Gabriel Laderman American painter, died from cancer he was , 81,,

Gabriel Laderman was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s died from cancer he was , 81.

He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko.

(December 26, 1929 - March 10, 2011) 

Biography

Education

In 1948 he began by doing the exercises in Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook, which at the time was available only in the original Bauhaus edition in German.
In the summer of 1949 he went to Provincetown and studied with Hans Hofmann. Since he already knew about abstract expressionist painting (Willem de Kooning had had his first show) he began painting in that tradition, informed with what Hofmann had taught about forming.
He met de Kooning that summer and began to show him his work in September of that year on a regular basis, while also attending Brooklyn College where he studied with Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Russell, Mark Rothko, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst, Stanley William Hayter and Robert J. Wolff (the chairman of the department).
He also began to go to Hayter's Atelier 17, which he used as a shop for printing his engraved and etched plates.
After graduating from Brooklyn, he spent a year as a graduate student in art history in the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. There, he studied Asian art and 14th century Italian art. Both traditions influenced his later work.
In 1955, after two years in the army, he went to Cornell University for his MFA, with an assistantship in painting. During his time there, he began to try to paint from nature with less distortion and invention.

Teaching

In 1957 he was appointed Instructor in art at SUNY, New Paltz. After two years at New Paltz he was offered a raise in rank, but chose to return to New York where he taught at Pratt Institute until 1967 when he began teaching at Queens College, CUNY.
From 1967 through 1996 he was artist in residence and lectured at many schools and museums, including Princeton University, Yale University, Bennington College, Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy, University of Pennsylvania, the Tyler School of Art, Moore College of Art, Boston University, The Boston Museum School, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Amherst College, Stanford University, Kansas City Art Institute, Art School of Surabaya, Art Center Jakarta, USIS centers in Japan in Tokyo, Nagoy, Sapporo and Fukuoka, Royal College of Art, Bangkok, Victorian College of Art, Melbourne; College Ballarat, Indiana University, Bloomington, Louisiana State University, Arizona State, American University, Skowhegan, Chautauqua, the Art Students League of New York, and the Yale-Norfolk School.
He retired from teaching in 1996 but continued to paint.

Paintings and exhibitions

His first exhibited painting, in 1949, was abstract expressionist, in the vein of de Kooning's work.
Starting with a show of engravings and intaglios at the The Tanager Gallery in 1960 his work was painted from nature and always representational.
Starting in 1962, he exhibited with the Schoelkopf Gallery until the gallery was closed, due to the death of its proprietor.
Subsequently, he showed with Peter Tatistcheff.^[4][5]
His work, starting in the 1980s was usually of the figure including a number of major paintings with subject matter. The early subject matter paintings were all about crimes, and several were based on the Maigret series of detective novels by the Belgian author Georges Simenon.

Death

Laderman died of cancer, at age 81, on March 10, 2011, in Manhattan.^[2]

Selected museum exhibitions

• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Awards and honors

• National Academy of Design — Altman Prize
• 1993 National Academy of Design — Thomas R. Proctor Prize
• 1990 Ingram-Merrill Award
• 1989 Rockefeller Foundation, Resident Artist at Bellagio
• 1988 Queens College Presidential Fellowship,
• 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1988 CUNY Research Foundation
• 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship
• 1986 CUNY Research Award
• 1983 Ingram-Merrill Award
• 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship, CUNY Research Award
• 1975 Dept. of the Interior — Bicentennial Landscape Commission, Ingram-Merrill Award
• 1973 CUNY Research Award
• 1962 Fulbright Award to Italy
• 1960 Yaddo Fellowship
• 1959 Yaddo Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award

Selected collections

• Andrew Dickson White Museum, Cornell University
• Archdiocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum
• Chicago Art Institute
• Chase Manhattan Bank
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Davidson Collection
• Edmund P. Pillsbury
• Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia
• FMC Corporation, Chicago
• Malcolm Holtzman
• Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum
• Innes Collection, Charlottesville
• The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
• Jane Livingston
• Meade Museum, Amherst, MA
• Montclair State College
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• National Academy of Design, NYC
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• National Museum (Muzium Negara), Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.
• National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
• Robert Natkin
• Sierra Club
• Spurzem Collection
• Uris-Hilton Hotels
• Weatherspoon Gallery, NC
• William Bailey

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