Paintings

Richard Hennessy
American, b. 1941
THE SUMMER OF OUR CONTE
Oil on canvas
72 by 60 in.
Signed and dated 1980 on verso

Provenance:

From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler’s partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney’s best portraits of 1969.

Inventory Number: Art H44
1950-present Abstract Subject American Period 1950-Present Abstract Contemporary

See Artist Bio below.


Richard Hennessy
American, b. 1941

Education
Eastman School of Music, 1954-59
Columbia College, B.A., 1963
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1963-66

Solo Exhibitions
1991   Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1989   Ball State University, Muncie, IN
1986   Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1986   John Good Gallery, New York
1985   Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery, New York
1983   Hamilton Gallery, New York
1982   Hamilton Gallery, New York
1981   Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1980   Hamilton Gallery, New York
1978   Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1976   Retrospective Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York
1976   Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York
1970   Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York
1969   Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York

Group Exhibitions
2006   “Abstract Landscapes”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2006   “My Friends-Their Vision” , Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2000   “Aaron Copland’s America”  The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
1997   “La Tentation du Livre”, Espace Culturel de Tinqueux, France
1992   The Artist, The Writer And The Book Design (Artists’s Books from Collectif Génération), Columbia   University, New York
1992   Group Show, Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami
1991   Abstract Painting: The 90’s, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1991   Livres d’Artistes of Collectif Génération, French Cultural Services, New York
1991   Contemporary Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville   Gainesville, FL
1991   Richard Hennessy and Jeffrey Wasserman, Nina Freudenheim Gallery   Buffalo
1990   The Painter and his Occasion, curated by Alan Jones, Marta Cervera Gallery   New York
1989   Small Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1988   Five Painters, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo

Public Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
American Telephone and Telegraph
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centro Cultural, Museo Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Dow Jones
Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
I. T. & T.
Italian Relief Fund
J.P.Morgan Chase
Jack S. Blanton Museum,University of Texas, Austin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MoMA/P.S.1, stairwell mural
New York University, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Reader’s Digest
Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Shimizu Construction, Tokyo
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

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