Exhibitions & Chronology - Estate of Louisa Matthiasdottir

Awards

Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon, January 1st 1988

The American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Award, 1996

Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998

Selected Bibliography

Ashbery, John. “North Light,” ArtNews, Vol. 70 (February 1972), pp. 44-5.

Bass, Ruth Gilbert “Five Realist Painters,” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1978.

Brenson, Michael. The New York Times (April 27, 1984), p. C23.

Brimacombe, Becky, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Arts Magazine, vol. 63 (Summer 1989), p.78.

Campbell, Lawrence “Leland Bell, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Temma Bell: A Family of Paintings

Cotter, Holland, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir, ‘Survey of Paintings, 1930s-1990s,” The New York Times (April 4, 1997).

Donohoe, Victoria. “`A Painter of Things’ Goes Her Own Way,” Philadelphia Inquirer (July 31, 1983), p. 16-I.

Donohoe, Victoria, “Exhibit Links 2 Generations of Women Artists from NY,” The Philadelphia Inquirer (January 23, 2000).

Esplund, Lance. “Plain-Spoken Pictures,” Wall Street Journal (February 27 2010)

Glueck, Grace. The New York Times (February 3, 1974), sec. II, p. 25.

Hartman, Carl, “A Millennium after Ericsson, Painter Depicts Iceland for Americans,” Associated Press (October 14, 1996).

Henry, Gerrit. ArtNews (March 1979).

Hobhouse, Janet. “Independent Icelander,” Quest (April 1979), pp. 98-100.

Hyde, James, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir at Salander-O’Reilly,” Art in America (May 2001).

Ingolfsson, Adalsteinn. “Hlidstaedur Veruleikans,” Lesbok, Morgunbladsins, Reykjavik (9 June 1984).

Ingolfsson, Adalsteinn, “A Solid and Serene World: the Art of Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Iceland Review 3 Vol. 23 (1984), pp. 18-24.

James, Curtia, “Matthíasdóttir show reveal artist, her land,” Richmond Times-Dispatch (January 30, 1998).

Johnson, Ken. “ART IN REVIEW; Louisa Matthiasdottir” The New York Times (October 29, 2004)

Johannessen, Matthias. “Malverk Kemur Ekki I Stadinn Fyri Lifid,” Stord 1 (1984).

Johannessen, Matthias. Holmgönguljo (Holmgonguljod).1960. Illus. Louisa Matthíasdóttir.

Johnson, Ken, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” The New York Times (May 19, 2000).

Katz, Leslie and Hilton Kramer. “Artists at Work Around the World,” Cosmopolitan, Vol. 146, no. 2 (February 1959), pp. 37-41.

Kimmelman, Michael. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” New York Times, sec. III (March 3, 1989), p. 36.

Kramer, Hilton. “Years After Death, Ms. Matthíasdóttir Surfacing at Last” New York Observer (October, 11, 2004)

Kramer, Hilton. “The Art of ‘Painting’ is Alive and Well,” The New York Times (January 25, 1976); reprinted in The New Renaissance VII, 1988, Arlington, MA, No. 22 (Spring).

Kramer, Hilton. The New York Times, Section III (January 8, 1982), p. 20.

Kramer, Hilton. “`Realists’ and Others,” Arts Magazine, Vol. 38, no. 4 (January 1964), p. 18-23.

Laderman, G. “In the Galleries,” Art & Antiques, Vol. 6 (Summer 1989), p. 37.

Lee, David, “Leland Bell, Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” London (1972).

Monte, James. Art in America, Vol. 68 (May 1980), p. 156.

Oresman, Janice C. “New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes,” the Hudson River Museum, exhibition catalogue, 1981.

Pardee, Hearne. “The New American Landscape,” Arts Magazine, Vol. 58 (April 1984), pp. 116-7.

Park, Krista, “ Icelandic artist chills at AU Gallery,” The Eagle (October 14, 1996).

Perl, Jed. “The Life of the Object; Still Life Painting Today,” Journal of the Artists’ Choice Museum (Fall 1982).

Perl, Jed and Deborah Rosenthal. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Arts Magazine (April 1976).

Protzman, Ferdinand, “Distinctive Cultures, Distinctive Art,” The Washington Post (October 12, 1996).

