Larry Poons

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Chronology

 
Born: 1937 Tokyo, Japan
Lives: New York
2007
Instructor at Art Students League, New York
2006
Guest Lecturer, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2005
Featured in film documentary Who Gets to Call it Art produced by Peter Rosen.
2004
Artist Talk on Art Panel Series, Art Students League, New York
Larry Poons and the Course of Abstract Painting, Art in America hosted panel discussion with William C. Agee, Robert C. Morgan,& Karen Wilkin in conversation with Larry Poons, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Guest Lecturer, Winchester School, Hampshire, England
In Conversation with Tim Marlow, London, England
2001
Subject of film Larry Poons: His Endless Creativity, produced by Bill Page
2000
Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Guest Lecturer, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Johnstown, NY
Larry Poons in Dialogue with Jason Andrew, Artist Talk on Art Panel Series, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999
Subject of documentary film Larry Poons, produced by ART/New York
Subject of Larry Poons: on making art, Video-recording, produced by Paul Tschinkel,
Inner-Tube Video, New York, NY
1998
Panel discussion, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1994
Guest Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1993
Guest Lecturer, Union College, Schenectady, NY
1992
Guest Lecturer, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Juror, Ohio State Fair
Guest Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1989
Guest Lecturer, Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada
1988
Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award
Guest Lecturer, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
1985
In Conversation with R. H. Love, Chicago, IL
1984
Subject of film Painters Painting: A Contested History 1940-1970, produced by Emile di Antonio and Mitch Tuchman
Guest Lecturer, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1976
Guest Lecturer, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1971-72
Instructor, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1970
Subject of film with Frank Stella
1969
Visiting Faculty, New York Studio School, NY
1968
Instructor, Bennington College, Vermont
1966
Subject of film Manual of Arms, produced by Hollis Frampton
 

