Robert Moskowitz (b. 1935, Brooklyn, d. 2024, Manhattan) was a prominent figure of the 1970s New Image Painting group, whose innovative image-making techniques emerged out of the Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimalism movements. From the beginning of his career, Moskowitz’s paintings and drawings defied easy categorization, often depicting pared-down figures and symbols that reflected his personal experiences juxtaposed against stark, gestural backgrounds. By divorcing them from their original context and meaning, Moskowitz’s images seem to exist in a liminal space between time and timelessness, between recognition and abstraction. Nevertheless, he used ubiquitous imagery to render his subjects recognizable to the viewer, allowing them to imbue their own meaning into his representations and participate in his image-making process.
Moskowitz lived and worked in New York. He had solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990); the Art Gallery of Ontario (1989); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1989); and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1981). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska (2022); Cincinnati Museum of Art (2021); International Print Center, New York (2019); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2012); Art Institute of Chicago (2011); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2010); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1986). Moskowitz’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Broad, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
BIOGRAPHY
1935 Born in Brooklyn, New York.
2024 Died in New York.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings from Four Decades,
curated by Dieter Schwarz (14 March – 16 May 2024)
2023 Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings from the 1960’s and 1970’s
(1–29 April)
2018 Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Window Shades 1959–62
(8 February – 24 March). Catalogue.
2017 Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings 2016–2017
(13 October – 3 December)
Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, Texas. Robert Moskowitz: Drawings
(24 February – 7 April). Catalogue.
2014 Kerry Schuss Gallery at Independent Fair, New York.
Robert Moskowitz: Window Shade Paintings and Drawings 1961–62 (6–15 November)
Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(2 November – 21 December)
2013 Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings 2012–2013
(3 March – 21 April)
2012 Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz Envelopes (1962–1963)
(14 April – 20 May)
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Shower of Forms: Works on Paper by Robert Moskowitz (20 February – 17 March)
2011 D’Amelio Terras, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(23 April – 18 June)
2010 Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, Texas. Robert Moskowitz: Works on Paper
(25 May – 2 July). Catalogue.
2008 D’Amelio Terras, New York. Robert Moskowitz: New Paintings
(8 November 2008 – 31 January 2009)
2007 Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, Texas. Robert Moskowitz: Pastels
(7 March – 12 April)
2005 Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(6 May – 11 June)
Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Works on Paper 1995–2004 (2 February – 19 March)
2004 Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Work
(February – March)
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
(23 January – 23 April)
2003 Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Work
(1 February – 15 March)
2000 Peter Blum Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Blue
(30 November 2000 – 3 February 2001)
1999 Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
(23 March – 12 June)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
1998 Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings
(3 February – 21 March)
1995 Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Drawings
(11 November – 16 December)
Helman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Work
1992 BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: New Work
(through 21 March)
1991 Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm. Robert Moskowitz
(September – October)
Grob Gallery, London. Robert Moskowitz: Oils on Paper
(22 March – 4 May). Catalogue.
1989 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Robert Moskowitz
(21 June – 17 September 1989). Exhibition travelled:
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California (20 October 1989 – 7 January 1990);
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (9 February – 24 April 1990). Catalogue.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Robert Moskowitz
1988 BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: New Work
(3–26 March)
1986 BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
(5 February – 8 March). Exhibition travelled as Robert Moskowitz: MATRIX/Berkeley 97
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (21 May – 15 July). Catalogue.
1983 Portland Center for Visual Arts, Oregon. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings and Drawings
(31 March – 30 April)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
(16 February – 19 March). Catalogue.
1981 Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Robert Moskowitz
(3 October – 15 November 1981). Exhibition travelled: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
(18 December 1981 – 31 January 1982). Catalogue.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings
(22 March – 10 May). Exhibition travelled: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
(10 July – 30 August). Catalogue.
1980 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings 1966–70
(9 December 1980 – 3 January 1981). Exhibition travelled:
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (7–31 January 1981)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Drawings
(6–24 December 1980). Exhibition travelled: Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
(7–31 January 1981)
1979 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings 1973–74
(5–29 September 1979). Exhibition travelled: Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
(6 October – 3 November 1979); La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
(30 November 1979 – 6 January 1980)
1977 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, The Clocktower, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(19 October – 16 November)
1974 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York. 4 New Paintings by Robert Moskowitz
(30 November – 19 December)
1973 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(10–29 November)
1971 Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings (13 March – 10 April). Catalogue.
1970 French & Company, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(13 April – 4 May)
1962 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz
(10 March – 5 April)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(15–26 October)
Southampton Arts Center, New York. Couples Squared
(27 July – 14 September)
Totah Gallery, New York. This Must Be the Place
(19 June – 16 August)
JJ Murphy Gallery, New York. An Extended Family of Painters: Hermine Ford,
Robert Moskowitz, Jack Tworkov, Janice Biala, and Daniel Brustlein (13 March – 13 April)
2022 Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Storyville: The Intersection of Abstraction, Allusion, and Depiction (16 August – 22 December)
2021 Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco. Animals Among Us
(15 November – 30 December)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. American Painting: The Eighties Revisited,
organized by Kate Bonansinga (12 March – 11 July)
2020 Texas Gallery, Houston. Bykert & More
(3 February – 14 March)
Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco. Crown Point Press in the ‘80s
(9 January – 7 March)
2019 Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo, Italy. Pathos
(20 December 2019 – 22 February 2020)
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York. Summer Sale: Selected Works
(17 June – 16 August)
Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Algus, Carlson, Moskowitz
(10 May – 15 June)
International Print Center, New York. Pulled in Brooklyn: 26 Print Shops / 101 Artists
(4 April – 15 June)
56 Henry, New York. Notebook
(9 February – 31 March)
2018 Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California.
Salon Style II: Collected Marks on Paper (20 September 2018 – 18 February 2019)
2017 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. What Absence Is Made Of
(18 October 2017 – 30 September 2020)
2016 Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, Texas. Works on paper by James Bishop,
James Castle, Suzan Frecon, Robert Moskowitz, Fred Sandback, John Zurier
(September – October)
UBS Art Gallery, New York. Ways and Means: a new look at process materials in art,
curated by Jason Andrew and organized by Norte Maar (18 July – 7 October)
Lannan Foundation Collection, Sante Fe.
A Visit with Old Friends: Selections from the Lannan Collection (30 January – 6 March)
2015 MoMA PS1, New York. Greater New York
(11 October 2015 – 7 March 2016). Catalogue.
Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. The Good Earth
(9–31 July)
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. This Room
(26 June – 1 August)
Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston. Reduce, Repeat, Reuse:
Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Moskowitz, Peter Downsbrough (13 June – 24 July)
Garrison Art Center, New York. Crossing the Lines
(4 April – 3 May)
2014 Norte Maar, New York. Jennifer Melby Editions: 18 Years of Intaglio Prints
(7 November – 14 December)
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York. Spaces of American Pop
(2 October – 20 December)
Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York. Half Drop
(2 February – 16 March)
2013 Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles. 40 Years at The Daniel Weinberg Gallery
(23 November 2013 – 11 January 2014)
Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco. Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition
(1 June – 30 August)
2012 DC Moore Gallery, New York. Paved Paradise
(6–29 September)
Anton Kern Gallery, New York. It’s Always Sunny on the Inside
(10 July – 17 August)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois.
Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity (20 June – 23 September). Catalogue.
Lannan Foundation Gallery, Sante Fe. Transparent: Peter Alexander. Subhankar Banerjee.
Uta Barth. Thomas Joshua Cooper. Gloria Graham. Morris Louis. Robert Moskowitz.
Fred Sandback. Kate Sheperd. Iain Stewart. James Turrell. (28 April – 15 July)
New York Center for Arts and Media Studies, New York. What I Know,
curated by Jason Andrew (15 February – 17 March)
2011 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection
(19 November 2011 – 26 February 2012). Catalogue.
2010 Lawrence Markey, Inc., San Antonio, Texas. November Exhibition: Ernst Caramelle,
Mel Bochner, Suzan Frecon, Robert Moskowitz, Fred Sandback (November)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection (13 July – 3 October)
D’Amelio Terras, New York. Spray!
