- Paul Reed (artist)
Paul (Allen) Reed is an American artist most associated with the
Washington Color School andColor Field Painting.Reed was born in
Washington DC and currently resides in the Virginia suburbs outside of DC. He attended and graduated from bothSan Diego State College inSan Diego , CA and theCorcoran School of Art in Washington DC. Reed’s group show debut was in 1958 in the Watkins Gallery,American University . He and a few of his select his contemporary peers made a splash in a 1965 group show at theWashington Gallery of Modern Art entitled The Washington Color Painters. Also called theWashington Color School , this group had a profound influence in the abstract arena and the pushing of artistic boundaries from mid-century forward. His first solo show was in January 1963 at theAdams-Morgan Gallery in Washington, DC. In November of that same year, he had another solo show in the East Hampton Gallery inNew York City .From 1962 to 1971 Paul Reed served as Art Director for the
Peace Corps after which he joined theCorcoran School of Art in the position of Assistant Professor. In the mean time, he was featured in several dozen group and solo exhibitions including:Selected Group Exhibitions
1964
Museum of Modern Art , New York City1965
Institute of Modern Art , Washington, DC1965
Art Institute of Chicago 25th Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Art1965
Phoenix Museum , Inaugural Exhibition1965-66 Washington Gallery of Modern Art, circulated to:
University of Texas Art Galleries ,Austin TX Art Gallery,University of California at Santa Barbara , CA Rose Art Galleries,Brandeis University , Waltham, MAWalker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN1966
John Heron Art Museum 1966
Des Moines Art Center , Op Art1966 National Collection of Fine Arts - The Hard Edge Trend White House Rotation Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition
1966 American Embassy in Damascus Exhibition
1967
Philbrook Art Center ,Tulsa, Oklahoma – Collectors Choice VII1967
School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York City – Homage toMorandi 1967
Corcoran Gallery of Art , Recent Acquisitions1968 Comprehensive Survey National Collection of Fine Arts
1968 the Jefferson Place Ten Years, Washington, DC
1968 Museum of Art,
University of Oklahoma ,Norman, OK – East Coast-West Coast Paintings1969
Wadsworth Atheneum inHartford, CT – Inaugural Exhibition1969
Steinberg Gallery of Art ,Washington University ] ,St. Louis, MO - The Development of Modern Painting,Jackson Pollack to Present1969 The
Westmoreland County Museum of Art , 10th Anniversary Exhibition1969
University of Wisconsin-Madison ,Madison, WI 1969 Dec.
Ringling Museum of Art ,Sarasota, FL – The Washington Painters1970 Feb.
Jacksonville Art Museum ,Jacksonville, FL - The Washington Painters1970 May
Baltimore Museum of Art ,Baltimore, MD – Washington Twenty Years1970 Jul.
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center - New Accessions USA1971 Jan.
Corcoran Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC –Melzac Collection2000-2002 Multiple-Venue Tour in Modernism and Abstraction; Treasures from the
Smithsonian American Art Museum Selected Solo Shows
1964 Jan.
Jefferson Place Gallery ,Washington, DC 1964 Dec.
East Hampton Gallery ,New York City 1966 Jan.
Corcoran Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC 1966 Apr.
East Hampton Gallery ,New York City 1966 Aug
East Hampton Gallery ,New York City 1967 Mar.
Steinberg Gallery of Art ,Washington University ,St. Louis, MO 1967 Nov.
Jefferson Place Gallery ,Washington, DC 1967 Nov.
Bertha Schaefer Gallery ,New York City 1970
U.S. Peace Corps ,Washington, DC 1971 Apr.
Matthews Center ,Arizona State University ,Tempe, AZ 1971 May
Northern Virginia Community College ,Annandale, VA 1971 Oct.
Pyramid Gallery ,Washington, DC 1971 Dec.
Bertha Schaefer Gallery ,New York City 1973 Feb.
Pyramid Gallery ,Washington, DC 1976 Aug.
Chilmark Gallery ,Martha’s Vineyard 1977 Jan.
Phoenix Art Museum ,Phoenix, AZ 1978 Mar.
Yares Gallery ,Scottsdale, AZ 1979 Mar.
Yares Gallery ,Scottsdale, AZ 1979 Dec.
Yares Gallery ,Scottsdale, AZ 1981 Apr.
Yares Gallery ,Scottsdale, AZ 1982 Mar-Apr WPA (
Washington Project for the Arts ) ,Washington, DC 1997 Feb.
Watkins Gallery ,Washington, DC 1997 Nov. the
Arts Club of Washington ,Washington, DC Paul Reed is also in more than 50 public collections including: the
Detroit Institute of Art inDetroit, Michigan ;Emory University in Atlanta, GA; theHirshhorn Museum and Sculptural Garden in Washington, DC; theNational Museum of Art in Washington, DC; thePhoenix Museum of Art in Phoenix, AZ; theSanta Barbara Museum inSanta Barbara, California ; and theWadsworth Athanaeum in Hartford, CT.References
Who’s Who in America 1976-1997Who’s Who in American Art 1973-1997The Dictionary of Art (MacMillan Co., London 1989)L’Avant Garde Abtraite L’Art Americain de 1950 a 1970 “Nouvelle Abtraction” – Claudine Humblet, Bruxelles
The National Museum of American Art, Interactive CD ROM, 1995
Introduction & Text by Roy Slade, "The Corcoran & Washington Art" Copyright 1976 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 2000 copies printed by Garamond Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC# 76-42098
The Vincent Melzac Collection, Forward by Walter Hopps, Introduction by Ellen Gross Landau, Retrospective Notes on the Washington Color School by Barbara Rose, Copyright 1971 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: printed by Garamond/Pridemark Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC#75-153646
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Interview with Gerald Nordland Conducted by Susan Larsen, Chicago, Illinois May 25-26, 2004 http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/nordla04.htm
External links
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/r/paul_allen_reed/paul_allen_reed.aspx]
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/search/index.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/6634?term=paul%20reed#paul1] Paul Allen Reed papers, 1952-1992elected paintings
* [http://americanart.si.edu/images/1993/1993.55_1b.jpg] #1D, 1965, Paul Reed, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1993.55
* [http://americanart.si.edu/images/1980/1980.6.14_1b.jpg] #8, 1963, Paul Reed , Smithsonian American Art Museum 1980.6.14
* [http://americanart.si.edu/images/1976/1976.59.4_1b.jpg] 10-26-75-3, Paul Reed, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1976.59.4
* [http://americanart.si.edu/images/1966/1966.87_1b.jpg] Interchange no. 2, 1966, Paul Reed, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1966.87
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