Selected Sculpture
Selected drawings and prints
About
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1933, Lawrence Fane lived and worked in New York City for many years. Early on he served as an apprentice to sculptor George Demetrios, and his assignments included working at a bronze foundry in Florence on the enlargement and casting of a monumental sculpture. Subsequently he was awarded the Rome Prize that allowed him to travel in Europe while living and working at the American Academy in Rome for three years. During that time he participated in an exhibition Arte Americana Contemporanea at the Palazzo Venezia. Other awards have included grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and membership in the National Academy of Design. After teaching briefly at the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to New York in 1966, joining the art faculty of Queens College where he taught until 1996. He was a visiting critic and lecturer at many colleges and universities throughout the United States, including Boston University, The Yale School of Architecture, and Duke University. Fane died in New York City in 2008.
Exhibitions
One Person Exhibitions:
2007 “Form Follows Fantasy”, Sculpture and Drawings, Bigtown Gallery, Rochester, VT
2006 “The Unyielding Machines of Lawrence Fane”, sculptures and drawings, Galleria Soliaria Arte, Piacenza, Italy
2006 “Purifiers” (with signing of new artist book, M.T./L.F.):, Zabriskie Gallery, NYC
2003 ‘Hydraulics”, one person show of sculpture and drawings at Kouros Gallery,. NYC
2002 “Machines of the Mind”, a two part exhibition at the Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond (VA) and the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Wiliamsburg, VA
2000 Chamot Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
1999 Kouros Gallery, NYC
1996 Jaffe-Friede > Straus Galleries,Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH
1996 Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
1995 Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1993 Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1993 School of Design, State U. of North Carolina
1991 Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1985 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1983 Washington Art Association, Washington, Conn.
1982 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1980 Spazio Oolp, “Stones of Gloucester”,drawings and wall sculptures, Turin, Italy
1978 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1977 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1997 Duke University, Durham, NC
1976 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1969 Zabriskie Gallery, NYC
Group Exhibitions:
2007 “Rare Birds”, Luise Ross Gallery, NYC
2007 Invitated: American Academy of Arts and Letters
2006 Participant, Mark dio Suvero Peace Tower, Whitney Museum, NYC
2005 “Disegno”, The National Academy of Design Museum, NYC
2003 “According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC currated by Cynthia Nadelman
2003 “On the Wall, Off the Wall, and Out of Doors”, Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, currated by Susan Putterman
2003 178th Annual Exhibition, NationalAcademy of Design, NYC
2002 Invitational Exhibition at the National Academy of Design, NYC
2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibitional, NYC
1999 “Artists Who Lived In Gloucester”: Recent Aqusitions; Gloucester Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA
1998 “Bridging: Man and Nature,” Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1997 “ Recent Aquisitions”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1997 “Sit on This: The Chair as Art”’ Palm Beach Museum of Art, FL
1996 Annual Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
1996 “Friends of Daniel Robins”, R.I.S.D. Museum, Providence, RI
1995-96 “3 Sculptors and Their Drawings”, Ground For Sculpture,
Hamilton, NJ.
1993-94 Outdoor Sculpture Center, Kouros Gallery, Ridgefield, CT
1993 “Hands On”, Washington Art Association, CT (with Tom Doyle and John Crawford 1992 Sculpture Fields at Sagaponic Close, Southampton, NY,1992 “Largescale”, Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1991 “Proposals”, Nina Owen Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 “Artists at Home: Furniture”, Bill Bace Galler
1990 “The Significant Surface”, Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA.
1989 “Bi-Costal Sculpture”, San Francisco, CA
1988 “Courtyard Sculpture”, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1987 “New Works by Old Friends”, de Cordova Museum, Lincoln,
1986 50th Year Anniversary Exhibition of the Sculptors Guild, NYC
1986 Schulman Sculpture Park, White Plains, NY
1986 “Yankee Bronze Casting”, U. of Connecticut, Stoors, CT
1985 “Between Abstraction and Reality”, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1984 National Academy of Design Invitational, NYC
1984 “The Ways of Wood”, Organization of Independent Artist, NYC.
1983 “Aspects of Abstraction: 3 Sculptors”, Colby College Museum of
Art, Watertown, ME
1982 “Four Artists and a Writer”, Federal Hall, NYC
1980 “Arte Contemporanea Americana”, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
O.I.A. Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Wards Island, NYC
Greater Hartford Arts Council Invitational, Hartford, CT
1979 “Allegoria dell’Inpronte Digitale, Italian and American Drawing”, Galleria Il Mercato del Sale, Milan, Italy
1978 “Operation Rebuild”, traveling exhibition from Museum of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy (organized by Thomas Hess)
1976 Works on Paper, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1974 Largescale Outdoor Sculpture, de Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1972 Museum of art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
1971 “New Work”, Zabriskie Gallery, NYC
“Drawings”’ New York Studio School Invitational, NYC
Sculptors Guild Exhibition , NYC
1970 “Sculpture in the Spring”, Benton Gallery, University of Connecticut, Stoors, CT.
Bowery Gallery Invitational, NYC
“New Acquisitions”, U. of Massachusetts Museum, Amherst, MA
1969 “Drawings”, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Sculptors Guild, Lever House, NYC
1968 The Silverman Guild of Artists Annual, Silvermine, CT
1967 “New England Sculpture Invitational”, Prudential Center, Boston, MA
1966 Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
Rhode Island Arts Festival, Providence, RI
1965 New England Drawing Exhibition, Smith College
1966 Art (and travelling), Northampton, MA
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Public Collections & Commissions
De Cordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA (outdoor sculpture)
Outdoor Sculpture for Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence,RI
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Elrod Sculpture Garden, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, NYC
Museum of Contemporary American Art, Udine, Italy
Museum of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, University of North Carolina
Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, TX
Outdoor sculpture for Nichol Home, Milwaukee, WI
Fountain for Villa San Lorenzo, Assisi, Italy
Pyramid Companies, Syracuse, NY
Secker > Warburg Ltd., London, England
Museum of Art and Archeology, U. of Missouri, Columbia, MO
William Benton Museum of Art, U. of Conn., Stoors, CT
New York City Board of Education (P.S. 75)
Gloucester Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA
Museum of the National Academy of Design, NYC
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