BESSIE BORIS, 1917-1993
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016  Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
2010  The Gallery at Kinderhook Group, Salisbury, CT | Bessie Boris: Botanicals
2009 The Gallery at Kinderhook Group, Salisbury, CT | ​Bessie Boris: The Berkshire Years
2008  SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005  SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2001   Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1998   Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1994   Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1993   Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1992   Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1990   Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1987   The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1986   Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
            Zone Art Center, Springfield MA
1983   Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1980   Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1976   Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
            Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1971   Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1970   Babcock Gallery, New York, NY
1968   Cober Gallery, New York, NY
1965   Cober Gallery, New York, NY | Recent Paintings and Drawings – Catalogue
1963   Cober Gallery, New York, NY | Recent Paintings and Drawings – Catalogue
1961   Cober Gallery, New York, NY | Paintings and Drawings – Catalogue
1960   Mills Gallery, New York NY | Paintings
            Cober Gallery, New York, NY | Drawings and Drawing Collages – Catalogue
1949   Mulvane Art Center, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

AWARDS

​1961  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Dana Water Color Award
1950  Missouri Valley Artists: Purchase Award, Second Prize for Painting
1949  Missouri Valley Artists: Purchase Award, First Prize for Painting
1949  Kansas State Teachers College: Purchase Award
1949  Denver Museum: Honrable Mention
1946  The Butler Art Institute, First Prize for Painting, (Antique Shop)
1946  Virginia Museum: Painting Award

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2004    Weber Fine Art, Chatham NY |   A Lineage of Influence: Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil, Bessie Boris and Mary Sipp-Green
2004    Vose Contemporary, Boston, MA | Traditions & Departures: Mentors and Proteges
1999    Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1997    Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1992    Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY | 7 Artists, 7 Mediums on Paper
1991    Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
             Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1990    Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1977    Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA | The Human Face: Paintings by Bessie Boris and Alice Neel
1976   The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY| Exhibition of paintings  - Eligible for purchase under the Childe Hassam Fund
1972    The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY | Exhibition of paintings | Eligible for purchase under the Childe Hassam Fund
1969   Pennsylvania Academy of Art Annual, Philadelphia, PA
1964   Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ | The American Family in Art
1963    Pennsylvania Academy of Art Annual, Philadelphia, PA
1961    Pennsylvania Academy of Art Annual, Philadelphia, PA
1960    Cober Gallery, New York, NY | The Insiders
1951    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | Six Americans (Circulated by the American Federation of the Arts)
1950    Joslyn Memorial Museum, Omaha, NE
1949    Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC | 21st Biennial
             Denver Museum, Denver, CO
             William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
1948    Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY | Fact and Fantasy
1947    Norfolk Museum of Fine Arts, Norfolk, VA
1946    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1945    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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