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Don Baum
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"The Nose of David" c. 1961 Mixed media construction, 20 x 8 x 5 inches |
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"Beware of Blue Boy" 1987, Mixed media, 31 x 13 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches DB 2 |
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"Black Money" 1985, Mixed media, 19 1/2 x 20 x 27 DB/CH 2 |
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"Scottie with Dogs" "Sandwich" series, Found paint-by-number painting/construction 14 x 18 x 1 DB 6
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"SkyHouse III" 1985, Mixed media, 13 1/2 x 9 x 22 DB 8 |
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"Bondage" 1991, "Sandwich" series, Found paint-by-number painting/construction 19 x 15 x 1 DB 14 |
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"Sphinx" 1991, "Sandwich" series, Found paint by number painting/construction 16 x 20 x 1 DB 15 |
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White
wood,
linocut
16
X 10 X 14 inches DB 19 |
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Arf,
1986 |
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Hotep,
1984 |
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"Sound (Self-portrait w Gun)" 1991, Mixed media, 14 x 9 x 22 DB 29 |
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Self Portrait with
Knife,
1991 |
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"Kabrit Maro" 1983, Wood and goatskin, 16 x 18 x 24 DB 32 |
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"Shoe 4" 1980, Found and carved wood, 4 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 14 DB 33 |
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Last of Boy Blue,
1992 |
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Going Away, 1991 |
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"Mountain Peaks" 1991, "Sandwich", Found paint by number painting/construction 18 x 18 x 1 DB 36
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"Last Supper Cross" 1991, " Sandwich", Found paint by number 33 x 24 x 1 DB 44 |
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"Bed Doll Baby" 1961, Mixed media construction, 18 x 16 x 7 DB 46 |
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Chambered Nautilus,
1982
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"St. Hedwig" 1964, Mixed media construction, 1 2 x 13 x 8 DB 49 |
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Studio for M, 1983 |
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"Last Supper Wall Paper" 1990, Mixed media, 25 x 18 x 23 DB 56
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Untitled, 1990, Mixed media, 15 x 13 1/2 x 7 DB 59 |
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"Story of O" 1960, Mixed media construction, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 5 DB 63 |
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"Doll & Gull" 1960, Mixed media construction, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 DB 64 |
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"SkyHouse IV" 1983, Linoleum, wood construction, 10 x 7 x 14 DB 65 |
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"Tar Baby" 1986, Mixed media, 18 x 18 x 24 DB 68 |
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"Java" 1984, Mixed media, 23 x 18 x 31 DB 69 |
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"Cats and Dogs" 1986, Mixed media, 14 x 7 x 15 1/2 DB 71 |
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"Reposoir" 1986, Cast bronze, 12 1/2 x 9 x 17 DB 75 |
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"Scottie and the Seagulls" 1989, Mixed media, 23 x 18 x 20 DB 78 |
DON BAUM
BORN: Escanaba, MI 1922
EDUCATION:
1954,
School of Design, Chicago
1947,
Ph.D., University of Chicago
1943,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1940,
Michigan State College, East Lansing,
TEACHING
1993-96
Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, School of the
Art
Institute of Chicago
1988-92
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1955-65
Painting Instructor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1948-84
Professor of Art, Roosevelt University, Chicago (Chairman, Art
Department 1970-84)
HONORS AND AWARDS
1998
Special Achievement Award for Service to the Visual Arts, Chicago
Arts
Coalition
1996
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994
Association of Corporate Art Curators' Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Arts
1989
Illinois Arts Alliance, Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award
1984
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
National Endowment for the Arts,
Visual Arts Fellowship
Pauline Palmer Prize, for work in the
Eightieth Exhibition by Artists of
Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago
1983
Commission for the State of Illinois Building, Chicago
1977
Cliff Dwellers' Award of Merit for Outstanding Contribution in the Arts
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1999
What
Chicago Needs Is More Artists Like Don Baum,
Carl
Hammer
Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1991
Don Baum: Domus II, John G.
Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan
City, IN
1990
Don Baum: Domus, Siena Heights
College, Adrian, MI
1989
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
Art Center of Battle Creek, MI
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1988 Don Baum: Domus, Madison Art Center, WI. Traveled: State of Illinois
Gallery, Chicago; Illinois State
Museum, Springfield; Calder Fine
Arts Center, Grand Valley; State
University, Allendale, MI; Rockford
College Art Gallery, Clark Arts
Center, Rockford, IL; Krannert Art
Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
1987
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1985
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1984
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1982
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1981
Don Baum: A Review of Works From
1947-1981, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
1980
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1965
Don Baum Constructions, John L.
