Knoedler & Company presents an exhibition of paintings by Conrad Marca-Relli. On view MAY 5–JULY 29, 2011.
Conrad Marca-Relli,Cityscape, ca. 1952, Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 61 1/2 inches
Born Corrado di Marca-Relli in Boston, Massachusetts. Marca-Relli and his family moved to New York City in 1927, where he began taking evening art classes. In 1930 he enrolled in the art program at The Cooper Union, and from 1935–1938 he worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.
In 1947, Marca-Relli’s first solo exhibition was held at the Niveau Gallery in New York, and the same year he moved to Europe, first to Paris, later Rome, where he became part of Italian art circles including Afro Basaldella and Alberto Burri. In 1949 he went back to the U.S. and was a founding member of the Artists’ Club, with Rothko, Kline, and de Kooning. In 1951 he was one of the organizers of the Ninth Street Show.
Marca-Relli’s various awards included The Art Institute of Chicago’s Logan Medal, First Prize (1954) and Kohnstamm Awatrd (1963), and a Ford Foundation Grant (1959). He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1958) and at Yale University (1959–60), and was on the faculty of The New College Fine Arts Institute, Sarasota, Florida (1965–67). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1976. The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the first museum retrospective of his work in 1967.
Marca-Relli moved to Parma, Italy, in 1997, where he died in 2000.
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