June Kelly Gallery

Larry Potter

Born February 1, 1925, Mt. Vernon, NY
Died January 11, 1966, Paris, France

Education
1955 Art Students League, New York
1945-50 Cooper Union, New York

Exhibitions
1997 Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, Bertha
and Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York; catalogue
1996 Paris: Early ‘60s, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-
1965
, organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 18
- June 2, 1996; The Chicago Cultural Center, June 29 - August 29, 1996;
New Orleans Museum of Art, September 14 - November 10, 1996;
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, January 12, 1997 - March 23, 1997;
Milwaukee Art Museum, April 11 - June 1, 1997; catalogue
1991 Paris: 1961-1966, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1969 Posthumous exhibition, Galerie Lambert, Paris
1965 American Art Gallery, Paris
1964 10 American Negro Artist Living and Working in Europe, Den Frie,
Copenhagen, June 11-30
1963 Salon de Mai, Paris
Galeries du Puran Gerneru, Paris
1951 44th Street Gallery, New York
1943 Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Reviews, Articles, Publications and Catalogues
1998 Taha, Halima, "Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and
Canvas," Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1998
1997 Litt, Steven, "Blacks Blossom in Paris," The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH,
Tuesday, 18 March
Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, Bertha
and Karl Leubsdorf
Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York; essays by Wayne R. Dynes
1996 Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris,
1945-1965
, published by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York;
essays by Valerie J. Mercer, Catherine Bernard, Michel Fabre and Peter

Selz
Waddington, Chris, "Color Them Modern," Lagniappe, New Orleans, LA,
Bookhardt, D. Eric, "African-American Artists in Paris," New Orleans
Gambit Weekly
,
Artner, Alan G., "Key City: Explorations Reveal Talents Nurtured by
Paris," Chicago Tribune, Arts & Entertainment Section
Waddington, Chris, "Home from Paris," New Orleans Times Picayune, pp. 20-23
Béhar, Henri, "Quand les peintres Afro-Américains investissaient Paris,"
Le Monde, Paris, 2 May
Goodman, Jonathan, ARTnews, April
Gardner, Paul, "When France Was Home To African-American Artists,"
Smithsonian Magazine, March
Gaouette, Nicole, "African-American Art That Blossomed in Postwar
Paris," The Christian Science Monitor, Tuesday, 26 March
1992 Thompson, Walter, Art in America, January

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