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Burgoyne Diller (1906-1965)



Life Dates
Born 1906, The Bronx, NY
Died 1965, Brooklyn, NY

Education
1925-27   Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
1928-1933   Art Students League, New York, NY

Selected Museum Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Amon Carter Museum, Ft Worth, TX
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York, NY Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

1932   Cathedral Branch Library, New York, NY
1933   Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
1934   Theodore A. Kohn & Son Gallery, New York, NY
1946   Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
The Pinacotheca, New York, NY
1949   The Pinacotheca, New York, NY
1951   Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1956   Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1958   Galerie Chalette, New York, NY
1962   Glassboro State College Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
1963   Birmingham Southern College Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1964   Galerie Chalette, New York, NY
1966   Burgoyne Diller: Retrospective, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1968   Burgoyne Diller: Retrospective, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
Burgoyne Diller: Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1971   Burgoyne Diller: Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1972   Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
1978   Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
1979   Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY and Houston, TX
1980   Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY and Houston, TX
1981   Burgoyne Diller: Paintings, Sculpture, Collages, Drawings 1938 – 1964, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1982   Galerie Gimpel - Hanover, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Reckerman, Cologne, West Germany
1984   Burgoyne Diller: Drawings, 1945–1964, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Burgoyne Diller: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
1987   Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989   Burgoyne Diller: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
1990   Burgoyne Diller: Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Burgoyne Diller: A Selection of Drawings from 1945–1961, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Meredith Long Contemporary, Houston, TX
1991   Galerie & Edition Schlegal, Zurich, Switzerland
Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1994   Meredith Long Contemporary, Houston, TX
1995   Burgoyne Diller-Pioneer of Abstraction, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1996   Burgoyne Diller, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
1998   Burgoyne Diller: The Third Dimension, Sculpture & Drawings, 1930–1965, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999   Burgoyne Diller: Collages, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2001   Burgoyne Diller: Works on Paper, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Burgoyne Diller: The 1930s, Cubism to Abstraction, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Burgoyne Diller: The Late Drawings, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Burgoyne Diller: Collage, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Plainsboro, NJ
2004 Burgoyne Diller: The 1960s, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