(8 July – 13 August)
Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston. Moving Patterns
(16 June – 3 August)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Water Work,
curated by Innis H. Shoemaker (15 May – 18 July)
Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston. Holding Patterns
(8 May – 15 June)
2009 Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. The Living and the Dead
(1 July – 7 August)
2006 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Against the Current:
20th Century Representational Art in the Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(14 October 2006 – 9 September 2007)
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 35@35
(24 June – 10 September)
Galerie Lelong, New York. About Light
(23 June – 4 August)
2005 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Drawing from the Modern: 1975–2005
(14 September 2005 – 9 January 2006). Catalogue.
Norte Maar, Rouses Point, New York. Country Mouse / City Mouse,
curated by Jason Andrew (5–31 July)
New York State Museum, Albany. Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art,
organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2 April – 10 July)
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York. NeoCon
(2 April – 12 May)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Contemporary Voices:
Works from The UBS Art Collection (4 February – 25 April 2005). Exhibition travelled:
Fondation Beyeler, Basel (26 November 2005 – 19 March 2006). Catalogue.
2004 BlumHelman Gallery, New York.
Group Show: Neil Jenney, Robert Moskowitz, Donald Sultan (13 September – 10 October)
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida. Return to Realism:
Contemporary Works from The UBS Art Collection (28 January – 28 March)
2003 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago. New Acquisitions Featuring Hiroshi Sugimoto, Diane Arbus,
Philip Guston, Edward Lipski, Robert Moskowitz and Andy Warhol (18 January – 8 March)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Works from the Collection
2002 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago. Recent Acquisitions: Edward Lipski, Robert Moskowitz,
Mark Tansy and Hiroshi Sugimoto (9 March – 20 April)
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago. Works by Gallery Artists
(23 January – 23 April)
2001 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New to the Museum:
Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings (25 October 2001 – 8 January 2002)
The Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York. Many Moons
(4 August – 20 October)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Modernism in a Century of Change
(1 June – 1 October)
1999 Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans. Beyond the Mountains:
The Contemporary American Landscape, curated by Michael Klein
(11 December 1999 – 13 February 2000). Exhibition travelled: Muskegon Museum of Art,
Michigan (26 February – 9 April 2000); Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
(27 May – 6 August 2000); Boise Art Museum, Idaho (12 August – 22 October 2000);
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana (18 November 2000 – 14 January 2001);
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College, New London (2001). Catalogue.
Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York. Drawings from the 1970’s
(November – December)
1997 Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts. Painting Machines:
Industrial Image and Process in Contemporary Art (30 October – 14 December)
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Drawings: Hermine Ford, Robert Moskowitz, Jack Tworkov (24 June – 6 July)
1996 Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York. Graphite Drawings
(November)
1995 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Art Works: The PaineWebber Collection of Contemporary Masters
(2 July – 24 September 1995). Exhibition travelled: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
(29 October – 31 December 1995); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (14 March – 9 June 1996);
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (30 June – 15 September 1996);
The San Diego Museum of Art, California (13 October 1996 – 5 January 1997);
Miami Art Museum, Florida (13 March – 25 May 1997). Catalogue.
1994 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Lee Bontecou, Edward Higgins & Robert Moskowitz:
Sculpture & Painting from the Early 1960s (9 April – 14 May)
Kouros Gallery, New York. A Family: Biala, Daniel Brustlein, Hermine Ford,
Eric Moskowitz, Robert Moskowitz, and Jack Tworkov (10 March – 9 April)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Group Show
1993 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Twenty Years Daniel Weinberg Gallery:
A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions (17 April – 12 June)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. The Bestiary
1992 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Art on Paper
(21 November 1992 – 3 January 1993). Catalogue.
MoMA PS1, New York. Slow Art: Painting in New York Now
(26 April – 21 June)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.
44th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Small Format Works on Paper
(26 June – 3 August)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Moskowitz, Richard Tuttle
(1 May – 1 June)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Red White Blue
1989 Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York. Robert Moskowitz, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien
(13 April – 13 May)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Group Show
1988 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois. Three Decades:
The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection (17 December 1988 – 5 February 1989). Catalogue.
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Group Show
(3–27 February)
1987 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston. Poetic Substance
(5 December 1987 – 6 January 1988)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson
Collection of International Contemporary Art (17 January – 22 March). Catalogue.
