Miklos Pogany
Miklos Pogany Ancient Shadows September 6 - October 5, 2019
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Pogany’s subtle use of color reveals allusions to a tragic harlequin, a demonic spirit, a noble warrior, or a lonely widow. The emotions range from defiance to desperation, with all the shades in between. In the Klarika series the artist discovers the feelings an abstract painting can express, while convincingly demonstrating the range of ideas it can hold. By continually finding ways to address the isolated abstract form, Pogany confronts an emblematic image of his “other.” Klarika’s ability to survive bodes well for the future of abstraction. –John Yau (excerpted from the essay for Miklos Pogany: Paintings and Works on Paper, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 1985)
KLARIKA PAINTINGS
Il Passero Solitario, 1983 oil, wax, gesso, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 65 x 48 inches
K., Moltrasio, 1984 oil, wax, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 77 x 56 inches
Let Us Go Then You and I, 1983 oil, wax, gesso, pastel and acrylic on canvas, 67 x 50 inches
My Regrets from Carrara, 1983 oil, wax, pastel and gesso on canvas, 65 x 48 inches
Umbria and October, 1983 oil, wax, pastel, gesso and acrylic on canvas, 65 x 47.75 inches
MONOTYPES
Fugitive, 1992 monotype with hand coloring on Fabriano Roma paper, 17 x 12 inches
Klarika, 1982 monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
Again, 1988 monotype with hand coloring on paper, 17 x 12 inches
Arrangements concerning evidence (1), 1992 monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
Arrangements concerning evidence (3), 1992 monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 17 x 12 inches
Klarika, 1982 monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 18.75 x 12 inches
Klarika’s Ghost, 1981 monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 17 x 12 inches
Klarika, 1982 monotype with hand coloring on faded Fabriano Roma paper, 17 x 12 inches
K., Variations (II), 1989 painting on monoprint on paper, 58.75 x 42.5 inches
Klarika (G), 1982 painting on monoprint on paper, 58.75 x 42.5 inches
Klarika (March), 1990 painting on monoprint on paper, 56.25 x 41 inches
Klarika, Como, 1982 monotype with hand coloring on tan Arches paper, 17 x 12 inches
Klarika (J), 1984 monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
Quelle Antiche Ombre, 1987 monotype with hand coloring on paper, 17 x 12 inches
Klarika, 1984 monotype with hand coloring on black rice paper, 17 x 12 inches
POGANY PAINTINGS
The Myth of Invariance, 2009 oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
So Happy to be Back, 2010 oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
I Like to Watch You Fish, 2009 oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Such An Important Connection, 2010 oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Essential Human Options, 2009 oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Daddy Tried To Get Us Fixed, 2009 oil and mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
Delivered From Mistrust, 2009 oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Something About J. Du PrĂŠ, 2010 oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Cuban Dream Machine, 2010 oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
CHECKLIST cover
Detail of Daddy Tried To Get Us Fixed, 2009, oil and mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
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Il Passero Solitario, 1983, oil, wax, gesso, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 65 x 48 inches
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K., Moltrasio, 1984, oil, wax, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 77 x 56 inches
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Let Us Go Then You and I, 1983, oil, wax, gesso, pastel and acrylic on canvas, 67 x 50 inches
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My Regrets from Carrara, 1983, oil, wax, pastel and gesso on canvas, 65 x 48 inches
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Umbria and October, 1983, oil, wax, pastel, gesso and acrylic on canvas, 65 x 47.75 inches
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Fugitive, 1992, monotype with hand coloring on Fabriano Roma paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Klarika, 1982, monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Again, 1988, monotype with hand coloring on paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Arrangements concerning evidence (1), 1992, monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Arrangements concerning evidence (3), 1992, monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 17 x 12 inches Klarika, 1982, monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 18.75 x 12 inches
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Klarika’s Ghost, 1981, monotype with hand coloring on black paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Klarika, 1982, monotype with hand coloring on faded Fabriano Roma paper, 17 x 12 inches
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K., Variations (II), 1989, painting on monoprint on paper, 58.75 x 42.5 inches
