JON IMBEr bio
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D I E D I N S O M E R V I L L E , M A , 2 0 1 4
E D U C A T I O N
Boston University, Boston, MA, MFA, 1977
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, BFA, 1972
O N E A N D T W O P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2023 Jon Imber: Mother, Father, Child, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 Jon Imber: The Freedom of Abstracttion, Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
2021 Jon Imber: Good Information: Selected Flower Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Jon Imber Retrospective, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2019 Jon Imber: There and Then - Paintings, 2002-2012, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Jon Imber (1950-2014), Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2017 Jon Imber: First Date, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 Jon Imber: Still Lifes, 1994-2014, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Jon Imber: Human Interest, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Jon Imber: Force of Nature, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Carry On, Danforth Art, Framingham, MA
Jon Imber: Visionary Botanist, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Painting up a Storm, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA
2013 Palaemon: A Survey of Paintings by Jon Imber, Godwin-Tembach Museum, Queens
College, Queens, NY
Jon Imber: Windswept, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Jon Imber: Life at the Shore, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2011 Jon Imber: Spring Totems, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Jon Imber Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2010 Not Far Out, But Still Not Close, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
2009 New Paintings, G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Jon Imber’s Backyard, Nye Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Re-Working the Landscape: Charles Duback and Jon Imber, Greenhut Gallery, Portland;
McErlich Gallery, Marblehead, MA
2008 Jon Imber: New Paintings, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Coastal Views: Jon Imber and Vitali Massimo, The Gallery at 499 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
Two Views – Plein Aire Painting: Jon Imber and Robin Reynolds, Soprafina Gallery, Boston,
MA
G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
2007 Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
2005 University Club, Chicago, IL
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
2004 G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Greenhut Gallery, Portlabd, ME
2003 G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2001 G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Jon Imber – Self and Object Constructed, Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Boston, MA
2000 G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1999 Jon Imber – Landscape: Primary Perceptions, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
The World as Mirror, Boston University, Boston, MA
1998 Recent Paintings, The University Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Jon Imber: Deer Isle Landscapes, Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME
St. Mark’s School, Southborough, MA
1996 Deer Isle to Davis Square: Small Paintings, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Jon Imber Drawings, Tabor Academy, Braitmayer Art Center, Marion, MA
1993 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Survey of Paintings, 1978-1989, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Christian Science Church, Boston, MA
1987 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2014 George Nick – Paintings and Legacy, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2013 Still Life Lives, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
The Landscape Expressed, Danforth Art, Framingham, MA
2012 Art Miami, Alpha Gallery
Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Dallas Art Fair, Alpha Gallery
Art Chicago, Alpha Gallery
2011 Art Chicago, Alpha Gallery
The Expressive Voice, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2010 Off the Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2009 Just Looking, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2008 The Portland Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
Loners and Mavericks, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 30th Anniversary Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 The Portland Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
Artists in Rural Ireland: American Artists at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Concord Art
Association, Concord, MA
Danforth Museum Juried Show, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Art, New York, NY (Altman Award)
2005 Transformations, Arsenal Center Gallery, Watertown, MA
Faces, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Scapes, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2004 Foliage, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY
Plein Aire, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Ocean View, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Biennial, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
New Faces: New Vision, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2003 Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
Boston City Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
Mary Harding Gallery, York, ME
Nature Interpreted, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
2002 In the Spirit of Landscape VII, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Vermont Studio Center Press, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Painting in Boston: 1950-2002, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2001 Full Disclosure: The Human Figure, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
From Wyeth to Welliver: American Realism of the 20th Century, The Currier Gallery of Art,
Manchester, NH
2000 In the Spirit of Landscape V, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Figure, Fantasy & Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth
Museum, Framingham, MA
Revealing the Nude, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Drawings, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
In the Spirit of Landscape IV, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Landscape: Views & Visions, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Jon Imber, Stephen Pace, Leon Golub, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Green Woods and Crystal Waters: American Landscape Tradition Since 1950, Philbrook
Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Traveling to Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL and Davenport
Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
1998 Face to Face, Forum Corporation Gallery, Boston, MA
In the Spirit of Landscape III, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Master of the Masters, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Recent American Portraits – A Personal Selection, curated by Jon Imber, George Sherman
Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
SELF-aMUSED II: The Artist as Observer and Observed, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Invitational: Portraits, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Jon Imber, George Nick, David Lund, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