Education

 
1959
Studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
1955-57
Studied at the New England Conservatory of Music
 

Solo Exhibitions

 
2007
Danese, New York, NY
2005
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2002
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2001
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
2000
Galeria Metta, Madrid, Spain
Theo Waddington Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Perrella Gallery, Johnstown, NY
1998
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1997
Art in Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Larry Evans/James Willis and Fredrick Spatt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Claudia Carr Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1995
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1994
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1993
University of Miami, Miami, FL
1992
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1991
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Gallerias Afinsa-Lagasca and Afinsa-Almirante, Madrid, Spain
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
1990
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Salander-O'Reillly Galleries, New York, NY
1989
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France
1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1985
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1983
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1981
Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1980
Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Artline, The Hague, The Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1979
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Amerika Haus, Berlin, West Germany
Amerika Haus, Hannover, West Germany
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1978
Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbour Islands, FL
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
1977
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
Watson/de Nagy, Houston, TX
1976
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Daniel Templon, Paris, France
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
1975
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1974
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Galerie La Bertesca, Dusseldorf, West Germany
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1973
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
1972
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1971
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
Kasmin Ltd., London, United Kingdom
1970
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
1968
Kasmin Ltd., London, United Kingdom.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1967
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Green Gallery, New York, NY
1964
Green Gallery, New York, NY
1963
Green Gallery, New York, NY
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 
2007
Optic Nerve, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2006
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Annual Instructors Exhibition, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Merry Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Geometric Abstraction & Beyond, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Annual Instructors Exhibition, Art Students League of New York
2001
From Alf to Zox: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
The Clement Greenberg Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, WA
2000
Eye Candy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Three American Painters, Wingfield College Yard, England
1999
"5" new works by Judith Downtick, Bruce Dorman, Robert Natkin, Joel Perlman, and Larry Poons, Curated by J. Andrew, Axis Gallery, New York, NY
The 1960's, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY.
The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA.
Bad-Bad, That is a good excuse, Staaliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,
1998
Regatta 98, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Masterworks by Instructors of the Arts Students League, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997
Museum: Museum Modern, Kunst Stiftlong Lugwig Wien, Germany
Pay per it, Sideshow 195, Brooklyn, NY
1996
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Abstraction: Steiner, Poons, Olitski, Noland & a Selection of Sculpture, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY,
Color Field, The Classic Years: 1960-75, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Seven Painters, Nicholas Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1994
The Brushstroke and its Guises, New York Studio School, NY
1993
Gallery Selections, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1992
Stars in Florida, Museum of Art, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Slow Art, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Summer Pleasure, Helander Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Celebrating Formalism, C.S. Schulte Galleries, South Orange, NJ
1991
Group Show, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, William College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Gallery Selections, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York,
Inaugural Exhibition, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany
1990
Before the Field-Paintings from the Sixties, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY
Group:1990, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Group Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1989
Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long, Houston, TX
1988
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Marion and David Handleman, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Five Floridians, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1987
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
1986
Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Definitive Statements-American Art: 1964-66, David Winston Bell Gallery, The List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI; and Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
0-1+2, Galleria Chisel, Milan, Italy
Selected 20th Century Paintings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Abstraction by American Masters over 50, RH Love Modern, Chicago, IL
1985
Pre-Postmodern, The Richard F. Bush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Pop Art, Minimal Art: Artists in Residence in Aspen, Aspen Museum, CO
Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort-Worth, TX
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,IL
American Abstract Painting, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1984
Arte Contemporaneo Norte Americano, Coleccion David Mirvish, American Embassy, Madrid, Spain
An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, William Beadleston Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH; and, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1982
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Miró in America, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Oil and Steel Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1981
International Florida Artists, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
New Works in Clay III, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1980
Aspects of the 70's: Painterly Abstraction, Brockton Art Museum, MA
L'Amerique aux Independants, 91e Exposition, Société des Artistes, Paris, France
Paintings from the Andre Emmerich Gallery, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN
Art In Embassies, Collection of US Ambassador and Mrs. Warren Manshe, State Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Works on Paper, Allen Rubiner Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Contemporary Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
1979
Works on Paper, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; also shown at the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Color Abstraction: Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Display Area, Boston, MA
1978
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Fifteen Sculptors in Steel around Bennington, 1963-1978, Park McCullough House Association, North Bennington, VT
Major Paintings, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1977
Surface, Edge, and Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
Recent Works on Paper by American Artists, Madison Art Center, WI
1976
Today/Tomorrow, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
New Works in Clay by Contemporary painters and Sculptures, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; also shown at The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Artists at Bennington, Visual Arts Faculty 1932-1976, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1975
34th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1974
The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960 to 1970, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Contemporary American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Less is More: The Influence of Bauhaus on American Art, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
El Lenguaje del Color, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Select Works from the collection of Carter Burden, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1973
A Look at New York, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
1972
Abstract Paintings in the 70's: A Selection, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Masters of the 1960's, Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Color Field Painting to Post Color Field Abstraction, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Post 1945 Paintings, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Giant Paintings; Monuments and Murals,” Knoedler & Co., New York
1971
Collection of Graham Gund, New City Hall, Boston, MA
The Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Six Painters, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1970
Color and Field: 1890-1970, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY and the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1969
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
31st Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The George Waterman Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Development of Modern Painting: Jackson Pollock to the Present, Steinburg Art Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
One Tendency of Contemporary Art, Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
Painting in New York: 1944-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, CA
1968
The Art of the Real: 1948-68, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Plus by Minus: Today's Half-Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Documenta IV, Kassel, West Germany
Art Students League, Centennial Decade, 1968-1969, Art Students League, New York, NY
1967
30th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ten Years, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
The 1960's: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Two Decades of American Painting, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1966
Six Artists from New York, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Seven Decades of Modern Art, Public Education Association, Cordier-Ekstrom, New York, NY
Harry Abrams Family Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
68th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1965
Abstract Trompe l'Oeil, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Three Young Americans: Hinman, Poons, and Williams, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Young America 1965,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The United States of America, Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1964
American Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Classic Spirit, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
New York Group, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1963
Formalists, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
 

