Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1936

B.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island, 1959

M.F.A. in Painting, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, 1962

Taught at the Following Institutions:

Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

School of Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota

Selected Museum Collections:

Brooklyn Museum of Art

National Academy Museum, New York

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Boston Public Library, Wiggins Collection, Boston

Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Grants and Awards:

2008 First Prize, Members Exhibition, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

1995 Elected to the Membership of the National Academy of Design

1991 Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.

1983 Fellow, Hand Hollow Foundation, East Chatham, New York

1982 R.S. Reynolds Memorial Sculpture Award

1981 Lippincott Incorporated Sculpture Commission, New Haven Connecticut

1975-79 Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Grant in Sculpture

1963 First Prize, Painting, Boston Fine Arts Festival

1959 First Prize, Painting, Providence Art Club Annual, Providence, Rhode Island

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2014 Galerie Gris, Hudson, New York

2011 Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

2010 Cornwall Library, Cornwall, Connecticut

2009 Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Great South Bay Gallery, Hudson, New York

2007 Zabriskie Gallery, New York

Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
The Movie Paintings, Moviehouse Studio Gallery, Millerton, New York

2005 Marymount Manhattan College, New York

2004 Kouros Gallery, New York

New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut
Hillel, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

2003 Minor Memorial Library Gallery, Roxbury, Connecticut

2002 Dillon Gallery, Oyster Bay, New York

Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

2001 Joseph Rickards Gallery, New York

Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
Rich Forum, Rosenthal Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut

2000 Bachelier–Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

1999 Dillon Gallery, New York

Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut

1998 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

1996 Dillon Gallery, New York

1994 Hugh Hill Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

1992 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury, Connecticut (with Robert Andrew Parker)

Bradley International Airport, Showcase Gallery, Hartford
Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford

1991 Klonaridis Gallery Toronto

1990 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach

The Tin Years (A Survey of the 1980’s) Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts
Nahan Contemporary, New York

1989 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York

Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery Hiro, Tokyo, Japan
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

1988 Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto

Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut (with Charles Cajori)

1987 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Esperanza, Montreal
Galerie Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany

1986 Pine Manor College, Boston

1985 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Esperanza, Montreal

1984 Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York

Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto

1983 Watson DeNagy Gallery, Houston

Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich

1982 Gimpel Fils, London

Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York

1981 Sculpture Center Gallery, New York

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

1979 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston

1974 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

1972 Sculpture in Copley Square, Boston

1971 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1968 Botolph Gallery, Boston

1967 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

1961 Nexus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1959 Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

1958 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2015 Color, Shape, and Form II, Galerie Gris, Hudson, New York

2011 Eclecticism, Stage Works Gallery, Hudson, New York

2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

2007 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York

2006 The Figurative Show, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2004 Highlights From The Collection, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2003 Twenty Years, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

2000 Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Paintings of Paintings, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
Figurative Works, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

1999 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York

1998 Selections from the National Academy at Silvermine, New Caanan, Connecticut

1996 Recent Acquisitions, National Academy of Design, New York

1995 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

Sound Shore Gallery, Cross River, New York

1994 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York

1993 Their Faces and Their Work, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

1992 Matters of the Heart, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut

1991 After Duchamp, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris

1990 Fiac 90, Grand Palais, Paris (Galerie Keeser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany)

1989 Sculptures, Reliefs and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London

Sculpture with Color, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York

1988 Drawings from Boston, Boston Public Library

1987 Drawings from Boston, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago

1986 Artists for Artists, Benefit Auction, New York

1985 Sixteen Sculptors, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York

Indoors for Outdoors, Kouros Gallery, New York
Fun De Mental, Parasol, Sag Harbor, New York
Painted Sculpture and Constructions, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey

1984 Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut

Heidenberg Gallery, New York

1983 Sculptors Guild, Lever House, New York

Abstract Art in New England, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

1982 Graham Gund Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Metals: Cast-Cut-Coiled, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., New York

1981 Marlborough Gallery, New York

1980 American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1978 Art Words/Book Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

