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1900
Born June 12 in Freilburg, Germany, and moved to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
1919 Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1920-21 Studied at the National Academy of Design,
New York
1926-35 Moved to Europe and traveled to Germany,
Switzerland, France, North Africa and Hungary
1926 Studied at the Hans Hoffman School, Munich,
Germany
1932 Became a member of Abstraction-Creation, Paris
France
1936-44 Member of American Abstract Artist, New York
1939 Taught at the Art Students League, New York
1948-50 Artist-in-Residence at the University of
Georgia, Athens
1950 Taught at the Art Students League, New York
1950-52 Instructor of Fine Arts at the Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri
1951 Artist-in-Residence at the University of California
at Berkeley (summer)
1955-59 Instructor of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College,
New York
1961 Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(summer)
1964-70 Professor of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College,
New York
1970 Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College, New
York
1973 Died March 22 in New York
Selected Exhibitions
1921-26 Wisconsin
Painters and Sculptors, Milwaukee Art Institute
1927 Simonson Galerie, Paris, France: one-man exhibition
1936-37 J.B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
1938-43 Nierdendorf Gallery, New York
1939-40 World’s Fair, New York
1944 San Francisco Art Museum, California; Seattle
Art Museum, Washington; Abstract and Surrealist Art in America,
J. B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
1945 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual
Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
1945-48 Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York
1946 Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1948 Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: American
Painting Today
1951 Museum of Modern Art, New York: Abstract Painting
and Sculpture in America
1952-53 J.B. Neumann, New Art Circle, New York
1955-56 Graham Gallery, New York
1957 Poindexter Gallery, New York: The 1930’s;
Painting in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
1959 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual
Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
1963 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Urbana: Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
1965 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: Some
Recent Gifts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York:
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The
1930’s Painting and Sculpture in America, Georgia State
University, Atlanta: Carl Holty: Recent Paintings
1969 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; American
Painting from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Collection
1972 The Graduate Center Mall, The City University
of New York: Carl Holty/Fifty Years: A Retrospective Exhibition
1973 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York: Carl Holty
Memorial Exhibition
Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American
Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum of art, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,
PA
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey
New School for Social Research, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin
University of Georgia, Athens
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Publications by the Artist
1957 “A Memoir of Modrain,”
Arts Magazine, Vol.31, September
1958 “The Way to Creativity,” Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, Vol. 15, February
1968 “The Mechanics of Creativity of a Painter: A Memoir,”
Leonardo, Vol. 1, Pergamon Press
1969 The Painter’s Mind, with co-author Romare Bearden,
Grove Press, New York
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