Selected Articles and Reviews

 
2007
“Larry Poons,” The New Yorker, March 19, 2007, p. 42.
Cohen, David, Larry Poons. The New York Sun, March 15, 2007.
Mac Adam, Alfred, Larry Poons. ARTNews, April 2007.
2006
Wilkin, Karen, The Music of Chance. Art in America. April 2006, pp. 132-135.
Halasz, Piri, “From the Mayor's Doorstep,” No. 65: January 15,2006.
Halasz, Piri, “From the Mayor's Doorstep,” No. 66: March 1, 2006.
2005
Zinsser, John, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2005.
2001
Stella, Frank. Mr. Natural (Larry Poons). Exhibition catalogue, Salander- O’Reilly Gallery, New York.
From linear clarity towards the painterly sublime: the development of Larry Poons. Exhibition catalog, Salander- O’Reilly Gallery, New York.
Wilkin, Karen. Life after Formalism, Art in America, November, pp. 110-115, 159.
2000
Stella, Frank. Mr. Natural (Larry Poons). Exhibition catalogue, Perrella Gallery.
1997
Ebony, David. (Review) Art in America, January, p. 95.
1996
Chambers, Karen. (Review) Art Resources, http://artresources.com, September 1996.
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review) Artforum, November 1996, pp. 96.
Smith, Roberta. (Review) The New York Times, August 9, section C23.
Wilkin, Karen. “At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Volume LXIII, Number 3. pp. 472-473.
Wilkin, Karen. “At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Number 4. pp. 638-639
1995
Review by David Pagel, "Larry Poons at Ruth Bachofner Gallery," Los Angeles Times, November 9,1995, pp. F4.
1994
Edelman, Robert G. (Review) Art in America, October 1994, p. 130.
Saltz, Jerry, "A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting," Art in America, October 1994, p. 88.
Wilkin, Karen, "Art: Color Painting of the 1960s, Dynamic Abstraction by Five American Masters" Architectural Digest, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 76, 80, 140.
1993
Review: Kohen, Helen. Miami Herald, October-November, 1993.
1992
Gardner, Paul. "Do Titles Really Matter?" Art News, February 1992 pp. 92-97.
Review: Eileen Watkins, Sunday Star Ledger, August 9, 1992 p. 4, 17.
1991
Rand, Archie. "Archaeogist: Larry Poons Reconsidered," Arts, vol. 65, no. 5, January 1991, pp. 50-53.
Serraler, Francisco Calvo, Buscando: Larry Poons, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Afinsa, Madrid, Spain.
1990
Cameron, Dan. "Before the Field: Paintings from the 60's," Daniel Newburgh Gallery," Flash Art, May 1-June 1990, pp. 154-5.
Dagen, Philippe. Review, Galerie Montaigne, "Poons le meconnu," Le Monde, January 1990.
Robbins, Daniel. Larry Poons: Creation of the Complex Surface, exhibition catalogue, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, March 1990.
Johnson, Ken. "Larry Poons at Salander-O'Reilly," Art in America, September 1990, p. 18.
Cyphers, Peggy. "Larry Poons at Salander-O'Reilly," Arts Magazine, September 1990, p. 99.
1989
Zinsser, John. "Larry Poons Interview," Journal of Contemporary Art, Fall/Winter 1989, pp. 28-38.
Zinsser, John. "Too Beautiful, The Rematerialazation of Painting," Arts Magazine, September 1989.
Wilken, Karen. "At the Galleries," Partisan Review, Vol. LVI, November 1989, pp. 133-141.
Criqui, Jean Pierre. De Picturae Consolatione, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Montaigne, December 1989.
1988
Barnett, Catherine. "Beyond Recognition," Art & Antiques, May 1988, pp. 56-61.
1987
Ahlander, Leslie. "Bay Harbor Galleries offer good new shows," The Miami News, February 13, 1987, p. 8C.
Shipp, Steve. "Post Painterly Abstraction and Spanish Artist Joaquin Sorolla." World Fine Art, April 30, 1987.
"Sculptural Paintings by Lawrence Poons," Antiques & The Arts Weekly, October 2, 1987, p. 87.
Wilken, Karen. "Art Triangle Barcelona," Update, fourth issue, pp. 14-16.
1986
Tillim, Sidney. "Abstraction Revisited," Art in America, April 1986, pp. 166-67 and discussed on p. 168.
Fenton, Terry. "Lawrence Poons' Nagra," Update, The Edmonton Art Gallery, March/April 1986, p. 17.
Definitive Statements - American Art: 1964-66, exhibition catalogue, Providence: Brown University, 1986, with an essay by Michael Plante, p. 140.
