Biography

Philip Morsberger

Nationality: American
Dates: Born 1933
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Recent Press:
 

TEDx Talks, “Some Thoughts on Making Art: Philip Morsberger at TEDxTelfairStreet”
 

Education:
 

1972 Master of Arts, Oxford University, New College, Oxford, England
1958 CFA, Oxford University, Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, England
1956 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology
1954 La Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
1946 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
 

 

Solo Exhibitions:
 

2015 Philip Morsberger: Text/Subtext, if ART Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina
2013 Headsup: Philip Morsberger Paintings, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2012 Philip Morsberger: Recent Paintings, Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida
2012 Philip Morsberger: Inscapes, Paintings from 1977-2012, Hampton Gallery LTD, Taylors, South Carolina
2011 Philip Morsberger: Text/Subtext, Hampton Gallery LTD, Taylors, South Carolina
2011 Within State Lines, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Time Travlers, if Art Gallery, Columbia, South Carolinia
2008 Philip Morsberger: A Retrospective, Miami University Art Gallery, Oxford, Ohio
2008 Philip Morsberger: The Sixties, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia
2008 The Human Comedy: Paintings by Philip Morsberger, Gallery 307, The Lamar Dodd School of the Arts, University of Georgia
2007 Philip Morsberger: Recent Paintings, SLM Projects, Roswell, Georgia
2007 Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
2005 Romo Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
2003 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
2001 Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 Barkin-Leeds Fine Arts (Sun Trust Plaza Gallery). Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
2000 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
2000 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
1998 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
1997 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
1997 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, California
1992 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1978 Morley Gallery, London, England
1976 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1974 McAlpine Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
1971 Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
 

 

Two Person Exhibtions:
 

2012 Selected Works by Philip Morsberger and Tom Nakashima, Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Augusta, Georgia
2011 The Mind’s Eye, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Eye of the Beholder: Works by Philip Morsberger & Anita Huffington, Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, Georgia
2010 Dreams and Visions, Firehouse Gallery, Louisville, Georgia
2010 Spirit and Substance, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, South Carolina
2008 Two Realities, Summit One Gallery, Highlands, North Carolina
2005 Degrees of Separation, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa
2005 Looking Back, Looking Forward: Norman Rockwell and Philip Morsberger, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
1999 Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
 

 

Group Exhibitions:
 

2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Group Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2010 The Augusta-Columbia Connection: Six Artists from the if Art Gallery, Westobou Festival, Augusta, Georgia
2010 Within State Lines II: Five Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2010 Painters Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2010 Painters Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
2010 Color Fields, Forms, and Fractures, if Art Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina
2009 Compositions in Black and White, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
2009 Painters Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
2007 A Strong Vision: Thee Decades of Exhibitions, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California
2007 Art DC, Mary Pauline Gallery, Washington DC
2006 Nineteen Prominent Alumni Artists 1906-2006, The Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2005 International S.O.F.A. Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Highlights of the Collection, The di Rosa Foundation, Napa, California
2004 Freedom Sumer, 1964: 40 Years Later, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2003 Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
2003 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
2003 The Felt Moment, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
2002 San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, California
2000 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1993 Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
1989 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1989 La Foret Museum, Kyoto-Ku, Japan
1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982 Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Holland
1981 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
 

 

Awards and Honors:
 

2014 Artist Award, Greater Augusta Arts Council
2010 Signature Artist, Westobou Arts Festival
2008 Member, Oxford and Cambridge Club, London
2007 Honorary Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University
2006 Artist in Residence, New College, Oxford University
2004 Augusta State University, William S. Morris Eminent Scholar Emeritus
2001 California College of Arts and Crafts- President’s Fellow Emeritus
1996-2002 Augusta State University- William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Arts (Artist in Residence)
1996 Resident Artist, Wadham College, Oxford University
1994 Fellow in Painting, California Art Council
1991 Resident Artist, San Francisco Art Institute
1987-1996 California College of Arts and Crafts- President’s Fellow in Painting and Drawing
1986-1987 Chair in Art Practice (Professor in Residence), University of California- Berkley
1983 Artist in Residence, Dartmouth University
1978-1984 Professorial Fellow, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University
1976 Fellow of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
1971-1984 Ruskin Master of Drawing, Oxford University
1969-1970 Artist in residence, Rochester Institute of Technology
 

 

Bibliography:
 

Sherry Foster, “Around Town: Award-Winning Contributors,” Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 77.
 

Monica Dutcher, “Standing Ovations,” Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 30.
 

Sherry Foster, “Upfront,” Augusta Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 6, August-September 2014, page 8.
 

“From the Classes: Philip Morsberger,” Carnegie Mellon Today, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2013.
 

Michael Granberry, “The Minds Eye,” Dallas Morning News, Art Guide, March 18, 2011, page 34, The Artist’s Studio reproduced.
 

Painters’ Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia, catalogue with introduction by Eric O’Dell, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, 2009.
 

Linda Louise Brown, “New Contemporary art: Five Artists,” Charlotte Observer, October 26, 2008.
 

“Philip Morsberger: A Retrospective,” Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, spring, 2008.
 

Holly Koons McCullough, “Philip Morsberger; The Sixties,” Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2008.
 

Tom Mack, “Morsberger at the Morris,” Aiken Standard, May, 2007.
 

Jerry Cullum, “Art on the Edge in Atlanta: Morsberger’s Musings,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 11, 2007.
 

Christopher Lloyd, Philip Morsberger: A Passion for Painting, New York: Merrell, 2007.
 

Felicia Feaster, “Philip Morsberger: Generation Gap,” Creative Loafing, January 5, 2006.
 

Jerry Cullum, “Philip Morsberger: Cartoon Network,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 5, 2006.
 

“Castleberry Hill Artstroll: Philip Morsberger at the Romo Gallery,” The Story, December 15, 2005.
 

Sara Ivry, “A New Trove of Treasures,” The New York Times, March 25, 2005.
 

Degrees of Separation: From Figuration to Abstraction, exhibition catalogue with introduction by Margaret Skovo, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa, 2005.
 

“Looking Back, Looking Forward: works by Norman Rockwell and Philip Morsberger,” Arts at Miami, Miami University Art Museum, fall 2005.
 

Tom Patterson, “Nothing Finer,” Winston-Salem Journal, August, 2003.
 

The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, catalogue with text by John Fitz Gibbon, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 2002.
 

Catherine Fox, “Abstract Expressionist has a Seriously Good Time,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November, 2001.
 

Jim Garvey, “A Visit with Philip Morsberger,” Augusta: The Magazine of Metropolitan Augusta, January, 2001.
 

Susan Landauer, “The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration,” American Art Review, September-October, 2000.
 

Ann Curran, “Andy Warhol and Philip Morsberger: A Carnegie Mellon Double Header,” Carnegie Mellon Magazine, spring 2000.
 

Jeffery Day, “An Artist’s 40-Year Journey,” The State, February, 2000.
 

Philip Morsberger: Paintings and Drawing from the Sixties, catalogue with introduction by Dr. Richard Gruber, Morris Museum of Art, Augusts, Georgia, 2000.
 

The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, catalogue with introduction by Susan Landauer, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 2000.
 

Philip Morsberger: Made at Miami, catalogue with introduction by Dr. Edna Southard, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, 1999.
 

B.H. Walsh, “Morsberger and Warhol: Déjà Vu at Miami University,” City Beat, February, 1999.
 

Jeffery Day, “Amazing Abstractions,” The State, August 9, 1998.
 

Kent Kimes, “It’s Academic: Works by Philip Morsberger,” Augusta Chronicle, July 31, 1998.
 

Benjamin Carr, “Colorful Master at Mary Pauline Gallery,” Augusta Chronicle, July, 1998.
 

Ken Greenleaf, “ ‘Theater’ Puts Nine Painters in the Spotlight,” Sunday Telegram, July 4, 1993.
 

Mark Van Proyen, “Morsberger at CCAC and Rena Bransten Gallery, Visions Art Quarterly, 1993.
 

Kenneth Baker, “Philip Morsberger Masks Art’s Private Meaning,” San Francisco Chronicle, September, 1992.
 

Philip Morsberger, catalogue with introduction by Marcia Tanner, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, September, 1992.
 

Koi Nagashima, American Pop Culture Today, Tokyo, Japan: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1990.
 

Dorothy Burkhardt, “Morsberger’s Art Beckons Its Viewers,” San Jose Mercury News, 1989.
 

Gay Morris, “Morsberger at Rena Bransten,” Art in America, March, 1989.
 

Kenneth Barker, “Philip Morsberger/Rene Bransten Gallery,” Artforum International, December, 1988.
 

Clement Kortenback, “Kunst uit Oxford,” Leids Daghlad, September, 1982.
 

Kenneth Barker, “The Atomized Self,” Artcoast, Vol. 1, No 1, March/April, 1980.
 

 

Television Appearances:
 

1984 “Philip Morsberger: The Evolution of an Artist,” Minnesota Public Television, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
1969 “Artist to Artist: Philip Morsberger and Wendell Castle,” Channel 21, Public Television, Rochester, New York.
1965 “A Dialogue in Art: Louise Nevelson and Philip Morsberger,” WMUB-TV, Public Television, Ohio.
1965 “A Dialogue in Art: Philip Morsberger and Ivan Karp,” WMUB-TV, Public Television, Ohio.
 

 

Video:
 

TEDx Talks, “Some Thoughts on Making Art: Philip Morsberger at TEDxTelfairStreet,” YouTube, March 1, 2014. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7C9dMfp9lI
 

 

Ballet:
 

1984 “Acid Rain,” Choreography by Peter Royston and visuals by Philip Morsberger, The Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh, Scotland.
 

 

Public Collections:
 

The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Brasenose College, Oxford, England
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
Department of Social Administration, Oxford, England
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Jersey
Hope Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson, and Falk Major, African Inc, San Francisco, California
King and Spalding Collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Marine Midland Bank of New York, Rochester, New York
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, Pilot Hill, California
Principals Collection, City University of London, London, England
Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation, Napa, California
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Texas
SCAG- Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, England
Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan Associates, Atlanta, Georgia
Wilson Art Center Collection, Ohio Northern University, Ohio
Wolfson College, Oxford, England

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