James Rosati
American Artist (1911-1988)

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One Man Exhibitions
1954 Peridot Gallery, New York
1959 Otto Gerson Gallery, New York
1962 Otto Gerson Gallery, New York
1963 Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1968 Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1969-70 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
travelled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
1977
James Rosati: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1981 Gibbes Art Gallery, Charlston, SC
1981-82 Marlborough Gallery, New York
1984 James Rosati: Recent Monumental Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1985 Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1988 James Rosati: Sculptures, Reliefs and Drawings, 1955-1988, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1999 James Rosati: Selected Works, 1958-1988, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2007 James Rosati (1911-1988): Sculpture, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2008 James Rosati - Simple Line, Complex Form, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2015 Monumental: Sculptures & Works on Paper, Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA
Group Exhibitions
1951 9th Street Show, New York
1952 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1953 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
1954 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
1955 Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
Selections from the Art Lending Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956 Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
1957 Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York
1958 Group Exhibition, Paintings and Sculpture, Fine Arts Association, New York
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
American Sculptors, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1960 Contemporary Sculpture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
New Sculpture Now, Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
Aspects of American Sculpture, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1960-61 Contemporary Sculpture, American Federation of Arts, New York
travelled to Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Art Museum of New Britain Institute, New Britain, CT
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cape Cod Arts Festival, Hyannis, MA
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
1961 The Face of the Fifties: Recent Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Whitney Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Boston Arts Festival, Boston, MA
Group Sculpture Show, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Mechanism and Organism, New School Art Center, New York
21st Annual Exhibition Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibiton of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Otterlo, Holland
1962 Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture: 65th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Since 1950, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA
First Five Years, 1957-1962: Acquisitions by Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
Humanists of the Sixties, New School Art Center, New York
Modern Sculpture and Sculptor's Drawings, University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Continuity and Change, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Critics Choice: Art Since World War II, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
1962-63 Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1963 Art Has Many Facets, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
Painting and Sculpture Today, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Sculpture by American Artists, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Works from the New York University Art Collection, New York University, New York
Six Sculptors, Boston Univsersity Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Sculpture of Our Time, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
Sculpture, London County Council, Battersea Park, London, England
23rd Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1964 The Artist's Reality: An International Sculpture Exhibition, New School Art Center, New York
Pavilion of Fine Arts - New York World's Fair, New York
1964-65 The 1964 Pittsburgh International of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1965 Portraits from the American Art World, New School Art Center, New York
A Decade of American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sculpture from the Albert A. List Family Collection, New School Art Center, New York
Etats-Unis, Sculpture du XXe Siècle, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
1965-66 Modern Sculpture U.S.A., International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
travelled to Musée Rodin, Paris, France
Hofschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, West Germany
Four American Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibition
travelled to MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
University Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Indiana Univerisity, Bloomington, IN
Missouri Western Junior College, St. Joseph, MO
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1966 Flint Invitational, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art on Paper - 1966, New York
1967 Three Artists of Today - Guston, Marca-Relli, and Rosati, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1967-68 Made With Paper, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York;
travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL,
and the City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
1968 The Collection of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Milwaukee Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
Sculpture, 1968, Hemisfair, San Antonio, TX
International Sculpture, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969 American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Inaugural Exhibition - New School Graduate Faculty Center, New School Art Center, New York
Sculpture Downtown, Detroit, MI
1970 Living Art of the United States, Fondation Maeght, Paris, France
American Sculpture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Exposition l'art vivant aux Etats-Unis, Foundation Maeght, St. Paul, France
Monumental American Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1970-71 Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1971 A New Consciousness: The Ciba-Geigy Collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
11th Biennale Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Artists at Dartmouth: A Retrospective of Selected Artists-in-Residence at Dartmouth College since 1962, Hopkins Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Dartmouth College, exhibited at New City Hall, Boston, MA
1974 Twentieth-Century Monumental Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Monumenta: Biennial Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture, Newport, RI
Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolor, and Small Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1975 Artist and Fabricator, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1976 The American Salon des Refusés, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
A Selection of American Art: The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1946 to 1976, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Sculpture '76, Outdoor Sculpture: Art for Public Spaces, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
1977 Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York
Masters of Modern Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1981 Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Classic Americans, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings, Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York
1982 Permio Internacional, Museo Angel Orensanz y Artes del Serrablo, Sabriñanigo, Spain
1983-84 The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Twentieth Century Art, The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
1984 Works in Bronze: A Modern Survey, Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA;
travelled to Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA;
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA;
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID;
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Masters of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1985 Reinstallation of the Contemporary Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986 Drawings by Sculptors, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1994 Drawings by Sculptors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Reclaiming Artists of the New York School, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY
1994-95 Italian American Artists - 1945-1968: A Limited Survey, Works on Paper, Hunter College of CUNY, New York
2000 California Modernist, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001-02 Following a Line: Part One, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2002-03 Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
2005 An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York
2006 New Additions Outdoors (Spring/Summer 2006), Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Inaugurazione del MUSMA, Museo della Scultura Contemporanea, Matera, Italy
GEOMETRY & ABSTRACTION: a Visual Survey Exploring the Use of Geometry as Form-giver in 20th Century Modern Art, Acme Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Summer Salon 2007, Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA
2008 Small Sculpture from the PAAM Collection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Seeing Through Modernism: Edmonton 1970-1985 , Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2008-09 25/25: 25 Years and 25 Artists, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2011-12 Small Sculptures from the Bradley Family Foundation Collection, The Lynden Sculpture Garden, River Hills, WI
2015 Community of Influence, Vermont Studio Center, hosted at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Chromatic Space, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
2017-18 Small Works by Sculptors in the Bradley Family Foundation Collection, Lynden Sculpture Garden, River Hills, WI
2019 Recent Acquisitions: Connecting to the Past, Committing to the Future, David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie, IN
2020 Summer Selections, Gerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC