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Lucien
Day Biography
Day’s art career (b. 1916,
Hartford, Connecticut) spans eight decades, and extends
over the urban and rural geography of the Northeast
from New York City to Craftsbury, Vermont. Day graduated
from Yale University in 1939 with a B.A. in English,
and was voted the Class Poet. He studied painting at
Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, and served in the US
Army, at the Pentagon, during World War II.
As a young artist, Day exhibited regularly in both New
York City and Vermont, maintaining artistic kinships,
and lengthy correspondence, with other artists, including:
Fairfield Porter; John Marin; Alex Katz; Rackstraw Downs;
and, Lois Dodd.
In 1968, he founded the Green Mountain Gallery in Greenwich
Village, which later moved and became one of the first
galleries in SoHo. It would become a lively forum, retreat,
and intellectual center for contemporary painters with
realist tendencies during the eleven years Day was with
the gallery. Constant throughout Day’s career
has been his interest in perspective – how we
see what we see. Day offered a new perspective in his
work, combining scientific knowledge with creative action,
demonstrating his principle that the eye sees different
angles of space simultaneously, whether he was painting
Vermont landscapes en plein air, or the steel constructions
of Manhattan.
Some of the Museums
and Gallerys where Lucien Day has exhibited his art:The
Museum of Modern Art, Hudson River Museum,Philip Goodwin,
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Conn, Rogert Fleming Museum
Burlington Vermont, New Britain Museum of American Art
the Philips Memorial Gallery, Chase Manhattan Bank(NYC),
Prudential Insurance(NYC) and Citi-Bank(NYC). As well
as exhibits in G. Passsedoit Gallery(NYC) Green Mountain
Gallery(NYC) Blue Mountain Gallery(NYC) Equipax Gallery
(Newport VT), Royal Tyler Theater Lobby(Burlington VT)
and the Helen Day Art Center(Stowe VT). |