1986 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston. Drawings
(29 November 1986 – 7 January 1987)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Contemporary Works from the Collection
(6 November 1986 – 31 March 1987)
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. The Window in Twentieth-Century Art
(21 September 1986 – 18 January 1987). Exhibition travelled:
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (24 April – 29 June 1987). Catalogue.
Brooklyn Museum, New York. Monumental Drawing:
Works by 22 Contemporary Americans (19 September – 10 November). Catalogue.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. New Acquisitions: Works on Paper
(21 June – 31 August)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Barry Lowen Collection
(16 June – 10 August). Catalogue.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Miquel Barceló, Georg Dokoupil, Joseph Kosuth,
Robert Morris, Robert Moskowitz, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg,
Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Salvatore Scarpitta, Richard Serra, Frank Stella,
Andy Warhol (14 June – 13 September)
1985 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Contemporary Works from the Collection
(21 November 1985 – 1 April 1986)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles.
AIDS Benefit Exhibition: A Selection of Works on Paper (9–30 November)
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Robert Moskowitz:
Recent Paintings and Pastels / Judith Shea: Recent Sculpture (11 May – 23 June).
Exhibition travelled: Knight Gallery, Charlotte (19 July – 14 September). Catalogue.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois.
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection (20 April – 16 June). Catalogue.
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York. Drawings
(6–27 April)
Manhattan Art, Inc., New York. Drawings and Sculpture
1984 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
Eccentric Images: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings (20 October – 24 November)
Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco. Highlights:
Selections from the BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection (11 October – 27 November)
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Drawings
(10 October – 3 November)
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan.
Painting Now: The Restoration of Painterly Figuration (6–28 October). Catalogue.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Content: A Contemporary Focus: 1974–1984 (4 October 1984 – 6 January 1985). Catalogue.
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston. Off the Press: Recent Prints
(4–27 September)
CDS Gallery, New York. Artists Choose Artists III
(23 May – 30 June). Catalogue.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture (17 May – 19 August). Catalogue.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California.
American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (10 March – 22 April 1984). Exhibition travelled:
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (17 May – 29 July 1984);
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (29 September – 25 November 1984);
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (12 January – 3 March 1985);
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami (30 March – 26 May 1985). Catalogue.
Max Protetch Gallery, New York. Untitled 1984
1983 Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid. Tendencias en Nueva York
(11 October – 1 December 1983). Exhibition travelled: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
(20 December 1983 – 29 January 1984). Catalogue.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Season’s Greetings
(10 September – 8 October)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Mostly X-L
(1 July – 28 August)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. Black & White
(25 June – 13 August)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Minimalism to Expressionism:
Painting and Sculpture since 1965 from the Permanent Collection
(2 June – 4 December). Catalogue.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Some Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
(27 May – 11 October)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Drawing Conclusions:
A Survey of American Drawings: 1958–1983 (29 January – 26 February).
Exhibition travelled: Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco (9 March – 9 April)
Max Protetch Gallery, New York. Painting and Sculpture
1982 Willard Gallery, New York. White & Black
(1–23 December)
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. 74th American Exhibition
(12 June – 1 August). Catalogue.
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Great Big Drawings
(3 April – 2 May). Catalogue.
Metro Pictures, New York. Painting: Richard Artschwager, Jonathan Borofsky,
Jedd Garet, Jack Goldstein, Michael Hurson, Thomas Lawson, Robert Moskowitz,
Gerhard Richter, Walter Robinson, Ed Ruscha (9–30 January)
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles. Works on Paper
1981 Duke Street Gallery, London.
Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (31 October – 20 November)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Contemporary Artists
(21 October – 29 November). Catalogue.
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Robert Moskowitz, Susan Rothenberg, Julian Schnabel
(3 October – 15 November 1981). Exhibition travelled: Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Germany (18 December 1981 – 31 January 1982); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Hamlebaek, Denmark (13 March – 2 May 1982). Catalogue.
BlumHelman Gallery, New York. Bryan Hunt, Neil Jenney, Robert Moskowitz, Donald Sultan
(16 September – 10 October)
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Contemporary Drawings: In Search of an Image (1 April – 3 May). Catalogue.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1981 Biennial Exhibition
(20 January – 12 April). Catalogue.
