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                                      SCOTT PRIOR

 

1949         Born in Exeter, NH

1971         Received B.F.A. from University of Massachusetts, 

                Amherst, MA

1974-1976   Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1977         Residency, Ossabaw Island Program, GA

1979         Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation

1979-1980   Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1985         Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

1986         Award in Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2018     Quidley and Co., Naples, FL

2017     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2016     Quidley and Co., Nantucket, MA

2016     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2015     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2014     Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware

2012     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2011     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton MA

2009     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

            Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2006     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

            Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2005     Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2009     Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2002     William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2001     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

            Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999     Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

2000     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

            Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2000-2001   Light on the Familiar: The Paintings of Scott Prior, 

             DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA also University Gallery,

             University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1997      Forum Gallery, New York, NY

1996      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1995      Forum Gallery, New York, NY

1994      Forum Gallery, New York, NY

             Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1992      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1991      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1990      Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

             Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ

             Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1988      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1987      Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1986      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

             Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1984      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1983      Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1981      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1980      Clark University, Worcester, MA

1979.     Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1977      Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018           “This Land Is… International Landscape Invitational,” 

                   Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2016-17       Truth and Vision, 21st Century Realism, Delaware

                   Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE

2016-17       As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von

                   Metzsh, New Britain Museum of American Art, New

                   Britain, CT

 2016           The Lay of the Land, Smith College Museum of Art,

                   Northampton, MA

2015-16       Director’s Favorites, New Britain Museum of American 

                   Art, New Britain, CT

2015            Collecting and Sharing, Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk 

                   and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH

2014            Under the Influence-Contemporary Artists and the 

                    Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville

                     Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware

2013-14        Still Life Lives, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2011             Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, 

                    Northampton, MA

                    Still Lifes   William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2010             Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,

                    Northampton, MA

                    Still Lifes  William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2010             Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, MA

2009             Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,

                    Northampton, MA

                    Still Lifes  William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2008             Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2006             Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex 

                    Museum, Salem, MA

                    Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, 

                    Northampton, MA

2005             Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

                    Human Figures by the World’s Art Masters, Nagoya/

                    Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 

                    Nagoya, Japan

                    Innocence, New Britain Museum of American Art, New

                    Britain, CT

2004            Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, 

                   Northampton, MA

                   Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003            Water Escapes, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

                   Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                   DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil 

                   Stone, DeCordova Museum,  Lincoln, MA

2002            Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum, 

                   Lincoln, MA

                   Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke, 

                   Mount Holyoke College of Art Museum, South Hadley, 

                   MA

                   Fourth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001            Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place, 

                   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

                   Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000            Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections from the Arthur 

                   S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth      

                   Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

                   Revealing the Nude: A Timeless Passion, Chase Gallery, 

                   Boston, MA

                   Second Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999            Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, 

                   Northampton, MA

                   Re-Presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, 

                   Elmira, NY

                   Magic Realism: A Selection of Paintings, 1925-1998,

                   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA

                   First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson 

                   Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

1998            Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape

                   Painting, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

                   Valley Realists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham,

                   MA

                   New England Impressions, Painting from Life, Attleboro 

                   Museum, Attleboro, MA

1997         Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

                 Realism in 20th Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME

1996-97    Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, Currier Gallery of Art, 

                  Manchester, NH, and traveling exhibitions to: National Academy of Design, New York, NY,

                   and Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

                   Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1996           Reinventing Realism: Contemporary American Perspective, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA

1994          The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

                   20th Century Figurative Paintings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

1991       Boston Art Dealers Association Selection, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA

               The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

                Illustrating Nature: The Art of Botany, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1987        New Work by Old Friends, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

                The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Picturesque, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA

1986        Boston Collects, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1984        Urban Visions/ Countryside Views, University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, 

                Durham, NH

                Emerging Massachusetts Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1982        A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine      

                Arts, Boston, MA

                Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 

                Waltham, MA

1980         Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

                 Realism in New England, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1979         Art of the State, Recipients of Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, Rose Art

                 Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1978        Art from Corporate Collections, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY

1976         Patron’s Choice: Artists Under 35, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1975         19th Annual Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1974         New Talent, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY

1973         New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

                 New Talent in New England, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

   SELECTED COLLECTIONS         

  

   American Express, New York, NY

   Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, MA

   W.C. Bradley Co., Columbus, GA

   Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC

   Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

   Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

   Gardner Carton and Douglas, Chicago, IL

   The Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA

   IBM, New York, NY

   Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

   New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

   New England Life, Boston, MA

   Northeastern University, Boston, MA

   On Technology, Cambridge, MA

   Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA

   Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

   Seven Bridges Foundation

   Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Norrthampton, MA

   St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

   Texaco, White Plains, NY

    Wellington Management, Boston, MA

    Ruth & John D. West Collection, The Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI

    William Brinks Olds Hoefer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, IL

              

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

O’Hern, John, “Everday Moments,” American Art Collector, February, 2018, pp 52-57

Sutro, Sarah, “Light, Magic, Memory in the Landscape Paintings of Scott Prior”, American Arts Quarterly, Summer, 2016, pp 33-39

“Paintings by Scott Prior”, The Gettysburg Review, (Cover illustration), Summer 1994.

Miller, Francine Koslow.  “Scott Prior, Alpha Gallery”, Artforum, March 1993, p.99.

Stapen, Nancy.  “Spotlight on Haunting Images, Surreal Effects”, The Boston Globe,

    November 27, 1992, p. 105.

Watson, Bruce.  “Traditional View gets Modern Look”, Daily Hampshire Gazette, (Cover),      

    October 14, 1996. 

Russell, Gloria.  “History of Landscape in Focus”, Sunday Republican, November 23, 1997.

Cleary, Margot.  “Real and Surreal”, Daily Hampshire Gazette: Hampshire Life Magazine,

    January 23, 1998.

Silver, Joanne.  “Prior’s Paintings Put Simple Objects in an Abstract Light”, The Boston Herald,

    April 6, 1990.

Temin, Christine.  “Puzzles Lend Mystery to Lyrical Paintings”, The Boston Globe, p. A57,

    November 24, 1988.

Giuliano, Charles.  “Alpha Gallery – Scott Prior”, Art New England, March 1987.

Nelson, Ronald J.  “Scott Prior”, American Artist, December 1986, pp. 42-47, 100-101.

Bonetti, David.  Review, Boston Pheonix, November 18, 1986, p.13.

Temin, Christine.  “Perspectives”, The Boston Globe, November 13, 1986, p.78.

“Critic’s Tip: Exhibits Real and Unreal”, The Boston Globe, March 19, 1981.

Taylor, Robert.  “New Talent Emerging at Alpha”, The Boston Globe, June 17, 1973.