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Exhibitions & Awards


1947    Solo show - Silbersher's Art Gallery, Milburn, NJ
           Solo show - Paper Mill Playhouse Art Gallery, Milburn, NJ

1948    2nd Award - "Stone Quarry" - National Arts Club, New York, NY

1950    Elisha Boudinot Keith Memorial Award - "Attic Room" - National Arts Club
           B. Agnes Noyes Award for Best Oil Painting - 20th Annual NJ Exhibit - Montclair Art Museum

1952    Joint show with Bessie Slade DeFeo

1954    Honorable Mention - Annual Exhibition of American Oil Painting - National Arts Club

1955    Fifty American Artists Show - Arthur Newton Galleries, E. 57th St., New York, NY

1956    Fifty American Artists Show - Arthur Newton Galleries, E. 57th St., New York, NY

1957    1st Honorable Mention - Thumb Box Exhibition - Salmagundi Club

1958    Antoinette Scudder Memorial Award - Annual NJ State Art Show - Art Center of the Oranges
           Solo show - Lambertville House - Lambertville, NJ
           Solo show - Art Club of St. Petersburg, FL
           2nd Award - Annual NJ State Exhibit - Hunterdon County Art Center

1959    Solo show - Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

1960    Del Vecchio Prize for Best Small Oil - "Abandoned Shed" - Phillips Mill - New Hope, PA
           2nd Award - Hunterdon County Art Center
           135th Annual Exhibition - National Academy of Design

1961    Solo show - Swain's Art Store and Gallery - New Hope, PA
           2nd Award - Annual NJ State Show - Art Center of the Oranges
           2nd Award - Festival of Fine Arts - Monmouth College

1964    New Hope Historical Society Exhibition of Professional Painters & Schulptors - New Hope, PA
           2nd Patron's Prize - "Barn Siding" - Phillips Mill

1965    Mr. & Mrs. John Richardson Prize - "Sentinel Beyond the Wall" - Phillips Mill
           "Canal Gear" - purchase by Newark Museum for permanent collection
           "Sentinals Beyond the Wall" - Neward Museum "Selected Work of Contemporary NJ Artists"
           2nd Prize - "Seed Loft" - 7th Annual Exhibit of the American Assoc. of University Women
           Solo show - Spook Farm Gallery - Far Hills, NJ
           "Painters of the NJ Scene 1865-1965" show - Argus Gallery - Madison, NJ
           Eastern States Art Exhibition - Springfield, MA
           Joint exhibit with Barbara Kes Farnham - Lambertville House

1967    Contemorary Americans - Seton Hall University - South Orange, NJ

1968    Purchase Award - Newark Museum
           Solo show - Little York Mill Gallery - Little York, NJ

1972    Top Award - American Artist Professional League, Annual State Exhibit, NJ
           Group show - "Contemporary NJ Masters" - Heritage Arts Gallery

1975    Solo show "Architectual Patterns" - Gallery 9 - Chatham, NJ

1977    Solow show - Benedict Gallery - Madison, NJ

1979-1980    Awarded Fellowship by NJ State Counsel on the Arts

1981    1st Place - Summit Art Center

1988    Silver Anniversary Award - Clinton Historical Museum
           Franklin T McClintock Memorial Award - Phillips Mill

1993    Arthur J. Ricker Award - Phillips Mill

2005    "Honorable Artist" - 76th Annual Fall Exhibit - Phillips Mill

Other awards include:
           Top Award - Artist Looks at Hunterdon County Exhibit
           1st Prize - 3rd Annual Plainfield Outdoor Arts Festival
           Silver Medal - "Hayloft" - NJ Tercentenary Art Exhibition

Other exhibitions include:
           Solo show - Summerset Art Assosiation
           New Jersey State Museum
           Smithsonian Institution
           Philadelphia Art Alliance
           Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Art Museum, London, Ontario
           Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario