| 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). |