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Lives and works in New York
HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS
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2004
2000
2000
1974 - 2000
1966
1963
1958 - 61
1958
1954 |
Liquitex Excellence in Art Purchase
Award
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, MD
Director Emeritus, Mount Royal Graduate School of Art, Maryland
Institute College of Art
Director: Mount Royal Graduate School of Art, Maryland
Institute College of Art
Ford Foundation Grant, Artist-in-Residence, Quincy Art Club,
Quincy, IL
Bamberger’s Purchase Prize Award Painting, Newark, NJ
Festival of Fine Arts, Monmouth College, First Prize Painting,
Monmouth, NJ
Newark Museum Triennial, Purchase Prize Award Painting,
Newark, NJ
Newark Arts Festival, Purchase Prize Award Drawing, Newark,
NJ
M.A. Fine Arts Degree, Hunter College, New York, NY
B.S. Fine Arts Degree, Newark State Teachers’ College, Newark,
NJ |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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1996
1993
1990
1987
1972 - 84
1978
1971 - 75
1971
1969
1966
1964
1962
1958 |
Collins Gallery, New York, NY
Irving Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
Jacob’s Ladder Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Quincy Art Club, Quincy, IL
Argus Gallery, Madison, NJ
The Robbins Gallery, East Orange, NJ
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Castalane Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Stuttman Gallery, New York, NY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2001 - 2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1995
1994
1992
1989
1987
1981
1980
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
1960
1958 - 59
1958 |
4th
Anniversary Exhibition – dm Contemporary,
Mill Neck, NY
Art Now Fair NY, 30/30 Hotel – dm Contemporary
The Drawing Show: From Pencil to Alabaster,
Artists Redefine Drawing, Joyce
Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, apexart, New York, NY
Continuum-In Celebration of 70 years of American Abstract
Artists, St. Peter’s
College Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Art of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts’ Kerstein
Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
Nancy
Manter, Joanne Mattera, & Babe Shapiro, dm Contemporary, Mill
Neck, NY (three person exhibition)
Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York, Curated by
Jill Conner
Ideal; Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Brooklyn, NY,
Curated by Rene Lynch, Director
The Matzo Files, New York, NY
Behind the Green Door I, II, III, Bob’s Club House, New York, NY
Masterworks 1969 – 1984, Art Space/Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, Florida
Mt. Royal 25th Anniversary Exhibition: A Tribute to Babe
Shapiro, Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore
In Honor of Alan Groh ‘49: The Buzz Miller Collection of
American Art, Bayly
Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Resident Artists Exhibition, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Institute: Then and Now, Traveling Exhibition, Josiah White
Exhibition Center, Jim Thorpe, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Works on Paper, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Painters Make Prints, Traveling Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, MD
Large Scale Paintings, B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
125th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Kean College of New Jersey, Union, NJ
Selections from the Collection of George M. Irwin, Krannert Art Museum, Univ.
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
12 Painters from the A.M. Sachs Gallery, The New Gallery, Russell Sage College,
Troy, NY
Limited Editions, Original Prints from the Collection, Storm King Art Center,
Mountainville, NY
Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
A.M. Sachs Gallery Artists, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC
Pittsburgh Corporations Collect, Carnegie Institute, Heinz Galleries, Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Collectors Choice XV, Phillbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Texas Technological University, Lubbock, TX
The Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
The Council on Leaders and Specialists, Institute of International Education,
Washington, D.C.