Rose Art Museum - Selected 20th Century Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Waltman, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1986.
Moffett, Kenworth. Moffett's Artletter, July 1986, p.1.
1985
Poons, exhibition catalogue, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, February 28 - March 23, 1985.
Glueck, Grace. Review, The New York Times, March 1, 1985, p. C24.
Upright, Diane. Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish, exhibition catalogue, The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1985.
Tatransky, Valentin. "Lawrence Poons," Arts, May 1985, p. 10.
O'Brien, Glenn. "Lawrence Poons," Artforum, Summer 1985, pp. 102-103.
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, exhibition catalogue. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, plate 104.
Moffett, Kenworth. "Abstraction Offers the Most Exciting New Possibilities," Art New England, September 1985, pp. 9, 21.
Link, John. Pre Postmodern Good in the Art of Our Time, exhibition catalogue. Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 1985; ill. in color p. 10.
McLaughlin, Ellen. Review, East Villager, April 15 - 30, 1985, p. 10.
1984
Arte Contemporaneo Norteamericano, Coleccion David Mirvish, exhibition catalogue, American Embassy in Madrid, Spain, January 1984, p. 46.
1983
Kuspit, Donald. "Larry poons," Artforum, May 1983, pp. 98-99.
Tatransky, Valentin. "The Art of Painting: Jules Olitski, Lawrence Poons and Darryl Hughto," Arts Magazine, May 1983, pp. 86-89.
Triangle Artists' Workshop Yearbook 1983, Mashomack Fish and Game Preserve, Pine Plains, NY, published by Dieter Blume.
1982
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982, p. 60.
Moffett, Kenworth. "Poons' Painting Procedure," Cover, Winter, 81/82, pp. 48-52.
Rand, Harry. "Recent Painting. A Rambling Contemplation," Arts Magazine, April 1982, pp. 106-109.
Allara, Pamela. "Larry Poons: Museum of Fine Art," Artnews, April 1982, p. 178.
Burstein, Joanne. "Painters and Sculptors as Ceramists," Artweek, February 27, 1982, p. 6.
Tatransky, Valentin. "Unities and Antipodes: Larry Poons and Robert Smithson," Arts, September 1982, p. 116-120.
Yau, John. "Lawrence Poons at Andre Emmerich," Art in America, October 1982, pp. 134-135.
1981
Radcliff, Carter. "The 'Art' of Chic," Saturday Review, April 1981, pp. 12-17.
Baro, Gene. "Larry Poons," Art International, August-September 1981, p. 118.
Selz, Peter. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History 1890-1980, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, p.460.
Fenton, Terry. Larry Poons, Update. November/December 1981, pp. 10-11.
Moffett, Kenworth. Larry Poons; Paintings 1971-1981, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1981.
The Oxford Companion to Twentienth-Century Art, edited by Harold Osborne, New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 442.
1980
Brenner, N. Review, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Pantheon, January 1980, p. 40.
Mays, John Bently. "Poons Gets Physical on Canvas," Globe & Mail (Toronto), June 13, 1980.
L'Amerique aux Independants, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 1980, pp. 37,103.
Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman. Aspects of the Seventies: Painterly Abstraction, exhibition catalogue, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, 2980; p. 12.
1979
Review, Knoedler, Flash Art/Heute Kunst, January-February 1979, p. 42.
Jarmusch, Ann. "Intermittent Touching," Art News, March 1979, pp. 129-130.
Kramer, Hilton. "Larry Poons," The New York Times, October 26, 1979, p. C20.
Monte, James. "Larry Poons: A Brief Review," Arts Magazine, December 1979, pp. 150-151.
Caaliere, Barbara. "Larry Poons, " Arts Magazine, December 1979, p. 23.
Review, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Arts Magazine, December 1979, p. 23.
Perrone, Jeff. Review, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Artforum, December 1979, pp. 76-77.
Clark, Garth and Hughto, Margie. A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978, New York: E.P. Dutton, in association with the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1979.
Fenton, Terry. Larry Poons: Gemalde, Berlin, West Germany, Amerika Haus, 1979.