Portrait of a Friendship, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts

1977 The Material Dominant, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University

1976 Artists at Bennington, Bennington College, Vermont

On the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1974 Zabriskie Gallery Sculptors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York

1973 New Talent, Zabriskie Gallery, New York

1970 Coalition, Studio Exhibitions, Boston

Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1965 Detroit Art Institute Annual

1963 Minnesota Biennial, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Boston Fine Arts Festival

Other Selected Collections:

ExxonMobil

American Express

Fidelity Investments

Boston Properties

Prudential

Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts

Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington

David Mirvish, Toronto, Canada

Betty Parsons Collection

Graham Gund Collection

Virginia Zabriskie

Robert Andrew Parker

Richard Haas

Robert Natkin

Max Weitzenhoffer

Billy Wilder Collection

Robert Avian

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gallagher

Lynn Redgrave

Selected Bibliography:

Kenneth Baker, “Art-Heavy Metals”, Boston Phoenix, September 14, 1982, Section 3, pg. 10.

Kenneth Baker, “The Mechanics of Illusion”, Boston Phoenix, November 14, 1972, Section 2, pg. 21.

Carl Belz, “Boston”, Artforum, April, 1970, Vol. 8, no.8, pg. 90(illus.).

Kathryn Boughton, “Falls Village Artist… Movies”, Northwest Corner Journal, The Litchfield County Times, December 15, 2006, pg. 11 (illus.).

John Chandler, “The Tin Years,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Catalogue, December 2, 1990.

Jaime Fervis, “Coming Full Square”, The Litchfield County Times, September 2, 2011, Vol. 31, No.35, pg 1 & 15 (color illus.)

Hayden Herrera “Reviews”, Art News, November 1974, pg. 88 (illus.).

Christopher Hume, “Cronin’s Work Easy on Eyes”, The Toronto Star, December 8, 1985.

Patricia Johnson, “Encompassing Exhibition”, Houston Chronicle, July 17, 1983, pg. 15.

Hilton Kramer, “New Talent”, The New York Times, June 17, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).

Kay Larson, “Three at Sunne Savage’s”, The Real Paper, November 27, 1973, pg. 23 (illus.).

E.L. Lefferts, “Essays Of Adoration” The Litchfield County Times, April 11, 2003, Vol. 23, no. 15, pg 15 (color illus.).

Sunny MacMillan, “Cronin’s People,” The Lakeville Journal, January 28, 1999, pgs. 1-3, and 15.

Marc Mannheimer, “Robert Cronin, The Tin Years, Fitchburg,” Art New England, March 31, 1991.

Thomas Mellana, “The Ordinary and the Unusual,” Stamford Sunday Advocate, March 25, 2001, pg. D4 (color illus.).

Vivien Raynor, “ART,” The New York Times (CN), September 22, 1991, pg. 18 (illus.).

Matthew Rose, “Robert Cronin: An Interview”, Art Gallery International, Jan./February 1987, Vol. 8, pg. 16 (illus.).

Stella Sasseville, “Robert Cronin – Liaisons Vegetative et Transformation”, Vie des Arts, December 1985, pg. 78 (illus.).

Roberta Smith, “Reviews”, Artforum, December 1974, Vol. 13, no. 4, pg. 72 (illus.).

Elizabeth Sussman, “On the Wall”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Catalogue, September 17, 1976.

Robert Taylor, “Sculpture in Copley Square”, Boston Globe, Oct. 31, 1982, pg. 21 (illus.).

Stuart Wilson, “Cronin: Painted Tine and Wire Masterpieces”, The Montreal Downtowner, September 18, 1985, pg. 19.

Karen Wright, “Gallery”, Modern Painters, Spring 2001, pg. 115 (color illus.).

Max Wykes-Joyce, “London Reviews”, London Arts Review, April 9, 1982, pg. 185.

William Zimmer, “In Stamford, Paradoxical Painting”, The New York Times August 14, 1983, pg. 24

Robert Cronin b. 1936