced Off-Broadway in New York.
1968 Makes a series of unique glass sculptures in Venice with Egidio Costantini.
1971 Sculpts a two-ton piece of French limestone at the Sculptors' Symposium at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.
1973 Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in New York publishes a monograph on his work, with text by Albert E. Elsen.
1977 Begins to work for several months in the Caribbean.
1979 During a long stay in the Caribbean, evidence of impasto begins to appear in the paintings.
1980 Begins construction of his sculpture Meditation Mandala in New Mexico. Named Officer of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France.
1982 Receives the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped [Very Special Arts].
1983 Named Commander of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France. Anatomy of a Cloud is published by Harry N. Abrams in New York
1986 Travels in Japan, visits Okayama to see the works of Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
1987 The Paris Opera presents his dance-drama, Shaman to the Prism Seen, with his painted decors.
1988 Travels to China to paint a decor for a performance at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for "The Return of Marco Polo, and a series of banners for the Great Wall.
1991 Travels to Japan to attend the 10th anniversary of Tadashi Suzuki's theatre festival in Toga, and to Mito.
1994 His sculpture, Meditation Mandala Sundial is installed in the Hofstra Museum Sculpture Garden.
1996 Receives an honorary doctorate in humanities from Hofstra University.
1997 Elected to the National Academy, New York. Receives the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, together with the medal of the City of Paris.
1998 Elected an honorary member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.
2000 Receives the Benjamin Clinedinst Medal from the Artists' Fellowship in New York.
2001 Travels to Kyoto.
Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Musee Picasso, Antibes, France
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Dunkirk, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Fonds National de l'Art Contemporain du Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, France
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germay
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany
Mead Art Museum, Amherst
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
University of Texas Art Museum, Huntingdon Art Gallery, Austin
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
The Duke University Museum of Art, Durham
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The J B Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York University Art Collection, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
Stanford University Museum, Stanford
The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute
University of Arizona Museum of Fine Arts, Tucson
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
National Gallery, Washington DC
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Water and Color. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.
2005 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille; Galleria Open Art, Prato; Redfern Gallery, London; Abbaye de Silvacane, La Roque d'Anthéron; Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
2004 Museo Civico, Assessorato alla Cultura di Pizzighettone.
2003 Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida; Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte; Redfern Gallery, London.
2001 Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bouvet-Ladubay, Saumur.
2000 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida [retrospective, collages].
1999 Hofstra Museum, Hempstead; Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York; Galerie Wild, Frankfurt; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris.
1997 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Galerie Georges Fall, Paris; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
1994 Gallery Art Point, Tokyo. Inauguration of L'Eau et la Couleur, watercolor traveling exhibition in France; La Maison Française, New York University [collages: Homage to Jean-Louis Barrault], New York.
1992 Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich; Atelier Franck Bordas, Basel Art Fair and Paris; Associated American Artists, New York; Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos.
1990 Castello Doria, Portovenere; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris; Gallery Art Point, Tokyo.
1988 Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York [collages]; Galerie Régis Dorval, Le Touquet; Gana Gallery, Seoul; Galleria La Loggia, Bologna.
1986 Gimpel Fils, London; MR Galleria d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome; Galerie Michel Delorme, Paris; Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich; Gallery Art Point, Tokyo; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown [collages]; Focus Gallery, Lausanne; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Sante Fe and Scottsdale; Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.
1984 Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Dunkirk [collages]
1981 Palm Springs Desert Museum [retrospective], Palm Springs; I. Irving Feldman Galleries, Sarasota; Belk Art Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee; Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale; Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; French Cultural Services [collages: Homage to Jean-Louis Barrault], New York; Maison Internationale du Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris [collages]; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.
1978 Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe; Balcon des Arts, Paris; Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle.
1976 Samuel Stein Gallery, Chicago; Basel Art Fair, Basel; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1974 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi [retrospective], Charleroi. Baukunst, Cologne; Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio; Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale.
1972 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco [retrospective]; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London; Abrams Original Editions, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [inauguration of traveling watercolor exhibition].
1968 Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris; Gallery Moos, Ltd., Toronto; Galerie Raber, Lucerne; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
1964 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo; Court Gallery, Copenhagen; Kumar Gallery, New Delhi; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover [retrospective].
1962 Galerie Lienhard, Zurich; Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris; Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles; Galleria Toninelli, Milan; Galleria Odyssia, Rome; Kunstverein, Cologne.
1959 Galerie Stadler, Paris.
1956 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
1954 Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris; Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfort on the Main.
Literature
2003 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s, An Illustrated Survey. Edited by Marika Herskovic, New York School Press, New York/New Jersey.
2002 The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. Rizzoli International Publications, New York.
2002 Amerikanische Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Pinakothek der Moderne, Corinna Thierolf. Bayerischen Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich.
1994 Water and Color, text by Frank Anderson Trapp. PACA.
1983 Anatomy of a Cloud, Paul Jenkins and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1973 Paul Jenkins, monograph by Albert E. Elsen. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
1971 Paul Jenkins, by Gerald Nordland, acknowledgments by Philippe de Montebello. Universe Books, New York, in cooperation with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
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