Nancy Graves

Nancy Graves was born in 1939 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She studied at Vassar, graduating in 1961, then received her MFA in 1964 from Yale. Notable classmates included Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Janet Fish and Brice Marden. Early in her career, she exhibited with the Graham Gallery in New York. In 1969, Graves had a solo exhibition of her iconic camel sculptures at the Whiney Museum of Art, at that time she was the youngest and the fifth woman to have a solo show at the Whiney. Graves then exhibited with André Emmerich Gallery and Knoedler & Co., in New York, and Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago, then later with Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art and now Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York as well as David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. Graves died very young at age 54 from cancer.

Graves’ artworks are included in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, New Museum, New York, NY, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT among others.

Born: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, December 23, 1939

Died: New York, New York, October 21, 1995

 

 

EDUCATION

1957-61 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY (BA)

1961-64 Yale University, New Haven CT (BA, MB)

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019   Nancy Graves: Mapping, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

2017   Nancy Graves; After Image, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2015   Nancy Graves, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY2014 Nancy Graves, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

2013   Nancy Graves Project, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Nancy Graves; Synecdoche, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012   Nancy Graves, Ameringer, McEnery Yohe Gallery, New York, NY

2011   Nancy Graves: A Memorial Exhibition, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2010   Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Nancy Graves Encaustics, R & F Gallery, Kingston, NY

2009   Nancy Graves, Permanent Tension: Painting and Sculpture, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Nancy Graves: Inspired Vision/ sculpture, paintings, drawings, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Nancy Graves: Inspired Vision/ sculpture, paintings, drawings, The George Washington University Luther W. Brady Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Nancy Graves, Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY

2007   Tango: Installation & Performance, The Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY

Nancy Graves/ The Pilchuck Series: Selected Monotypes, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY

2006   Nancy Graves 1970-1980, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY

2005   Nancy Graves, sculpture & works on paper, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

Nancy Graves: A Retrospective, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY

The Art Show: Nancy Graves, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art Booth, Art Dealers Association of America at the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: The Shining, Elusive Element, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004   Nancy Graves: Paintings and Prints, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2002   Nancy Graves, Breaking Boundaries: Sculpture, Painting and Drawing on Loan from the Nancy Graves Foundation, Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Aves, Forms in Flight, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: An American Treasure (1939-1995), Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX

2001   Nancy Graves: Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Nancy Graves: Timepieces, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2000   Nancy Graves Points of Departure: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Installation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1999   Nancy Graves: Prints On Loan from the Nancy Graves Foundation, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, State University of New York, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Prints of the 1980s & 1990s, Pace Prints, New York, NY

1998   Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

Nancy Graves: Camel Investigations, The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, The Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda

Omaggio a Nancy Graves: Incisioni e Sculture, 2 R

1997   Nancy Graves Sculpture: Bronze and Glass, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Mitchell Art Gallery, St. Johns College, Annapolis, MD

Nancy Graves (1940-1995), Between Painting and Sculpture, A Selection from the Eighties, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

1996   Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Nancy Graves, American (1940-1995): Camels VI, VII, VIII, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Nancy Graves: In Memoriam, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Nancy Graves: New Sculpture/ Temptations of the Imagination, The Last Series, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

1995   Timepieces: A Collaboration of Nancy Graves with Saff Tech Arts, Brenau University Galleries, Gainsville, GA

Nancy Graves: Contemporary Galleries Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nancy Graves: Paintings on Prints Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY

1994   The Prints of Nancy Graves, Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, MN

Nancy Graves: Recent Work, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

Nancy Graves: Recent Sculptures & Mixed Media Works, Meredith Long &            Company, Houston, TX

Nancy Graves: Recent Works, The Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1993   Nancy Graves: Sculptures/Paintings/Drawings, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

Nancy Graves: Recent Works, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD

Nancy Graves: Bones, Gnomons & Longitude Series and Other New Sculpture, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Large Scale Etchings, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Recent Works, The Lamont Gallery, The Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH

Lithographs Based on Geologic Maps of Lunar Orbiter and Apollo Landing Sites by Nancy Graves, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Nancy Graves: Recent Works, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1992   Nancy Graves: Alchemy of Time, Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, FL

