Robert Cronin

Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1936

education
B.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island, 1959
M.F.A. in Painting, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, 1962

selected museum collections
CoBrooklyn Museum of Art
National Academy Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Boston Public Library, Wiggins Collection, Boston
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington

selected solo exhibitions
2007 Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut 1989-2008
The Movie Paintings, Moviehouse Studio Gallery, Millerton, New York
2005 Marymount Manhattan College, New York
2004 Kouros Gallery, New York
New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut
Hillel, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2003 Minor Memorial Library Gallery, Roxbury, Connecticut
2002 Dillon Gallery, Oyster Bay, New York 1996-2002
2001 Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York
Rich Forum, Rosenthal Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
2000 Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
1999 Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
1998 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1996 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1994 Hugh Hill Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
1992 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, Connecticut (with Robert Andrew Parker)
Bradley International Airport, Showcase Gallery, Hartford -
(Connecticut Commission on the Arts)
Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford
1991 Klonaridis Gallery Toronto
1990 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach
The Tin Years (A Survey of the 1980’s) Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts
Nahan Contemporary, New York
1989 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York 1982-1989
Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery Hiro, Tokyo, Japan
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1988 Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut (with Charles Cajori)
1987 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts 1983-1987
Galerie Esperanza, Montreal 1985-1987
Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
1986 Pine Manor College, Boston
Watson Gallery, Houston
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1985 Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1984 Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
1983 Watson DeNagy Gallery, Houston
G.M.B. Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich
1982 Gimpel Fils, London
1981 Sculpture Center Gallery, New York
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1979 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston
1974 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

selected group exhibitions
2007 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York
2006 The Figurative Show, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004 Highlights From The Collection, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2003 Twenty Years, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
2000 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Paintings of Paintings, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
Figurative Works, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1999 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York
1998 Selections from the National Academy at Silvermine, New Caanan, Connecticut
1997 Hayes Modern, Naples, Florida
1996 Recent Acquisitions, National Academy of Design, New York
1995 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Sound Shore Gallery, Cross River, New York
1994 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York
1993 Their Faces and Their Work, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
1992 Matters of the Heart, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1991 After Duchamp, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
1990 Fiac 90, Grand Palais, Paris (Galerie Keeser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany)
1989 Sculptures, Reliefs and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
Sculpture with Color, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York
1988 Drawings from Boston, Boston Public Library
Sculpture, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1987 Drawings from Boston, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago
1986 Artists for Artists, Benefit Auction, New York
1985 Sixteen Sculptors, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
Indoors for Outdoors, Kouros Gallery, New York
Fun De Mental, Parasol, Sag Harbor, New York
Painted Sculpture and Constructions, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
1984 Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut
Heidenberg Gallery, New York
1983 Sculptors Guild, Lever House, New York
Abstract Art in New England, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
1982 Graham Gund Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Metals: Cast-Cut-Coiled, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia
1981 Marlborough Gallery, New York
1980 American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1978 Art Words/Book Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Portrait of a Friendship, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (with B.A. King, photographer)
1977 The Material Dominant, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
1976 Artists at Bennington, Bennington College, Vermont
On the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1974 Zabriskie Gallery Sculptors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1973 New Talent, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1970 Coalition, studio exhibitions, Boston
Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1965 Detroit Art Institute Annual
1963 Minnesota Biennial, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Boston Fine Arts Festival

selected biography
Baker, Kenneth: “Art-Heavy Metals”, Boston Phoenix, Sept. 14, 1982, Section 3, pg. 10.
Baker, Kenneth: “The Mechanics of Illusion”, Boston Phoenix, Nov. 14, 1972, Section 2, pg. 21.
Belz, Carl: “Boston”, Artforum, Apr., 1970, Vol. 8, no.8, pg. 90(illus.).
Boughton, Kathryn: “Falls Village Artist…Movies”, Northwest Corner Journal, The Litchfield County Times, Dec. 15, 2006, pg. 11 (illus.).
Chandler, John: “The Tin Years,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Catalogue, Dec. 2, 1990.
Cronin, Robert: “Reader’s Letters”, Modern Painters, Spring, 1992, Vol. 5, no.1, pg. 110 (illus.).
Cronin, Robert: “Reviews”, Modern Painters, Autumn, 1993, Vol. 5, no. 1, pg. 110.
Herrera Hayden: “Reviews”, Art News, Nov. 1974, pg. 88 (illus.).
Hume, Christopher: “Cronin’s Work Easy on Eyes”, The Toronto Star, Dec. 8, 1985.
Johnson, Patricia: “Encompassing Exhibition”, Houston Chronicle, July 17, 1983, pg. 15.
Kramer, Hilton: “New Talent”, The New York Times, June 17, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).
Larson, Kay: “Three at Sunne Savage’s”, The Real Paper, Nov. 27, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).
Lefferts, E.L.: “Essays Of Adoration” The Litchfield County Times, April 11, 2003, Vol. 23, no. 15, pg 15 (color illus.).
MacMillan, Sunny: “Cronin’s People”, Compass, The Lakeville Journal, Jan. 28, 1999, pgs. 1, 2, 3, & 15.
Mannheimer, Marc: “Robert Cronin, The Tin Years, Fitchburg”, Art New England, Mar. 31, 1991.
Mellana, Thomas: “The Ordinary and the Unusual”, Sunday Advocate, Stamford, Mar. 25, 2001, pg. D4 (color illus.).
Raynor, Vivien: “ART”, The New York Times (CN), Sept. 22, 1991, pg. 18 (illus.).
Rose, Matthew: “Robert Cronin: An Interview”, Art Gallery International, Jan./Feb. 1987, Vol. 8, pg. 16 (illus.).
Sasseville, Stella: “Robert Cronin – Liaisons Vegetative et Transformation”, Vie des Arts, Dec. 1985, pg. 78 (illus.).
Smith, Roberta: “Reviews”, Artforum, Dec. 1974, Vol. 13, no. 4, pg. 72 (illus.).
Sussman, Elizabeth: “On the Wall”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Catalogue, Sept. 17, 1976.
Taylor, Robert: “Sculpture in Copley Square”, Boston Globe, Oct. 31, 1982, pg. 21 (illus.).
Wilson, Stuart: “Cronin: Painted Tine and Wire Masterpieces”, The Montreal Downtowner, Sept. 18, 1985, pg. 19.
Wright, Karen: “Gallery”, Modern Painters, Spring 2001, pg. 115 (color illus.).
Wykes-Joyce, Max: “London Reviews”, London Arts Review, Apr. 9, 1982, pg. 185.
Zimmer, William: “In Stamford, Paradoxical Painting”, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1983, pg. 24.