John A. Urbain - Artist
Personal Information
Born in Brussels, Belgium, 1920
Lived in Detroit, MI, 1922-1941
U. S. Army, 1941-1945
Lived in Philadelphia, PA, 1947-1950
Lived in Paris, France, 1950-1952
Lived in New York, NY 1953-present
Education
Academie de la Grand Chaumier, Paris.
Academie Julien, Paris
Black Mountain College, NC: studied with professor Josef Albers
U.S. Army: Fort Custer Army Group
Cass Technical School, Detroit MI
Society of Arts of Crafts, Detroit, MI
Collections
Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
Detroit Museum of Art
Houston Art Museum
North Carolina Museum of Art
Kellogs
Galerie Pepe Rebollo
Albright Knox Museum
Mobil Oil
Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Miller Brewing Company
Also private collections in USA & abroad
Exhibitions
1952: Raymond Duncan, Paris, France
1965: Grippi Gallery, New York, NY
1967: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1968: Gotham Book Mart, New York, NY
1969: Peridot Gallery, New York, NY
1971: Adam Gallery, New York, NY
1971: Rizzoli Gallery, New York, NY
197T Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1978: Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1982: Impressions Gallery, New York, NY 1985: Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY 1986: Hudson Center Gallery, NY 1986: Rutgers University, NJ 1987 Albright Knox Museum, New York, NY 1988: Bard College, New York, NY 1988: Grey Gallery, New York, NY 1989, 90: Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI 1990: Albright Knox Museum, New York, NY 1991: Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY 1992: Station Gallery, Katonah, NY 1993, 94, 95: Sea Breeze Gallery, Block Island, RI
Published Poems
Voyages Magazine
Yankee Magazine
Hartford Courant
New York Quarterly
The Works Quartet