Rand, Harry. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Arts Magazine (April 1978), p.4.

Rice, Robin, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Woman’s Art Journal (Spring/Summer 2002), pp. 48-9.

Riccuito, Daniel, “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Modern Painters (September 1994).

Rosenthal, Deborah. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Arts Magazine, Vol. 58 (April 1984), pp. 116-7.

Rosenthal, Deborah. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir at Robert Schoelkopf,” Art in America (November 1984).

Rosenthal, Deborah and Jed Perl. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir,” Arts Magazine, Vol. 54 (May 1980), p. 4.

Russell, John. “An Artist Looks at Other People’s Paintings,” Art View, New York Times (Sunday, August 9, 1992).

Sawin, Martica. “Louisa Matthíasdóttir: A Painter of the Figure,” Arts Magazine (November 1961), p. 26-33.

Schjeldahl, Peter, “Chez Jane,” The New Yorker (September 2, 2002).

Smith, Roberta, Obituary “Louisa Matthíasdóttir, 83, Whose Paintings Merged Styles,” The New York Times (March 2, 2000).

Strand, Mark, Art of the real: Nine American Figurative Painters,” New York Magazine, Clarkson N. Potter (1983).

Summers, Suzanne S. “Luisa (sic) Matthíasdóttir,” (review of Watkins Gallery exhibition) The New Art Examiner (December/January 1996/1997), p.40.

Tallmer, Jerry. “The Doctor’s Daughter: Her Art is in the Stillness,” New York Post (January 9, 1982), p. 16.

Turner, Elisa. “Art: Miami,” Miami Herald (January 6, 1996), p. 14G.

Turner, Elisa. “A Sense of Place/Art Reviews,” Miami Herald (January 19, 1996).

Public Collections

Albrecht Art Museum, Saint Joseph, Missouri

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho Art Institute, Idaho

Gerdarsafn, Kopavogur Art Museum,Kopavogur,Iceland

Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland

Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana

The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Kjarvalstaðir, Iceland

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

Museum Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

Tate Gallery, London, England

Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

Solo Exhibitions

1948

Jane Street Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1958

Tanager Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1960

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

1964

(Also 1966,1968,1969,1972,1974,1976,1978,1980,1982, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991)
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1970

Albrecht Art Museum, Saint Joseph, Missouri
Framehouse Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

1972

Litchfield Art Center, Litchfield, Connecticut
Windham College, Putney, Vermont

1978

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

1982

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts

1983

Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1987

Gross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bryggens Museum, Norway
Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

1988

Meredith Long & Company, N.Y.C, New York
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1993

The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland

1994

Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Louisa Matthiasdottir: Paintings,” Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, Michigan
“Louisa Matthiasdottir: Recent Paintings and a Selection of Portrait Busts,

1960-61

Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York

1996

“Seeing and Painting: the Art of Louisa Matthiasdottir”, Kendal Campus Art Gallery of Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida. Traveled to The American University, Washington DC; Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; New York Studio School, New York; Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington; The Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, Virginia; Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, Ohio.
“Louisa Matthiasdottir, Paintings: 1930 – 1990’s,” Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington D.C

1997

The Minot Art Center, Norsk Hostfest, North Dakota
The Studio School, N.Y.C, New York
The Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, Virginia
The Minot Art Center, Norsk Hostfest, North Dakota

1998

Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
“Louisa Matthiasdottir: Pastels”, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2000

“Louisa Matthiasdottir: Paintings”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York

2002

“Flanders Presents Louisa Matthiasdottir”, Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Paintings 1945-1995”, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2003

“From The Studio of Louisa Matthiasdottir”, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
“Paintings”, Salander –O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Louisa Matthiasdottir,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York

2004

“Louisa Matthiasdottir: Landscapes,” Brick Walk Books and Fine Art, West Harford, Connecticut

2004-2006

“Louisa Matthiasdottir: A Retrospective“ Scandinavia House: Nordic Center in America, N.Y. C, Traveled in 2005 to Nordic Embassy Complex, Berlin, Germany; North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, Denmark; Akureryi Art Museum, Akureryi, Iceland.

