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|  The following is from the artist who is resident of York County, Maine, he has become well known in New England for his watercolors of small Maine and New Hampshire towns. Often they show deterioration and abandoned buildings. He also specializes in male and female nudes and floral nature studies and occasionally does a self portrait.
DEWITT HARDY
South Berwick, Maine 03908
BORN:
St. Louis, Missouri, June 1940
EDUCATION:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
RESIDENCE:
South Berwick, Maine
POSITIONS HELD
Curator and Associate Director of the Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, Maine
Instructor, University of Maine at Augusta
Instructor, Heartwood College of Art, Arundel, Maine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 North Haven Gallery, North Haven, Maine
1996 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Ogunquit Art Association, Ogunquit, ME
1994 Tom Veilleux Gallery, Farmington, ME
1993 Hollander Gallery, York, ME
1992 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, ME
1987 Allport Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1994 Allport Associates Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA
1981 Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1980 Evansville Museum, Evansville, IA
1973-83 (annually) Cove Bookstore, Ogunquit, ME
GROUP SHOWS
1998 "Portland Museum Biennial", Portland, Maine
1997 "A Brush With Greatness" Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine
1995 "The Ogunquit Tradition: Ogunquit Painting Today",
Van Ward Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 "The Figure", Point Gallery, York, ME
1995 "The Face Of America", Old Forge Museum, Old Forge, NY
1994 "Maines Heritage and Tradition", Frost Gully Gallery, Portland, Maine
1994 "Self-Portraits", James Goode Collection,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nudes", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "On the Edge, Maine Painting, 1950-1990",
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1993 "Miniatures", Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Perspectives on Realism", Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Two Views of the Nude", Blackthorne
1990 "Gallery Group", Gallery Henoch, NY
1988 "Contemporary Figure Drawings", Robert Schoelkopf, NY
1998 "All Maine Biennial" University of Southern Maine
1986-7 "American Realism", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1984 "Portland Museum Drawing Biennial", Portland, ME
1983 "Monserrat Drawing Invitational", Monserrat MA
"American Realists Works on Paper", Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1978 "All Maine Biennial", Brunswick, ME
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, CA
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Museum, British Columbia
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Bowdoin College Museum, ME
British Museum, London, England
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH
Casco Northern Bank
Chemical Bank, NYC
Cleveland Museum, OH
Collection de la Tortue, Paris, France
Davidson College
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Drury, College
Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hirshhorn Collection, Washington D.C.
Indiana State University, Evansville, IN
Janss Collection
Kalamazoo Institute of Art
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Michigan State University
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Portland Museum, Portland, ME
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Rockford College
Sheldon Swope Museum, Terre Haute, IA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Southern Illinois University
St. Lawrence University, NY
University of Georgia
University of Maine, Orono
University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
University of Utah
Whittenberg University, Springfield, OH
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
American Artist, June 1976, "DeWitt Hardys Line Language" by Ellye Bloom
The Maine Times, May 5, 1989, "Hardy Country"
American Artist, November 1981, "The Watercolor Page: DeWitt Hardy"
The New York Times, February 20, 1981, "Watercolors by DeWitt Hardy"
The Café Review, Summer 1998, accompanying poems by Donald Hall
Also listed in Whos Who in American Art
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