American, 1923 - 2002
Following military service during World War II Paul Georges studied at the University of Oregon; in Paris with Fernand Leger; and in New York and Provincetown with Hans Hofmann. He established his studio in New York in 1952. His first major New York one-man exhibition was mounted by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1955. Despite the dominance of abstract modes of painting, he consistently adhered to an expressively rendered realist interpretation of landscape, still life, the nude, and portrait. Georges was at the forefront of a group of artists that included Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro, Sr., Paul Resika, and many others who turned away from abstraction and incorporated many lessons of modernism into a representational approach to the figure.
Georges taught at the University of Colorado, has been artist in resident at Dartmouth College, and guest lecturer at numerous schools including the Yale University School of Visual Arts, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1977 he became a member of the faculty of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, holding the rank of professor. Among his many awards are the Carol Beck Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a Hallmark Purchase Award, and in 1986 an award from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In Academy annual exhibitions, he has received an Altman Prize in 1981, and the Carnegie Prize in 1983.
Georges taught at the University of Colorado, has been artist in resident at Dartmouth College, and guest lecturer at numerous schools including the Yale University School of Visual Arts, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1977 he became a member of the faculty of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, holding the rank of professor. Among his many awards are the Carol Beck Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a Hallmark Purchase Award, and in 1986 an award from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In Academy annual exhibitions, he has received an Altman Prize in 1981, and the Carnegie Prize in 1983.