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Klarika (G), 1982, painting on monoprint on paper, 58.75 x 42.5 inches
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Klarika (March), 1990, painting on monoprint on paper, 56.25 x 41 inches
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Klarika, Como, 1982, monotype with hand coloring on tan Arches paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Klarika (J), 1984, monotype with hand coloring on black Canson paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Quelle Antiche Ombre, 1987, monotype with hand coloring on paper, 17 x 12 inches
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Klarika, 1984, monotype with hand coloring on black rice paper, 17 x 12 inches
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The Myth of Invariance, 2009, oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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So Happy to be Back, 2010, oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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I Like to Watch You Fish, 2009, oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Such An Important Connection, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Essential Human Options, 2009, oil and mixed media on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Daddy Tried To Get Us Fixed, 2009, oil and mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
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Delivered From Mistrust, 2009, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Something About J. Du PrĂŠ, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Cuban Dream Machine, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
BIOGRAPHY 1945 Lives
Born, Budapest, Hungary Portland, Maine
EDUCATION 1972 1965 1964
PhD, The University of Chicago, Comparative Literature/Aesthetics MA, The University of Chicago, Comparative Literature/Aesthetics BA, St. Procopius College, Illinois
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS: 2020 1990
Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME, residency Prints International, Silvermine Galleries, CT Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Bellagio, Italy International Graphic Arts Foundation, Sigma Gallery, New York 1981 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 1980 Connecticut Commission for the Arts 1977 SECA Award for Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum Prize SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 2012 2008 2004 1998 1996 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988
Danese/Corey, New York, NY Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA Harvard University Owl Club, Cambridge, MA Kantar Fine Arts, Newtonville, MA J. Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME Museum Vasarely, Budapest, Hungary Gallery Queyras, Paris, France Connecticut Artist Collection, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT Inner Space Gallery, New Haven, CT Associated American Artists, New York, NY Kurtz Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Associated American Artists, New York, NY Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Monotype Guild of America and the Glyde Gal-
1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1978 1977 1976
lery, Mosman Park, Western Australia Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Munsterberg, Basel, Switzerland The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 59th Annual International Print Exhibition Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA Paul Mellon Art Center, Wallingford, CT Hurlbutt Galley, Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Impressions Gallery, New York, NY Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Urbach Gallery, New Haven, CT Market Hours Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2010 2006 2005 2003 1998 1997 1995 1994 1993
Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA Open Studios Group Show Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA Open Studios Group Show Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME Victoria Munroe Gallery, Boston, MA Erlich Gallery, Marblehead, MA John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Bernie Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, KS Islesford Dock Gallery, Little Cranberry Island, ME J. Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME Artcurial, Paris, France Westport Art Center, Westport, CT 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, CT Galerie de L’Arcade, Paris, France Pharmagora 93
1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1984 1983