New Museum Acquisitions, Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum, Colorado Springs,
CO
Print Show, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
Fine Prints and Original Works, Works of Art Gallery, Kings Point, NY
Gallery Selections, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
What’s Happening in Soho?, Traveling Exhibition, University of Maryland
Art Gallery, College Park, MD
Babe Shapiro, Recent Paintings and Michele Doner, Ceramic
Sculpture, Gertrude
Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
Grippi Gallery Graphics, New York, NY
Gallery Group Exhibition, Jacob’s Ladder Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
IN
The Maryland Annual, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Recent Trends in American Art, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greenburg,
PA
Flint Invitational, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
American Painting Now, American Pavilion, Expo 1967, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Bamberger’s 11th Annual Art Exhibition, Bamberger’s, Newark, NJ
American Painting, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
The Landscape, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Bamberger’s 10th Annual Art Exhibition, Bamberger’s, Newark, NJ
Selected Works of Contemporary Artists, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Jersey and the Artist, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New York World’s Fair, New Jersey Pavilion, New York, NY
Drawing Society Drawing Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
PA
Art Today, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
American Art at Mid-Century, Graulich’s, Orange, NJ
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Festival of Fine Arts Exhibition, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ
Painting Annual, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
American Gallery, New York, NY
Stryke Gallery, New York, NY
Newark Museum Triennial, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Figure in American Art, Traveling Exhibition, American Federation of
Arts, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Portraits, Spook Farm Gallery, Far Hills, NJ
Five Newark Artists, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Provincetown Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA
Our Town, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Curated by William H. Gerdts
The Wherefore’s of Contemporary Art, YM-YWHA, Art Associates, Passaic, NJ
Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ
Newark Museum Triennial, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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Dorsey, John, Painters Try Their Hands at
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Painters Make Prints, Maryland Institute College of Art, Exhibition
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Sullivan, Margaret M., Selections from
the Collection of George M. Irwin, Krannert Art Museum,
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Baltimore Magazine, Expert Opinion: The Best and
Worst in Art,
July 1979 p.55.
Ellenzweig, Allen, Babe Shapiro, Arts Magazine,
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Lugano Review, 1976, vol. 8-9, pp.52-55, 65, article, cover
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Leon A., Pittsburgh Corporations Collect, Carnegie
Magazine, October 1975 vol. XLIX, no.8, p.356.
Hakanson,
Joy, Two Artists Share an Audience, The
Detroit News, February 2, 1975.
Inaugural Exhibition of the Heinz Galleries, Museum of
Art, Carnegie Institute,
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Hakanson, Joy, Babe Shapiro, The Detroit
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Kresge Art Center Bulletin, March 1972, vol. V, no.6, cover illustration.
The Art Gallery Magazine, December 1971, p.2 ill.
Getlein, Frank, Gotham Artist’s D.C. Debut, Washington
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Johnson, Lincoln, Geometric Designs, Light Figure in Exhibitions, Baltimore
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Gold, Barbara, Where is Art Taking Soho and Vice Versa?, Baltimore
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Hakanson, Joy, Shapiro-Gertrude Kasle Gallery, The
Detroit News, October 1971.
Cummings, Paul, Original Graphics, Time, Inc.,
Catalog, 1971.
Landgren, Michael, What’s Happening in Soho?, Exhibition
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Hankanson, Joy, 21 Galleries Salute Cranbrook, The
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Catalog, 1963.
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Catalog, 1963.
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
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Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
AT&T, New York, NY
Andrew Dickenson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY
Avon Products, Inc., New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bamberger Permanent Art Collection, Carlstadt, NJ
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chicago Telephone Company, Chicago, IL
Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum, Colorado Springs. CO
Confluence, Inc., New York, NY
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Coopers and Lybrand, Detroit, MI
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, VA
First National Bank of Miami, Miami, FL
Franklin National Bank, New York, NY
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Illinois Bell Company, Chicago, IL
Inmont Corporation, New York, NY
George C. Irwin Collection, Quincy, IL
Gertrude Kasle Collection, Detroit, MI
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Liquitex Artist Materials Collection, Piscataway, NJ
Johns Manville Company
Mercantile Trust, Baltimore, MD
The Buzz Miller Collection of American Art, Bayly Art Museum, University of VA
National Broadcasting Company, NY
Walter Netsch Collection
New York Telephone Company, NY
Newark Museum, NJ
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Squibb Corporation, Princeton, NJ
S.S. Kresge Company, Troy, MI
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Texas Technological University, Lubbock, TX
Union Carbide Corporation, New York, NY
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
Eleanor Ward Collection, New York, NY
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Weinberg and Green Art Collection, Baltimore, MD
Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Beverly Hills, CA
West Texas Museum, Lubbock, TX
Western Electric Company, Morristown, NJ
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Minoru Yamasaki
Y.W.H.A., Union, NJ
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