1980 Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Works by Hermine Ford, Robert Moskowitz, Jack Tworkov (9–22 August)
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana. Painting and Sculpture Today 1980
(24 June – 17 August). Catalogue.
La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Arti Visive ’80
(1 June – 28 September). Catalogue.
R.H. Oosterom, Inc., New York. Black White Other
(February)
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, New York. Pictures in New York Today
1979 Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York.
American Paintings: The Eighties, A Critical Interpretation, curated by Barbara Rose
(5 September – 13 October 1979). Exhibition travelled: Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Texas (28 October – 30 December 1979); American Cultural Center, Paris;
Helsingin Taidehalli, Finland (27 August – 15 September 1980); Ludwig Collection,
Neue Gallerie, Aachen (27 September – 20 October 1980); Museum moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria (November 1980 – January 1981); Tel Aviv Museum,
Israel (February – April 1981); Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
(25 June – 26 July 1981); Galeria Arkady, Krakow (2–27 September 1981);
Galeria Studio, Warsaw (5–31 October 1981); Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari
(14 November – 5 December 1981); Teatro del Falcone, Genoa
(8 December 1981 – early March 1982); Palacio de la Virreina Catalonia, Barcelona
(30 March – April 1982); Colección La Caixa, Madrid (6 May – 5 June 1982);
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (June – July 1982). Catalogue.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s (17 June – 3 September). Catalogue.
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois. Visionary Images
(6 May – 16 June). Catalogue.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1979 Biennial Exhibition
(6 February – 1 April). Catalogue.
1978 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. American Painting of the 1970s
(8 December 1978 – 14 January 1979). Exhibition travelled:
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (3 February – 18 March 1979);
Oakland Museum, California (10 April – 20 May 1979); Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(6 July – 26 August 1979); Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
(9 September – 21 October 1979); Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign (11 November 1979 – 2 January 1980). Catalogue.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. New Image Painting
(6 December 1978 – 28 January 1979). Catalogue.
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, DC. The Minimal Image
(7 March – 5 April)
Willard Gallery, New York. Group Show
(7 January – 11 February)
1977 MoMA PS1, New York. A Painting Show
(2–29 May)
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Group Show
1976 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Painting Exhibition
1975 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. The Small Scale in Contemporary Art
(8 May – 15 June)
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York. Report from SoHo
1974 Gallery 118, Minneapolis. Five New York Painters: Jack Tworkov, Howard Buchwald,
Robert Moskowitz, Richard tum Suden, and James Sullivan (May)
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Hermine Ford, Robert Moskowitz and Jack Tworkov
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1973 Biennial Exhibition
(10 January – 18 March). Catalogue.
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York. Group Show
Xerox Show, Rochester New York.
1971 School of Visual Arts, New York. Artists at Work
1970 School of Visual Arts, New York. The Invisible Image,
organized by Marcia Tucker (10 February – 5 March)
1969 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1969 Annual Exhibition:
Contemporary American Painting (16 December 1969 – 1 February 1970). Catalogue.
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recent Acquisitions
(23 May – 7 July)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Artists Under 40
Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich. Drawings
1967 School of Visual Arts, New York. Working Drawings
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Connecticut. Faculty Show
1966 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Variety
(4–30 April)
1965 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A Decade of American Drawings: 1955–1965
(28 April – 6 June). Catalogue.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Drawing Show
1964 Byron Gallery, New York. 100 American Drawings
(19 June – 31 July)
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
The New Art: Post Abstract Expressionism, 1964 (1–22 March). Catalogue.
Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Selections from the L.M. Asher Family Collection (20 January – 23 February)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Black, White, and Grey
(9 January – 9 February). Catalogue.
Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC. Drawing Show
1963 Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York.
New Directions in American Painting, organized by the Poses Institute of Fine Arts,
Brandeis University (1 December 1963 – 5 January 1964). Exhibition travelled:
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans (7 February – 8 March 1964);
Atlanta Art Association, Georgia (18 March – 22 April 1964); J.B. Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, Kentucky (4 May – 7 June 1964); Indiana University Art Museum,
Bloomington (22 June – 20 September 1964); Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri (5–30 October 1964); Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
(10 November – 6 December 1964). Catalogue.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Mixed Media and Pop Art
(19 November – 13 December). Catalogue.