2008
Louisa Matthiasdottir: Selected Paintings Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York NY

2010
Louisa Matthiasdottir: Small Paintings Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York NY
Louisa Matthiasdottir: Landscapes Vallerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011
Louisa Matthiasdottir: Large Paintings Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

1963

Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York (with Leland Bell)
“Five American Realists”, Knoedler Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1964

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (with Leland Bell)

1966

Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri (with Leland Bell)
Procter Art Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (with Leland Bell)

1967

Austin Art Center, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (with Leland Bell)
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

1972

Swain School of Art, New Bedford, Massachusetts(with Leland Bell)
“Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir”, Stoppenbach and Delestre, London, England

1973

“A Family of Painters”, Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio (with Leland and Temma Bell)
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C, New York

1974

Haustsyning F.I.M., Reykjavik, Iceland

1975

“Painterly Representation”, Ingber Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1978

“Drawing and Painting on Paper”, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Misssouri

1981-82

Contemporary American Realism, Since 1960, Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
“Contemporary American Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes”, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; traveled to the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

1982

“Perspectives on Contemporary Realism: Works on Paper from the Collection of Jalane and Richard Davidson”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1983

“American Still Life Painting, 1945-1963”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Yonkers, New York

1984

“New Vistas—Contemporary American Landscapes”, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
“American Art Today: Still Life”, Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
“Nine Realists Revisited”, 1963-1984, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, N.Y.C, New York
10 Gestir Listahatidar 84, Reykjavik, Iceland

1987

Stoppenbach and Delestre, London, England

1991

“Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Art“, Callen McJunkin, Charleston, West Virginia

1992

“Color as a Subject”, The Artists’ Museum, The Police Building, New York
association with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Staempfli Gallery, The Police Building, N.Y.C, New York

1993

“Unstill Still Life”, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

1994

Transport, Maier Museum of Art at Randolf-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Songs of the Earth: twenty-two, American painters of the landscape” AHI Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

1994-1996

“Relatively Speaking”, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, Virginia. Traveled to Newhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York; Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, Illinois

1996

Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.C, New York
“Jane Freilcher/Louisa Matthiasdottir”, Walker Kornbluth Art Gallery, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
“Women in the Visual Arts”, Hollins College Art Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia
Cornucopia, Champion Intl. Corp. Headquarters, Stamford, Connecticut
“Icelandic Portaiture in the 20th century”, Hafnaborg Institute of Fine art Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

1998

“Art & Friendship II: Selections from the Nell Blaine Collection”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, N.Y.C, New York
“One Thing on Top of Another: An Exhibition of Still Life Paintings by Zeuxis and Guests”, Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, New Jesery

1999

“Distilled Life: A Still Exhibition by Zeuxis”, Prince Street Gallery, New York. Traveled to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La-Crosse, Wisconsin; Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia; Courtyard Gallery, The Washington Studio School, Washington, DC; Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; The Painting Center, N.Y.C, New York
Zeuxis “Still Life: The Human Presence,” University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La-Grosse, Wisconsin; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia
“Zeuxis at Marywood”, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennnsylvania

2000

“Women’s View: Two Generations of Women Artists from New York”, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennnsylvania
“A Family of Artists”, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjodur
“Iceland Contemporary Portraits”, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Zeuxis Still Life: The Human Presence”, The Washington Studio School Washington, DC, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, The Painting Center, N.Y.C, New York
“Contemporary Portraits”, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2001

“Reconfiguring the New York School“, Center for Figurative Painting, N.Y.C, New York

2003

Watercolor Kouros Gallery, N.Y.C, New York
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center Auburn, N.Y.C, New York
“The Jane Street Gallery: Celebrating NY’s First Artists Cooperative“, Tibor de’Nagy Gallery, N.Y.C, New York

2004

Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York

2005

“Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir: Works on Paper,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries
“Modern and Contemporary Masters: Modernism and the Hofmann School,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“On the Road Again,” Marymount College of Fordham University, New York
“Lives/Still Lives,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Scapes/Landscapes,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Helion and American Art,” National Academy Museam, N.Y.C, New York

2006

“Gallery Selections”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Modern and Contemporary Masters”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
“Modernism and the Hofmann School”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR.

2007

“Portraits,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C, New York
Louisa Matthiasdottir & Leland Bell STILL LIFES – FROM A SHARED LIFE, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

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