Sidney Simon

Sidney Simon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1917. He studied at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) where he was a special student between 1931 and 1936. He also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1936 and 1941 and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris between 1948 and 1949. He was also the founder of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1949 Niveau Gallery, New York, NY

1951, 1953 Grand Central Moderns, New York, NY

1956, 1958 Graham Gallery, New York, NY (the Duveen-Graham)

1963-71 Wellfleet Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

1967 Yale University, New Haven, CT

1977 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1979 Sculpture Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1982 Sculpture Center, New York, NY

1995 Retrospective, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,

Provincetown, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1946 War Art, traveled through Australia and the US

1962 Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1978 Sculpture Center, New York, NY

1985 Fourteen Artists, National Council on the Aging, Washington DC

1992 Man Revealed, Graham Modern, New York, NY

1994 Sculpture in the Garden, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA

1994 Fresco, A Contemporary Perspective, Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston College, MA

COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS

1939-40 Murals, New York World’s Fair and Post Offices, Scranton, PA and

Washington DC

1940 Murals, Fort Belvoir, VA

1958 Portable Ark, Israel Cummings Camp, Federation of Jewish Charities

1958 Frescos, South Solon Meeting House, ME

1965-66 Entrance Screen, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

1987 Fountain Sculpture, Graham Building, City Hall Plaza, Philadelphia, PA

1988-89 Fountain Sculpture, World Wide Plaza, New York, NY

1991 Sculpture, Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Embassy, Paris, France

Art Students League, New York, NY

Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC

National Academy of Design, New York, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

United States Department of Defense Historical Collection, Washington DC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY