WILLIAM ANTHONY (1934 -2022)

Was born in fort Monmounth, New Jersey and grew up in Washington State.

Anthony studied art briefly with Josef Albers at Yale, where he recived a B.A. degree in European History in 1958. He also studied with Theodoros Stamos at the Art Students League in New York City.

Other studies in San Francisco.

SELECTED ONE- PERSON EXHIBITION 

2022  Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik,Iceland

2018  Stalke POP UP

2015  Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne

2015  Art Cologne, Thomas Rehbein Galerie  in Collaboration with Stalke Galleri

2013  Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2012  Christopher Henry Gallery, New York

2011  Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik

2010  Christopher Henry Gallery, New York

2010  Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2009  Christopher Henry Gallery, New York

2007  Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2007  Christopher Henry Gallery (Retrospective), New York

2006  Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik

2004  Dorfman Projects Gallery, New York

2004  Stalke Galleri (Retrospective), Copenhagen

2003  Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2003  Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2003  Kambur Galleri, Hella, Iceland

2002  Dorfman Projects Gallery, New York

2000  Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1999  Cokkie Snoei Galerie, Rotterdam

1999  Hallway Gallery, London

1998  Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1995  Cokkie Snoei Galerie, Rotterdam

1994  Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago

1993  Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

1992  Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

1991  Berland-Hall Gallery, New York

1991  Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey

1989  Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey

1986  Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York

1985  Herlin Gallery, New York

1981  Frank Marino Gallery, New York

1978  Razor Gallery, New York

1975  Konstalongen Kavaletten, Uppsala

1973  Fischbach Gallery, New York

1971  Westbeth Gallery, New York

1963  Hacker Gallery, New York

1962  California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

SELECTED GROUPSHOWS

2023  Forty Years of The Corridor, Museum, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik

2021  DEVIANT DRAFTSMANSHIP, Stalke Galleri. Denmark

2018  Thomas Rehbein, Cologne

2017  Stalke POP UP, Copenhagen

2015  MESSING WITH MoMA,  Museum of Modern Art, NY

2015  EMBRACING MODERNISM,  Morgan Library and Museum, NY

2011 ARTSTAMP.DK Kunsthal Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark

         ON VIEW, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2010 RECLINING NUDES, Geoffery Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

         ON PAPER, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

2009 IT´S BLACK, IT´S WHITE, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

2008 Kambi Gallery, Selfoss, Iceland

          5 Amerikanske kunstnere, Skovbo Kunstforening, Ringsted, Denmark

2007 THE FIRST THIRTEEN YEARS, SMART ART PRESS, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica

          Stalke Up North, Copenhagen

          Gallery Sonne, Copenhagen

          MAGE OF WAR,  Rumiantsev Palace Museum, St. Petersburg

2006 Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles

          POSTERS, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

          NEO-SINCERITY, Apex Art, New York

2005 RADICAL VAUDEVILLE, Geoffery Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusettes

          HUMOR/COMICS, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland

2004 Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

2003 Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

          SUMMER LOST, Geoffreay Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusettes

          Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2002 Galleri Kirke Sonnerup, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark

          Anthony, Larsen and Rössell, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen

2001 Dorfman Gallery, New York

          AUGUST CONFESSIONS,Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusettes

2000 Hallway Gallery, London

          Matthew Marks Gallery, NY

          ANTHONY, ROGGEBAND, ROTHUTZEN, Gallerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague

          Acava Gallery,  London

          ANP CITY PROJECT, Galerie S. &H. deBuck, Ghent

1999 Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

          STICKER SHOCK, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

          Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998 PAPER VIEW, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusettes

          Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Los Angeles

1997 Pat Hearn Gallery,  NY

          Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdaam

          ANGELUS NOVUS, Gallery Oz, Paris

          NOTABLE NOTES, DRAWING BY WRITERS AND COMPOSERS, Joseph Helman Gallery, NY

          SEX/INDUSTRY, Stefan Stux Gallery, NY

1996 Stelling Gallery, Leyden

          WILLIAM ANTHONY, CHRISTOPHE VIGOUROUX, UWE KIRSCH, Gallery ON, Cologne

          WILD VLESS/PROUD FLESH, DE Vishal, Harlem, The Netherlands

1995 WHAT,S MY LINE? Horodner-Romley Gallery, NY

          Brook Alexander Gallery, NY

1994 Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

          SOLILOQUIES, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massaschusetts

          SINGLE-CELL CREATURES, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY

          South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

          Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1993 Castelli Gallery, NY

          POP ART: THEN AND NOW, ROY G. Biv Gallery, Palm Spring California

          RETURN OF THE CADAVRE EXQUIS, The Drawing Center NY

1992 REVOLUTION, Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

          Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

1991  BOOK ARTS, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton , NY

1990 BRUT 90, White Columns, NY

          FIGURE VIII, Jagendorf-Bacche Gallery, NY

1989 DRAWINGS, Lorence-Monk Gallery, NY

1987 MICRO STRESS, Now Gallery, NY

1985 S.M.S. Magazine published by William Copley, New Museum, NY

1984 WORKS ON PAPER, Herlin Gallery, NY

1982 PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE BY CANDIDATES FOR ART AWARDS, American Academy and

          Institute of Arts and Letters, NY (Curated by Jasper Johns)

          WATER, Frank Marino Gallery, NY

1977 DRAWINGS OF THE 70s, Art Institute of Chicargo

1972 Fischbach Gallery, NY

1963 Drawing: USA.:63, Saint Paul Art Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota

1962 2 5TH ANNUAL DRAWING, PRINT AND SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, San Francisco

         Museum of Modern Aert

         GORKY, DeKOONING, MALLARY AND OTHERS, Allan Stone Gallery, NY

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Museum,

    University of California, Berkeley

Brooklyn Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Corcoran  Museum of Art

    Washington DC

Denver Art Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Morgan Library and Museum, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, NY

National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik

National Gallery, Prague

National Museum of Art, Oslo

Newark Museum

Seattle  Art Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum,

    Washington DC

Tacoma Art Museum

Taubman Museum of Art

    Roanoke, Virginia

Utah Museum of Fine Art,

    Salt Lake City

Upplands Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Worcester Art Museum

Yale University Art Museum

SELECTED  CRITICISM

Alexander Fried,  San Francisco Examiner,  July  8  1962

James H. Beck,  Art News,  NY,  May 1963

Gregory Battcock,  Art and Artists,  NY,  Nov. 1971                                                                       

Peter Frank,  Art  News,  NY,  Mar. 1973

Marjorie Welish,   Art in America,  NY,  Nov.-Dec.  1978

Joseph Masheck,  Artforum,  NY,  May  1981

Ron Kolm,  Cover,  NY,  Summer  1988

Kynaston McShine,  Editor,  Catalogue  ANDY WARHOL  A

Carl Little,  Art New England,  Boston,  Dec. 1988

RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art,  NY,  1989

Barry Schwabsky,  Arts,  NY,  Jan.  1992

Cathy Curtis,  Los Angeles Times,   June 25  1992

Saskia Monshouwer,  Vernissage,  Amsterdam,  June-July  1996

Robert Rosenblum,  ON MODERN AMERICAN ART,  Abrams, NY,  1999

Joost Pollman,  de Volkskrant,  Rotterdam,  May 3  2001

Jim Nelson, Gentlemen’s  Quarterly,  NY,  Feb.  2001

Ken Johnson,  New York Times,  Oct. 11  2002

Ragna Sigurdardottir,  Morgunbladid,, Reykjavik,  May 29  2003

Trine Ross,  Politiken,  Copenhagen,  Aug. 20  2004

Robert Rosenblum,  Art News,  NY,  Sept.  2004

David Carrier,  artUS,  Los Angeles,  Winter  2007

Roberta Smith,  New York Times,  Jan. 11  2008

Sebastian  Quidenbaum, Copenhagen, 2010

Dan Tarnowski,  The Brooklyn  Rail,  NY,  Apr. 2012

Catalogue, Warhol Retrospective, MoMA, NY, 1989

BOOKS BY WILLIAM ANTHONY

A NEW APPROACH TO FIGURE DRAWING, Crown, NY, 1965

    Odhams, London, 1967; Bonanza, NY, 1967

BIBLE STORIES, The Jargon Society, Wiston-Salem, North Carolina, 1978

BILL ANTHONY´S GREATEST HITS,  Forward by Robert Rosenblum

   The Jargon Society, Wiston-Salem, North Carolina 1988

WAR IS SWELL: A Kids Idiotic Vision of WWll

   Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California, 2000

IRONIC ICONS  Published by Sam Jedig, Copenhagen, 2013

DEVIANT DRAFTSMANSHIP 2021

Anthony´s drawings have been commissioned for ARTFORUM, The reading Rooms and Andy Warhol for his magazine interview

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