John Seery (born 1941) is an American artist who is associated with the

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: ''European Abstraction Lyrique'' born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered ...

movement.
retrieved June 2, 2010 He was born in

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, was raised in

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and as a teen, moved to

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Biography

He studied at

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from 1959 to 1963 then continued his studies at the

Art Academy of Cincinnati The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design in Cincinnati, Ohio, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. It was founded as the McMicken School of Design in 1869, and was a department of the U ...

and

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best pu ...

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. He was on the faculty of the

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art schoo ...

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and was a visiting lecturer at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

during the 1980s. He currently lives in Florida.

Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Julius Baer Art Collection, Switzerland

References

Sources

* Brandl, Mark Staff, ''John Seery'', Richterswil, Kunsthaus Richterswil, 1998. * Galerie Andre Emmerich and

Peter Schjeldahl Peter Charles Schjeldahl (; March 20, 1942 – October 21, 2022) was an American art critic, poet, and educator. He was noted for being the head art critic at ''The New Yorker'', having earlier written for ''The Village Voice'', ''ARTnews'', and ...

, ''John Seery: Paintings'', Zurich March, 1975. * The

Madison Art Center The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and ...

, ''John Seery: Paintings'', Madison, Wisconsin Madison Art Center, 1974.

External links

John Seery at the National Gallery of Australia

Interview with John Seery 2010, Whitewall Magazine
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