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Embry, Norris Embry
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NORRIS EMBRY
1921-1981

Norris Embry was born on January 14, 1921 in Louisville, Kentucky.

He grew up in East Orange, New Jersey outside New York City and Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago area, attending public schools through high school. He later studied at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland and the Art Institute in Chicago. In the late 1940’s, he attended the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy ; his teacher, the Expressionist painter Oskar Koskoschka, was to have a lasting influence on Embry’s work.

During his adolescent years in the Chicaao area, Embry developed a keen interest in avant-garde literature, music and art. In 1947 Embry decided to devote his life to painting and, for the next 15 years until the early 1960’s, embarked on a nomadic artistic career which would take him from San Francisco to New York, to post-war Europe, as well as Turkey and North Africa.

Amongst the countries in Europe where he took up temporary residence were : Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England and Sweden. It was the Mediterraneon culture and climate that struck a chord with his heart and his artistic imagination, and in particular, Greece where he returned frequently.

Throughout much of his life, Embry suffered from severe bouts of mental illness. In the mid- sixties, after having sought medical treatment at the Shepphard Pratt Institue in Baltimore, Maryland, he made that city his permanent residence. He continued to live and paint in Baltimore until the last weeks of his life.

After a series of strokes that began in Baltimore, he died in Louisville, Kentucky on February 17, 1981 where is he buried in Cave Hill Cemetary


Solo Exhibitions:

1996 | Scio Nova, New York, NY
Works by Norris Embry

1992 | Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY
Selected works by NO

1992 | Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
Norris Embry: Selected work

1990 | Hal Katzen Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1989 | 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected work

1987 | Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Norris Embry, The Final Years 1978-1980

1987 | Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
The Final Years 1978-1980

1985 | Monique Knowlton Gallery New York, NY
Selected work

1984 | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
Private Collection Gallery

1982 | C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Selected work

1981 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Memorial Exhibit

1980 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1980 | Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Selected Work

1978 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1977 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1977 | Galerie Leitzov, Berlin, Germany
Selected work

1977 | Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL
Selected work

1976 | Louise E. Thorn Memorial Art Gallery, Keene, NH
Selected works

1976 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1976 | Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL
Selected work

1975 | MacDowell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Selected work

1975 | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Selected work

1975 | Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1974 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1964 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
Selected work

1962 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art show sponsored by the Society of Contemporary American Art

1962 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
Seletced work

1958 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Norris Emby: Selected Monographs

1958 | Athens, Greece
Art show sponsored by the U.S. Information Center,

1950 | Heinz Trokes Atelier, Berlin, Germany
Selected work

Group Exhibitions:

2005 | Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY
Selected work

1997 | Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
Against the Grain

1992 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art

1992 | Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
"Ten Figurative Artists"

1992 | Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art

1992 | Centro de Arte Riena Sophia, Madrid, Spain
Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art

1992 | Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art

1989 | Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
An Art of Wondering : The King Ubu Gallery 1952-1953

1984 | Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
"Inspirit"

1984 | Willard Gallery, New York, NY
"Selected Drawings by 11 Artists"

1977 | The Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
"Nothing but Nudes"

1974 | Owensboro Museum, Owensboro, KY
"Kentucky Expatriots"

1973 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
" Works on paper"

1966 | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Selected Work

1965 | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Selected Work

1964 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Selected Work

1962 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected work

1960 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
100 Works on Paper : United States, Austria, Germany » organised by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1958 | American Gallery, Athens, Greece
USIS Exhibition

1953 | UBU Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected work

1950 | Robert Duncan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected work


Museum collecties:

Hirshhorn Museum
Smithsonian Institue
P.O. Box 37012
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculture Garden
NRC Code 350
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 105-1400

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (and 89th Street)
New York , NY 10128

The Arkansas Arts Center
501 9th Street, Little Rock , AR 72202

The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218-3898

The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street, Newark , NJ 07101

The Speed Art Museum
2035 South Third Street
Louisville, KY 40208


University of Kentucky Art Museum
Lexington, KY 40506-0032
Datum toegevoegd: 29/01/2006 door: De Kunsthistoricus
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