Sal Sirugo
SAL SIRUGO
1920 - 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Within Small See Large: Drawings by Sal Sirugo, Graham Shay 1857. NYC
2010 Abstract Expressionism and Individualism: Works from 1948 to 2008,
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NYC
2007 Intimate Visions,The Gallery at 6th & 6th, Tucson, AZ
2002 From the Intimate to the Infinite, Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield Univ., CT
1981, 78, 76 Landmark Gallery, New York City
1966 Great Jones Gallery, New York City
1963 “K” Gallery, Woodstock, New York
1961 Tanager Gallery (Tenth Street), New York City
1959 Camino Gallery (Tenth Street), New York City
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Small Scale - Intimate Works of American Abstraction, Graham Shay 1857, NYC
2018 Three American Painters: David Diao, Sam Gilliam, Sal Sirugo, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ
2017 L'heure entre chien et loup, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, NY
2014 Painting Black, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NYC
2014 Small Works, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2013 Forty Odd / 1973-2013: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum
2012 Pulling at Polarities, Hollis Taggart Galleries, NYC
2011 2011 Invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
2008 Starting From Scratch (Repartir à Zéro): American and European Art in the Aftermath of World War II, 1945-1949, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
2007 Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggart Galleries, NYC
2003 Modern American Art 1930-1975, Gary Snyder Fine Art, NYC
2001 Abstract Expressionism: Expanding the Canon, Gary Snyder Fine Art, NYC
1997 Intimate Universe (Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery, NYC
1994 - 96 Still Working, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, New York
at IBM Art Gallery, NYC
1994 Italian-American Artists: 1945-1968, Luebsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, NYC
1992 - 93 Expression Abstracted: Heads by Pepi, Rosenborg, Seliger and Sirugo, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ
1991 Nature’s Rhythm, Gary Snyder Fine Art, NYC
1989 - 90 Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NYC;
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago; Lowe Art Museum,
Univ. of Miami, FL
1985 - 86 Figural Art of the New York School, Ciba-Geigy Collection, Baruch College, NYC; Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge
1985 The Gathering of the Avant-Garde: the Lower East Side, 1948-1970, NYC
1984 Five-Person Show, Art Galaxy Gallery, NYC
1983 Tanager Gallery 1952-1962, Buecker & Harpsichords, NYC
1978 - 80 Tenth Street Days, Gallery Association of New York State, Traveling. Exhibition
(selected by Thomas B. Hess), New York, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut
1977 The Tenth Street Days—The Coops of the 50’s, Pleiades Gallery, NYC
1976 Ciba-Geigy Collection, Neuberger Museum, NY, and Wichita Falls Museum, TX
1972, 75, 79 118 Artists, Landmark Gallery, NYC
1974 Works on Paper, Ciba-Geigy Collection, Summit Art Center, NJ
1974 Drawing Show, Landmark Gallery, NYC
1973 Visual R & D, Ciba-Geigy Collection, University of Texas, Austin
1971 A New Consciousness, Ciba-Geigy Collection., Hudson River Museum., Yonkers, NY
1967 Artists by Artists, Capricorn Gallery, NYC
1966 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1965 Great Jones Gallery, NYC
1960 - 62 Tanager Gallery (Tenth Street), NYC
1959 Tenth Street, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1958 - 61 Camino Gallery (Tenth Street), NYC
1958 Provincetown Arts Festival, MA
1953 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, Philadelphia
1952 Whitney Museum of American Art Annual, NYC
1952 Peridot Gallery, NYC
1951 Fluid Space (Avery, de Kooning, Nevelson), Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NYC
1950 National Academy of Design, NYC
1949 - 50 New Talent, Laurel Gallery, NYC
COLLECTIONS
Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co., Canton, MA
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
Evergreen Enterprises, Taipei, Taiwan
Jagiellonian University, The Judaica Foundation, Krakow, Poland
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
University of Montevallo, AL
New York University/Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, NYC
Pace University, NYC
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Syracuse University, NY
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum (including J. Patrick Lannan Foundation Collection), Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
AWARDS
2011 American Academy of Arts & Letters, Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award
1982, 84 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award
1980 Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship
1962 Longview Foundation Award (Purchase)
1952 Woodstock Foundation Award
1951 Emily Lowe Award
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Judd Tully, A Second Look, Article with Illus., Art + Auction, May 2010, p. 83
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Catalogue Raisonne,
Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2009, p. 254
Repartir A Zero 1945-1949, Catalogue Raisonne, Eric de Chassey and Sylvie Ramond,
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France, 2008, pp. 86, 348, color plates 84, 224-225 (3)
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism catalog, essay by Jeffrey Wechsler,
Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2007, plates 38, 39, pp. 34, 36, 96
Ann Landi, Ripe for Rediscovery, Art News, Nov. 1996, pp. 118-119
Pepe Karmel, Still Working, review, The New York Times, Feb. 3, 1995
Still Working catalogue, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and tour 1994-1996, c. Parsons
School of Design, New York, NY, 1994, color plate 28, pp. 72, 87, 101-102, 152-153
Italian-American Artists, 1945-1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper catalog, essay by
Anthony Panzera, Luebsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City Univ. of NY, 1994-1995, pp. 6, 41
Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, 1940-1965 catalog, essay by Jeffrey Wechsler, Zimmerli
Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, 1989, color plates 22-23, 4 illus., pp. 54, 56, 131-133
E. Exler, Intimate Epics, with illus., Woodstock Times, Dec. 6, 1990, pp. 16-17
Lawrence Campbell, Homage to the Tanager, Buecker & Harpsichords, NYC, Art in America, Nov. 1983
Tram Combs, Sirugo’s Miniature Sublime, with illus., Woodstock Times, Feb. 19, 1981
William Pellicone, When Small is Big, with illus., Artspeak, Feb. 12, 1981
Joellen Bard, Article with illus., Arts Magazine, Dec. 1978, p. 13
J. de Clef Pineiro, New York Artists, New York Affairs, V. 4, No. 4, 1978, p. 61
Corinne Robins, Article with illus., Arts Magazine, Jan. 1977, p. 22
Natalie Edgar, The Private Worlds of Sal Sirugo, Art News, Nov. 1966, pp. 42, 43, 82
It Is, Magazine for Abstract Art, excerpt from the Club Panel Discussion, No. 6, Autumn 1965, p. 75
Fred W. McDarrah, The Artist’s World in Pictures, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1961, pp. 48, 81
Dore Ashton, review, The New York Times, Feb. 12, 1960
It Is, Magazine for Abstract Art, illus., No. 4, Autumn 1959, p. 77
Dore Ashton, Tenth Street Stroll, review, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 1959
Howard Devree, Modern Outburst, review, The New York Times, June 10, 1951
MISCELLANEOUS
Member of The Club
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Archives of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, New York
Art Students League Life Member/Board of Control 1961
HB Playwrights Foundation - Poster Design for Horton Foote's play, Arrival and Departure, 1981
2010 - present
2010 - present