Hunt Gallery, Chicago
1961
Don Baum:
Paintings-Drawings-Collages-Constructions,
Park Art Center, Chicago
1956
Ruth White Gallery, New York
Max
Segal Bookstore, Chicago
1955
Esquire Theater Gallery, Chicago
1954
Players' Guild, Chicago
Collages, Kalamazoo
Institute of Arts, MI
1952
Ziegfield Theater, Chicago
Collage and Monotypes by Don Baum, 750 Studio, Chicago
1949
Paintings and Monotypes by Don Baum, Leonard Linn, Inc., Winnetka,
IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Carl
Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Art
in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
1997
Portfolio
97’, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
How
to Describe a Sunset, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
Transformations:
Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and
Design,
Whatcom Museum of History and
Art, Bellingham, WA.
Traveled: Schneider Museum, Ashland,
OR
1996
1968, Betty Rymer Gallery,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Seventy-Sixth
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, Arts Club of
Chicago
1995 Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Let's
Play House: Artists and the Domestic Environment,
Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
More
Than Real, Gallery
400, University of Illinois at Chicago
1994
Still Working: Underknown Artists
of Age in America, The New
School
for Social Research and Parsons School of Design, New
York. Traveled: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;
Chicago Cultural Center; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Fisher
Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Portland Museum of Art,
OR
Chicago
Imagism: A 25 Year Survey,
Davenport Museum of Art, IO
Seventy-Fifth
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members, Arts Club of
Chicago.
The
Aesthetics of Athletics: Artists View Games, Sports,
Exercise,
Charles A. Wustum Museum
of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Beyond
Bounds II: A Barely Contained Affair!, Gallery of Art, Johnson
County Community College, Overland
Park, KS
The
Object Redux: Re-Used, Re-Newed and Re-Invented,
Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Hyde
Park Art Center Sixth Annual Just Good Art Benefit Auction,
Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago
1993
The
First Union League Club Art Invitational,
Union League Club,
Chicago, IL
Pets:
Artists and an American Obsession,
Charles A. Wustum Museum of
Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Recent
Acquisitions, Milwaukee Art
Museum
Randolph
Street Gallery 1993 Benefit Auction, Randolph Street Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1992
Face
to Face: Self Portraits by Chicago Artists,
Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Group
Exhibition in Conjunction with 40 Years of Paint-By-Number
Paintings
from the Collection of Michael O'Donoghue,
Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
The
Home Show: Objects For and About the Home,
Center Galleries,
College
of Art and Design-Institute of Music and Dance, Detroit, MI
Assemblage,
Main Gallery, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC
Seventy-Second
Annual Artist Members Exhibition,
Arts Club Chicago,
IL
1991
Contemporary Visual Art Invitational,
Augustana Art Gallery, Augustana
College, Rock Island, IL
11:59,
Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Home
Sweet Home, Columbia College Art
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contents:
A Survey on the Human Experience,
Suburban Fine Arts
Center, Highland Park, IL
1991
Revelations: Artists Look at
Religions, Gallery 2, School of the Art
Institute, Chicago
1990 The Seen Word: Text and Context, A Gallery Guide, Krannert Art
Museum, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Altered
States, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago, IL
The
Outdoor Sculpture Show: Chicago Artists from Chicago Galleries,
Sculpture Works/Klein Art Works,
Chicago
For
the Birds: Artists Examine Aviary Abodes, Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Object/Obsession,
Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
Regarding
Art: Artworks about Art, John
Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI
Seventieth
Annual Artist Members Exhibition,
Arts Club Chicago
1988
Seymour
Rosofsky and the Chicago Imagist Tradition,
UWM
Art
Museum, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hothouse,
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Chicago
Now, South Bend Art Center, South
Bend, IN
In
the Folk Tradition: Contemporary Wood Sculpture,
Mitchell
Museum, Mount Vernon, IN
Chicago
by the Square Foot, Randolph
Street Gallery Betsy Rosenfield
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sixty-Eight
Annual Artist Members Exhibition,
Arts Club of Chicago
The
Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield
Gallery, Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1987
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
The
House Show, Missouri Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1986
Recent Art from Chicago,
Artists Space, New York
Fetish
Art: Obsessive Expressions,
Rockford Art Museum
Sixty-Sixth
Annual Artists Members Exhibition,
Arts Club of
Chicago
Painting
and Sculpture Today: 1986,
Indianapolis Museum
of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985
New Traditions in Sculpture,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Traveled:
Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; Freeport Art Museum,
IL; St. Xavier College, Monmouth, IL; Peoria Art Guild, IL;
Parkland College, Champaign, IL
Basically
Boxes, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collection
Artists Select: Inaugural Exhibit,
State of Illinois Art Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Sixty-Fifth
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members: Works on Paper and
Sculpture,
Arts Club of Chicago
1984
Eightieth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
Sixty-Fourth
Annual Exhibition of Artist Members: Paper and Sculpture,
Arts Club of Chicago
Small
But Hot!: Sculpture by Seventeen Artists, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Ten
Years of Collecting at the MCA,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
Sculptural
Invitational, College of Wooster
Art Museum, Ohio
Alternative
Spaces: A History in Chicago,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
1983
Contemporary
Chicago Imagists, Illinois
Wesleyan University, Merwyn
and Wakeley Galleries, Bloomington
Remains
to Be Seen, John Michael Kohler
Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Fans, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago, IL.
The
House That Art Built, California
State University, Fullerton
Chicago
Artists: Continuity and Change,
Printers Square, Chicago, IL
Habitats,
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1982
Sixty-Second
Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members,
Arts Club
of Chicago
Hot
Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery,
Kansas City, MO
Poetic
Objects, Washington Project for
the Arts, Washington, DC
Chicago
Imagists, Kansas City Art
Institute, Charlotte Crosby Kemper
Gallery, MO
Chicago
Now, Brentwood Gallery, St.
Louis, MO
1981
Collage and Assemblage,
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Traveled:
Tampa Museum of Art, FL; Alexandria
Museum, Visual Arts
Center,
LA; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, VA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Hunter Museum of
Art, Chattanooga, TN
City
Sculpture, Chicago Public Library
Cultural Center
Collector's
Choice, St. Louis Art Museum
The
Image of the House in Contemporary Art, Lawndale Annex Gallery,
University of Houston
Hats, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago, IL
1980
Collage I, Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, IL
Selections
from the Collection of Arthur Paul and the Paintings and
Drawings
of Arthur Paul, Columbia College
Art Gallery, Chicago
Some
Recent Art from Chicago, Ackland
Art Museum, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sixtieth
Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members,
Arts Club
Chicago
1980
Professors of Art in Northern
Illinois, The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell,
Chicago,
Traveled: Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL; Highland Park Library,
IL; Fine Arts Gallery, Triton College, River Grove, IL;
Libertyville Arts Center, IL
Art
Work: Chicago Corporations Collect, Chicago Public Library Cultural
Center
Seventy-Eighth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
1979
Thirty-First Illinois Invitational,
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
100
Artists 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago,
Art Institute of Chicago
1978
The Flower Show, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
The
Art of Playboy from the First Twenty-Five Years, Chicago Public
Library Cultural Center
1976
Historic Panoramic Abra Cadabra,
Hyde Park Art Center
Dolls!
Dolls! Dolls!, Gallery 2269,
Chicago
1975
Dolls
and Other Effigies, John Micharl
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI
1973
Seventy-Fourth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
1972
Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago. Traveled:
New York Cultural Center
Santi-Cloth,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Point
Counterpoint: Don Baum and June Leaf, Galerie le Chat Bernard,
Chicago
1971
The New Curiosity Show,
Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago
Art
after Art, Renaissance Society at
the University of Chicago
Astrology
is the Clock of Destiny, Hyde
Park Art Center
Beyond
Illustration: The Art of Playboy,
Rotunda della Besana, Milan. Traveled:
Royal College of Art, London; Koniklijk Museum voor
Schone
Kunst, Antwerp; Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands; Kunstverein, Hannover,
West Germany; Neu Galerie im Altenkurhaus, Aachen, West Germany; Kunstverein
Munchen, Munich; Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lusanne, Switzerland; Central
Museum of Art Tokyo.
1970
Famous
Artists from Chicago, Art
Gallery, Sacramento State College, CA.