University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington. Graphics ‘63
(17 November – 15 December 1963). Exhibition travelled: American International College,
Springfield, Massachusetts (25 February – 17 March 1964);
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC (4–6 April 1964); St. Norbert College,
De Pere, Wisconsin (12 September – 4 October 1964); Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York (17 October – 8 November 1964); Towson State College,
Baltimore (21 November – 13 December 1964); Indiana University Art Museum,
Bloomington (2–4 January 1965); Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica,
New York (6–28 February 1965); Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas
(13 March – 4 April 1965); Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (17 April – 13 June 1965);
University of Southern Florida, Tampa (3–25 July 1965). Catalogue.
Oakland Art Museum, California. Pop Art USA
(7–29 September). Catalogue.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Drawings: Lee Bontecou, Nassos Daphnis, Jasper Johns,
Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Moskowitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Jack Tworkov,
Gerald van de Wiele (18 May – June 30)
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Group Show: John Chamberlain, Edward Higgins,
Fredrick Kiesler, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Moskowitz, Robert Rauschenberg,
Frank Stella, Cy Twombly (2–25 April)
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. New Experiments in Art
(23 March – 28 May)
1962 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions
(20 November 1962 – 13 January 1963)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. International Exhibition of the New Realists
(1 November – 1 December). Catalogue.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Drawings: Lee Bontecou, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein,
Robert Moskowitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Jack Tworkov (26 May – 30 June)
McRoberts Runnard, London. Group Show
1961 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Art of Assemblage
(2 October – 12 November 1961). Exhibition travelled:
The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Texas (9 January – 11 February 1962);
San Francisco Museum of Art, California (5 March – 15 April 1962). Catalogue.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. An Exhibition in Progress: Lee Bontecou,
John Chamberlain, Nassos Daphnis, Edward Higgins, Jasper Johns, Bernard Langlais,
Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Moskowitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Salvatore Scarpitta,
Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov (22 September – 14 October)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2001 Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome
1975 Visual Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1973 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
1967 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 Lewallen, Constance. Robert Moskowitz: Window Shades, 1959–62
(New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2018). Exhibition catalogue.
2017 Rubinstein, Raphael. Robert Moskowitz: Drawings
(San Antonio: Lawrence Markey, Inc., 2017). Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Darling, Michael, and Joanna Szupinska. Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity
(Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012). Exhibition catalogue.
2011 Pascale, Mark. Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). Exhibition catalogue.
2010 Van Keuren, Philip. Robert Moskowitz: Works on Paper
(San Antonio: Lawrence Markey, Inc., 2017). Exhibition catalogue.
2005 Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern: 1975–2005
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005). Exhibition catalogue.
Temkin, Ann. Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005). Exhibition catalogue.
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art: 1564–1975:
400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
Klein, Michael. Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape
(New York: Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, 1999). Exhibition catalogue.
1998 Holman, Bob. Beach Simplifies Horizon (New York: The Grenfell Press, 1998).
1997 Jones, Caroline A. Painting Machines: Industrial Image and Process in Contemporary Art
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997). Exhibition catalogue.
1996 Hopps, Walter, et al. American Images: The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
(New York: SBC Communications, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
(New York: IconEditions, 1996).
1995 Flam, Jack D., Monique Beudert, and Jennifer Wells. The PaineWebber Art Collection
(New York: Rizzoli, 1995).
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Artoday (London: Phaidon Press, 1995).
1994 Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (New York: Prentice Hall, 1994).
1991 Shearer, Linda. Robert Moskowitz: Oil on Paper (London: Grob Gallery, 1991).
Exhibition catalogue.
Wheeler, Daniel. Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present
(New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1991).
1990 Benezra, Neal, ed. Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
(New York: Thames & Hudson, 1990). Exhibition catalogue.
1989 Rifkin, Ned, Linda Shearer, and Anna Brooke. Robert Moskowitz: A Retrospective, 1959–1989
(New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989). Exhibition catalogue.
1988 Geske, Norman, and Karen Janovy. The American Painting Collection of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
Kotz, Suzanne. Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection
(Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
Lewallen, Constance. View: Robert Moskowitz (San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1988).
1987 Brutvan, Cheryl. Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
(New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1987).
1986 Delehanty, Suzanne, and Shirley Neilsen Blum. The Window in Twentieth-Century Art
(Purchase: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, 1986).
Exhibition catalogue.
Hunter, Sam, and Malcolm R. Daniel. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture
since 1940 (Fort Lauderdale: Abbeville Press, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Kline, Katy. Robert Moskowitz: Paintings and Drawings
(New York: BlumHelman Gallery, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Knight, Christopher. The Barry Lowen Collection
(Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Kotik, Charlotta. Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary Americans
(New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Marshall, Richard. 50 New York Artsts: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors
Working in New York (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986).
Nasgaard, Roald. Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection of
International Contemporary Art (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Rose, Barbara. American Painting: The Twentieth Century (New York: Rizzoli, 1986).
1985 Danoff, I. Michael. Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection
(Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1985). Exhibition catalogue.
Felshin, Nina, ed. Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Collection
(Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1985). Exhibition catalogue.
Kline, Katy. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings and Pastels / Judith Shea: Recent Sculpture
(Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985). Exhibition catalogue.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Art Now (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1985).
1984 Fox, Howard N., Miranda McClintic, and Phyllis D. Rosenzweig.
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974–1984 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1984). Exhibition catalogue.
Freeman, Phyllis, et al. New Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984).
Kuroiwa, Kyosuke. Painting Now (Kitakyushu: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 1984).
Exhibition catalogue.
Marshall, Richard. American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings
from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984). Exhibition catalogue.
McShine, Kynaston. An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984). Exhibition catalogue.
1983 Giménez, Carmen. Tendencias en Nueva York (Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1983).
Exhibition catalogue.
Rosenblum, Robert. Robert Moskowitz (New York: BlumHelman Gallery, 1983).
Exhibition catalogue.
Sims, Patterson. Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture since 1965
from the Permanent Collection (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983).
Exhibition catalogue.
1982 Casey, Jacqueline S. Great Big Drawings
(Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982). Exhibition catalogue.
1981 Africano, Nicholas, and Phyllis Plous. Contemporary Drawings: In Search of an Image
(Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981). Exhibition catalogue.
Blum, Peter, and Jean-Christophe Ammann. Robert Moskowitz
(Basel: Basler Kunstverein, 1981). Exhibition catalogue.
Hinson, Tom E. Contemporary Artists (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981).
Exhibition catalogue.
Lyons, Lisa. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1981).
Exhibition catalogue.
1980 McKenzie, J. A., and Robert A. Yassin. Painting and Sculpture Today 1980
(Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980). Exhibition catalogue.
1979 Ratcliff, Carter. Visionary Images
(Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1979). Exhibition catalogue.
Rose, Barbara. American Paintings: The Eighties, A Critical Interpretation
(New York: Vista Press, 1979). Exhibition catalogue.
Sims, Patterson. The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s
(New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979). Exhibition catalogue.
1978 Cathcart, Linda L. American Painting of the 1970s
(Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978). Exhibition catalogue.
Marshall, Robert. New Image Painting (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978).
Exhibition catalogue.
1971 Wechsler, Judith. Robert Moskowitz: Recent Paintings
(Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971). Exhibition catalogue.
1965 A Decade of American Drawings: 1955–1965
(New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965). Exhibition catalogue.
1964 Wagstaff, Sam. Black, White, and Grey (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964).
Exhibition catalogue.
1963 Coplans, John. Pop Art USA (Oakland: Oakland Art Museum, 1963). Exhibition catalogue.
Hunter, Sam. New Directions in American Painting
(Waltham: Poses Institute of Fine Arts, 1963). Exhibition catalogue.
Smith, Gordon M. Mixed Media and Pop Art (Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy,
Albright-Knox Gallery, 1963). Exhibition catalogue.
1962 Ashbery, John. International Exhibition of the New Realists
(New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1962). Exhibition catalogue.
1961 Seitz, William C. The Art of Assemblage (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961).
Exhibition catalogue.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
Bennington College Art Collection, Vermont
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
UBS Art Collection, New York
U.S. Bancorp, Minneapolis
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York