Moffett, Kenworth. Color Abstractions: Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MA, 1979.
1978
Review, Knoedler, Arts Magazine, January 1978, p. 21.
Carpenter, Ken. "New Works in clay in the Edmonton Art Gallery," Arts Magazine, November/December 1977, pp. 40-43.
Review, Wuppertal Museum, Art and Artists, December 1977, p. 44.
Hudson, Andrew. Fifteen Sculptors in Steel around Bennington, 1963-1978, exhibition catalogue, Park-McCullough House Association, North Bennington, VT, 1978.
1977
Review, Wuppertal Museum, Art and Artists, December 1977, p44.
Review, Knoedler, Art News, January 1977, pp. 125-126.
Review, Knoedler, Arts Magazine, January 1977, p. 27.
Review, Antwerp Gallery, Anvers, Art International, March 1977, pp. 45-46.
1976
Review, Knoedler, Art News, January 1976, pp.121-122.
Johnson, Ellen H. "American Art of the Twentienth Century," in Apollo (the journal for the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College), February 1976, p. 132.
Review, Knoedler, Art in America, March 1976, pp. 107-108.
Review, Knoedler, Art International, April/May 1976, p. 49.
Francblin, Catherine. "Peinture gesturelle, peinture dense," Art Presse International, October 1976.
Artists at Bennington, Visual Arts Faculty 1932-1976, exhibition catalogue. The Suzanne Lemburg Usdan Gallery,Bennington Colledge, Bennington, VT, 1976.
1975
Henry, Gerritt. Review, Knoedler, Art News, January 1975, pp. 110, 112.
Review, Knoedler, Artforum, February 1975, pp. 64-65.
1974
Carmean, E. A. "Modernist Art 1960 to 1970," Studio International, July 1974, pp. 9-13.
Russell, John. The New York Times, November 9, 1974, p. 25.
Larry Poons: Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, 1974; text by Terry Fenton.
Carmean, E.A. The Great Decade: American Abstraction Modernist Art 1960-1970, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 1974, pp. 63-64.
Johnson, Ellen H. American Art of the Twentieth Century: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Apollo, February 1976, p. 132.
1973
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Artforum, January 1973, p. 82.
Elderfield, John. Painterliness redefined: Jules Olitski and recent abstract art," Art International, April 1973, pp. 36-41.
Review, Mirvish Gallery, Art International, Summer 1973, p. 43.
1972
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art International, January 1972, p. 68.
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art News, January 1972, p. 22.
Ratcliff, Carter. "Whitney Annual," Artforum, April 1971, pp. 28-32.
Review, The New York Times, April 30, 1972, p. 23B.
Elderfield, John. "Grids," Artforum, May 1972, p. 53.
Bowling, Frank. "Problems of criticism: I,II,III,IV,V,VI," Arts Magazine, May 1972, p. 34.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Larry Poons - A Sort of Soap Opera Career," The New York Times, October 15, 1972, p. 23B.
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art News, November 1972, p. 79.
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Arts Magazine, November 1972, p. 71.
1971
Henning, Edward. "Aquistion of Modern Art by Museums," Burlington Magazine, February 1971, pp. 118-119.
Denver, Bernard. "London Letter," Art International, March 1971, p. 46.
Fried, Michael. "Larry Poons: New Paintings," Artforum, March, pp. 50-52.
Coulonges, H. "Beaute Suave," Connaissance des Arts, March 1971,p. 82, 133.
Denvir, Barnard. Review, Kasmin Gallery, London, Art International, March 1971, p 46.
Henning, Edward. "Color and Field," Art International, May 1971.
Siegel, J. "Around Barnett Newman," Art News, October 1971, pp. 43-44.
1970
Review, Leo Castelli Gallery, Arts Magazine, February 1967, p. 51. 1970
Henning, Edward. "Larry Poons: Untitled," Cleveland Museum Bulletin, April 1970, pp. 118-122.
Channin, Richard. "New Directors in Painterly Abstraction," Art International, September 1970, pp. 62-65.
Glueck, Grace. Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art in America, September 1970, p. 41.
Review, Rubin Gallery, Art News, November 1970, p. 66.
Domingo, W. Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Arts Magazine, November 1970, p. 61.
Bowling, F. "Another Map Problem," Arts Magazine, December 1970, p. 27.
