Frank Kleinholz: Chronology

Man and Superman, 1955-56, oil on canvas

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Bravadoes, 1944, oil on canvas

1901	Born February 17 in Brooklyn, New York
1908-15	Educated in public school through eighth grade
1915-18	Attends night school while working to help support his family. His blind father Hyman cannot work, mother runs a candy and delicatessen shop and takes in boarders
1918-19	Scholarship, Colby College, Maine
1919-23	Attends Fordham Law School at night while working days
1923	Admitted to New York Bar. Practices insurance law
1928	Marries first wife Leah
1936-40	Studies painting with Alex Dobkin, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Sol Wilson. Friendships with Philip Evergood, Raphael and Moses Soyer, Alfred Stieglitz
1940	Studies and paints in Mexico. Meets Rivera, Orozco, and Siquieros
1941	Abstractionists included in "Directions in American Painting," Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh
1942	Back Street and Bargain Counter included in "Artists For Victory," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Back Street awarded 6th purchase prize and acquired by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other winners include Alexander Calder, Jack Levine, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, and Philip Evergood. First solo exhibition at Associated American Artist, New York
1943	Solo exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. City Carnival acquired by Phillips Collection
1944	Group exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, Virginia Museum, and Chicago Art Institute
1945	Wife Leah dies of breast cancer Bravadoes acquired by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Art
1946	Member Art Advisory Board, Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection Marries second wife Lidia
1947	Included in "Advancing American Art" State Department Exhibit along with Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, Philip Evergood, Marsden Hartley, Jack Levine, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ben Shahn among others. The show is later attacked as "radical" by McCarthy
1948	Group exhibitions at Corcoran Biennial, Chicago Art Institute, Worcester Art Institute
1948-51	Lives in Paris and Ile de Brehat, Brittany. Studies etching and lithography. Friendships with Joseph Hirsch, Bob Gwathmey, Paul Strand
1951	Moves to Port Washington, New York Instructor of Fine Arts, Hofstra College
1952	Close of Day acquired by State of Israel
1953	Group exhibitions, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, National Academy Annual, New York McCarthy at height. Blacklisted along with some of the other artists included in 1947 State Department show. Loses Hofsta College instructorship Travels to Mexico
1955-56	Cross-country painting trip with wife and children. Exhibits in Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles
1957-79	Group exhibitions at Butler Institute of American Art Annual, Pennsylvania Academy Annual, Village Temple, New York, and Har Zion Temple, Philadelphia Solo and group exhibitions at Associated American Artists, New York, and in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Florida and Long Island, New York
1959	Marquette University acquires triptych Apple Tree / Apple Tree
1964	Publishes Frank Kleinholz, A Self Portrait Solo exhibition, ACA Gallery, New York
1965	Solo exhibition, ACA Gallery, Rome, Italy
1966	First Annual American Artist Award, Nassau Community College
1967	Moves to Perrine, Florida
1968	Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Colby College
1969	Retrospective exhibitions at Colby College and Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida Frank Kleinholz, The Outsider by August Freundlich published
1970	Solo exhibition University of Maine
1973	Retrospective exhibition, ACA Gallery, New York and St. Mary's College, Maryland
1975	Solo graphics exhibition, Associated American Artists Kleinholz Graphics: Catalog Raisonée 1940-1975 published
1984	Solo graphics exhibition, Old Westbury College
1987	Retrospective exhibition, April-June, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Wisconsin Died October 3 in Miami, Florida