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