GROUP EXHIBITS

1924                          

10th Annual Educational Alliance Exhibit, New York

1926                          

Jewish Art Center, New York

1927                          

Jewish Art Center, New York                  

Salons of America, Anderson Galleries, New York

1928                          

Educational Alliance, New York                                      

1st Annual Black and White Exhibit, Whitney Studio Club, New York                    

13th Annual Painting Exhibit, Whitney Studio Club, New York

1929                          

Society of Independent Artists Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria, New York                       

Salons of America, Anderson Galleries, New York

1931                          

Gallery 144, New York

1932                          

Society of Independent Artists Exhibit, Grand Central Palace, New York                    

Spring Salon, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York

1933                          

College Art Association travelling exhibit, “The Art of Motion and Repose,” Rockefeller Center                     

Spring Salon, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York

1934                          

Gallery 144, New York                 

129th Annual Fine Arts Exhibit, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia                   

1st Municipal Arts Exhibit, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, New York             

Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation Exhibit, Downtown Gallery, New York

1935                          

Spring Salon, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York                      

Exhibit with Herman Maril, Playhouse-in-the-Hills, Cummington, MA                    

Exhibit with Ahron Ben-Shmuel, Guild Art Gallery, New York

1936                          

2nd Annual Sculpture Exhibit, Whitney Museum, New York                  

Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York

Spring Salon, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York

Summer Exhibit, Whitney Museum, New York

Cooperative Gallery, Newark, NJ

Treasury Department Exhibit, Whitney Museum, New York

Boyer Galleries, New York

1937                          

Exhibition for Democracy, American Artists Congress, International Building, Rockefeller Center

An American Group, Montross Gallery

1938                          

Municipal Art Exhibition, New York                       

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA

American Artists Congress, John Wanamaker, New York

Boyer Galleries, New York

Clay Club Exhibit

American Federation of Arts, Selection by Olin Dows

Sculptor’s Guild, New York

1939                          

Sculptor’s Guild, Grand Central Station, New York

United American Sculptors Exhibit, The New School, New York City

American Artists Congress, New York

Whyte Gallery, Washington DC

Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

Exhibit of Terra Cotta Editions, Raymond and Raymond, New York

An American Group Exhibit

1940                          

Arden Gallery, New York

4th American Artists Congress, New York

Fairmont Park Art Association 2nd International Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Sculptors Guild, American Art Today Pavilion, World’s Fair

Art School Alumni of the Educational Alliance, New York

100 Paintings and Sculpture, Benefit for American Rescue Ship Mission, Bonestell Gallery

1940-41                    

Sculptors Guild Traveling Exhibit

1941                          

American Federation of Arts, Traveling Exhibition Selected by Duncan Ferguson

Exhibition of American Small Sculpture, Georg Jenson, New York

Sculptors Guild, Washington Square Park, New York

11th Anniversary Exhibition, An American Group, Associated American Artists Galleries, New York

52nd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago

1942                          

21st Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Art Institute of Chicago

Sculptors Guild, Rockefeller Center

53rd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago

Artists for Victory Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1943                          

138th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts

International Watercolor Exhibition, 12th Biennial, Brooklyn Museum

22nd International Exhibition of Watercolors, Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Bruce Memorial Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

50th Anniversary Exhibition, Educational Alliance, New York

1944                          

Sculptors Guild “Live with Sculpture” Exhibit, New York

13th Annual An American Group Exhibit, New York

1945                          

Annual Exhibition of American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum, New York

Armory Show, New York City

Sculptors Guild, “Architecture Needs Sculpture,” Architectural League, New York

1946                          

American Art Exhibit, Bothner’s Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Origins of Modern Sculpture, Detroit Institute of Arts

1947                          

American Drawing Annual VII, Albany Institute of History and Art

Whitney Museum Annual, New York

1948                          

Whitney Museum Annual, New York

Worcester Museum of Art, “Sculpture at the Crossroads,” Worcester, MA

Sculptors Guild, Washington Square Park, New York

Contemporary Sculpture, Clay Club, New York

1949                          

3rd Sculpture International, Philadelphia Museum of Art

1950                          

Whitney Museum Annual, New York

1951                          

Biennial, Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art

Sculpture Survey Exhibit, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1951-52                   

Museum of Modern Art Traveling Exhibition

1952                          

Sculptors Guild, American Museum of Natural History, New York

Whitney Museum Annual, New York

1953                          

Sculptors Guild, New York

1954                          

Abbo Ostrowsky Collection Exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Riverside Museum, New York

Boston Arts Festival

Art Alliance, Philadelphia

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1955                          

13th Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Inc., New York

Sculptors Guild, New York

Sculpture Center, “Sculpture in Wood,” New York

1956                          

Sculptors Guild, Architectural League, New York

National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1957                          

15th Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Inc., New York

Golden Years of American Drawings 1905-56, Brooklyn Museum

Greenwich Gallery, New York

1958                          

Art: USA: 58, Madison Square Garden, New York

Annual, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

The Museum and Its Friends, Whitney Museum, New York

1959                          

The American Line: 100 Years of American Drawing, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

American National Exhibition, Moscow

Four American Expressionists, Whitney Museum of American Art

Art: USA: 59, New York Coliseum

All About the Circus, Santa Barbara Museum

Inaugural Exhibition, Colby College, Maine

1960                          

Business Buys American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art

Sculptors Guild, Lever House, New York

Whitney Annual Exhibit, New York

1961                          

Sculptors Guild, Lever House, New York

1961-64                    

Drawings by Sculptors Traveling Exhibit, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1962                          

American Drawing Annual XIX, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, VA