1932   Exhibition of Paintings: Fifth New Group, G.R.D. Studio, New York, NY
1933   Fifty Paintings by American Artists, Montross Gallery, New York, NY
1937   Annual Exhibition of the American Abstract Artists, Squibb Galleries, New York, NY
1939   Annual Exhibition of the American Abstract Artists, Squibb Galleries, New York, NY
1940   Abstract Art in America, St. Etienne Gallery, New York, NY
1941   Annual Exhibition of the American Abstract Artists, Squibb Galleries, New York, NY
1945   Burgoyne Diller and Jose de Rivera, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1946   Contemporary Sculpture, Objects, Constructions, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1947   Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The White Plane, The Pinacotheca, New York, NY
1948   American Abstract Artists, Chinese Gallery, New York, NY
1949   American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
1950   American Abstract Artists, The Pinacotheca-Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists, Second 1950 Exhibition, Pinacotheca-Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1951   Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Danish, British and American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, NY
Some Areas of Search from 1913 to 1951, Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists 1951 Exhibition with Danish and British Artists, American-British Art Center, New York, NY
1952   Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1953   The Classic Tradition in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Formal Organization in Modern Painting, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
1956   Abstract Art: 1900 to Today, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1957   The Sphere of Mondrian, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1959   Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1960   Construction and Geometry in Painting, Galerie Chalette, New York, NY
Konkrete Kunst, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
1962   Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
A Survey of American Sculpture, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1963   The New Tradition: Modern Americans Before 1940, The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1964   The Classic Spirit in 20th Century Art, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965   Colorists 1950–1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Selected Works by Contemporary New Jersey Artists 1965, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1966   Art of the United States: 1670–1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1967   Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1968   Documenta 4, Kassel, West Germany
The 1930s: Painting and Sculpture in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969   New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940–1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1971   23 Masters of Early Abstract Art, Denise Rene, New York, NY
1972   Mondrian and American Neoplasticism, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Geometric Abstraction: 1926–1942, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1973   Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1975   El Color Como Lenguaje, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbus; Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venequela; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1977   American Abstract Artists, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1979   American Abstract Artists: The Language of Abstraction, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
American Abstract Artists: 1930s–1940s, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1980   American Abstract Artists: The Early Years, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY; Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA; Cummer Gallery, Jacksonville, FL; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Geometric Tradition in American Painting: 1920–1980, Rosa Esman Gallery & Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1981   Decade of Transition: 1940–1950, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Amerianishe Malerei: 1930–1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich, West Germany
Classic Americans: XX Century Painters & Sculptors, Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Ciba-Geigy: Aspects of Abstraction, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1982   The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
De Stijl: 1917–1931, Visions of Utopia, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Quilts & Collages: American Art in Pieces, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA
1983   Abstract Painting and Sculpture in American 1927–1944, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Beyond the Plane: American Constructions 1930-1965, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park MD
1985   Contrasts of Forms: Geometric Abstract Art 19top–1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1987   Generations of Geometry: Abstract Painting in America Since 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York, NY
Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America, 1934–1955, Selections from the Peter B. Fischer Collection, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1989   Abstraction-Geometry- Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in American Sine 1945, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Patricia and Philip Frost Collection, American Abstraction, 1930–1945, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1991   Burgoyne Diller and American Abstract Artists of the 1930s and 1940s, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
Modern American Painting, 1925–1950, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940s, Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1992   Theme & Improvisation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912–1950, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1993   Uses of Geometry: Then and Now, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
1994   On Paper: Abstraction in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1995   Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1996   American Modernism 1920–45, Crane-Kalman Gallery, London, England
Abstraction Across America: American Abstract Artists & Transcendentalists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1997   Geometric Abstraction, 1937–1997, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
The Geometric Tradition in American Art, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
1998   Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Fifty Years of American Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s, The Donald J. Nichols Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Twentieth Century American Drawings: From the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, AK; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1999   The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
American Modernism: The Francoise and Harvey Rambach Collection, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY
Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
2000   Art of Our Century, Part II, The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Die Sammlung Erling Neby im Arithmeum (Geometric Constructivist Art from the Collection of Erling Neby), Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
In Depth: Recent Acquisitions in Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000 Collectors’ Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2001   Up on the Roof, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
1950-1965: Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Gift to the Nation, Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington, DC
Selected Recent Acquisitions, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2002 Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Early American Abstraction: Small Scale – Large Dimension, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Residence of Ambassador Clifford Sobel, United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, The Netherlands
2003 The 1940s: Modern American Art & Design, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
In Sequence, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Tracing the Sublime, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Jazz Seen, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
A Celebration of Creativity: Three Centuries of American Masterworks on Paper, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
New Additions: Prints for an American Museum, Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Modern American Painting from the NYU Art Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
2005 Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
American Abstraction, 1900-1960, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Selections from the Pollock Works on Paper Study Collection, Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
2009 Personal Geometry, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibitions
1930s: Modern American Art & Design
1950 - 1965: Abstraction on Paper
Abstraction Across America, 1934 – 1946
American Abstract Artists: 1930s and 1940s
Aspects of American Abstraction, 1930-1942
Breaking Boundaries: American Abstract Art, 1930 - 1945
Burgoyne Diller: Collages
Burgoyne Diller: Pioneer of Abstraction
Burgoyne Diller: The 1930s, Cubism to Abstraction
Burgoyne Diller: The 1960s - Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Burgoyne Diller: The Third Dimension, Sculpture & Drawings, 1930-1965
Burgoyne Diller: Twenty-Five on Paper
Collage: Made in America
Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer
Early American Abstraction (online exhibition)
Early American Abstraction: Small Scale - Large Dimension
In Sequence
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade
Mood Indigo: The Legacy of Duke Ellington - A Look at Jazz and Improvisation in American Art
On Paper: Abstraction in American Art
The 1940s: Modern American Art & Design