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Gabriel Laderman (December 26, 1929 – March 10, 2011) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and 1960s. He studied with a number of leading American painters, including
Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...
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Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter ...
, and
Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Lat ...
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Biography


Education

In 1948 he began by doing the exercises in
Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
's ''
Pedagogical Sketchbook ''Pedagogical Sketchbook'' is a book by Paul Klee. It is based on his extensive lectures on visual form at Bauhaus Staatliche Art School where he was a teacher in between 1921-1931. Originally handwritten – as a pile of working notes he used in ...
'', which at the time was available only in the original
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2 ...
edition in German. In the summer of 1949 he went to
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and studied with
Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...
. Since he already knew about
abstract expressionist Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of th ...
painting (
Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter ...
had had his first show) he began painting in that tradition, informed with what Hofmann had taught about forming. He met de Kooning that summer and began to show him his work in September of that year on a regular basis, while also attending Brooklyn College where he studied with
Ad Reinhardt Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centere ...
, Alfred Russell,
Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Lat ...
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Burgoyne Diller Burgoyne A. Diller (January 13, 1906 – January 30, 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work o ...
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Jimmy Ernst Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany. Early life Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of German Surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Stra ...
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Stanley William Hayter Stanley William Hayter (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of th ...
and
Robert J. Wolff Robert Jay Wolff (1905–1978) was an early pioneer of the American abstract art. His paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended Yale University and the Ecole Des Beaux Ar ...
(the chairman of the department). He also began to go to Hayter's ''
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'', which he used as a shop for printing his engraved and etched plates. About his Brooklyn College years, Laderman said: :"The school was a hot bed of
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radicalism. One of the major buzzwords was for us to try to get "on the idea level." That meant having a pictorial idea which would generate work. It was clear that my teachers at Brooklyn and also both de Kooning and Hayter did not believe that they had to go through the motions of imitating recent radical art. They were going out on their own and inventing new art. All of them, though, believed that there were pictorial actions which guided art making and were required to validate the work. But those actions could be unheard of ones, or ideas imported from elsewhere and other forms. Russell had us not only drawing in the
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, but also highly touted the value of drawing parked cars, looking through the windows into the internal spaces, and those as seen in a second car through a first one. Reinhardt made a trip around the world and came back with slides of
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, often severely symmetrical, but with
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incised, which had no symmetry, since it was excerpted from the Koran. He also brought back slides of the interiors of Hindu and Buddhist temples that were so dark it was almost impossible to make out the figures. We understood his paintings, both because we could see their actions, and because he made his ideational sources clear through the images he showed in school and at his lectures. I also was one of the youngest members of the artist's club, which started while I was in college on the top floor of the building above ''Atelier 17''. This was the abstract expressionist hangout, and it was where the members of the movement displayed their ideas and publicly disagreed with one another." After graduating from Brooklyn, he spent a year as a graduate student in art history in the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. There, he studied
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and 14th century Italian art. Both traditions influenced his later work. In 1955, after two years in the army, he went to
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for his MFA, with an assistantship in painting. During his time there, he began to try to paint from nature with less distortion and invention.


Teaching

In 1957 he was appointed Instructor in art at SUNY,
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. After two years at New Paltz he was offered a raise in rank, but chose to return to New York where he taught at
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until 1967 when he began teaching at
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. From 1967 through 1996 he was artist in residence and lectured at many schools and museums, including
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Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
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Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont. Founded in 1932 as a women's college, it became co-educational in 1969. It claims to be the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in ...
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Pennsylvania Academy The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Moore College of Art Moore College of Art & Design is a private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its undergraduate programs are available only for female students, but its other educational programs, including graduate programs, are co-educational. Hist ...
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, The Boston Museum School, at the
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, Amherst College, Stanford University,
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, Art School of Surabaya, Art Center Jakarta, USIS centers in Japan in
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, Bangkok, Victorian College of Art, Melbourne; College Ballarat,
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, Bloomington,
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, American University,
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, the
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, and the Yale-Norfolk School. He retired from teaching in 1996 but continued to paint.


Paintings and exhibitions

His first exhibited painting, in 1949, was abstract expressionist, in the vein of de Kooning's work. Starting with a show of engravings and intaglios at the Tanager Gallery in 1960 his work was painted from nature and always representational. Starting in 1962, he exhibited with the Schoelkopf Gallery until the gallery was closed, due to the death of its proprietor. Subsequently, he showed with Peter Tatistcheff. His work, starting in the 1980s was usually of the figure including a number of major paintings with subject matter. The early subject matter paintings were all about crimes, and several were based on the Maigret series of detective novels by the Belgian author
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, including the series "Murder and its Consequences", and his most famous painting "The House of Death and Life".


Death

Laderman died of heart failure at age 81, on March 10, 2011, in
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Selected museum exhibitions

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Awards and honors

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 — Altman Prize * 1993
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 — Thomas R. Proctor Prize * 1992 Elected into the
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* 1990 Ingram-Merrill Award * 1989
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, Resident Artist at Bellagio * 1988 Queens College Presidential Fellowship, * 1988
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* 1988 CUNY Research Foundation * 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship * 1986 CUNY Research Award * 1983 Ingram-Merrill Award * 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship, CUNY Research Award * 1975 Dept. of the Interior — Bicentennial Landscape Commission, Ingram-Merrill Award * 1973 CUNY Research Award * 1962
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Award to Italy * 1960
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Fellowship * 1959 Yaddo Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award


Selected collections

* Andrew Dickson White Museum,
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* Archdiocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana *
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* Chase Manhattan Bank *
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* Davidson Collection * Edmund P. Pillsbury * Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia * FMC Corporation, Chicago * Malcolm Holtzman * Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum * Innes Collection, Charlottesville * The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection,
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* Jane Livingston *
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, NYC *
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* National Museum (Muzium Negara), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. *
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* Robert Natkin *
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* Spurzem Collection * Uris-Hilton Hotels * Weatherspoon Gallery, NC * William Bailey


Notes


References

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External links


Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist



Gabriel Laderman at Tatistcheff (a review)




* ttp://gabrielladerman.typepad.com/ Gabriel Laderman's Art Blog
The New Republic Obituary: Honoring Gabriel Laderman, who wielded a battering ram on behalf of beauty
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