exhibitions

“Rose [has] done for the New York rooftop what Hart Crane did for the Brooklyn Bridge. Perceiving with a poet’s eye the bizarre medley of structures that rear in the city . . . Mr. Rose reinvents them. . . . He is [also] a master of still life. . . . Particularly beautiful are those still lifes set off against a backdrop of the city.”

Grace Glueck

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1989
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1986
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1985
A 50 Year Survey, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1983
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1981
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
1977
University of New Mexico
1974
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1972
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1969
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1969
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1967
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1967
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
1966
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1962
Forum Gallery, New York
Forum Gallery announcement thumbnail
1956
ACA Gallery, New York
ACA Gallery announcement thumbnail
1955
ACA Gallery, New York
1952
ACA Gallery, New York
1948
Charles Egan Gallery, New York
1947
Charles Egan Gallery, New York
1946
Charles Egan Gallery, New York

Government Projects

1934–1939
WPA Mural and Easel Division under Arshille Gorky

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
2001
176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1999
174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1998
New York Perspectives, M B Modern, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1997
Forum Gallery, New York
1996
48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1995
The 50’s and 60’s, Fischbach Gallery, New York
1991
An Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York
166th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Landscape, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
Stamens and Pistils: Interpreting the Flower, 1790-1990, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Stamens and Pistils announcement thumbnail
1989
164th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
1988
Sculpture and Paintings from the Academy’s Collection, National Academy of Design, New York
1987
162nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Modern American Masters of Watercolor, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
Bridging the Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1986
Nude Self-Portraits, Prince Street Gallery, New York
"Portraits, New York Studio School, New York
1985–87
American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traveling to: DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, OH; and Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1985-1986
City Views: Panoramas to Particulars: Works from the CIGNA Collection, CIGNA Headquarters, Philadelphia , PA
1985
From Brooklyn to the Sea: Ships Seafarers and New York Harbor, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's Bounty: Natural Splendor and Domestic Opulence, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York
National Academy of Design, New York
1984
National Academy of Design, New York
1983
National Academy of Design, New York
1982
Realism and Reality-the Other Side of American Painting, Rutgers University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
An Appreciation of Realism, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
The Long Island Landscape:1914-46, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
National Academy of Design, New York
On Color, Prince Street Gallery, New York
A Curator's Choice 1942-63: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, Rose Esman Gallery, NY (The Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art)
1981
National Academy of Design, New York
1980
The Intimate Scale, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
National Academy of Design, New York
Paintings of New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Artist in the Park, Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York
1979
National Academy of Design, New York
1978
National Academy of Design, New York
1977
National Academy of Design, New York
1976–1979
Painterly Representation traveling to American Colleges and Museums
1976-1979
Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1976
National Academy of Design, New York
1975
National Academy of Design, New York
1974
A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nebraska
National Academy of Design, New York
1973
National Academy of Design, New York
1972
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1970
Acquisitions Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1972
National Academy of Design, New York
1969
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1964
New York, New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1959
Hallmark Award Exhibition, Wildenstein Galleries, New York
1958
Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
Acquisitions Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1956
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Tate Museum, London, England
Acquisitions Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
66th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Collectors' Choice, Tweed Gallery, University of Minnesota, Deluth, MN
1955
Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Acquisitions Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Three Collections, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1952
Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1949
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1948
Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1940s
Critics’ Show, Grand Central Art Gallery, New York

Selected Public Collections

  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
  • University of California
  • University of Texas
  • Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York
  • Palm Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Vassar College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
  • Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
  • Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
  • Allied Bank of Texas, Houston
  • CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia
  • Commerce Bancshares, Kansas City, Missouri
  • General Electric Company, New York
  • Hallmark Collection
  • Reader's Digest, New York
  • Ronald Pisano Inc., New York
Herman Rose painting in front of A and P

Rose painting NYCc. 1950s