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Arthur Monroe

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    View works. Arthur Monroe, Rush Hour (IRT) NYC, 2011
    Rush Hour (IRT) NYC, 2011
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    Monroe was educated at The Boy's School in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Museum School Art School (BMAS). Monroe trained further in painting at the renowned Art Students League and under the private tutelage of the seminal German- American painter Hans Hofmann. During his lifetime, Monroe exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); the Oakland Museum (Oakland, CA); the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA,); the Pasadena Museum of Art (Pasadena, CA); the University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA); the University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA); the University of Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA); and the Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA). His artwork resides in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC); Kristiania University College (Oslo, Norway); the University of Agder (Grimstad, Norway); and the de Saisset Museum (Santa Clara, CA). His collected papers from 1950 - 2019 were acquired by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in 2019 and he will be the subject of a solo museum show in 2024.
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    Arthur Monroe

    Untitled, 1998
    Oil on canvas
    17 3/4 x 24 in
    45.1 x 61 cm
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      Arthur Monroe

      Special Presentation | 3rd Floor Gallery May 9 - June 28, 2024
      Special installation of paintings in celebration of the exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Monroe’s output has been described as Black Abstract Expressionism, the somewhat pigeonholing term suggesting the necessity of yet another “un-telling” of the story of midcentury American painting—a massive revision to include all the women,...
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      Rhythmic Abstraction: The Art of Arthur Monroe

      Blue Lotus Artists' Collective | October 11, 2024 - January 20, 2025 October 11, 2024
      Monroe’s works reflect his participation within several of the major cultural movements of the twentieth century. Born in the Bedford Stuyvesant District of Brooklyn, New...
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      Art Basel Miami Beach

      Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be on view in characteristic works...
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  • Press
    • Sonoma Valley Museum of Art presents a retrospective of the late Oakland-based artist Arthur Monroe

      artdaily
      August 12, 2024
    • Arthur Monroe

      Artforum | By Jan Avgikos
      June 1, 2021

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