Curriculum Vitae: Jane Kallir
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CURRICULUM VITAE: JANE KALLIR
EDUCATION
1972-1976 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
B.A., Art; degree with honors
EMPLOYMENT
July 1977
- Present
Galerie St. Etienne, New York
Appointed Co-Director, 1979; responsible for
sales, purchases, licensing and reproduction
rights, curatorial coordination and publications
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS CURATED OR CO-CURATED
Grandma Moses (1979): National Gallery of Art (Washington,
D.C.)
Grandma Moses: The Artist Behind the Myth (1982-1983):
Galerie St. Etienne; Danforth Museum (Framingham,
Massachusetts); New York State Museum (Albany)
John Kane: Modern America's First Folk Painter (1984-1985):
Galerie St. Etienne; Carnegie Institute Museum of Art
(Pittsburgh); Albany Museum of Art (Albany, Georgia); Lowe
Art Museum (Coral Gables); Flint Institute of Arts (Flint,
Michigan); William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs,
Connecticut)
The World of Grandma Moses (1984-1985): Museum of American
Folk Art (New York); Baltimore Museum of Art; Norton Gallery
(Palm Beach); Cheekwood Fine Arts Center (Nashville); Joslyn
Art Museum (Omaha); Lakeview Museum of Art (Peoria).
Circulated under the auspices of the International
Exhibitions Foundation and with a grant from the American
Express Foundation
Otto Kallir: Ein Wegbereiter Österreichischer Kunst (1986):
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Grandma Moses (1987): Isetan Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Daimaru
Museum (Osaka, Japan)
Masters of Naive Art (1989): Daimaru Museum (Kyoto, Japan);
Yamagataya Art Gallery (Yamagataya, Japan); Daimaru Art
Gallery (Hakata, Japan); Daimaru Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
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Grandma Moses (1990): Isetan Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Daimaru
Museum (Osaka, Japan); Daimaru Museum (Kyoto, Japan);
Funabashi Art Forum (Funabashi, Japan); Takashimaya Museum
(Yokohama, Japan)
Egon Schiele: Frühe Reifer, ewige Kindheit (1990):
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Egon Schiele in der Österreichische Galerie in Wien (1990):
Österreichische Galerie (Vienna, Austria)
Sue Coe: Porkopolis (1989-91): Galerie St. Etienne; Payson
Gallery (Portland, Maine); Indiana University Fine Arts
Gallery (Bloomington); University of Missouri Gallery 210
(St. Louis); University of Washington Museum of Art
(Pullman); Georgia State Art Gallery (Atlanta)
Art Spiegelman: The Road to Maus (1992-96): Galerie St.
Etienne; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art (Florida); Jewish
Museum of San Francisco (California); Joods Historisch
Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); University of Missouri
(St. Louis and Kansas City); Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judäisme (Paris, France); Kunstraum Düsseldorf (Germany);
St. Lawrence University (Canton, N.Y.); National Museum of
American Jewish History (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Egon Schiele (1994): National Gallery of Art (Washington,
D.C.); Indianapolis Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art.
Circulated by Art Services International
Grandma Moses (1995): Daimarua Museum(Osaka, Japan); Yasuda
Kasai Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Shimonoseki Museum (Yamaguchi,
Japan); Sogo Museum (Chiba, Japan)
Grandma Moses: Pictures from the Past (1996): Fort
Lauderdale Museum of Art (Florida)
Gustav Klimt--Oskar Kokoschka--Egon Schiele: From Art
Nouveau to Expressionism (2001-2002): Museo del Vittoriano
(Rome, Italy) and Revotella Museum (Trieste, Italy)
Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (2001-2003): National
Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC); San Diego
Museum of Art; Orlando Museum of Art (Florida); Gilcrease
Museum (Tulsa); Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio); Portland Art
Museum (Oregon); Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford). Circulated
under the auspices of the International Exhibitions
Foundation and with a grant from AARP
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BOOKS WRITTEN
Gustav Klimt/Egon Schiele (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980)
Austria's Expressionism (New York: Rizzoli International,
1981)
The Folk Art Tradition: Naive Painting in Europe and the
United States (New York: The Viking Press, 1981)
Grandma Moses: The Artist Behind the Myth (New York:
Clarskon N. Potter, 1982)
Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna (New York: Rizzoli International,
1984)
Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte (New York: George
Braziller, Inc., 1986)
Gustav Klimt: 25 Masterworks (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1989)
Egon Schiele: The Complete Works--Including a Biography and
a Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990;
revised 1998)
Egon Schiele (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1994)
Egon Schiele: 27 Masterworks (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1996)
Grandma Moses: 25 Masterworks (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1997)
Grandma Moses in the 21st Century
University Press, 2001)
(New Haven: Yale
The Essential Grandma Moses (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc., 2001)
Egon Schiele: Life and Work
Inc., 2003)
(New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors (London: Thames &
Hudson, 2003)
Egon Schiele: Love and death (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum &
Hatje Canz: 2005)
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MISCELLANEOUS
Author of numerous magazine articles; of the introductory essay
for Self-Taught and Outsider Art; The Anthony Petullo Collection;
and of catalogue essays for: Vienne 1880-1938--Naissance d'un
siècle (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), Wien 1900: Kunst &
Design (Louisianna Museum of Modern Art, Denmark), Sehnsucht nach
Glück (Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt), Twentieth-Century SelfTaught Art (Philadelphia Museum and others), New Worlds (Neue
Galerie, New York), Gustav Klimt (National Gallery of Canada) and
many of the exhibitions listed above
Lectures on various topics for the New York State Museum
(Albany); the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Bennington Museum
(Vermont); the College Art Association; the Wexner Center
(Columbus, Ohio); The Flint Institute of Art (Flint, Michigan);
The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art (Florida); The Bruce Museum
(Greenwich, Connecticut); the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen,
Germany); the Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Cheekwood Fine Arts
Center (Nashville); the Austrian Cultural Institute (New York);
the Drawing Society (New York City); New York University (New
York City); the International Foundation for Art Research (New
York City); the Museum of American Folk Art (New York); the
Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Lakeview Museum of Art
(Peoria, Illinois); the Center for Austrian Studies (University
of Minnesota, St. Paul); Seton Hall University (South Orange, New
Jersey); the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); the
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.); Williams College and
the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts); and many
others
Winner of “Art Libraries Societies Award” for The Folk Art
Tradition (1982) and Arnold Schoenberg’s Vienna (1985); of the
“Elie Faure Award” and “Prix des Lecteurs de Beaux-Arts Magazine”
for Egon Schiele: The Complete Works (both 1991); and of the
Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
(1994).
Member Art Dealer's Association of America (Board of Directors,
1994-97; Executive Committee & Chair, PR Committee, 2001-present;
Vice-President, 2003-present); listed in Who's Who in America and
numerous similar publications