C. Stanley Lewis
Education
1967
B.F.A., M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
1963-1967
Danforth Fellow for Study in Art and Architecture
1963
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Phi Beta Kappa; high honors, Senior Distinction Project in Art
1962
Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA, Drawings and Paintings
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, traveling
retrospective
Museum at the Katzen, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC, A
Retrospective
2005
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2003
Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2002
Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
2001
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, New York
Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1999
Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington, DC
1998
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Hobart -William Smith Gallery, Geneva, NY
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Solo Exhibitions (cont’d.)
1995
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Watkins Gallery, The American University
1994
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1992
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1991
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
1990
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1989
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Hobart-William Smith College, Geneva, New York
1987
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Gross-McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1982
Hobart College, Geneva, New York
1981
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, New York
1979
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, New York
1978
Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute
1976
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
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Solo Exhibitions (cont’d.)
1975
Washburn University, Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
1974
University of Missouri at Springfield
New York Studio School
1973
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
KCAI Action Art Center, Kansas City, MO, "Drawings and Watercolors”
Group Shows
2010
Chautauqua: A Continuum of Creativity, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2009
Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago IL “Painters Painting” 3 man show
American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
2008
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, March 1-30, 2008 Paint Structures: Specificity and Synthesis
2007
Drew Fine Arts Gallery Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, 3 person show, “Urban, Rural and
Distant Spaces”
2006
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C., group show, Trees
2005
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C., group landscape show
2004
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, N.Y.C., Two Man Show
Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2003
Bowery Gallery, NYC, Member Show
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA., “Value and Presence”
2002
Boyden Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “the Nature of Nature”
National Academy of Design’s 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, NY, “Contemporary Landscapes”
2000
55 Mercer Gallery, NYC, "Figurative Painting Now"
1999
Delaware College of Art and Design, Ecstasy and Silence, landscapes
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Contemporary Landscapes
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Group Exhibitions (cont’d.)
1998
D.F.N. Gallery, N.Y.C., mixed media exhibition of Wesleyan artists
Dartmouth College- Group Show with Martha Armstrong, Nancy Frise and Louisa
Matthaisdotter
1997
D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
Swarthmore College, Two Person Exhibition with Martha Armstrong
1995
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Drawing on Washington"
Faculty Exhibition, Watkins Gallery, American University
Hurlbutt Art Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Courtyard Gallery, Washington Studio School, Washington, D.C.
1994
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Juried exhibition, Certificate of Merit
Lancaster School of Art
1992
Fredonia College, New York
1991
Contemporary Landscape, Art Institute of Boston, February/March 1991
1990
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Landscape Revisited, Watkins Gallery, the American University
1988
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, New
York, NY
1987
New Member Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1985
"Survival of the Fittest" Drawing Show, Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Missouri Painters, a juried show of twelve Missouri painters, U.M.K.C. Gallery
Kansas City Artists Coalition Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Two-person Show with Lester
Goldman
Painterly Landscape, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1980
Viterbo College, Two-Person Show with Lester Goldman
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Teaching
Feb.2003 - Present
Art Faculty, New York Studio School
Dec.2002 - Present
Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington, DC
1990-2003
Professor of Painting and Drawing, American University, Washington, DC
1990-Present
Resident Artist, Chautauqua Institution Summer Painting Program,
Chautauqua, NY
1987-1989
Visiting Artist, Chautauqua Summer Painting Program, Chautauqua, NY
1986-1990
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, Smith College,
Northampton, MA
1988-1989
Resident Faculty, Queens College Summer Painting Program, Caumsett,
Long Island, New York
1985
M.F.A. Painting Program, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY,
Graduate Seminar in Art History, Spring Semester
1985-1986
Summer Resident Faculty, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1969-1986
Professor of Painting and Drawing, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Collections
Albrecht Gallery, St. Joseph, MO
H & R Block, Kansas City, MO
Henry Justin, Center for Figurative Painting
Hobart College, Geneva, NY
Hollins University Gallery, Roanoke, VA
Katzen Collection, Washington, D.C.
Kroh Brothers Realty, Kansas City, MO
University of Indiana Art Museum
William Louis-Dreyfus Collection
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Publications
Art News, Summer 1971, Article on Jean Helion's Major Exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris, France,
Winter, 1971
Reviews and Articles
The New York Sun, by Gerard Haggerty, Feb. 13, 2008 “See It Now” Bowery show, Jan. 2008
Art In America, by Hearne Pardee, January, 2008 Review of Exhibitions, version of retrospective, Visual
Arts Center of New Jersey, April 13-June1, 2007.
New York Sun, by Maureen Mullarkey, “Seeing the Forest & the Trees”, Gallery-Going, July 27, 2006,
Group show at Salander-OReilly Galleries, June, 2006
Daily Hampshire Gazertte, by Larry Parnass, “When a Painter Digs in With Pencil and Knife.”
Northampton, MA, 8 June 2004, Oxbow Gallery show.
Artcritical.com, “Gregory Botts and Stanley Lewis” by John Goodrich, September, 2004, review of two
man show at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Sept. 8-October 2, 2004
Modern Painters, summer 2001, review, “Artists and the Landscape” by Lance Esplund, with
Reproduction of “View from John’s Room”, (Dartmouth College and Bowery Gallery exhibitions,)
April May, 2001.
Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance, by Lynn Munson, published by Ivan and Dee, Chicago,
2000, pages93, 121-124, 126, 127, with color plate: "D.C. Backyard", 1996; black and white
Reproduction, p. 122, “D.C.Backyard”, 1997.
Eyewitness: Report from an Art World in Crisis, by Jed Perl, book of reviews and commentary,
published by Basic Books, 2000, pages 11-14,21,31,71-72, with reproduction of drawing "Studio
Interior", 1994.
Art In America, December, December, 1999, review with reproduction from Baumgartner exhibition,
by Lance Esplund, December, 1999
The Washington Post, Feb. 25, 1999 "Galleries" by Ferdinand Protzman (Baumgartner Show, 2/99)
The New York Times, Jan. 9, 1998, "Art in Review," by Ken Johnson (Bowery Show, Jan.' 98)
Modern Painters, "Working the Paint'" by Lance Esplund, Spring 1998, (Bowery Show, Jan. '98)
The New Republic, "War Stories" by Jed Perl, May 8, 1995, p.27-30.
C. Stanley Lewis
Publications (cont’d.)
The New Republic, "The Art Nobody Knows," by Jed Perl, October 19, 1992
Modern Painters, Review, "Going to Galleries,” (New York), by Jed Perl, Autumn, 1991
Art in America, Review by Lawrence Campbell, July, 1990, Bowery Show (reproduction)
New Criterion, "Photography and Beyond," by Jed Perl, December 1987
Arts Magazine, "Review and Color Reproduction," by Deborah Rosenthal, June 1979
Arts Magazine, "Metaphor in Painting: The Struggle for a Tradition," by Deborah Rosenthal, June 1978,
p. 136 (reproduction)
Guest Lecturer/Visiting Artist
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT November, 2009
American International School, Montecello di Vibio, Italy July 30-Aug. 20, 2009
University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN February, 2009, lecture and visiting artist
Boston University, Boston, MA October, 2008, lecture and visiting artist
Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, April 10, 2007, lecture and visiting artist
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
March 9-10, 2007, lecture and visiting artist
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, March 7-14, 2003
New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon and painting classes, spring, 2003
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., painting class, spring, 2002
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Visiting Artist, March 19-20, 2002.
Watkins Gallery, American University, Gallery Talk and Lecture on Leland Bell, Jan. 16, 2002.
Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA; panelist in Symposium on Leland Bell,
October 4, 2001, with Martica Sawin and Nicholas Fox Weber
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Artist in Residence, March 27-May 30, 2001
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT March 16-22, 2001
Delaware College of Art and Design, lecture and workshop, Nov. 30, 2000.
Panel Discussion for show “Figurative Painting Now” with Joel Silverstein, Barbara Grossman, Steve
Harvey and Lynn Munson, Nov. 30, 2000 at 55 Mercer Gallery, NY
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, lecture and judge painting competition, Mar. 29,
2000
Ashfield Library Lecture Series, Ashfield, MA, March 24, 2000
New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, Feb. 14-25, 2000
National Academy of Art and Design, NYC, panel discussion with Paul Georges, Pat Adams and Philip
Perlstein, January 20, 2000
Dickenson College, Carlisle, PA, April 26, 1999
Washington Studio School, Lecture on work of Leland Bell, March 1999
Ryder College, March 30, 1998; Panel discussion on Louisa Matthiasdotter
Vermont Studio Center, March 1998
Smith College, March 1998
Brandeis University, Nov., 1997
Hobart- William Smith College, Oct., 1997
Vermont Studio Center, March 1997
New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, February 1997
Bard College, September 1995
New York Studio School, May 1995
Wesleyan University, March 1995
Knox College, May 1994
University of Oregon, April 1994
University of Virginia, November 1994
Yale University, October 1993
Chautauqua School of Art, summer 1993
New York Studio School, January, April 1993
Mount Holyoke College, March 1993
Vermont Studio School, December 1992, January 1993
Kansas City Art Institute, December 1992
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Parsons School of Art, September 1992
Chautauqua School of Art, summer 1992
New York Academy of Fine Arts, June 1992
Hollins College, March 1992
Smith College, March 1992
Pennsylvania School of Art, April 1992
Virgina Tech, February 1992
Chicago Art Institute, October 1991
Dartmouth College, summer 1991
Chautauqua School of Art, summer 1991
Hampshire College, summer 1991
Lancaster School of Art, April 1991
Pennsylvania Academy of Art and Design, March 1991
St. Mary's College, October, 1990
Yale School of Art, October 1990
Knox College, May 1990
Vassar College, March 1990
Queens College, February, 1989
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, March 1987
Queens College Summer School of Painting, Caumsett, Long Island, Resident Faculty, June 1987
Yale Summer School, Norfolk, Connecticut, July 1987
Northwest Missouri State, Maryville, Missouri, November 1985
Boston University, March 1983
New York Studio School, August 1982
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Queens College Summer Program, Caumsett, Long Island, Visiting Artist, 1981, 1985
Hobart College, March 1982
Yale University, March 1980
Viterbo College, December 1980
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, December 1980
University of Indiana, October 1980
University of Iowa, 3-day lecture-demonstration, April 1979
Queens College, January 1979 and 1984
Hobart College, April 1976
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, April 1976
Queens College, January 1974
University of Indiana, "Painting of Jean Helion," 1973
Grants and Awards
Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy Museum , 2008
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005
Altman Prize, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, May, 2002
Research-Teaching Grant from Smith College for Bowery Gallery Exhibition expenses, October 1987
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Enrichment Grant (2), 1984
UICA Faculty Grant, 1982
Runner-up in Prix de Rome competition, spring, 1974
Danforth Fellow for Study in Art and Architecture, 1963-1967
Juror
Arts Festival, Ouray, Colorado, summer 1979
Omaha Spring Juried Art Competition, Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by the Metropolitan Arts Council,
May-June 1978