Domingo, W. "Color Abstraction: A Survey of Recent American Painting," Arts Magazine, December 1970, p. 39.
Fenton, Terry. Review, Mirvish Gallery, uArts Canada, December 1970, p. 58.
Tuchman, Phyllis. "Interview with Larry Poons," Artforum, December, pp. 45-52.
Marandel, J.P. Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art International, December, p. 68.
Geldzahler, Henry. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970.
1969
Review, Leo Castelli Gallery, Artforum, January 1969, pp. 54-55.
Pomeroy, R. "New York: The Artist at the end of his Rope," Art and Artists, February 1969, p. 40.
Gold, B. "Corcoran Biennial: New sensibility in Washington," Arts Magazine, April 1969, p. 28.
Jacobs, J. "Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America, July 1969, p. 64.
Baiggel, Mathew. "America Painting: On Space and Time in the early 1960's," Art Journal, Summer 1969, p. 372
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Arts Magazine, November 1969, p.60.
Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art News, October 1969, pp. 64.
Aldrich, L. "Young Lyrical Painters," Art in America, November 1969, p. 104. Bourgeoise, J.
L. Review, Rubin Gallery, Artforum, December 1969, p. 72.
Ratcliff, Carter. Review, Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Art International, December, p. 71.
1968
Mandelbaum, E. "Isolable units, Unity and Difficulty," Art Journal, Spring 1968, p. 258.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Modern Americas for Oberlin," Burlington Magazine, June 1968, p. 356.
Champa, Kermit S. "New Paintings by Larry Poons," Artforum, summer 1968, pp. 39-42.
Gouk, A. "Apropos of some recent exhibitions in London," Studio International, October 1968, p. 126.
Schjeldahl, Peter. Review, The New York Times, November 17, 1968, p. 23B.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Four American Aquisitions," Oberlin College Bulletin, Fall 1968, p. 27ff.
Review, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art News, December 1968, p. 52.
Review, Leo Castelli Gallery, Arts Magazine, December 1968, p. 58.
1967
Fry, Edward F. "Poons: A clean and balanced world?" Art News, February 1967, pp. 34-35.
Lippard, Lucy. "Larry Poons: the Illusion of Disorder," Art International, April 1967, pp.22-26.
Kozloff, Max. "Modern Art and the Virtues of Decadence," Studio International, November 1967, p. 197.
1966
Goldin, A. "Requiem for a gallery: The Green Gallery's rise and demise," Arts Magazine, January 1966, p. 27.
Kozloff, Max. "The Inert and the Frenetic," Artforum, March 1966, pp. 40-44.
Welsh, R. "The Growing Influence of Piet Mondrian," Canadian Art, January 1966, p. 48.
1965
Green Gallery, Art News, (March 1965) p 19.
Coplans, John. "Larry Poons," Artforum, June 1965, pp. 33-35
Hess, Thomas B. "You Can Hang It in the Hall: Op Art in the Museum of Modern Art," Art News, April 1965, p. 50.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Three New, Cool, Bright Imagists Seen Together in Oberlin, Ohio," Art News, Summer 1965, pp. 42-44.
Johnson, Elen H. "Three Young Americans: Hinman, Poons and Williams, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Spring 1965, pp. 82-86.
Kozloff, Max. "Larry Poons," Artforum, April 1965, pp. 26-29.
Review, Green Gallery, Art News, March 1965, p. 19.
Rose, Barbara. "Beyond Vertigo: Optical Art at the Modern," Artforum, April 1965, p. 30.
Sandler, Irving. "The New Cool-Art," Art in America, February 1965, p. 99.
Tillim, Sidney. "Larry Poons: The Dotted Line," Arts Magazine, February 1965, pp. 16-21.
Hopps, Walter. The United States of America VIII, Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, exhibition catalogue, 1965, pp. 54 – 61.
1964
Harrison, J. Review, Green Gallery, Arts Magazine, January 1964, p.31.
Johnson, C.B. "Trends and Traditions: Recent Acquisitions," Albright-Knox Gallery Notes, Spring 1964, p. 5.
Judd, Donald. "American drawings at the Guggenheim," Arts Magazine, November 1964, p. 59.
"New Talent U.S.A.: Newly Nominated," Art in America, August 1964, p. 104.
1963
Review, Green Gallery, Art News, November 1963, p. 19.
O'Doherty, Brian. The New York Times, November 17, 1963.
 

