CHAIM KOPPELMAN
AWARDS AND HONORS
1957 Tiffany Grant for printmaking
1959 Tiffany Grant for printmaking
1970 Nominated for American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters
1976 New York State CAPS Grant (Creative Artists Public Service Grant) for suite of lithographs Closeness and Clash in Couples and Domestic Life
1992 NY Artists Equity Annual Awards Honoring Will Barnet, Robert Blackburn, Chaim Koppelman
2004 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of American Graphic Artists
2005 Purchase Prize, Annual SAGA exhibition, Art Students League, New York
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
• Museum of Modern Art
• Metropolitan Museum
• Guggenheim Museum
• Whitney Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• National Gallery, Washington, DC
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Library of Congress, Pennell Collection
• Los Angeles County Museum
• Walker Art Center
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis
• Anchorage Museum
• Syracuse University
• California State College at Long Beach
• Peabody Museum
• Fifth Avenue Library, NYC
• Joseph Hirschhorn Collection
• Hampton Institute
• University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
• United States Embassies in Europe
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas
EXHIBITIONS AND ADDITIONAL HONORS
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1943 Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh
1945 67 Gallery, NYC
1956 Terrain Gallery, NYC
1958 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Drawings and Prints
1964 Kornbluth Gallery, Patterson, NJ
1965 Roko Gallery, NYC
1973 Associated American Artists Gallery, NYC, Selection of prints covering 20 years AFS Gallery, Binghamton, NY
1974 Terrain Gallery, NYC
1983 Terrain Gallery, NYC, pastels
1985 Merida Rapp Graphics, Louisville, KY
2000 Beatrice Conde Gallery, NYC
2010 Terrain Gallery
2011 Museo Napoleonico, Roma
2014 Brooklyn Central Library
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1942 Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Whitney Museum, Spirit of Aviation, Sculpture
1944 Art Centre, Ilfracombe, Devon, England, Two Man Show
1945 Wakefield Gallery, NYC, Group Show
1947 Weyhe Gallery, NYC, Three Man Show
1948 Whitney Museum, NYC, Sculpture and Drawing Annual
Yale University Gallery, Drawings of Modern Masters
1950 Whitney Museum, NYC, Sculpture and Drawing Annual
Pennsylvania Academy, Watercolor and Print Annual
1954 Society of American Graphic Artists Annual, Markel Prize
Boston Museum, Boston Printmakers Annual
1955 Royal Ontario Museum, Print Annual, Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers
Brooklyn Museum, National Print Exhibition
1956 Brooklyn Museum, National Print Exhibition
Art Building, Pamona, California, Contemporary Arts, USA
Brooklyn Museum, Golden Years of American Drawings, 1905-1956
1957 Oakland Museum, California, Bay Printmakers Exhibit
1958 Terrain Gallery, NYC, Three Man Show with Vincent Longo & Gerson Leiber
1959 Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Recent Print Acquisitions
DOCUMENTA II, Kassel, West Germany,
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn & L.I. Artists Invitational, Honorable Mention
Library of Congress, National Print Exhibit, Purchase Award
Whitney Museum, NYC, American Prints Today
AAA Gallery, NYC, 25th Anniversary Print Competition, Purchase Prize
1960 Whitney Museum, NYC, Sculpture and Drawing Annual
Audubon Annual, NYC, Medal of Honor, Graphics
Brooklyn Museum, National Print Exhibit
Yale University Art Gallery, American Prints 1950-1960
Free Library of Philadelphia, Print Fair, Honorable Mention
Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT, National Print Exhibition
U.S. Information Agency, Travelling Show Latin America, 75 US Printmakers
Library of Congress, Print Exhibit
University of Kentucky, Graphics '61
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Fifty American Printmakers
1961 Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, TN, Print Invitational
Mexico City, 2nd Inter-American Biennial
Free Library of Philadelphia, The Fabulous Decade, Prints of the 1950s
1962 Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Recent Paintings USA: The Figure
AAA Gallery, NYC, 100 Prints of the Year
Whitney Museum, NYC, American Prints Today
New School, NYC, Recent Drawings by New York Artists
AAA Gallery, SAGA Annual, Harburg Prize
Lincoln Gallery, NYC, Invitational Print Show, Best in Show Prize
Syracuse University, American Printmakers, Purchase Award
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1st Print Annual, Purchase Award
1963 AAA Gallery, NYC, SAGA Annual, Turner Prize
Graphics USA, USLA Exhibit, travelling through Eastern Europe
Otis Art Institute, LA, Print Invitational
