Born
1928, Brooklyn, NY
Education
1947-1950 Tyler Art School, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1946 Art Students League, New York, NY with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Julien Levy
1944-1946 Studied with Moses Soyer
1942-1946 High School of Music and Art, New York, NY
Teaching
1980- Present Arts Students League, New York, N.Y.
1975-1992 National Academy of Design, New York, N.Y.
1965-1980 School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 A Comprehensive Retrospective, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Sundown, The Crossing, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Gerold Wunderlich & Co, New York, NY
1994 A Retrospective Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH,
1989 Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Sindin Galleries, New York, NY
1980, 1990 Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1976 20 Years of Drawing and PaintingGallery 1199, Hospital Workers Union, New York, NY
1972, 1979 F.A.R. Galleries, New York, NY
1964, 1966, 1969, 1970 Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1955, 1960, 1961, 1963 Davis Galleries, New York, NY
Public Collections
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Allentown Museum, Allentown, PA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, N.Y.
Chemical Bank, N.Y.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
Louisiana State University, (Anglo-American Art Museum), Baton Rouge, LA
Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center, New York, N.Y.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Leham Collection), New York, N.Y.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.
Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.
National Academy of Design, New York, N.Y.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,CT.
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Penn State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Stanford University Museum, Stanford, CA
University of Texas, Austin, TX
West Collection, St. Paul, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Selected Awards & Honors
2003 Isaac N. Maynard Prize and Samuel F.B. Morse Medal, National Academy of Design
1998 Honorary Doctorate, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts
1987 William Cortland Mitchell Memorial Award, Dr. Maury Leibowitz Awards Program, ArtistsWelfare Fund
1987 Sauter-Margolies Pastel Award, Allied Artists
1986 John Raskin Award, Audubon Artists
1986 Jurors Award, Butler Institute of American Art Mid-Year Show
1986 Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1985 Advancement of Art Award, Allied Artists
1985 Len G. Everett Memorial Award, Audubon Artists
1983 Romans Memorial Award, Allied Artists
1983 Arthur Ross Award, Classical America
1982, 1983 Art and the Law Purchase Award, West Publishing Co.
1982 Best Labor Magazine Cover of the Year Award, AFL-CIO International Labor Press Association
1978 Audubon Artists Presidents Award
1977 Allied Artists Gold Medal
1976 Ranger Purchase Award, National Academy of Design
1974, 1978, 1987 Hassam and Speicher Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1974 Elected Member, National Academy of Design
1950 Temple Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1948, 1961 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Selected Publications
"Underground Together, The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnerstein," Introduction by Raman Frey and Wendi Norris, Essays by Pete Hamil and Gabriel Weisberg, Chronicle Press, 2008
CD-ROM, Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
"Remembering Marvin Franklin," Harvey Dinnerstein, Linea, Summer, 2007
"Harvey Dinnerstein Life Size Portraits," International Artist Magazine, June/July, 2007
"Contemplating Rubens", Harvey Dinnestein, Linea, Fall/Winter, 2005
"Going Beyond the Moment," International Artist Magazine, December/January, 2005
"Harvey Dinnerstein Interview," The Pastel Journal, September/October, 2003
"Evolution of an Image: Sundown the Crossing," American Artist Magazine, September, 2003
"Ingres Portraits," Harvey Dinnerstein, Linea, Winter, 2000
"Harvey Dinnerstein at the Millennium," The Portrait Signature Magazine, Fall 1999
"Are 19c. Methods of the Academy and Independent Atelier Relevant for Contemporary Figurative Artists?", Harvey Dinnerstein, Linea, Summer, 1998
"The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1957, Volume III of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project,"University of California Press, 1997
"Beyond Narrative: Making of Past and Present," American Artist Magazine, August, 1995
"Long Island Landscape Painting in the 20th Century," Ronald G. Pisano, Little Brown and Co., 1990
"Harvey Dinnerstein on Pastel," American Artist, May 1988
"New York Observed: Artists and Writers Look at the City," Cohen, Chwast, Heller, Abrams, New York, 1987
"Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball,"Peter H. Gordon, SITES exhibition catalogue, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1987
"The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America," Bruce Weber, Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1985
"The Seasons," Harvey Dinnerstein, American Artist Magazine, August 1983
"Realism and Realities, The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960," Greta Berman and Jeffrey Wechsler, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1981
"Harvey Dinnerstein, Artist at Work," Watson-Guptill (New York), Pitman (London), 1978
"An Interview with Harvey Dinnerstein," Heather Meredith-Owens, American Artist, May 1973
"Dink Stover in Hell," Esquire, September, 1970
"Harvey Dinnerstein, A Portfolio of Drawings," Introduction by Moses Soyer, Kenmore Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1968
"The Face of Protest," Esquire Magfazine, December 1968
"The Artist as Buffalo Hunter," Harvey Dinnerstein, Esquire, December 1965
"10 cents That Shook America," (The Montgomery Bus Boycott), Rosa Parks, drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman, Esquire Magazine, December, 1964
"Four Realists" (Harvey Dinnerstein, David Levine, Aaron Shikler, Burton Silverman), Frederick Whitaker, American Artist Magazine, October 1964
"New Look at Protest, the Eight Since 1908," Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman, Art News Magazine, February, 1958
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