1922 - 2007
Olitski studied at the National Academy of Design from 1939 to 1942. He was in Paris in 1949-50 when he attended the Ossip Zadkine School and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. He received his B.A. in 1952 and his M.A. in 1954, both from New York University. In 1961 Olitski won second prize at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, and in 1967 he was awarded a Gold Medal and the William A. C. Clark Prize at the 30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painters at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1987, he won the the Milton and Sally Avery Distinguished Professorship in 1987 at Bard College, New York. He was chairman of the Fine Art Division at C.W. Post College of Long Island University (1956-63) after which he taught at Bennington College, Vermont (1963-67).
Olitski has had over one hundred solo exhibitions since 1951 at venues such as the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and in New York at M. Knoedler & Co. and Andre Emmerich Gallery. Retrospective exhibitions of Olitski's work have been held at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York (1990), and at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College (1993). The artist lives in Meredith, New Hampshire, and Islamorada, Florida, and is represented by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries.
Olitski has had over one hundred solo exhibitions since 1951 at venues such as the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and in New York at M. Knoedler & Co. and Andre Emmerich Gallery. Retrospective exhibitions of Olitski's work have been held at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York (1990), and at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College (1993). The artist lives in Meredith, New Hampshire, and Islamorada, Florida, and is represented by Salander-O'Reilly Galleries.