Pennsylvania Academy, Annual
Terrain Gallery, NYC, Two Person Show with Dorothy Koppelman
Library of Congress, National Print Exhibition
1964 New Forms Gallery, Athens, Greece, Contemporary American Printmakers
Syracuse University, American Printmakers Invitational
Brooklyn Museum, Print Exhibition
DePaul University, Contemporary American Printmakers
California State College, Long Beach, Print Invitational, Purchase Award
Communication Arts Mag., 4th Ann. Exhib., CA, Award of Distinctive Merit
1965 Nice, France, Cote D'Azur International
Visual Arts Gallery, NYC, 2nd Print Invitational
1966 SAGA Annual, NYC, Hirschhorn Foundation Prize
College Museum, Hampton Institute, VA, New York '66 Exhibit
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, American Graphics
Saint Paul Art Center, Drawings, USA
Brooklyn Museum, Print Biennial, Purchase Prize
Print Collection, 5th Avenue Public Library, NYC
1967 Hinckley & Brohel Galleries, Washington, DC, Two Man Show
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Vancouver Print International Exhibit
SAGA, AAA Gallery, List Prize
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Art Expo Exhibition
1968 AAA Gallery, 49th Annual SAGA Exhibition
AAA Gallery, Photography in Printmaking
TV, Channel 31, NYC, work shown & discussed
IBM Gallery, Third International Miniature Print Exhibition, Prize
Brooklyn Museum, 16th National Print Exhibition, Purchase Award
1969 Terrain Gallery, NYC, Two Person Show with Dorothy Koppelman
Hofstra University, New Directions in American Printmaking
AAA Gallery, 50th Annual SAGA Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum, 16th National Print Exhibition, Purchase Award
Library of Congress, 21st National Print Exhibition
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, National Print Invitational
W. New Mexico Univ., McGray Gallery, Graphics '69 Exhib., Purchase Prize
Cranbrook Academy, 6th Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition
Calif. State College at Long Beach, Nat'l Inv. Print Exhib., Purchase Prize
1970 Brooklyn Museum, 17th National Print Exhibition
Bar Association, NYC, Law and Justice Graphics
Brooklyn Museum, Thirty Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings
1971 American Federation of Arts, The Indignant Eye, circulating print exhibition
San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, Second National Invitational Print Show
Terrain Gallery, NYC, The Kindest Art: Three Man Show of Aesthetic Realism Consultation Trio
1972 Purdue University, Invitational Print Show
Utah State Univ. Art Gallery, Logan, UT, 3rd Annual Nat'l Print Exhibition
Anchorage Museum of Fine Arts, Anchorage, AK, Print Invitational
1974 Associated American Artists, NYC
National Academy Museum, NYC, Annual
1976 Warwick Gallery, Warwick, England, Two Man Show
1977 National Academy, NYC, Annual
1978 P.S.1, NYC
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
National Academy Museum, NYC
1979 Green Mountain Gallery, NYC
National Academy Museum, NYC
1980 National Academy Museum, NYC, Annual
1981 Museum of City of New York, Prints of New York,
National Academy Museum, NYC, Annual
1985 Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC
National Academy Museum, NYC, Annual
1986 National Academy Annual, Cannon Prize
New York University, International Small Works Show, Second Prize
1987 Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC
Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum Purchase Award
National Academy Museum, NYC, Annual
1988 Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Alternative Museum, NYC
1989 Brooklyn Museum, Innovative Printmaking
National Academy Museum, Annual, Cannon Prize
1993 Swiss Institute, NYC, Exquisite Corpse
Drawing Center, NYC
1995 Susan Teller Gallery, NYC, Contemplating Cubism
1996 Chuck Levitan Gallery, NYC, The Invented Figure: Drawing
Audubon Society, Annual, Silver Medal
Museum of Fine Arts, Bogota, Colombia
1997 National Academy Museum, Laufman Award for a Drawing
1998 National Academy Museum, Cook Award for Drawing, Work reproduced in New York Times
1999 Treasures Revealed: 19th and 20th Century Works on Paper
National Academy Museum, Dessie Greer Prize for a Drawing
2000 National Academy Museum, Paper Trails: Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors in the National Academy of Design
Terrain Gallery, NYC, 45th Anniversary Exhibition
2001 Terrain Gallery, NYC, The Opposites--2001: The Print
Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, Prints & Prints
Etching, “Wings of the Dove,” acquired by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2002 Bronze Memorial Relief Sculpture of Eli Siegel, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD
2003 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minn.
