Henry Isaacs

 

Education

1982 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. H.Dip.F.A. (Printmaking)
1973 Rhode Island School of Design. B.F.A. (Painting)
1969 Boston University
1969 The Putney School


Special Projects

2005 Lecturer, Snowshoe Institute, West Virginia

1995 Research coordinator, Art and Culture of 19th Century South Carolina, Charleston, SC

1988–1991 Curator/coordinator, Seen from Paradise: Art from the Terezin Concentration Camp. A cycle of exhibitions, performances, and publications held in 1991.

1988 Director, Surviving Visions: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki Exhibition. Symposium, catalogue, and educational outreach centered on the relation of artists to social concern.

1985 Curator/Coordinator, Unforgettable Fire: Drawings from Hiroshima Exhibition. Symposium, educational outreach. This was centered on the first U.S. showing of 100 drawings by survivors from the collection of the Hiroshima Peace Foundation, and held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

1985–1989 Co-organizer, Graduate Student Exchange: Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba and the Massachusetts College of Art. Conceived and organized the first exchange of students between Cuba and the United States since 1959.

1984 Curator, The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Major exhibition of Lawrence's prints and drawings. Symposium on artists of the 1930s and 1940s.

1984 Curator (in collaboration with Oxfam America), Guatemala, A Photographic Portrait. Recent photographs of the condition of peasants in the war torn countryside of Guatemala.


Public and Private Collections (selected)

American Institute of Architects, Washington DC
Bass Shoe Company, Inc., Lewiston ME
Bank of Boston, Boston MA
The Beacon Companies, Boston MA
Challenger Corporation International, Houston TX
Charleston Area Medical Cente, WV
Charleston Public Schools, Charleston WV
Clorox Corporation, San Francisco CA
Commerce Bank, Philadelphia PA
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brookline MA
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital NH
Delta Dental Insurance CA
DiTrapano & Jackson, Charleston WV
Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
Eastern American Energy, Charleston WV
First Empire Federal, Charleston WV
Fletcher-Allen Medical Center, Burlington VT
Gaylord Resorts TN
George Washington University, Washington DC
Great American Ski Company, ME, NH, VT, CO
DLA Piper (Boston), Boston MA
Hyatt Hotels, Chicago IL
Inn at Loretto, Sante Fe NM
ITT Sheraton Hotels, Washington DC
Kay Castro Chaney Love & Wise, Charleston WV
Menorah Hospital, Kansas City MO
Oliver Carr Company, Washington DC
Omni Georgetown Hotel, Washington DC
Petroleum Products Inc., Charleston WV
Renaissance Washington Conference Center, Washington DC
Resource Systems Group, White River Junction VT
Richard Hill Web Design, Islesford ME
SAS Institute, Raleigh NC
Sharon Hospital, Sharon CT
Texaco Corporation, New York NY
University of California, Davis CA
UNUM Insurance Group, Portland,ME
U.S. Bank, Sacramento, CA
U.S. Department of State, Overseas Embassies USSA Insurance Company, Seattle WA
Vanderbilt Medical Center, TN
Vanderbilt University, TN
Vermont Employee Credit Union, Montpelier VT
Westin Hotels, Seattle, WA., and Denver CO


Grants and Awards

1998 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
1996 National Park Service Residency, Yosemite National Park
1996 Vermont Council on the Arts
1988 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
1988 The Boston Globe Foundation
1988 Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities and Public Policy
1987 The Hitachi Foundation
1987 Filene Foundation
1986 Outstanding Performance Award, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1985 Distinguished Service Award, Massachusetts College of Art
1982 Stowell's Trophy Exhibition for Outstanding Postgraduates, Royal Academy of Art, London
1981 Royal Society of Painters and Engravers, London


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