Nancy Graves: Unending Revolution of Venus, Plants, and Pendulum, Saff Tech Arts at Knoedler, New York, NY

Nancy Graves, Ludwig Forum fu¨r internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

1991   Nancy Graves: Paradigm and Paradox, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Energy Fields Transfixed: Recent Works by Nancy Graves, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX

Nancy Graves: Skin Series, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

1990   Nancy Graves, The Clash of Cultures: New Paintings on Paper and Sculpture, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Nancy Graves, The Clash of Cultures: New Paintings on Paper and Sculpture, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

Nancy Graves, Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden

1989   Nancy Graves: New Sculpture, Knoedler Kasmin Gallery, London, England

Nancy Graves: New Work, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

Nancy Graves, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1988   Nancy Graves: Prints 1972 -1988, Associated American Artists, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Recent Sculpture, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Three Sculptures, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Nancy Graves: Sculptures and Paintings, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Nancy Graves, Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan

Masterwork of the Month, Memphis Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, TN

1987   Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Nancy Graves: Recent Watercolors, Ochi Gallery, Boise, ID

Nancy Graves, Knoedler Gallery Ltd., London, England

Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts during the Ceremony for an Award to

Nancy Graves for American, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1986   Nancy Graves: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1980-85, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Nancy Graves: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1980-85, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Nancy Graves: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1980-85, The David Winton Bell Gallery, List \ Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI

Nancy Graves: New Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

Nancy Graves: Works on Paper, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1985   Nancy Graves: The Australia Series, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Nancy Graves: New Sculpture, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1984   Nancy Graves: New Bronze Sculpture, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Paintings 1972-1983, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

Nancy Graves: Shadow Series, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., NY

1983   Nancy Graves: Painting & Sculpture, 1978-82, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Nancy Graves, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL

Nancy Graves: Recent Paintings and Watercolors, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

1982   Nancy Graves: Recent Sculpture, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Skulpturen und Bilder, M. Knoedler Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

1981   Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Nancy Graves: Recent Sculpture and Painting, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Nancy Graves: New Sculpture and Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980   Nancy Graves: Recent Painting and Sculpture, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH

Nancy Graves: A Survey, 1969-1980, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1979   Nancy Graves: Recent Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1978   Nancy Graves, New Work, Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Recent Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: New Sculpture, Recent Watercolors, Pastels, and Etchings, Gallery Diane Gilson, Seattle, WA

Nancy Graves: Recent Paintings, Watercolors and Sculptures, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

1977   Nancy Graves: New Work, André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: New Paintings and Pastels, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

Nancy Graves: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland

New Prints by Nancy Graves, Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Hand Painted Etchings, Torre Pines Space, La Jolla, CA

Nancy Graves: Bilder, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Schlosshofgalerie, Kisslegg, Germany

1975   Nancy Graves: Recent Paintings & Drawings/ for the Benefit of The John A. Beck Memorial Lecture Fund, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

1974   Nancy Graves: New Paintings, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

Nancy Graves: Drawings, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Nancy Graves, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

1973   Variability and Repetition of Variable Forms by Nancy Graves, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Recent Works by Nancy Graves, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Nancy Graves, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Nancy Graves, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

Nancy Graves Satellite Images: Drawings and Paintings on Paper, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX

1972   Nancy Graves: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Films, The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Nancy Graves: Sculpture and Drawings, 1970-72, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Nancy Graves, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX

Nancy Graves: Sculpture and Drawings 1970-72, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1971   Nancy Graves, Reese Palley, New York, NY

Shaman, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Nancy Graves: Sculpture/ drawings/ films, Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA

Nancy Graves: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Filme, Neue Galerie im Alten Kurhaus, Aachen, Germany

Nancy Graves, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Projects: Nancy Graves, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1969   Nancy Graves: Camel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1968   Nancy Graves: Camels, Graham Gallery, New York, NY

1964   Paintings by N. Stevenson Graves, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

 

COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany

Marimura Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

New Museum, New York, NY

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Sonjie Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

Whitney Museum of Art, New York, N

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT