Selected
Group Exhibitions
| 1930 | National Academy of Design, New York National Arts Club, New York |
| 1931 | Brooklyn Museum, New York: Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1933 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania John Reed Club Gallery, New York: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints on the Theme Hunger-Fascism-War |
| 1935 | Midtown Galleries, New York |
| 1936 | Midtown Galleries, New York: American Artists’ Congress: Membership Exhibition |
| 1938 | Musée
du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Museum of Modern Art Gallery, Washington, DC Sculptors’ Guild New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1939 | San Francisco, California: Golden Gate International Exposition. Traveled to: New York World’s Fair 1940. |
| 1940 | Arden
Gallery, New York American Artists’ Congress: Membership Exhibition.
Buchholz Gallery, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania: Sculpture International Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1941 | American
Federation of the Arts, New York: Wood Sculpture, (selected by Duncan
Ferguson). Traveled to: 14 university museums from January 1941-May 1942. The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois: 52nd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, dates unknown. |
| 1942 | The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Artists for Victory: An Exhibition
of Contemporary American Art, dates unknown. Purchase Prize: Sculpture.
Two-volume Catalogue. Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, dates unknown. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1943 |
Buchholz
Gallery, New York Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York |
| 1945 | Buchholz
Gallery, New York: American Sculpture, February 6-24 Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture, dates unknown. |
| 1946 | Architectural
League, New York Ferargil Galleries, New York: Audubon Artists Annual
Exhibition Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1947 | Betty
Parsons Gallery, New York: New Sculpture: Ferber, Lipton, Schnabel, Zadkine,
June 3-21 Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York: Abstract and Non-Objective Sculpture. Midtown-ayson Galleries, New York Betty Parsons Gallery, New York |
| 1948 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Whitney Annual. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts: Sculpture at the Crossroads |
| 1949 | Riverside
Museum, New York: 13th Annual Exhibition: American Abstract Artists,
March 29-April 17 Laurel Gallery, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania: Sculpture International State University of Iowa, Iowa City: Fifth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Catalogue by Lester D. Longman. |
| 1950 | Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition: American Sculpture,
Watercolors, and Drawings, April 1-May 28. Catalogue. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1951 | Direct
Metal Sculpture Center, New York: February 26-March 24. Catalogue. The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Catalogue text by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie. Sao Paolo, Brazil: I. Sao Paolo, Biennal |
| 1952 |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Fifteen Americans, Catalogue by Dorothy C. Miller. |
| 1953 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York: International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner, (sponsored by The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London), January 28-February 8, 1953. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London. Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
| 1954 | Art
Institute, Chicago, Illinois 61st American Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture,
October 21-December 5. Musée National dÕArt Moderne, Paris, France Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture, dates unknown. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut |
| 1955 | University
of Illinois Art Gallery: Urbana The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, dates unknown; travels to: San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. Catalogue, text by John I. H. Baur. |
| 1956 | Kootz
Gallery, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture, dates unknown. |
| 1957 | Albright
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas: Irons in the Fire. Catalogue by Sam Hunter. The Newark Museum, New Jersey North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture World House Galleries, New York |
| 1958 |
American
Federation of Art: God and Man in Art, traveling. |
| 1959 | Detroit
Institute of Arts, Michigan: Sculpture In Our Time: Collected By
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May 5-August 23. Kassel, Germany: Documenta II-Kunst Nach 1945 Kootz Gallery, New York Moscow, Russia: State Department Exhibition Providence Arts Club, Rhode Island Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture, dates unknown. |
| 1960 | Cleveland
Museum of Art, Ohio: Paths of Abstract Art, October 5-November 13.
