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| 1928 |
Born May 27, Hartford,
Connecticut |
| 1946-1948 |
Studied at the Hartford Art School |
| 1951 |
Earned Bachelor of Fine Arts at
Rhode Island School of Design in Providence,
Rhode Island |
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First one-man show, Art Center,
Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1951-1953 |
Received Prix-de-Rome. Continued
to live and work in Rome, Italy, for the next
twenty-five years, returning frequently to the
United States |
| 1954 |
Awarded
Honorable Mention in the Italian Unknown Political
Prisoner Competition |
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Received
Progressive Architecture Award for sculpture
proposal, Warm Springs Polio Foundation, Warm
Springs, Georgia |
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Art
Schools U.S.A., exhibition at the Addison
Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts |
| 1955 |
Completed
Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University
School of Design, New Haven, Connecticut |
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New Talent in America exhibition,
New York, New York |
| 1956-1959 |
Instructor
in sculpture and three-dimensional design at
Cooper Union, New York, New York |
| 1957 |
Young
Americans, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York |
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Whitney
Museum Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, New York (Also participated
in 1958, 1960, 1964, and 1965 |
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Connecticut
Artists, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
Connecticut |
| 1958 |
Menorah commissioned
for Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Carnegie
International Exhibition, The Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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Nebraska
Annual Exhibition,
Lincoln, Nebraska (Also participated in 1959
and 1961) |
| 1959 |
Religious
Art, exhibition of the American Federation
of Arts, U.S. Information Agency. The exhibition
traveled throughout Europe. |
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Sculpture:
Elbert Weinberg, The Grace Borgenicht Gallery,
New York, New York. Artist began long-term
association with this gallery. |
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Awarded
the Bronze Medal and the Silver Medal for Achievement
in Sculpture from Yale University |
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Sculpture
U.S.A., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, and the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York |
| 1959 |
Received
Guggenheim Foundation Award and returned to Rome,
Italy |
| 1961 |
Carnegie
International Exhibition, The Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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64
Americans Exhibition, The
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1963 |
Procession commissioned
by The Jewish Museum, New York, New York |
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Elbert
Weinberg, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts |
| 1964 |
Jacob
Wrestling with the Angel commissioned for
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts |
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Bronze
Eagle commissioned for the
Federal Reserve Building, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1966 |
Contemporary
American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York |
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Elbert
Weinberg, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts |
| 1968 |
Received
Sculpture Award from the American Institute of
Arts and Letters |
| 1969 |
Visiting
Professor of Sculpture, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire |
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Elbert
Weinberg: Artist-in-Residence, Jaffe-Friede
Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire |
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Elbert
Weinberg, the Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1969-1971 |
Visiting
Professor of Sculpture at Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1970 |
Justice commissioned
for Boston University School of Law, Boston,
Massachusetts |
| 1971 |
Selected to execute a medallion
by the Society of Medallists |
| 1974-1976 |
Visiting Associate Professor
of Sculpture, Temple University, Tyler School
Abroad Program, Rome, Italy |
| 1975 |
Procession
#2, Temple
Beth El, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1976-1980 |
Artist-in -Residence, Union
College, Schenectady, New York |
| 1977 |
Elbert Weinberg,
sponsored by the Union College Gallery, The Schenectady
Museum, Schenectady, New York |
| 1979 |
Holocaust
Memorial commissioned
by Jewish Federation of Delaware for Freedom
Plaza, Wilmington, Delaware |
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An
Exhibition of Sculpture by Elbert Weinberg,
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, Connecticut |
| 1980-1982 |
Visiting Professor of Sculpture,
Boston University |
| 1981 |
Elbert Weinberg: A Retrospective,
Hartford Jewish Community Center, West Hartford,
Connecticut |
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Holocaust Memorial (second
casting) commissioned by the Greater Hartford
Jewish Community Center, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1982 |
Mistral,
Embarcadero Center, Embardadero 4, San Francisco |
| 1983-1986 |
Instructor of drawing, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1983-1989 |
Professor of Sculpture,
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1986 |
Joie
de Danse commissioned
for the Portman Hotel (now the Pan-Pacific
Hotel),
San Francisco, California |
| 1988-1989 |
Commissioned to execute
public sculpture for Art for All by the
Hartford Courant Commission, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1989 |
Awarded
the Elizabeth H. Watrous Gold Medal for Sculpture
by the National Academy of Design |
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National
Academy of Design Annual, New York, New York |
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Elected
a Fellow of the National Academy of Design |
| 1990 |
Elbert Weinberg,
Chase/Freedman Gallery, Greater Hartford Jewish
Community Center, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1991 |
For lifetime
achievement in sculpture, awarded the Maurice
B. Hexter Prize and the Alex J. Ertl Grant by
the National Sculpture Society |
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Died
in December, Hartford, Connecticut |
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Chase/Freedman
Gallery, the Greater Hartford Jewish Community
Center, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| F1993 |
Elbert Weinberg, A Retrospective
Exhibition,
Boston University Art Gallery |
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