1997 The Newton-Provincetown Connection: The David Brown Gallery Revisited, The New Art
Center, Newton, MA
In the Spirit of Landscape II, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Curators of the Visual Arts Gallery 1979-1997, Visual Arts Gallery, School of The Visual Arts,
New York, NY
Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME
Faculty of the Stonington Painter’s Workshop, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
In Print: Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1996 Portraits, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA
The Boston Public Library Collects, The Harvard Club, Boston, MA
Still Life/Still Alive, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Live/Work: Mix-It Studios, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
1995 Thirteen Boston Artists, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Selections of Figurative Art from the Collection of the Currier Gallery of Art, Thorne-
Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
Alumni Drawing, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Paint and Paper, Rosenberg Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
On the Waterfront, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
Inspired by Nature, A Contemporary View, Boston College Museum of Art, Newton, MA
1994 Legacy: Nine Artists who Studied with Phillip Guston, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Selections from the Gruber Collection, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Faculty Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Ames Gallery, Belfast, ME
1993 Landscape as Metaphor, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art
Museum, Newport, RI
In the Spirit of Landscape, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Exquisitive Corpse, Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Painters, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Summertime, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
Invitational: Small Paintings, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Likenesses: A Selection of Portraits, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Vinalhaven Press - The First Five Years, Maine Coast Gallery, Rockport, ME
Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
1989 New England Impressions: The Art of Printmaking, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
and Gallery Kunst In Turm, Schwanenburg, Germany
New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA;
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI; Bowdoin
College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,
CT; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
1988 Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, Jewish Museum, New York, NY;
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL; National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Boston Baroque: Elements of Drama in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln,
MA
Invitational, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Today’s Show: A Contemporary Art Sales Exhibition, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
1986 The Vinalhaven Press, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Expressionism in Boston, 1945-1985, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
A Salute to Boston Artists, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA
Jon Imber/Bill Barrell, David Brown Gallery, Providence, RI
Portraits and Self-Portraits, Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Awards in the Visual Arts, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Personal Imagery, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
New Figurative Painting, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
Small Works, Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1984 Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin and Struve, Chicago, IL
Local Visions: Portraits, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Location: 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
The Figure Again: New Paintings and Sculpture, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Figuratively Speaking, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA
Drawing, Watercolor and Collage, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Brockton Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Student Choice Exhibit, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Inaugural Exhibition, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Boston Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1982 Issues: New Allegory I, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Contemporary Boston Portraits, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Now: Figuration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1981 Five Boston Painters, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
New Portraits, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1980 Made in Boston: Contemporary Drawing from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Four Boston Artists, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Fresh Images, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
C O L L E C T I O N S
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
Bank of Boston
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Boston Public Library
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Christian Science Church Headquarters, Boston, MA
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Portland Cathedral, Portland, ME
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Edward T. Broida Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Estabrook Foundation, Carlisle, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Fidelity Investments
Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gelco Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
Morgan Trust, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum Fund, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art
Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Salomon Brothers, New York, NY
United States State Department, Washington, DC
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Windemere Industries, Miami, FL
H O N O R S
2006 Altman Award, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2004 Distinguished Alumni Award, Boston University School if Visual Arts
2002 Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation
1988 Grant, Massachusetts State Arts Lottery
1986 Grant, Massachusetts State Arts Lottery
1984 The Engelhard Award, Engelhard Foundation, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, Artists Foundation, Cambridge, MA
AVA Award, Funded by the Equitable Life Assurance Society, The Rockefeller
Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Massachusetts State Arts
Lottery
T E A C H I N G
1988-2013 Art Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1986-2009 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2006, 2003, 1999, 1992 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1996, 1994 Art New England at Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1993-1995 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1986-1993 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1991-1992 School of the Visual Arts Graduate Dept., New York, NY
R E V I E W S
Allara, Pamela. Boston Expressionism Today, Art New England, Oct., 1984.
