Burton Silverman
Burton Silverman is regarded by many as one of the premier realist
American painters.. In 1961 he along with 10 other young realist
artists pioneered the validity of Realism at a time when virtually
all of American art seemed devoted to post-Cezanne modernism and non
objective painting, His first one-man exhibition took place in 1956 at
the Davis Galleries in New York City. Since that time Mr. Silverman
has had 31 solo shows in New York as well as in Boston, Philadelphia
,San Francisco, Denver and Washington, D.C. He has appeared in
numerous national and international exhibitions including the Mexico
City Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Art in London, the National
Portrait Gallery, the National Academy of Design and regional exhibits
throughout the U.S. He has won 32 major prizes from annual
exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor
Society and the Butler Institute of American Art. He was awarded a
Silver Medal from the AWS in 1995. The National Academy of Design
honored him with its Berkelson Prize in 1997and 2005 and Joseph Isidor
Medal in 1993.
His paintings are represented in almost two dozen public collections
including the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New
Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Columbus
Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the National
Portrait Gallery.
His work is included in numerous private collections both in the
U.S. and Europe. In May 2004 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the
Portrait Society of America for lifetime achievement in figurative
art.
In 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art
College in San Francisco.
In January and February of 1999, the Butler Institute of American
Art held a 25-year retrospective exhibition of his work titled Sight
and Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman. The exhibit also traveled
to the Brigham Young Museum in Utah (May, 1999.)
In 2006 theDelaware Art Museum hosted the exhibiton "Glorious
Dignity:" Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Harvey Dinnerstein
and Burton Silverman. This exhibit was also hosted by the Montgomery
Museum of Art. Montgomery,AL in 2006 A full monograph and catalog
accompanied this major exhibition.
A retrospective Exhibition of his drawings along with a new
monograph, entitled the Intimate Eye: the Drawings of Burton Silverman
opened in 2006 at the Brigham Young Museum and is currently on view at
the Lyme Academy of Art College of Fine Arts in Connecticut
He has presented slide lectures in museums and art schools across
the country on Realism in the age of Modernism in the 20th century.
His two prior books on painting as well as the current monographs,
have reached audiences in Europe, Australia, Asia and South America.
He has also authored articles and has been featured in art magazines
and journals including Art News, Book World, the Artist's Magazine,
the American Arts Quarterly, Art Talk and International Artist
Silverman's home and studio are in New York City.
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