Traveled:
San Francisco Art Institute Galleries, CA. (as
Surplus Slop from the Windy City) Madison Art Center, WI
Thirty
Works by Thirty Artists to Celebrate the Thirtieth Year of Hyde
Park
Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago
Don
Baum Says "Chicago Needs Famous Artists,"
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
Nonplussed
Some - Some More, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
1968
Fantasy
and Figure: Chicago Art Since World War II,
American
Federation of Arts, New York
Illinois
Sculptors: Baum, Ferrai, Gallo, Mann, Schnackenberg,
Urban,
Illinois Arts Council, Chicago
After
the Afternoon, Participating
Artists of Chicago and Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
1967
Portraits of LBJ, Richard Gray
Gallery, Chicago
Twentieth
North Mississippi Valley Artists Exhibition, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
Seventieth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
The
Art of Assemblage, Paine Art
Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI
1966
Sculpture: The Heavy
Show, Phalanx and Kendall College Gallery,
Evanston, IL
Furniture:
An Exhibition of Furniture-Objects by Chicago Artists,
Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago
Sixty-Ninth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
Three
Kingdoms: Mineral, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
Phalanx
3: Print, Drawing and Watercolor Exhibition, Depaul University,
Loop Junior College, Chicago and
Kendall College, Evanston, IL
Painting:
Red, White, and Blue, Dell
Gallery, Ltd., Chicago
Black
and White, Participating Artists
of Chicago and Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
Toys
Made by Chicago Artists, Hyde
Park Art Center
1965
Exhibition Chicago: Eighty Artists,
Student Union, University of Illinois,
Circle Campus; Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago
The
New Look in Art, Ravinia
Festival, IL
Eighteenth
North Mississippi Valley Artists Exhibition, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
Three
Kingdoms: Animal, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
Deerpath
Art league Invitational Exhibit of Paintings and Sculpture:
Seventeen
Artists, Deerpath Art League
Recreation Hall, Lake Forest, IL
Phalanx
3, Herman Hall, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago
1964
Eye on Chicago, Herman Hall,
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
The
Chicago School
, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
The
Sunken City Rises: Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings,
Phalanx,
Herman Hall, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago
Chicago
Retrospective, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
The
Chicago School, 1948-1954, Hyde
Park Art Center
1963
Twenty-Five Chicago Artists,
Tacoma Art Museum, WA. Traveled:
Henry
Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1963
New Horizons in Sculpture,
North Shore Art League and International
Minerals and Chemical Company, Skokie,
IL
The
Hollywood Image, Hyde Park Art
Center and McCormick Place Art
Gallery, Chicago
The
Bridge Gallery, New York
Chicago
Arts Festival, McCormick Place
Art Gallery, Chicago
1962
Twelve Chicago Artists,
McCormick Place Art Gallery, Chicago
Sixty-Fifth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
1961
New Horizons in Sculpture,
North Shore Art League and McCormick
Place Art Gallery
Sixty-Fourth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
1960
Fifth Annual Hyde Park Art Center
Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago
1959
Fourth Annual Hyde Park Art Center
Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park Art
Center
1958
Chicago
Artists Exhibition, Art Institute
of Chicago and Chicago Art
Organizations, North Exhibition Hall,
Navy Pier, Chicago
Recent
Works by Chicago Area Artists,
Theodore Lyman Wright Art Hall,
Beloit College, WI
1957
Exhibition Momentum: Past and
Present, 1020 Art Center, Chicago
Sixty-Second
American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of
Chicago
1957
1957 Chicago Artists No-Jury
Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago and
Chicago Art Organizations, North
Exhibition Hall, Navy Pier,
Chicago
The
Ravinia Festival Art Exhibit,
Ravinia Festival Art Association and
Casino Gallery, IL
1956
Don Baum, Regina Kirshner:
Paintings, Collages and Constructions,
Ruth White Gallery, NY
Fifty-Ninth
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute
of Chicago
Momentum
1956, 72 East 11th Street,
Chicago
Paintings,
Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
The
Studio, Chicago Hyde Park Art
Center Juried Exhibition, Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago
1955
Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition by
Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute
of Chicago Exhibition for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Aesthetics,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Paintings,
Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
1954
Momentum Midcontinental,
Institute of Design, Chicago
Paintings,
Prints, Drawings, Sculpture by Artist Members, Renaissance
Society at the University of Chicago
1953
Society for Contemporary Art
Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute
of Chicago
Work
of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, North Shore Art League,
Community House, Winnetka, IL
Recent
Paintings by Milli Metzenberg and Don Baum, Newman Brown
Gallery, Chicago
1952
Fifty-Sixth Annual Exhibition by
Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago
Artist
Members, Renaissance Society at
the University of Chicago
1951 Fifty-fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
Paintings
by Gertrude Abercrombie and Don Baum, The New Studio,
Chicago
1950
The Modern Artists' Guild First
Annual Exhibition, Mandel Brothers
Galleries, Chicago
1949
Paintings by Chicago Area Painters,
North Shore Art League, Community
House, Winnetka, IL
Fifty-Third
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
Artists
League of the Midwest Members Exhibition, Mandel Brothers
Galleries, Chicago
North
Mississippi Valley Artists: Fifth Annual Exhibition,
Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
1948
Artists League of the Midwest
Members Exhibition, Mandel Brothers Galleries, Chicago
Exhibition
Momentum, Roosevelt College,
Chicago
Fifty-Second
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
Art
Institute of Chicago
1947
Art Knows No Barriers, Artists
League of the Midwest, Chicago
Abstract
Art in Tempera, Student Committee
of the Renaissance Society
and
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago
1946
Fiftieth Annual Exhibition by
Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art
Institute of Chicago