Baker, Kenneth. Issues: New Allegories I, ARTnews, May 1982.
Ibid. Figurative Languages, The Boston Pheonix, May 25, 1982.
Ibid. Art, The Boston Phoenix, Jan.13, 1981.
Ibid. Good Figures, The Boston Phoenix, Oct. 27, 1981.
Banks, Gail. Six Boston Artists Who Are About to Make it Big, Boston Magazine, May 1983.
Beem, Edgar Allen. Abstraction Based on Observation, Yankee Magazine Online, Dec. 2008.
Ibid. Painting the Town Together, Down East Magazine, Sept. 2005.
Brenson, Michael. Bringing Fresh Approaches to Age Old Jewish Themes, The New York
Times, Aug. 3, 1986.
Cigliano, Flavia. Primary Perceptions: Landscapes by Jon Imber, Beacon Hill Times, Nov. 2,
1999.
Ibid. Jon Imber: Between Sight & Invention, Arts Around Boston, Nov.–Dec. 1999.
Corbett, William. Chasing DeKooning, Finding Himself, ArtsMedia, Jan.-Feb. 2006.
Ibid. Painting in Boston: 1950-2000 at the DeCordova, Art New England, Oct. 2002.
Ibid. The World as Mirror: Paintings by Jon Imber, ArtsMedia, Nov-Dec. 1999.
Ibid. The Sharpness of Divided Attention: Jon Imber’s New Painting, Arts Magazine, May
1989.
Ibid. Jon Imber, Arts Magazine, Oct. 1987.
Ibid. Jon Imber, Arts Magazine, April 1985.
Day, Meredith Fife. Jon Imber: Survey of Paintings, 1978-1981, Art New England, Dec. 1990-
Jan. 1991.
Ibid. Fathers and Sons, Art New England, Feb. – March 2003.
Frank, Peter. Jill Hoy and Jon Imber, LA Weekly, Feb. 27, 2003.
Freeman, Nan. Figuratively Speaking, Art New England, June 1984.
Greenleaf, Ken. Life at the Shore: The Paintings of Jon Imber, catalogue essay, Greenhut
Galleries, Portland, ME, 2011.
Ibid. No Accidents, Portland Phoenix, Aug. 15, 2008.
Heller, Faith. SECCA Show, Winston-Salem Journal, Aug. 4, 1985.
Jacks, Shirley. Works on Paper: Leon Golub, Stephen Pace, Jon Imber, Art New England,
Oct.–Nov. 1999.
Jarmusch, Ann. Awards in the Visual Arts, ARTnews, March 1986.
Kalin, Diane. Art for Irony’s Sake, Boston Patriot Ledger, February 1984.
Keyes, Norman. Danforth Exhibits on Figures, Constructions, Boston Globe, Oct. 25, 1985.
Koloque, Norman. Four Boston Artists, Art New England, Dec. 1980.
Koslow-Miller, Francine. Jon Imber at Mid-Career, Art New England, Feb. – Mar. 1995
Leites, Edmund. Jon Imber at Victoria Munroe, Art in America, Dec. 1988.
Little, Carl. Jon Imber at Nielsen Gallery, Art in America, April 2006.
McFadden, Sarah. Report from Boston, Art in America, May 1983.
McAvoy, Suzette. Canvas, Maine Home & Design, July 2009.
McQuaid, Cate. Change-ups, The Boston Globe, Dec. 31, 2008.
