BERNARD CHAET
B O R N I N B O S T O N , 1 9 2 4
DIED IN NEW HAVEN, CT, 2012
E D U C A T I O N
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1942-1947
Tufts University, 1942-1947
A W A R D S
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Prize, 2001
National Academy of Fine Arts, Edwin Palmer Award in Painting,2001, 1999
National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting,1997
Child Hassam Fund Purchase, 1986
College Art Association, 1986
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam and Speicher Fund
Purchase, 1981
National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant,1967-68
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
Awakening Sky: A Survey of Watercolors, Alpha Gallery, Boston, 2019
Alpha Gallery, Boston, 2017, 2012, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1994,
1993,1992, 1991,1989, 1988, 1987, 1984, 1982, 1980, 1977, 1975,1971,1969, 1968
Bernard Chaet: Seascapes, List Gallery Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 2012
Bernard Chaet, Observations and Intentions, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM,
2010
Portraits, Jonathan Edwards College, New Haven, CT, 2010
Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2008 (catalogue)
David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY, 2007 (7 shows since 1991)
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH (painting retrospective), traveling to Harnett
Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA; and Amherst College, MA, (catalogue),
2005-06
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, 2005
MB Modern, New York, NY, 2000
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA, 1998, (catalogue)
MB Modern, New York, NY, 1998
MD Modern, Dallas, TX, 1998
New York Studio School, New York, NY, 1998. Traveling to the Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester, MA (catalogue)
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, 1991, 1989, 1987, 1986, 1983,1982, 1981, 1979, 1977
"Five Decades of Drawing," organized by the Boston Public Library, traveling to Yale
University, University of Louisville, Southern Methodist University, University of
Montana, Holter Museum, Montana, Indiana University, University of Michigan,
College of William and Mary, and Maryland, Institute College of Art; 1990-1992
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1989
J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, 1989, 1986
Jaffe-Fried Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1986
"Themes and Variations: 1942-1983," Washington Art Association, Washington Depot,
CT, 1984
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 1982
Trinity College, Hartford, 1979
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, traveling to the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA; Hermitage Foundation Museum, Lockhaven, VA; Weatherspoon
Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1978
Forum Gallery, New York, 1975
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1973
Swarthmore College, 1972
Keene State College, 1972
Brockton Art Center, Brockton, MA, (retrospective) , 1970
University of Connecticut, 1969
Stable Gallery, New York, 1967, 1961, 1959
Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA, 1965, 1961, 1959, 1957, 1955,1951, 1946
The White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1961
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, 1954
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
Drawing as Discovery: 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester University, Rochester, NY, 2024-2025
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, Art Gallery,
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, 2019
Modernism and its Legacy, McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University,
Manchester, NH, 2018, curated by Joanna Fink (catalogue)
Bernard Chaet and Charles Cajori, Two American Masters, BigTown Gallery, Rochester,
Vermont, 2010
Bernard Chaet and Ninon Lacey, BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT, 2008
The New American Sublime: Landscape and Abstraction by Contemporary Painters,
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2008
Landscaping, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
Natural Selections, Landscape Print Portfolio from Center Street Studio, Joel and Lila
Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, 2006
Face to Face, David Findlay, Jr. Fine Art, New York, NY, 2004 (catalog)
More Than One: Prints and Portfolios from the Center Street Studio, Boston, Iris and B.
Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2004
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
Works on Paper, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2003-04
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2002
The Visionary Decade: New Voices in Art in 1940s Boston, Boston University Art Gallery,
Boston, MA, 2002
American Academy Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York, NY, 2001
Against the Grain: The Second Generation of Boston Impressionism, The Art Gallery,
University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2000
Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950, The
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; travelling to John and Mable Ringling Museum
of Art, Sarasota, FL, and Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, 1999-2000
Zeuxis, An Association of Still Life Painters with Guests, Boston University Sherman
Gallery, Boston, MA, 1998
One Thing on Top of Another, Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, 1998
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1996
Boston's Honored Artists: Still Working, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 1995
Inspired by Nature: A Contemporary View, Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill,
MA, 1995
Small Scale, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1993
After 25 Years: A New Beginning, Alpha Gallery, Boston, 1992
American Drawing, University of Virginia Museum, Charlottesville, 1989
Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., 1989
Contemporary Watercolors, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1987
161st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1986
The Watercolor Show, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY; 1986
Contemporary Watercolor Paintings: Influence from the East, College of the Mainland
Art Gallery, Texas City, TX; 1985
Modern Masters of Classical Realism, Allen Prieb Gallery, University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh; 1984
New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY;
1984
20th Century American Watercolor, curated by Janice Oresman, The Gallery Association
of New York State; 1983-84
Painting of the Fifties, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NY; 1983
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; 1983
Realistic Directions, Zolla Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;
1983
American Figurative Expressionism: 1950-1960, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, 1982
Portraits, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York; 1980
The American Scene: Contemporary Landscape Views, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York;
1979
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; 1976
Four New England Artists, University of Massachusetts; 1968
Six Who Draw, State University of New York, Cortland, 1968
Recent Drawings USA, Museum of Modern Art, NY; 1966
Boston Collects, Boston University; 1963
Drawings USA, St. Paul Art Center; 1963
Five New England Artists, Silvermine Guild, Ct; 1962
Corcoran Biennial of American Painting, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1962
Worcester Art Museum, MA; 1962
Eight from Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; 1962
University of Illinois Biennial of American Painting, 1961, 1952, 1951
Four New England Artists, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; 1960
University of Indiana Museum, Bloomington; 1960
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1959
Detroit Art Institute; 1958
Dessins Americaines Contemporains, traveling exhibition to French museums, organized
by the Boston Public Library Print Department
Selections I, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; 1957
Golden Years of American Drawing, Brooklyn Museum; 1956
International Biennial of Watercolors, Brooklyn Museum; 1955
Art Institute of Chicago; 1955
Fort Worth Museum, TX; 1954
San Francisco Art Institute; 1953
Moods and Movements - Boston, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; 1951
American Drawings, Los Angeles County Art Museum; 1946
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Amerada Hess
Arthur Anderson, Chicago
A.T.& T.
