ALFRED LESLIE BORN 1927, New York, NY EDUCATION 1947-49 Studied with Tony Smith and William Baziotes at New York University, New York, NY 1948 The Arts Students League, New York, NY SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION 2015 Alfred Leslie: Abstraction 1951-1962, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY 2015 Alfred Leslie: 10 Men, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Figure Drawings from 1976-1983, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2007 The Radical Theatre of Alfred Leslie, Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2005 Alfred Leslie: Expressing the Zeitgeist, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY Alfred Leslie: Prints from the Nineties, Pace Prints, New York, NY 1995 Hill Gallery, New York, NY Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Alfred Leslie: Selected Work 1950-1962, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY Pace Graphics, New York, NY Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 1991 The Killing Cycle, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO The Power of Form: Alfred Leslie s Art, 1951-1991, Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford, CT The Grisailles Paintings: 1962-67, The Flynn Gallery, New York, NY Alfred Leslie Drawings, The Flynn Gallery, New York, NY St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO 1989 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL 1988 The College Art Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL 1987 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL Krygier/Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Alfred Leslie: New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, AZ 1984 Worchester Museum of Fine Art, Worchester, MA Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH 1983 100 Views Along the Road, Oil Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Traveled to: Worcester Museum of Fine Art, Worcester, MA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 Alfred Leslie: New Paintings and Drawings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1978 Alfred Leslie New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Kilcawley Center Art Gallery, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 1976-77 Alfred Leslie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1975 Alfred Leslie: Paintings 1968-1975, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1971 Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY 1969 Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY 1962 Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL 1961 David Anderson Gallery, New York, NY Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY 1958 The Robert Keene Gallery, Southampton, NY 1957 The Robert Keene Gallery, Southampton, NY Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1954 Recent Work by Young Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1953 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1952 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Chamberlain, de Kooning, and Others, Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY 2011 Summer Selections: A Rotating Selection of The Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Beyond The Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945-1965, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY Mostly Black and White, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Abstraction, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Picturing the Modern Amazon, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1997 Collage and Assemblage, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 The Usual Suspects, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Abstract Expressionism, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Abstract Work from the 1950 s, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 American Realism: The Precise Image, originating at the Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Traveling) 1983 100 Views Along the Road: The Watercolors of Alfred Leslie, originating at the Oil and Steel Gallery, New York, NY (Traveling) 1981 An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1980 The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC American Portrait Drawings, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC American Drawings in Black and White, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY 1977 Nothing But Nudes, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Drawings of the 70 s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY A View of the Decade, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1976 XXXVII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 1973 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1971 Younger Abstract Expressionists of the 50 s,the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Leslie, Thiebaud, Pearlstein, The Hayden Gallery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1970 22 Realists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1968 In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O Hara, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1967 The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY 1965 American Collages, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum, NewYork, NY 1962 4 Amerikanare: Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1961 American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1960 Alfred Leslie and John Chamberlain, The Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Sixty American Painters, 1960: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the 50s, The Art Center in Minneapolis, MN V Bienal, São Paolo, Brazil Guggenheim International Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1959 16 Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1958 The Pittsburg International, The Museum of Art at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA Artists of the New York School: Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The International Art of a New Era, USA, Japan, Europe, Takashimaya Department Store, Oska, Japan Young Americans, Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 15 American Artists, Spoleto, Italy 1957 The Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Artists of the New York School: Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Fourth International Art Exhibition: Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1954 Recent Work by Young Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1953 Sculpture by Painters, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1951 9th Street Art Show, The 9th Street Gallery, New York, NY 1949 New Talent, The Koontz Gallery, New York, NY AWARDS 2010 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1994 The Award of Merit Medal for Painting for Lifetime Achievement, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1971 The Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship 1968 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Arthur, John, Robert Rosenblum, Alfred Leslie: exhibition Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Part 3, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976 De Groft, Aaron. Alfred Leslie: from abstraction to figure painting, 1945 to ca. 1975, University of South Carolina, 1991, Columbia, SC Flynn, Barbara. Alfred Leslie: the grisaille paintings, 1962-196, B. Flynn & R. Bellamy, 1991. P. 103, illustrated Stone, Allan. Alfred Leslie: 1951-1962: Expressing the Zeitgeist, The Allan Stone Gallery, 2005
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Neue Gallerie der Stadt Aachen, Aachen, Germany The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MI Museum de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Washington Art Consortium, Seattle, WA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY