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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 |
| 1993 |
Elbert Weinberg, A Retrospective Exhibition,
Boston University Art Gallery |
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