Bank of Boston
Boston Public Library
Brooklyn Museum
Brown University, Providence, RI
Chemical Bank, New York & London
Chicago Art Institute
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
E.F. Hutton, New York
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
I.B.M., New York
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, New York
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, Rochester, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Westminster Bank, USA
New England Life
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
New York Public Library
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Southeast Banking Corporation, Florida
State University of New York, Cortland
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Massachusetts
Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Frederick Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Modernism and its Legacy, exhibition catalogue, McIninch Art Gallery, University of
Southern New Hampshire, (essay by Joanna Fink), 2018
A Breath of Plein-Air: 45 Years of Landscapes and Portraits, (essay by Edward
Lucie-Smith) Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2008 (exhibition catalogue)
The New American Sublime: Landscape and Abstraction by Contemporary Painters,
exhibition essay by Paul Sattler, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, NY, 2008
A Good Day for Painting: The Art of Bernard Chaet, (essay by Lisa Amato), Eli Marsh
Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2006 (exhibition catalogue)
Face to Face, exhibition catalogue, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, NY, 2004.
Evan Ide. Against the Grain: The Second Generation of Boston Expressionism, Durham,
NH: University of New Hampshire, 2000.
Roger Martin, Chaet's Fascinating Paintings, Gloucester Daily Times, June 11, 1998,
p. A6
Chaet's Rocky Coastal Work Reflects Cape Ann, Gloucester Daily Times, June 11, 1998,
p. A9
Bernard Chaet, Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 1998 (exhibition catalogue)
Landscape Themes; Contemporary Artists Talk About Painting the Landscape, Art New
England, June/July, 1998, p. 13-15
Kit White, Bernard Chaet at New York Studio School, Review, March 15, 1998, p. 16
Andrew Forge et al. Bernard Chaet, New York, New York Studio School, 1998, 12 pp.
(exhibition catalogue)
Nancy Stapen, Boston: Bernard Chaet/Alpha, ARTnews, January, 1996, p.133
Nan Stalnaker, A Generation's Best, The Tab, Oct. 17, 1995, p. 7B
Christine Temin, With Landscape Shows, BC Sets Off a Blast of Beauty, The Boston
Globe, July 5, 1995, p. 53 and 56
Nancy Stapen, Showcasing the Artist Who Recast Hubscene, The Boston Globe, February
9, 1995, p. 63 and 66
Nancy Stapen, Landscape Infused with Passion, Richness, The Boston Globe, March 7,
1991
Robert Taylor, Bernard Chaet Expands Boundaries of Drawing, The Boston Globe,
Nov. 19, 1989, p. A6
Margaret Hawkins, Chaet's Art Celebrates the Joy of Seeing, The Chicago Sun-Times, Jan.
23, 1987, p. 21
Vivien Raynor, "Works of an Artist Who Paints for Himself," The New York Times,
June 17,1984
Robert Taylor, review of Alpha Gallery exhibition, The Boston Sunday Globe, Nov. 20,
1977
Michael Brenson, review of exhibition, The New York Times, March 2, 1894
Janice C. Oresman, Bernard Chaet, Arts Magazine, Nov. 1982, p. 3
Helen Thomas, Bernard Chaet, Arts, June, 1978
Susan Zaveruha, Chaet Works Show Engineered Space; Giotto. Vermeer Affect Wilcox
Exhibitor, Swarthmore College Phoenix, April 18, 1972
Jean Begantini Grillo, Art: Conversation With..., The Phoenix, Oct. 26, 1971
Boston After Dark, Oct. 8, 1969
Edgar Driscoll Jr., A New Dimension in Chaet Show, The Boston Globe, Oct. 17, 1968
Edgar Driscoll Jr., Chaet Returns with Recent Works, Paintings on View at Mirski Gallery,
The Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 29, 1961
T E A C H I N G
Poses Visiting Artist, Brandeis University, Fall, 1998
William Leffingwell Professor of Painting, Yale University, Department of Art,
1979-1990
Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Fall, 1986
Professor of Painting, Yale University, 1951-1979
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant, 1967-68
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 1962–63
A U T H O R
An Artist’s Notebook, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1979.
The Art of Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1970, 1978 (2nd edition),
1983 (3rd edition)
Artists at Work, Webb Books, Cambridge, MA, 1961.
Contributing Editor, Arts Magazine, 1956–1960.
Twentieth Century Drawings, Yale University Gallery, Preface to illustrated catalogue,
1955.