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Published 2022 Belle Isle en Mer (JE27) (Detail), 2002 (Cover) 3

Jim Bumgardner

J ames Bumgardner (1935–2015) was an expressionist/figurative painter, multimedia artist, and a Virginia Commonwealth University professor of art in the VCU School of the Arts. As an undergraduate student at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), Bumgardner was encouraged by his mentor Jewett Campbell to study with the notable Art Students League of New York instructor Hans Hoffman (1880–1966), and Bumgardner received the last scholarship given by Hoffman, a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Using his scholarship, Bumgardner studied with Hoffman in Provincetown in 1957, during which time he became friends with gallery director Richard Bellamy and artist Jan Müller. In 1963 in Richmond Jim Bumgardner and Jon Bowie co-directed a series of multi-media events or “happenings”. The first was called “Synthesis” and was influenced by the productions of Allan Kaprow and the ONCE Festival of New Music of Ann Arbor, Michigan. After “Synthesis” Bumgardner and Jon Bowie invited notable outside performance and visual artists who joined in a series of annual “Bang, Bang, Bang Arts Festival” happenings in Richmond.

Opposite Page St. Croix, Island Window (Detail), 1988 4

River Window (apples), 1990 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 6

Belle Isle en Mer (JE27), 2002 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 8

St. Croix, Island Window, 1988 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 10

River Window, Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 12

Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 14

River Window, Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 16

Belle Isle en Mer (JE30), 2002 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 18

River Window, Deltaville (pathway, light purple sky), 2002 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 20

River Window, Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches $1000 unframed 22

Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 25 x 22 1/2 inches $1000 unframed 24

River Window, Deltaville, 2014 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 x 30 inches $1000 unframed 26

River Window, Deltaville, 1993 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 19 x 19 inches $1200 framed 28

Window, 1986 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inch image, 25 x 32 1/2 inch frame $1500 framed 30

Cornish Window, 1986 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inch image, 25 x 32 1/2 inch frame $1500 framed 32

Jim Bumgardner Abbreviated CV 1935 - 2015 Education 1958 1957 1954 1955

BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University Hans Hofmann, Provincetown, MA University of North Carolina Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

Select Solo Exhibitions 2018 Poetic Mystery, Retrospective from Longwood Center for the Visual Arts 1995 Davidson College, Davidson, NC Gallery K, Washington, DC 1990 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1989 Reynolds Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA 1988 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1985 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1979 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1978 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 1977 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1975 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 1963 Barbara Cecil Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1960 Fleishman Gallery, New York, NY Select Group Exhibitions 2007 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991

December Project, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Gallery K, Washington, DC New Works, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC University of Haifa, Israel Gallery K, Washington, DC Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, Lima, Peru Gallery K, Washington, DC Galeri Corti, Brussels, Belgium Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Kishinev Moldova, Cinema Center, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Encuentro Americano, Museo de Osma, Lima, Peru Gallery K, Washington, DC

1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981

Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Interior/Exterior, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Exhibit, Washington, DC Interior/Exterior, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Exhibit, Washington, DC Interior/Exterior, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Exhibit, Washington, DC Gallery K, Washington, DC Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Realist Invitational, Winston-Salem, NC Gallery K, Washington, DC 1980 American Painting of the Fifties, Gallery K, Washington, DC New Directions from the Southeast First Annual Invitational Exhibition, Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC Metarealities, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC 1979 Twenty Virginia Artists, National Traveling Exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Gallery K, Washington, DC 1978 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1977 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1976 200 Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina, North Carolina Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina Gallery K, Washington, DC 1975 Gallery K, Washington, DC 1965 Art Across America, An Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Paintings and Wall-Hang Constructions, Traveling exhibition shown at museums in sixteen major American cities The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 1959 Art U.S.A., New York City Select Collections American Airlines Capital One The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Crestar Bank, Richmond, VA Cyclops Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA El Banco de Credito del Peru, Lima, Peru El Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru E.R. Carpenter Co., Richmond, VA Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA First Union Securities, Richmond, VA Hunton-Williams, Richmond VA James River Corporation, Richmond, VA Markel Corporation, Richmond, VA Neison and Bette Harris, Chicago, IL The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Philip Morris Incorporated, Richmond, VA Philip Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC Proctor Silex, Richmond, VA

Robert Scull, New York, NY Sheltering Arms Hospital, Hanover, VA Shearson Lehman, New York, NY Sidney and Francis Lewis, Richmond, VA Solomon Brothers, New York, NY Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA Virginia Power, Richmond VA Virginia State Bar Association, Richmond, VA Fellowships 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Visual Arts in the Performing Arts in the Performing Arts Category 1976 Virginia Commonwealth University, Grant for Creative Research 1975 Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts Grant 1957 North Carolina Museum of Art Scholarship Hans Hofmann Scholarship Awards 1977

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Purchase Prize The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction 1963 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction 1962 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award in 1959, Painting 1961 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction 1960 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award in 1959, Painting 1959 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction 1958 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award in 1959, Painting 1957 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award in 1959, Painting North Carolina Museum of Art, Purchase Prize Select Publications 1975-2003 “Who’s Who in American Art” 1996 “New Art From an Ancient Land,” Contemporary Art from Haifa 1988 Virginia Power Collection Catalog

1985 New Art Examiner, “James Bumgardner: Beyond Refinement”, September issue 1983 Alumni of the Masonic Temple, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond VA 1980 Images & Issues Vol. 1 #3, Winter Nina Felshin, “Metarealities”, Washington Project for the Arts 1979 Art Voices South, “James Bumgardner,” Jan./Feb. 1976 “200 Years of Art in North Carolina”, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 1962 North Carolina Artist’s Annual Catalogue 1960 “Award Winners Part Two Catalogue”, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC North Carolina Artist’s Annual Catalogue 1959 North Carolina Artist’s Annual Catalogue 1958 North Carolina Artist’s Annual Catalogue 1957 North Carolina Artist’s Annual Catalogue Professional Appointments Professor Emeritus, Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

JIM BUMGARDNER Available Works

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