Chronology and Exhibition History

RICHARD WILT
1915     Born in Tyrone, PA
1981     Died in Ann Arbor, MI

EDUCATION:
1938    BFA Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), Pittsburgh, PA
1953    MA in Art History, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1945    New School of Social Research, New York City, NY (studied with Stuart Davis)

MILITARY
1942-1945 Pilot of B25 Bombers, North Africa Theater

UNIVERSITY ART SCHOOL FACULTY
1946-1947    University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
1947-1980    University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

VISITING ARTIST/WORKSHOPS:
1940    Somerset Summer Art School, Somerset, PA
1947    Ox-Bow Summer Art School, Saugatuck, MI
1969    Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1969    Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

GALLERIES
Forsythe Galleries, Ann Arbor, MI
Collectors Gallery (Gilman Gallery) Chicago, IL
De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Ann Arbor, MI

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
1942     Elmira Art Museum, New York City, NY
1948     Rackham Galleries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1950     Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, PA
1950     Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
1951      Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1951     Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA
1952     Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (also 1962)
1953     Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI  (also 1958)
1955     Rackham Galleries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1959     Maine Sabbatical Show, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
1961     Antigua Sabbatical Show, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
1962     Amel Gallery, New York City, NY
1962     Collector’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
1968     “Revolution”, Lawrence Stevens Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979     “Rural Themes of Pennsylvania”, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1979     Slusser Gallery, Art School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
(63rd one-man show)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1946    Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
(also 1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1953,1954, and 1962)
1947    Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI
(also 1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1954,1955,1957,1958, and 1962)  “Annual Exhibition of Michigan Artists”, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1948    Four-man Invitational, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, NY (also 1959 )
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
(also 1949,1951,1952,1953,1954,1956,1958,1959, and 1961 with
Guy Palazolla)
1949    Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Watercolor Exhibit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Old Northwest Territory Invitational Exhibition
1951    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (also1953, 1962)
American Federation of the Arts exhibition: “Five Americans”, circulated nationwide
“Five Americans”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1954    Michigan Water Color Society-entered annual shows
1955    “Men and Steel” Exhibition, Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL
“Interior Valley Exhibition”, Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, OH. Invitation through Carnegie Museum of Art.
1958    “American Painting and Sculpture,” a joint venture with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Invitational Exhibition and the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1959
1962    Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
“Drawings U.S.A.”, Minnesota. Circulated by American Federation of Art,
Springfield, MO
“Watercolors U.S.A.”, Springfield, MO
1963    “International Watercolor Exhibition”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Contemporary American Art” Invitational, Art Institute of Chicago
Drawing Exhibition, Norfolk Museum, Norfolk VA. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institute