American, 1913 - 1985
Gorsline attended the Northwood School, Lake Placid, New York, before entering the Yale University art school in New Haven, Connecticut. His most influential study experience, however, was his work with Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in New York with Kenneth H. Miller (1933-34; summers: 1933; 1935; 1937-39).
In 1936 he married Elizabeth "Zippy" Perkins, daughter of the literary editor Max Perkins, and the couple settled in her home town of New Canaan, Connecticut. They moved to Blauvelt in Rockland County, New York, in 1946, and later to New York. The couple divorced, and in 1964 Gorsline moved to France.
Gorsline worked as a painter, etcher, and illustrator. In his paintings he initially reflected the realistic simplified style of his teacher, Miller. Later he began to experiment with an abstract style of fragmented picture planes, based on Marcel Duchamp's theories of "sequential simultanieties."
Recognition for Gorsline's work in etching is demonstrated by the first prize award his work in the 1949 annual exhibition of the Library of Congress. Among his book illustrations were those for editions of Look Homeward Angel, 1947; The Compleat Angler, 1948; Little Men, 1947; What People Wore, 1952; The French Broad, 1955; and The Night Before Christmas. He wrote as well as illustrated a novel for teenagers, Farm Boy, published in 1950. Among his work for magazines was a series of six paintings honoring the silver anniversary of professional basketball, commissioned by Sports Illustrated in 1970. Gorsline also designed a number of stamps for the United States Postal Service, and in the fall of 1973, visited China as an emmissary of the United States government.
In Academy annual exhibitions Gorsline's paintings received the Carnegie Prize, 1942; an Obrig prize, 1944; the Truman Prize, 1948; and Maynard Prize, 1965. He was a member of the Academy school faculty from 1959 to 1962.
In 1936 he married Elizabeth "Zippy" Perkins, daughter of the literary editor Max Perkins, and the couple settled in her home town of New Canaan, Connecticut. They moved to Blauvelt in Rockland County, New York, in 1946, and later to New York. The couple divorced, and in 1964 Gorsline moved to France.
Gorsline worked as a painter, etcher, and illustrator. In his paintings he initially reflected the realistic simplified style of his teacher, Miller. Later he began to experiment with an abstract style of fragmented picture planes, based on Marcel Duchamp's theories of "sequential simultanieties."
Recognition for Gorsline's work in etching is demonstrated by the first prize award his work in the 1949 annual exhibition of the Library of Congress. Among his book illustrations were those for editions of Look Homeward Angel, 1947; The Compleat Angler, 1948; Little Men, 1947; What People Wore, 1952; The French Broad, 1955; and The Night Before Christmas. He wrote as well as illustrated a novel for teenagers, Farm Boy, published in 1950. Among his work for magazines was a series of six paintings honoring the silver anniversary of professional basketball, commissioned by Sports Illustrated in 1970. Gorsline also designed a number of stamps for the United States Postal Service, and in the fall of 1973, visited China as an emmissary of the United States government.
In Academy annual exhibitions Gorsline's paintings received the Carnegie Prize, 1942; an Obrig prize, 1944; the Truman Prize, 1948; and Maynard Prize, 1965. He was a member of the Academy school faculty from 1959 to 1962.
