藝術家Alan GUSSOW (1931-1997) 生平簡歷

出生地： NYC

地址： Congers, NY

职业： Landscape painter, writer

教育： Middlebury College (B.A., 1952); Cooper Union, 1952-53; Smithsonian Inst.; Atelier 17 Graphic Workshop, 1952-53.

展出： Butler IA annual, 1964; "Maine ó 50 Artists of 20th Century," AFA traveling exhib., 1964; PAFA, 1966; Am. Acad. Arts & Letters, 1966; "The American Landscape ó A Living Tradition," Peridot Gals., circulated by Smithsonian Inst., 1968-70; Rockland (NY) Center for Arts, 1978 (retrospective); MB Modern Gal., NYC, 1996. Awards: Prix de Rome in Painting, Am. Acad. Rome, Italy, 1953-55

工作： Portland (ME) MFA

评论： An ardent conservationist, his landscapes combined naturalistic observation with abstraction. Reviewing his first show of ocean paintings, probably painted at Monhegan Island (ME), Stewart Preston wrote in the New York Times, "Alan Gussow's storms would make Winslow Homer run for cover." Positions: first official artist for Cape Cod Na. Seashore, Nat. Park Service, 1970s; chmn., Am. Beautiful Fund, 1970s; chmn. board, Artists Environmental Foundation, 1970s. Teaching: Parsons School Design, 1956-68, chmn. dept., 1959-68; Sarah Lawrence College, 1958-59. Author: A Sense of Place: the Artist and the American Land p> (Sat. Review Press, 1972); The Use of Artists as Artists in the Struggle for Population Control (McGraw, 1972); "We Are What We See" in Encyclopedia of Ecology and Pollution (No. Am Publ, 1972); The Artist as Native (1993).