Stanley Boxer (1926–2000, United States) was a noted abstract painter and sculptor whose works are recognized for their combination of lyricism in concert with direct materiality. Raised during the interwar period in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he was drafted into the Navy at the onset of World War II. With funding from the G.I. Bill, he attended the Art Students League of New York, embarking on a career in visual arts that would sustain him for over four decades. As a painter, he initially found his place amid the burgeoning second generation of the New York School, filling canvases with gestural and luminous fields of color. Over time, however, Boxer leaned increasingly into materiality and experimentation, incorporating sawdust, gravel, seeds, glitter, string, and dressmaker’s beads into his painted surfaces. In 1968, Boxer exhibited his first grouping of sculptures in a solo exhibition at the Rose Fried Gallery in New York. Chiseled from marble and sculpted from various woods, his abstract compositions introduced a play of textures and materials, recognizable modernist geometries and rough, geologic surfaces in expressive and harmonious combinations. In the years that followed, Boxer continued to produce sculptures from his long-term studio and home in the Berkshire Mountains, where he lived with his wife and fellow artist Joyce Weinstein. These works, often bearing poetic and enigmatic titles like Pitchedblarebloom and Blick, offer a counterpoint to the pure opticality of his early work, earning him significant acclaim. In 1975, Boxer was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1989, he received a prestigious Visual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Boxer’s work are found in many private and public collections in the United States and abroad, including Art Omi, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Everson Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
STANLEY BOXER
1926–2000
EDUCATION
1946
Art Students League, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Gradations – Paintings from 1976 to 1984, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Works from the Eighties and Nineties, Baker Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2013
Radiance: The Paintings of Stanley Boxer, 1970s–1990s, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Revisiting Stanley Boxer, Baker Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2012
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
2011
Two Modernists Revisited: Stanley Boxer & Guy Danielle, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Hartwich College, The Forman Gallery, Oneonta, NY
2010
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2009
Remembering Stanley Boxer, University of Richmond Museums, Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Ezair Gallery, Southampton, NY
2007
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2006
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005
Late Paintings and Prints, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2004
Late Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Masterworks: Stanley Boxer, Erlich Gallery, Marblehead, MA
Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY
2002
Remembering Stanley Boxer: 1926–2000, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
2000
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Remba Gallery/Mixografia Workshop, West Hollywood, CA
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1999
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1998
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL
Tsende Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flanders Contemporary Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
K. L. Fine Arts, Highland Park, IL
1997
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Long Fine Art, New York, NY
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Drawing Retrospective (traveling), University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Lyon College, Batesville, AR
Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1995
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Long Fine Art, New York, NY
America House, Berlin, Germany
Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, AR
Scarabb Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1994
Palmer Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1993
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Winkelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Long Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY
Remba Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992
45-Year Retrospective, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Levinson/Kane Gallery, Boston, MA
Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1991
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
LACA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, Germany
Elca London Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor, FL
1989
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
Aronson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1987
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
Mixografia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Thomas Smith Fine Arts, Fort Wayne, IN
Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1983
Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
1982
Galerie Regards, Paris, France
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1979
Galerie Hilger-Schmeer, Duisburg, Germany
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
West Coast Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1978
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany
Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Weatherspoon Art Gallery Museum, Greensboro, NC
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1977
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Edmonton Art Gallery Museum, Edmonton, Canada
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston, TX
1975
Beaumont Museum, Beaumont, TX
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany
1974
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX
1973
Syracuse University, Lubin House, New York, NY
McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, France
1972
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Tom Bortolazzo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1971
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1969
Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1968
Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY
New York University, Loeb Center, New York, NY
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
1967
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
1965
Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York, NY
1953–55
Perdalma Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Modern and Contemporary, Fritz Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
2016
On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the ASL, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2015
On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the ASL, Art Students League, New York, NY
2005
Tyler Prints, Tate Gallery, London, UK
2001
Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The First 50 Years: 1950–2001, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1999
The Story of Prints, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, Japan
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
1990
The Unique Print: 70s into 80s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1986
Paperworks: Boxer, Motherwell, Noland, Kelly, and Stella, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
Figural Art of the New York School, LSU School of Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1982
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1981
New Acquisitions: Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1980
L’Amerique aux Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1976
New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Contemporary Aubusson Tapestries, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1975
Art Today U.S.A., Cultural Center, Abbasabad, Iran
1972
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
1971
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1967
Museum of Modern Art Embassy Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
1966
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS
2004
Lifetime Achievement Award, Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY
1993
Elected Full Member to the National Academy of Design
1992
Elected to the National Academy of Design
1989
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1975
Guggenheim Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Asheville Art Museum, NC
Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Birla Museum of Art, Calcutta, India
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Business Community for the Arts, New York, NY
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, West Caldwell, NJ
Columbia Museum, SC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Corning Glass Corporation
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
IBM Corporation, New York, NY
Inexco Corporation, Houston, TX
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Lafayette Museum of Art, IN
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
McDonald's Corporation, Woodland Hills, CA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Center, WI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna, Austria
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, UK
TSO Financial Corporation, Willow Grove, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, KS
William Jewell College, Liberty, MO
