Ida Applebroog

Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant", the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design.

Life and work

Born in the Bronx, New York, Ida Applebroog attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences (1949). She moved to Chicago in 1956, later attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1968). After relocating to San Diego, California she exhibited in "Invisible/Visible" at Long Beach Art Museum, 1972. In 1973 she taught at the University of California in San Diego before returning to NY. Starting in 1977 she circulated a series of self-published books through the mail, and joined Heresies/A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics. In 1981 she showed "Applebroog: Silent Stagings", her first exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY, where she continued to show for over 20 years. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design. She also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1998 and her art was the subject of a retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Applebroog's work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and others. She was profiled in the PBS documentary "Art 21: Art in the Twenty-first Century".

Applebroog's recent solo exhibitions include Ida Applebroog, Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row, (2011) and MONALISA, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY, (2010). A selection of Applebroog's works on paper are currently on show at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis MO as part of Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper. Applebroog is represented by Hauser & Wirth.

Education

• New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, 1948–50
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965–68
• Honorary Doctorate, Parsons School of Design, 1997

Books

• Galileo Works, 1977, Self Published
• Dyspepsia Works, 1979, Self Published
• Blue Books, 1989, Self Published

Videos

• Lunch Hour Tapes, 1977 25 minutes
• It's No Use Alberto, 1978 23 minutes
• Belladonna, 1989, 12 minutes (with Beth B)
• Studio Visit, 2005. Public Eye Productions, Music by Jim Coleman
• Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century (season 3, 2005. PBS

Public collections

• Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
• Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, AR
• Australia National Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
• Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
• Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
• Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
• Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien, Austria
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
• Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
• New School University, New York, NY
• Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois
• Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, Russia
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
• Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
• University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Awards and grants

• Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980
• Creative Artists in Public Service Program, New York Council on the Arts, 1983
• Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1985
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1990
• Milton Avery Distinguished Chair, Bard College, 1991–92
• Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association, 1995
• Honorary Doctorate, New School University/Parson School of Design, 1997
• MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1998
• Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
• Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2009

References

• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog: Monalisa" (Hardcover) 2010. Hauser & Wirth Pub., 2010
• ISBN 3952363006
• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog: Are You Bleeding Yet?" (Hardcover) 2002. la Maison Red Pub., 2002
• ISBN 1-56466-087-7
• Ida Applebroog, et al. Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997. Art Pub Inc, 1998.
• ISBN 0-88675-052-0.
• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog: Happy Families, A Fifteen-Year Survey. Essays by Marilyn Zeitlin, Thomas Sokolowski and Lowery Sims. Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1990
• ISBN 0-93608-020-5
• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog". Essays by Ronald Feldman, Carrie Rickey, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda F. McGreevy and Carter Ratcliff. New York, NY: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1987
• ISBN 0-914661-05
• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog: Nostrums". Essay by Carlo McCormick. New York, NY: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1989
• Ida Applebroog, "Ida Applebroog". Foreword by Noreen O'Hare. Essay by Mira Schor. The Orchard Gallery in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Derry, Ireland, 1993
• ISBN 0-90779-770-9
• Ida Applebroog, Ida Applebroog". Ulmer Museum Catalogue. Foreword by Brigitte Reinhardt and Annelie Pohlen. Essays by Brigitte Reinhardt, Annelie Pohlen, Robert Storr and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann. Ulm, Bonn, and Berlin, Germany: Ulmer Museum, Bonner Kunstverein and RealismusStudio de Neusen Gasellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, 1991
• ISBN 3-89322-365-7

External links

• Ida Applebroog at Hauser & Wirth
• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 3 (2005).