Survey of American Sculpture, Newark Museum, NJ

Ten American Sculptors, Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA

International Selection, 1962-63, Dayton Art Institute, OH

Sculptors Guild, New York

Whitney Annual Exhibit, New York

1963                          

Educational Alliance School

First Annual Exhibit, Art Dealers Association of America, New York

25th Annual Exhibit, Sculptors Guild, New York

Drawing USA/63, Saint Paul Art Center, MN

1964                          

Hattfield Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

Sculptors Guild, NY

1965                          

The Twenties Revisited, The Gallery of Modern Art, NY

44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, NY

Sculpture from the Albert A. List Family Collection, The New School, NY

1966                          

Sculptors Guild, Lever House, NY

1967                          

The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, The Jewish Museum, NY

Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire (with Cameron Booth)

Sculptors Guild, New York

1968                          

National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution

30th Annual Exhibit, Sculptors Guild, New York

1969                          

Sculptors Guild, New York

1970                          

28th Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Inc., New York

Sculpture Exhibit, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

1972                        

Humor, Satire, and Irony, New School For Social Research, New York

Sculptors Guild, New York

1974                          

Leonard Hutton Galleries

1975                          

Sculptors Guild, New York

1977                          

Sculptors Guild, New York

Third Annual A Night at the Arts, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

1978

Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York

Forum Gallery, New York (with Gaston Lachaise and Hugo Robus)

Monuments and Monoliths, Nassau County Museum of Art

1979

154th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York

1980

The Figurative Tradition, Whitney Museum of Art, NY

1981

Sculptors Guild, New York

1982

Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, New York

Flat and Figurative/ 20th Century Wall Sculpture, Zabriskie Gallery, New York

Sculptors Guild, New York

1983

Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Sculptors Guild, New York

Eighteen Artists at One West Fourth Street, Hebrew Union College, NY

158th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of  Design, New York

1984

159th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York

Sculptors Drawings 1910-1980, Whitney Museum, NY

Fun and Fantasy: Brooklyn’s Amusement Parks and Leisure Areas, Brooklyn College

Sculptors Guild Installation, Schulman Sculpture Park, White Plains, NY

WPA Artists Exhibit, City Gallery, New York

Palace Theatre Art Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut

1985                          

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

160th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York     

909 Third Avenue and The Mendik Company, New York

1986                          

Between the Wars: The Bronx Express, Bronx Museum of Art

A.C.A. Gallery, New York

161st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York

Tides of Immigration: Romantic Visions and Urban Realities, Brooklyn College

1987                          

Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA

National Sculpture Society Exhibit, Philadelphia

Sculptors Guild, New York

1989                          

American Works on Paper III, Spanierman Gallery, NY

Coney Island of the Mind, Whitney Museum, Federal Reserve Plaza, NY

1990                          

The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild, 1930s-50s, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY

Drawing Highlights, Parrish Art Museum, Long Island

1991                          

Narrative Imagery: Artists’ Portfolios, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA

Under the Big Top: The Circus in Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

Educational Alliance Exhibit, New York

Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-45, The Jewish Museum, New York

The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Recollections: Jim Forsberg, Chaim Gross, Robert Motherwell, Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Intimations of Immortality: The Sculptures of Chaim Gross and Mimi Gross, B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum, Washington DC

1992                          

New York Armory Art Show, New York

Figurative Paintings and Drawings Exhibit, Forum Gallery, New York

Krasdale Corporate Headquarters, Hunt’s Point, New York

1993                          

Berman Daferner Gallery, New York

1994                          

Sculptors Guild, New York

1995                          

The Figure in American Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; travels to National Academy of Design, New york

Group Exhibition (with Bruno Lucchesi, William McElcheran and Elliot Offner), organized by Forum Gallery at Lincoln Center outdoor sculpture plaza

1997                          

The Human Figure in Transition, 1900-45, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1998                          

The Figurative Impulse, Miami Dade Community College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami FL

2006-07

Minding Traditions? Twentieth Century Artists and the Judeo-Christian Legacy, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY

2009

Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals, State Museum of Pennsylvania

The Body, In Pieces, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

Off the Wall: The Human Form in Sculpture, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida

2011                          

Displayed: Stages for Sculpture, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Continuous Art Colony, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

Human Connections: Figural Art from the Bruce Museum Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT

That Seventies Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Vantage Point 2011, New York, NY

Peace on Earth: Art Against War, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery 1962-2012, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

The Figure in Modern Sculpture, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2012                          

A Poet’s Circle, Poet’s House, New York

Perception of Self, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2013                          

Tree Trunk to Head: Chaim Gross and Direct Carving in America, The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

Looking Back, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2014                          

Wives, Daughters and Lovers, Forum Gallery, New York

Circa 1945: Abstract Art in the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

Foundations: A Journey Through Sculpture, Loveland Museum, CO

Chaim Gross and His Contemporaries, The Galleries at Krasdale Corporation, White Plains, NY

Experience America, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (ongoing)

2015                          

The Word of Modern Art: Artists as Writers, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

Direct Carving, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (ongoing)

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

2016

Circus & Vaudeville, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

2017

Currently 80: Celebrating 80 years of The Sculptors Guild, Westbeth Gallery, New York

Forum Gallery Celebrates 55 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, Forum Gallery, New York

Building Identity: Chaim Gross and Artists' Homes & Studios in New York City, 1953-1974, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

2018

American Modernism: Special Selections, Forum Gallery, New York

2019

Person to Person, Forum Gallery, New York

Circa 1945: Abstract Art in the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation Collection, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2021

Then and Now: American Social Realism, Forum Gallery, New York

2022

Important Works of American Art, Forum Gallery, New York

Couplings, Forum Gallery, New York

Hands Cannot Hold: Fantasy Drawings by Chaim Gross, The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, New York

Artists and Immigrants, The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, New York