Born

1951

Bremerton, WA

Education

1975           

BFA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

1976-80   

The Art Students League, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2009

• Gregory Crane “Thirty Years of Drawing” 1979 – 2009, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery,cNewYork, NY

2004          

• Gregory Crane: Gardens and Vistas, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY2000        

•  List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

1998 

• Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY

1996           

• The Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

1991           

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1988          

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1985          

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1983          

• Daedalus Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

1982          

• East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY

• Interiors & Landscapes, Gallery 120, New York, NY

 Group Exhibitions

2013           

• Dynasty, Hotel Particulier, New York, N.Y.

2010           

• Sweetness and Light & Where There’s Smoke, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, Ma.

• Town and Country, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, N.Y.   

• Paper, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, Il.     

2009          

• Tredwell Contemporary Art, Portsmouth, NH                                             

• Repositioning the Landscape, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

2007         

•  Neo-Integrity, Derek Eller Gallery, NY, NY  

• The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Everything I Do Always Comes Back To Me, S.V.A. Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY

• 25 Years of Pelavin Editions, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NY, NY

2003          

• Look Up! Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

• Works on Paper, The Park Avenue Armory, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY, NY

• Chicago Arts Fair, Chicago, Ill. – Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY, NY

• The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2001          

• Verging on Real, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, NY

• C M C Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1998

• Artists Choose Artists, The Century Association, New York, NY

• Divining Nature, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston - Salem, NC

• The New Metropolis - A Century of Greater New York, 1898-1998, Museum of the City of New York, NY

• Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY

1997           

• P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

1996          

• The Paine Webber Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

•  Following the Light-The Artist and Their Teacher, G.C. Lucas Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

• The Modern Landscape, Queens Borough Library Gallery, NY

1995          

• Re-Presenting Representation II, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

• Winter Gallery Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1994          

• Summer Gallery Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Mountains of the Mind, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

• Arabesque, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY

1993          

• Landscape as Metaphor, Fitchburg Art Museum, CT

• Visceral Landscapes, Travel without Boundaries, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Twilight Intervals, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

• Gallery Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Growth and Atrophy: The Empathetic Landscape, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

• Beyond Description: Visions of Nature, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY

1992         

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1991           

• Getting Away, Champion Gallery, Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT

• Art for Your Collection, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

• The Natural Perception, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

• 1991 Invitational, The New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1990         

• The Unique Print: '70 into '90, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• Intaglio Printing in the 1980's, The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ  

• Somewhere (curated by Robert Mahoney Lintas), Worldwide at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY  

• Harmony & Discord: American Landscape Today, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA  

• Summer, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY                                                                        

1989       

• The Unquiet Landscape, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

• The Unquiet Landscape: Recent Expressionist & Fantasy Landscape Paintings (curated by Allan Frumkin), The Arts Club of Chicago, IL 

• Prints of the 1980's, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• Summer, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York, NY

• Landscape, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Contemporary Environment Art, Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art, General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT

• New American Landscape, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1988         

• Landscape Anthology, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Imprimatur, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

1987         

• Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• The American Landscape, Met Life Gallery, New York, NY

1987        

• Utopian Visions, Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art, American Express Corporate Headquarters,  New York, NY

1986         

• Landscapes: Real & Imagined, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ

1986         

• Night Landscapes, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

• The American Landscape, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1985        

• Nocturnal Images, The Pain Art Center & Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI; Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL

• Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, 1960-1985, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

• Places Here and Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1984        

• P.S. 122, New York, NY

• The Center Gallery, New York, NY

• Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Portraits, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY

• Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY

• Innovative Landscapes, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN

• The Natural Site: Landscapes Now, Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY

1983        

• Artist's Space, New York, NY

• Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

• Landscape, The William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ  

• Painting New York, Museum of the city of New York, NY

1982       

• East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY

1980       

• Gallery of the Southwest, Taos, NM

1978         

• Salt Lake City Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT

• Aisling Gallery, New York, NY

• Timothy Blackburn Gallery, New York, NY

1976        

• 1976-1981, The Art Student's League of New York, NY

1975        

• University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Awards

1983           

The MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1981            

The MacDowell Colony Fellowship

Teaching

1990-Present  

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Instructor in Painting

Bibliography

Carrier Pigeon, CPMag LCC, Volume 2, Number 2 (May, 2012)

Carl Little, Simon Lane, Trevor Winkfield, Abingdon Square Publishing “Gregory Crane, Drawings 1979-2009” (April, 2009).

Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 2000).

Carl Little,” Gregory Crane at Cheryl Pelavin," Art in America (July 1999).

April Gornik, "Gregory Crane - The Four Seasons,” Bomb Magazine (Spring 1999).

Ken Johnson, The New York Times (November 27,1998).

Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Guide (December 18, 1998).

Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Guide (December 4, 1998).

"What's Up Downtown,” Downtown Express (December 1998).

Dominique Nahas, "The Modern Landscape,” Art Review (September 15, 1996).

Elizabeth Wilson, "Arts Extra," Bennington Banner (August 16, 1996).                            

Simon Lane, Bomb Magazine (Spring 1994).

Roberta Smith, "PPOW", The New York Times (February 25, 1994).

Jerry Salz, "Let Us Now Praise Artist's Artists," Art & Auction (April 1993).

Louise Sheldon, The Baltimore Chronicle (March 1993, Vol. 20, No. 12).

John Dorsey, The Sun [Baltimore, MD] (February 24, 1993).

Bomb Magazine (Fall 1992).

Vivian Raynor, The New York Times (October 13, 1991).

Robert Mahoney, Arts (September 1991).

Vivian Raynor, "Accent is on the Abstract in a New Britain Landscape Show,” The New York Times (February 17, 1991).

Laura Cloud, Art New England (April/May, 1991).

Kelli Pryor, "Back to Nature," Avenue (February 1989).

Cathleen McGuigan, "Transforming the Landscape," Newsweek (December 26,1988).

Carl Little, "Gregory Crane at Edward Thorp," Art in America (November 1988).

Deborah Solomon, "Back to Nature," House & Garden (November 1988).

"Press Guide 88: Best Picture," New York Press (September 30, 1988).

Robert Mahoney, "Regional Paradise," New York Press (May 20, 1998).

Roberta Smith, "Gregory Crane," The New York Times (May 20, 1998).

Linda Nochlin, "En Plein Air: Recent Views of the Great Outdoors," Interview (April 1988).

Gerrit Henry, "Night Landscapes, Schriber/Cutler," ART News (January 1987).

Timothy Cohrs, "Hudson River Editions, Pelavin Editions -- A Report Back From The Other World of Printmaking," Arts (November 1986).

Barry Schwabsky, "R.L. Kaplan, Gregory Crane, June Leaf," Arts (September 1985).

Kendra Hamilton, "Show Displays Artists' Sense of 'Place'," The Greenville News (August 20, 1985).

John Russell, "Gregory Crane, R.L. Kaplan, June Leaf," The New York Times (May 24, 1985).

Willy Clay, "Gregory Crane," Arts (December 1984).

Grace Glueck, "New York Through the Eyes of Artists," The New York Times (October 14, 1983).

Selected Collections

Amerada Hess Corporation, Houston, TX

Art Bank Program, Washington, DC 

Bank of America, New York, NY

Beechwood Corporation, OH

Champion International, Stamford, CT

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY       

J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, NY

Chemical Bank, New York, NY         

Citibank Corporation, New York, NY

Marshall Erdman, WI

Fidelity Finance, Boston, MA

Daniel & Rita Fraad, New York, NY

John Hauberg, Seattle, WA

Knight Landesman, New York, NY              

McDonalds Corporation, USA

M. I. T. List Visual Art Center, MI

Millbank, Tweed, Hadley, Mclow, NY

Museum of the City of New York, NY                     

New Britain Museum of Art, CT        

Orlando Museum, FL 

Pfizer Incorporated, New York, NY

Prudential Insurance, New York, NY

Reader's Digest Association, NY

Rutgers Archive, New Brunswick, NJ         

Shearson/ Lehman Brothers, New York, NY

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC                            

Edward Thorp, New York, NY

Paine Webber Corporation, New York, NY