Elise Asher

	1912	Born in Chicago, Illinois, January 15 Lived and worked in New York City and Provincetown, MA
	2004	Died in New York City, March 7
Solo Exhibitions
	2017	Poetic Landscapes, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2004	A Memorial Exhibition, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2000	Elise Asher: Paintings and Drawings, curated by Varujan Boghosian, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
	1997	The Visionary Field: Paintings by Elise Asher, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
	1994	A Place Apart, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1992	Paintings, curated by Margaret Sheffield and Rose Slivka, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
	1991	Lightfall, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1988	Drawings by Elise Asher: Passages, Including The Long Boat Series, William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
	1987	Long The Boat Series, Ingber Gallery, New York
	1986	Elise Asher: Paintings and Drawings, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
	1985	The Edge of Time, Ingber Gallery, New York
	1983	Outscapes, Ingber Gallery, New York
	*1983	Elise Asher, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
	*1981	Elise Asher: Paintings and Drawings, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
	*1981	Elsewhere, Ingber Gallery, New York
	*1979	part of another country, Ingber Gallery, New York
	*1976	Elise Asher, Washington Woman's Art Center, Washington, DC
	*1976	Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
	*1973	Elise Asher: Illuminations, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
	*1972	Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY
	*1971	Elise Asher and Robert Beauchamp, Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA
	*1971	The Gothan Book Mart Gallery, New York
	1966	Paintings: two-and-three-dimensional, The Contemporaries, New York
	1964	Bradford Junior College, (Retrospective), Bradford, MA
	1963	Paintings and Drawings, Mary Harriman Gallery, Boston, MA
	1963	Elise Asher, East Hampton Gallery, New York
	1958	Grand Central Moderns, New York
	1953	Elise Asher: Paintings, Tanager Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
	1996	The Boat, Object and Metaphor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY and the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
	1995	Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
	1994	A Long Flowering, Madelyn Jordon Gallery, New York
	*1990	Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York
	1990	Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
	*1990	The Expanding Figurative Imagination, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
	1990	Peter M. David Gallery, (structures), Minneapolis, MN
	1989	Invitational Show, Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
	1989	American Academy of Arts and Letters, Candidates for Art Awards, New York
	1987	Going Fishing, Graham Modern, New York
	1986	Cross Currents, Guild Hall Museum, June 22-July 27, (exchange exhibit with collection from Provincetown Museum)
	1983, 1984	Written Imagery Unleashed in the 20th Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
	1980	American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award Selected Candidates, New York
	*1979	Reverse Painting, Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
	1979	Invitational Show, Provincetown Art Association, MA
	1978	Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Independent Curators, Inc.; two year traveling exhibition Women Painters and Poets, New York University, New York
	1977	Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
	*1977	Cape Cod as Art Colony, Heritage Museum, Sandwich, MA
	1976	The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC The Art of Poetry, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
	*1976, 1977	The Book as Art, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
	1973	Women Chose Women, New York Cultural Center, NY
	*1973	The Emerging Real, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
	1971	The Line as Form, Parker Street 470, Boston, MA A New Consciousness, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
	1970	The Words as Image, Jewish Museum, New York
	1966, 1970	Birds and Beasts, Graham Gallery, New York
	1966	Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
	*1964	Greetings, Museum of Modern Art, New York Arts and Letters, Howard Wise Gallery, New York
	1961	Drawings, Cornell College, College Art Symposium, Mt. Vernon
	1959	Lettering, Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveling museum show Art USA, The Coliseum, New York American Academy of Arts and Letters, Childe Hassam Purchasing Fund Show, NY
	1953-1957	Annuals, Stable Gallery Artists', New York
* These exhibitions consisted of works painted directly on a Plexiglas surface rather than canvas.
Selected Reviews
	2004	Cotter, Holland, �Elise Asher,� Art In Review, The New York Times, Friday, September 17
	1994	Katz, Vincent , Art in America, November
	1986	Busa, Christopher, editor, Provincetown Arts, August and Fall Rush, Lea, �Asher Finds Inspiration in Poetry,� Provincetown Advocate, Aug. 21 Callanan, Deidre, �A Poem Transformed,� The Register
	1983	Cooen, R., ARTnews, September Abell, Mary, �Personal Mythology,� Artspeak, April 14 Paine, Piera, Art/World, April
	1981	Raynor, Vivien, �Elise Asher,� The New York Times, April Meyer, �Michael R., Elise Asher,� Art/World, March-April Pellicone, William, �Asher's Real 'Otherness',� Artspeak, March
	1979	Basquin, Kit, �Glass Backwards,� The New Art Examiner, November
	1976	Kernan, Michael, �I mages in Words,� Washington Post, Jan. 22
	1974	Campbell, Lawrence, ARTnews, February
	1971	Hochman, Sandra, Craft Horizons, June
	1966	Canaday, John, The New York Times, April 23
	1963	Roberts, Colette, Aujourd�hui - Art et Architecture, #42-43 Sandler, Irving, ARTnews, April O�Doherty, Brian, �Poetry in Crystal,� The New York Times, March 26
	1974	H.Z., Pictures on Exhibit, 1958 & 1974
Selected Articles
	2000	Harrison, Sue, �Asher�s art is visual poetry & metaphor,� Provincetown Banner And The Advocate, Thursday, August 24
	1991	Sutton, David, �When Art becomes Poetry and Poetry Art,� Reporter, spring
	1987	Little, Carl, �Elise Asher at Ingber,� Art in America, June
	1985	Slivka, Rose, Arts Magazine, June
	1981	Gammon, Catherine, �Asher's Personal Bestiary,� The Advocate, August
	1979	Carlson, Prudence, �Asher at the Ingber,� Art in America, October
	1977	Friedman, B.H. , � Too Little Attention,� New Boston Review, summer
	1976	Schwartz, Bella, Washington Artists News, March
	1973	O' Doherty, Brian, �Elise Asher Ut Pictura Poesis,� Art in America, November-December Edgar, Natalie, �Poet of Plexiglas,� Craft Horizons, October
Public Collections
	Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Finch College Art Museum, New York Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Tougaloo College, Mississippi New York University Art Collection, NY National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Poets House, New York Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY First National Bank of Chicago Crocker National Bank, San Francisco, CA Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York Sheraton Plaza Corporation, Washington, DC