International Print Center, New York, NY
Library of Congress, Wash.D.C.
Robert Blackburn, “Celebration of Life” at Cooper Union, NY, NY
2005 Terrain Gallery, NYC, 50th Anniversary Exhibition
National Academy Museum, Disegno
2006 Whitney Museum, NY, Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006 Peace Tower
National Academy Museum
Atlantic Gallery, NYC
NYAEA, Invitational
2007 National Academy Museum, 18th Annual,
National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, Juror: The Athlete & the Artist
2008 National Academy Museum, Recent Acquisitions
2010 Terrain Gallery, NYC, “Chaim Koppelman (1920-2009): A Memorial Exhibition”
2011-2012 Museo Napoleonico, Rome, “Napoleon Entering New York: Chaim Koppelman and the Emperor”
2017-2018 Terrain Gallery, NYC, “The Value of Objects: Double Prints by Dorothy & Chaim Koppelman”
PUBLICATIONS
1969 This is the Way I See Aesthetic Realism, Artist’s Book, Terrain Gallery
1970 We Have Been There: Six Artists on the Siegel Theory of Opposites, Co-Author, Definition Press
1972 Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims by Eli Siegel, illustrator
2003 “Sculpture Gives Meaning to Our Lives,” article, Southampton Press
2004 Four Essays on the Art of the Print, Orange Angle Press
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
1969 The Indignant Eye, The Artist as Social Critic by Ralph Shikes, Beacon Press
1974 The New Humanism, Barry Schwartz, Praeger Publishing Company
1976 The Art of the Print, Fritz Eichenberg, Abrams
1980 American Prints and Printmakers: A Chronicle of over 400 Artists and Their Prints from 1900 to the Present by Una E. Johnson, Doubleday
1983 In Search of the Spirit in Art by Hilla Rebay, Braziller
LECTURES
1971–2007 Public seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation on the lives and work of numerous artists, including Picasso, De Chirico, Masaccio, Toulouse-Lautrec, Lipschitz, Leger.
1983–2005 Talks in Terrain Gallery series, “Art Answers the Questions of Your Life”
2005 School of Visual Arts, NY, “Artists Talk on Art” series
TEACHING
Rhodes School, New York City; 92nd Street Y, NYC; New York University, Department of Art Education, 1947–55; New York State University, New Paltz, Graduate Extension Division, 1952–58; Instructor, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1959–2007, including Head of Printmaking Section, 1959–1969; National Academy Museum and School of Art; Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 1971– 2009.
EDUCATION
Chaim Koppelman attended the American Artists School; Art Students League, in NYC; Brooklyn College; The Art College of Western England, Bristol; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Rheims; Amedée Ozenfant School in NYC, where he was his assistant. He studied Aesthetic Realism with its founder, Eli Siegel, from 1940-1978, and with Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education, Ellen Reiss, from 1978-2009.