Demeter Diptych     (L) Rhea Summons Demeter, (R) Persephone Departs, 1989, oil on linen, 38 x 28 inches each.

Demeter Diptych
(L) Rhea Summons Demeter, (R) Persephone Departs, 
1989, oil on linen, 38 x 28 inches each.

Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1932; Died: Bangor, Maine, March 4, 2004
Education: Carnegie Institute of Technology - BFA 1953

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Melina Mercouri Municipal Art Gallery, Hydra, Greece
2001, 2002, 2004 John Edwards Wine Cellar Art Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine
2002 Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine
1999 The Clown Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
1993 Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine
1986, 1988 Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine
1980, 1983 Tatistcheff and Company, Inc., New York City
1970, 1973, 1974, 1977 Green Mountain Gallery, New York City
1977 Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, New Jersey
1956 Tanager Gallery (as Theophil Repke), New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions:
1995 MAINE PAINTERS - McGrath Dunham Gallery, Castine, Maine
1990 American Academy of Arts & Letters - Invitational Exhibition, New York City
1987, 1988 REALISM TODAY - American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection,
       National Academy of Design, New York City
1985 AMERICAN REALISM - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors, Glenn C. Janss Collection,
      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Tour
1981 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN REALISM SINCE 1960,
      The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, World Tour
1979 THE OPPOSITE SEX - A Realistic Viewpoint, University of Missouri, Kansas City
1976 Annual Exhibition, Randolph Macon College for Women, Lynchburg, Virginia
1976 FIGURE AS FORM: AMERICAN PAINTING 1930 - 1976, St. Petersburg, Florida
Fortieth Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
PERSONAL THINGS, Hopper House, Nyack, New York
ARTIST'S CHOICE, Figurative Art in New York, New York City
1975 DODD - GROELL - GELBER, Rice University, Houston
THREE CENTURIES OF THE AMERICAN NUDE, New York Cultural Center, New York City
REPORT FROM SOHO, New York University, Grey Gallery, New York City
THE CLASSIC REVIVAL, Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois
1974 SOHO AND SO, Lehigh University
THE FIGURE IN RECENT AMERICAN PAINTING, Pennsylvania Council On the Arts
NEW IMAGES - FIGURATION IN AMERICAN PAINTING,
     Queens Museum, New York and Squibb Gallery, New Jersey
1973 A SENSE OF PLACE, University of Nebraska
American Academy of Arts & Letters (also 1974)
1972 PAINTERS OF THE LAND AND SKY, Colgate University
1971 CONTEMPORARY FIGURE - A NEW REALISM, Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, New York
1959 ART USA-59, New York Coliseum (Theophil Repke)
1954 EMERGING TALENT, Kootz Gallery, New York (Theophil Repke)

Selected Public Collections:
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Publications:
1993 A Guide to Drawing, Fifth Edition, Mendelowitz and Wakeham (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1987 Realism Today - American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection (National Academy of Design)
1985 American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (Harry Abrams & Co.)
1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, New York Graphic Society, Boston

Major Private Collections:
L. L. Bean Robert Blute Boise Cascade Margot Gordon
O. P. Jackson, Jr. Glenn C. Janss Ben Johnson Sydney Lewis
Philip Lowe MBNA America Metropolitan Life Dr. William O'Brien
Peat, Marwick Edmund Pillsbury Rita Rich Steven Robinson
Simpson & Thatcher Stevens Inc Rosemary Whitney

Rose Tiara, 1974, oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches

Rose Tiara, 1974, oil on linen, 48 x 48 inches