Galerie Queyras, Paris, France StellaR Grahics, Paris, France W. G. Bastille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tricolore Associated American Artists, New York, NY Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Associated American Artists, New York, NY Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT At Sigma Gallery, New York, NY Monoprint Guild of New England, The Art Complex, Duxbury, MA The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT Monoprint Guild of New England, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MA Arnold Gallery, Newport, RI Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York, NY Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Singapore Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT Associated American Artists, New York, NY Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Stanford Univeristy Museum, Stanford, CA The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC Mony’s Collection of Contemporary Prints, Purchase, NY The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA Lillian Heidenberg Galery, New York, NY Schoarie County Arts Council, New York, NY Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Univeristy of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Cobleskill, NY National Small Print, Drawing (award winner) Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1982 1981 1980 1977
The American Artist as Printmaker. The 23rd National Print Exhibition Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA Rockford College, Rockford, IL Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Eleventh Show at the Kaiser Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA SECA Award Show
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Rosoff, Patricia. “Pearl Street’s Secret Garden,” The Advocate, July 27, 1995. Gardiner Ginnie, “Pogany,” Art/World, April/May 1988 Raynor, Vivien. “7 Artists in New Britain Show,” The New York Times, April 12, 1987. Horton, Chris. “New Britian Museum of American Art/ 1987 Invitational,” Art New England, May 1987. Thorson, Alice. “Galleries,” Washington Post, March 19, 1987. Dubois, David. “1987 Invitational, New Britain Museum of Art,” catalogue. Yau, John. “Miklos Pogany, Victoria Munroe,” Artforum, May 1986. Farquar, Caroline. “ A Show of Monoprints at the Phillips,” The Washington Print Club Newsletter, Summer 1985. Forget, Benjamin. “Poetry and Prints: Pogany’s Work at the Phillips Collection,” Washington Post, May 2, 1985. The Phillips Collection. “Emerging Artists: Miklos Pogany, Paintings and Woroks on Paper,” Bulletin, Spring 1985. Wasserman, Abby. “A Graphic Cocktail Party, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, New Acquisitions, Part II: 1940-1984,” Review, April 21, 1985. Yau, John. “Miklos Pogany, Paintings and Works on Paper,” The Phillips Collection, catalogue, 1985 Dolan, Jack. “Artist from Bethany,” New Haven Register, March 31, 1985. Kossler, Pamela. “Miklos Pogany’s Abstractions,” Washington Post, March 29, 1985.
Allen, Jane Addams. “Pogany at his best as his own critic,” Washington Times, March 28, 1985 Clisby, Roger. “Contemporary American Monotypes,” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, catalogue, 1985. Walker, Barry. “The American Artist as Printmaker,” 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue 1984. Whitbeck, Doris. “Collectors Creating Collages,” Hartford Couant, August 19, 1984. Raynor, Vivien. “Works of State Residents Shine in 3 Shows,” The New York Times, October 2, 1983, sec. 23, p. 24. Moss, Jacqueline. “The medium can be the message as artists strive for creative heights,” Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. September 25, 1983, p. F2. Boraks, David. “The Self-Taught Successes of Miklos Pogany,” The Sunday Republican, Waterbury, CT, January 2, 1983, sec. 5, pp. 1, 5. Winter, David. “From the lyrical to the exuberant in Smith Andersen exhibition,” The Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto, CA, June 21, 1982. Albright, Thomas. “The Nation: San Francisco, Bay Area Figurative,” Artnews, February 1978, pp. 102-03. Shere, Charles. “Various Visions, Real, Unreal and Uncommon,” Oakland Tribune, December 11, 1977, p. 22E. Zimmer, Kathy. “1977SECA Awards,” Artweek, December 10, 1977, p. 6. Frankenstein, Alfred. “The Tricycle as an Art Form and Racing Colors,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 1977, p. 37. Albright, Thomas. “Miklos Pogany’s Changing Style,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 1976, p. 38. Albright, Thomas. “Top-Notch Studio Offerings,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 1976, p. 54.
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA Bibliotheque National, Paris, France Boston Public Library Print Collection, Boston, MA Connecticut Artists Collection, CT Commission on the Arts Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, NJ Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Phillips Collection, Washington DC Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, IN Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS 3 EP Ltd., Palo Alto, CA AT&T, New York, NY Bank of America, San Francisco, CA Biogen, Boston, MA Chemical Bank, New York, NY Christian Science Center, Boston, MA E.F. Hutton, New York, NY Huntington Bank, Columbus, OH Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, NY Mobil Oil, New York, NY MONY, Purchase, NY Pepsico World Headquarters, Purchase, NY R.J. Reynolds Industries, New York, NY and Denver, CO Salomon Brothers, New York, NY Spencer & Scott, Boston, MA Wichita Industries, Denver CO and New York, NY Zayre Corporation, Framingham, MA
Published in conjunction with the exhibition: Miklos Pogany: Ancient Shadows Danese/Corey, New York, NY September 6 - October 5, 2019
Catalogue © 2019 Danese/Corey Essay © 1985/2019 John Yau Works of art © 1982-2010 the artist
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