Catalogue by Edward B. Henning. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France: Aspects of American Sculpture Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1962 | Newark
Museum, New Jersey: A Survey of American Sculpture: Late 18th Century
to 1962. Catalogue, text by William Gerdts. Seattle WorldÕs Fair, Washington: American Art Since 1950, Sam Hunter, curator. Spoleto, Italy: Festival of Two Worlds: Sculptures in the City 1963 Battersea Park, London, England: Sculpture in the Open Air Woburn Abbey, England: In Aid of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, International Exhibition and Sale of Works of Art 1964 New York Worlds Fair Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art, John I. H. Baur, curator. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1965 | La
Cote D’Azur, France: Ille Festival Des Arts Plastiques, May
15-June 30, 1965. Musée Rodin, Paris, France (sponsored by the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art): Etats-Unis: sculptures du XXe siècle, Traveled to: Berlin and Baden-Baden, Germany,Catalogue. |
| 1966 | Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts: As Found: An Experiment in
Selective Seeing, Curated by Ulfert Wilke. March 5-April 10 Public Education Association, New York: 7 Decades: 1895-1965, Peter Selz, organizer Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Art of the United States: 1670-1966 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1968 | The
Museum of Modern Art, New York: Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage,
Traveled to; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Catalogue text by William S. Rubin. San Antonio, Texas: HemisFair 68 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, and Sculpture |
| 1969 | Museum
of Modern Art, New York: American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation,
dates unknown (curated by William S. Rubin and William C. Agee). Museum of Modern Art, New York: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of 20th Century Art, curated by: Dorothy Miller; Catalogue, by William S. Lieberman. Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensberg, Pennsylvania: Recent Trends in American Art |
| 1971 | Hudson
River Museum, Yonkers, New York: 20th Century Painting and Sculpture
from the New York University Art Collection, curated by Ruth Bowman,
October 2-November 14. Catalogue, forward by Howard Conant, and introduction by Irving Sandler. Middelhiem Museum, Antwerp, Belgium: International Art Program, 11th International Biennale of Outdoor Sculpture. |
| 1972 | Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania: American Art Since 1945, (from the Collection
of the Museum of Modern Art, New York). The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC: Contemporary Sculpture |
| 1973 |
Detroit
Institute of Arts, Michigan: Art in Space: Some Turning Points
May 15-June 24. Catalogue, essay by E. C. Goossen. |
| 1974 | Newport,
Rhode Island: Monumenta, Catalogue, by Sam Hunter. 1975 Janie C Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas: Monumental Sculpture, dates unknown. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Sculpture 1945-1975, dates unknown. |
| 1976 | André
Emmerich Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland: Small Scale Sculpture, June
12-August 28. Zabriskie Gallery, New York: American Welders 1950s-1960s, September 7-25. The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana: Painting and Sculpture Today, dates unknown. University Art Galleries, Santa Barbara, California: Sculptors of the 50Õs, dates unknown; travels to Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: 200 Years of American Sculpture, dates unknown. Catalogue, essay Magicians Game: Decades of Transformation 1930-1950, by Rosalind Krauss; catalogue published by David R. Godine in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976, pp. 177-78, 271, p1. 264. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Whitney Annual, dates unknown. Wichita Falls Art Museum and Art Center, Texas: Works on Paper, dates unknown; travels to Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase. |
| 1977 | Virginia
Museum, Richmond: American Art Since 1945 (from the Collection of
the Museum of Modern Art, New York), March 17-April 17. Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan: Natkin/Ferber/Boxer, dates unknown. |
| 1978 | Indianapolis
Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana: Painting and Sculpture Today,
June 12-July 30. Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Outdoor Sculpture of the Berkshires at Chesterwood, July 22-August 27. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio: Art for Collectors, November 12-December 18. John Weber Gallery, New York: Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture: 1946-77, dates unknown; travels 1978-1979. |
| 1979 |
Rutgers
University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Vanguard American
Sculpture: 1913-1939, September 16-November 4; traveled to: William
Hayes Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, December
4, 1979-January 20, 1980; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February
16-March 30, 1980; The Oakland Museum, California, April 15-May 25, 1980.
Catalogue, by Joan M. Marter, Roberta K. Tarbell, Jeffrey Wechsler. J.
B. |
| 1980 | Audrey
Strohl Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee: A Selection of works from M. Knoedler
& Co., March 7-April 9. Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Outdoor Sculpture in the Berkshires II, dates unknown. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York: Group Show, dates unknown. |
| 1981 | Rosa
Esman Gallery, New York: Off the Wall: Wall Sculpture by Herbert Ferber,
Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Louise Nevelson, George Rickey, Christopher Wilmarth,
January 8-February 9. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Decade of Transition 1940-1950, April 30-July 12. The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: 1981 Invitational Exhibition, June 9-August 9, 1981. |
| 1982 | Rosa
Esman Gallery, New York: A CuratorÕs Choice 1942-1963: A Tribute to Dorothy
Miller, February 6-March 6. M. Knoedler, Zurich, Switzerland: Group Show: Alex Kosta, Alexander Calder, Herbert Ferber, Nancy Graves, March 20-April 7. Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida: Masters of Contemporary Sculpture, (Part of New World Festival), June 10-26. Basel, Switzerland: Art 13, 82, June 16-21. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York: 1982 Summer Group Exhibition, June 21-September 20. Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas: Art of the 20th Century: A Revelation, October 14-24. |
| 1983 |
M.
Knoedler, Zurich, Switzerland: Friedel Dzubas, Herbert Ferber, Judith
Levin, Robert Motherwell, Kimber Smith, Theodoros Stamos, Frank Stella,
April 23-June 4. |
| 1984 | M.
Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York: 1984 Summer Group Exhibition, June-September.
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey: American Bronze Sculpture: 1850 to the Present, October 18, 1984-February 3, 1985. William Beadleston Gallery, New York: Acquisition Priorities for the Private Collector: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, October 25-November 20. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School, (curated by Lisa Phillips), December 6, 1984-March 3, 1985; traveled to: Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, May 12-July 21, 1985; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, August 21-October 17, 1985; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, November 7, 1985-January 5, 1986. Catalogue, by Lisa Phillips, pp. 66-67. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Sculptors’ Drawings 1910-1980, (curated by Paul Cummings), dates unknown. Traveled to: Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christ; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| 1985 | Bell
Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: Flying Tigers: Painting
and Sculpture in New York 1939-1946, dates unknown; traveled to: Cantor Art Gallery College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 27-May 27, 1985; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, New York, June 9-July 28, 1985. Catalogue. Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Sculpture at Chesterwood, dates unknown. Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, New York: Sculptural Expressions 1947-1960, October 8-November 17. The Mendick Company, New York: Made in the USA: An Exhibition of 11 Sculptors, (Guest curated by Phyllis Tuchman), November 18, 1985-February 1986. |
| 1986 | Nohra
Haime Gallery, New York: Drawings by Sculptors, February 5-March
1. Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York: Jung and Abstract Expressionism: The Collective Image Among Individual Voices, November 2-December 14. Catalogue, essay by Terree Grabenhorst-Randall. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York: Elders of the Tribe, December 2, 1986-January 3, 1987. Catalogue (Excerpt from William C. AgeeÕs Herbert Ferber: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing: 1945Ð1980). |
| 1987 | Philadelphia
Art Alliance, Pennsylvania: Sculpture of the American Scene, (Guest
curated by Douglas Berman), March 21-May 2. Catalogue. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York: Art Against AIDS, (Benefit exhibition and art sale held at several galleries throughout New York for the benefit of the American Foundation for Aids Research), at Knoedler June 4-19, 1987. Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Sculpture form Surrealism, September 22-October 31, 1987. |
| 1988 | Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts: BIG Little Sculpture,
(Guest curated by Phyllis Tuchman), February 13-April 17. Catalogue. Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut: Convulsive Beauty: The Impact of Surrealism on American Art, June 24-August 27. Catalogue. M. Knoedler & Co., New York: Drawings by Four Gallery Sculptors: Herbert Ferber, Nancy Graves, Michael Heizer, David Smith, September 10-October 6. 1990 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden: Heland Wetterling Gallery Shows Knoedler Gallery Artists, April 7-24, 1990. Catalogue. 1991 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California: 10 Sculptors of the New York School, November 21, 1991-January 11. Catalogue, text by Donna Stein. |
| 1992 |
Knoedler & Company, New York: Sculpture, December 19, 1992-January 14, 1993. |
| 1994 | Tampa
Museum of Art, Florida: Between Transcendence and Brutality: American
Sculptural Drawings from the 1920s and 1950s, January 30-April 21, 1994;
traveled to: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, July 15-September 1; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, September 25-November 13. Gardens at Naumkeag, (organized by the Trustees of Reservations), Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Sculpture at Naumkeag, July 1-October 11, 1994. |
| 1999 | Raab
Galerie, Berlin, Germany: 40 Years of American Drawings, February
19-March 27. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York: 20th Century Sculpture, March 28-May 31. Catalogue essays by Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000; Part I, 1900-1950, April 23-August 22. Catalogue, text by Barbara Haskell. Stamford Sculpture Walk, Stamford, Connecticut: Important Sculptors of the Late Twentieth Century, June 1-August 31, 1999. |
| 2000 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000; Part II, 1950-2000, September 26-January 23, 2000. Catalogue, text by Lisa Phillips. |
| 2001 | The
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York: Vital Forms: American Art
and Design in the Atomic Age 1940-1960 October 12, 2001-January 6. Traveling
to: Walker Art Center, February 15-May 12, 2002; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, June 21-September 15, 2002; to be determined, Fall 2002-Winter 2003; Phoenix Art Museum, April 4-June 29, 2003. Curator, Brooke Kamin Rapaport. |
| 2004 | The Jewish Museum, New York, New York: My America: Art from the Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955, March 26-July 25 |
| 2008 | The
Jewish Museum, New York, New York: Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, May 04 - September 21, 2008 New York Times exhibition review |
| 2010 | The
Jewish Museum, New York, New York: Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb, March 14 - August 1, 2010 New York Times exhibition review |