biography of Ralph ROSENBORG (1913-1992)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, teacher, lithographer

Studied: School Art League, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1929; Henriette Reiss in NYC, 1930-33

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1949, 1959; AIC; Salons of Am., and more than 300 group exhibitions, 1934-90; WMAA, 1946, 1956; 53 solo shows in New York & other U.S. cities in US, 1935-85, including Black Mountain Col., 1957; Univ. Notre Dame, 1967; ACA Gal., NYC; Am. Acad. Arts & Letters, 1960 (Purchase Award)

Member: "The Ten," 1936 (abstract painters); Am. Abstract Artists (founder); Southern PM Soc.; Scandinavian-Am. Artists; Fed. Modern Painters & Sculptors; Woodstock AA

Work: MoMA; Guggenheim Mus; PMG; MMA; CMA; Butler AI; New Britain Mus. Am. Art; Hirshhorn Mus.; Newark Mus.; Hudson River Mus.; Montclair AM; Wadsworth Atheneum; Princeton AM; St. Louis AM; Snite Mus., Notre Dame; Univ. Oregon Art Gal.; Johnson AM, Cornell; Gray AG, NYU; Rose AM, Brandeis; Univ. Maryland Art Gal.; Lowe AG, Syracuse; Univ. Georgia Art Mus.; Colby College

Comments: Abstract Expressionist. Teaching: WPA Mural & Easel Div.; Brooklyn Mus., 1936-38; Ox-Bow Summer School, Saugatuck, MI, 1949.

Sources: WW73; WW40 (cites incorrect birth of 1910); complete exhib. record and biography in exhib. cat., Princeton Gal. FA (Princeton, NJ, 1988); American Abstract Art, 196; Woodstock AA.