Interviews

 
Frank Stella, Larry Poons: The New Abstraction, Video-recording, National Educational Television, produced and directed by Lane Slate, 1965-1966.
Tuchman, Phyllis. Interview with Larry Poons, in Artforum, vol. ix/9, 1970, pp. 45-50.
Frank Stella and Larry Poons: Two Top Modern Artists Discuss Their Work, Sound-recording, The Center for Cassette Studies, North Hollywood, CA, 1974.
Paradis, Jason. An interview with Larry Poons, Art Criticism, vol. 14 no. 1, 1999, pp. 52-60.
de Antonio, Emile. Painters painting, Video-recording, Mystic Fire Video, Montauk, New York, 2000.
Zinsser, J. Interview with Larry Poons in Journal of Contemporary Art, vol. ii/2, 1989, pp. 28-38.
 

Selected Catalogs and Books

 
Art Students League, Centennial Decade, 1968-1969. New York: Art Students League, 1969.
Auping, Michael. Abstraction, Geometry, Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945. New York and Buffalo: Harry N. Abrams in association with Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987.
Carmean, E. A. The Great Decade of American Abstraction; Modernist Art 1960 to 1970. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1974.
The Current Moment in Art: A Symposium Sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco: The Institute, 1966.
Ebony, David, essay. Larry Poons: Mercurial Genius. London: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 2002.
Ebony, David, essay in Larry Poons: Five Decades. London: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 2004.
Fried, Michael. Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Geldzahler, Henry. Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks. New York, Turtle Point Press, 1994.
Griffith, Laura Susan. Larry Poons and the Evolution of Stylistic Diametrics. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, Department of Art History, 1983.
Humblet, Claudine. La nouvelle abstraction américaine, 1950-1970. Paris: Seuil, 2003.
Hudson, Andrew. 15 Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington, 1963-1978. North Bennington, VT: Park-McCullough House Association, 1978.
Larry Poons: Recent Paintings. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1974.
Larry Poons: Peintures 1976-1988. Paris: Galerie Montaigne. Paris, 1989.
Lippard, Lucy R. Changing: Essays in Art Criticism. New York: Dutton Publishers, 1971.
Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch. Oxford, OH: Miami University Art Museum, 1983.
Moffett, Kenworth and Larry Poons. Larry Poons: Paintings, 1971-1981. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981.
Poons, Larry and Michael Steiner. Larry Poons Paintings; Michael Steiner Sculptures. Berlin: Amerika-Haus Berlin, 1979.
Poons, Larry and David Ebony. Larry Poons: Five Decades. New York: Jacobson Howard Gallery, 2002.
Robbins, Daniel, essay in Larry Poons: Paintings 1963-1990. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1990.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo, John Zinxer and Daniel Robbins, essays in Larry Poons. Madrid: Las Galleries de Arte Afinsa-Lagasca y Afinsa-Almirante, 1991.
Stella, Frank and David Carrier, essays in Larry Poons: New Paintings. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 2001.
Wagstaff, Samuel J. Ten works + Ten painters: X + X. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964.
Wood, James. Six Painters. Buffalo: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1971.
 

Public Collections

 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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