Ibid. Dexterity and daring on display, The Boston Globe, April, 6, 2011.
Ibid. Landscapes, The Boston Globe, Jan. 6, 2006.
Ibid. Imber’s Bent for Self-Analysis, The Boston Globe, Oct. 23, 1999.
Ibid. Walking on the Wild Side, The Boston Globe, April 22, 2005.
Mulski, Susan. The World as Mirror: Paintings by Jon Imber, Art New England, Feb.–March
2000.
McHenry, Eric. Midcareer Retrospective Reveals Jon Imber’s Evolution, BU Bridge, Oct. 22,
1999.
McQuaid, Cate. Boston Expressionists get their due, The Boston Globe, Dec. 27, 2011.
Narrett, Eugene. Personal Imagery, Art New England, Nov. 1985.
Nemser, Alexander. The Spiral and the Source: Jon Imber’s Recent Paintings, Bomb
Magazine/Bomblog, May 17, 2013.
Nigrosh, Leon. Mind Over Matter: Imber Captures His Changing Perceptions, The Worcester
Pheonix, Feb. 13-20, 1998.
Paige, Ian. Greenhut Celebrates Portland, The Portland Phoenix, Nov. 15, 2006.
Saulnier, Bonnie. The Best of the Seventies: A Voice of Passion, Art New England, March
1980.
Silver, Joanne. Jon Imber, ARTnews, March 2006.
Ibid. The World as Mirror, The Boston Herald, Oct, 29, 1999.
Ibid. Visual Arts, The Boston Herald, April 12, 1997.
Ibid. In Brief, Boston: Jon Imber, ARTnews, Summer 1995.
Ibid. Artist Brushed up Against Human Struggle, The Boston Herald, Oct. 5, 1990.
Smee, Sebastian. Jon Imber’s nimble shifts capture life, in all its forms, The Boston Globe,
May 11, 2013.
Sozanski, Ed. Looking Beyond Manhattan for Artists of Note, Philadelphia Inquirer, March,
1980.
Stapen, Nancy. Jon Imber, ARTnews, Summer 1996.
Ibid. Guston’s Legacy Lives in his BU Students, Boston Sunday Globe, Oct. 2, 1994.
Ibid. Three Artists Talking New Paths, The Boston Globe, March 11, 1993.
Ibid. Imber’s Art Blooms into New Landscape, The Boston Herald, March 17, 1989.
Ibid. Artist Finds His Own Style, The Boston Herald, March 14, 1986.
Ibid. Jon Imber, Artforum, Sept. 1986.
Ibid. Self Images in New Exhibit at Danforth, The Boston Herald, Oct. 13, 1985.
Ibid. Jon Imber, Art New England, Dec. 1982.
Ibid. Body & Soul, Boston Magazine, May 1982.
Ibid. Boston Now: Figuration, Art New England, June 1982.
Storr, Robert. Four Boston Artsists, New Art Examiner, March 1981.
Sturman, John. Jon Imber, ARTnews, Nov. 1987.
Swan, Christpher. Cheap Chic, Christian Science Monitor, June 23, 1983.
Ibid. Portrait of the Artists, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 28, 1982.
Ibid. Searching for a Heart of Gold, Christian Science Monitor, June 17, 1982.
Ibid. The Image in Focus, Christian Science Monitor, May 13, 1982.
Smee, Sebastian. Jon Imber’s nimble shifts capture life, in all its forms, The Boston Globe,
May 11, 2013.
Tarlow, Lois. Jon Imber: Painter, Art New England, Nov. 1981.
Tate, Nick. Eyeing Time and Real Estate, Somerville Journal, May 9, 1985.
Taylor, Robert. Boston Portrait Exhibit at BU A Mixed Bag, The Boston Globe, Oct. 10, 1982.
Ibid. Images at Brandeis: Vital and Engrossing, The Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 1978.
Temin, Christine. Growing into Grandeur: Jon Imber Paintings – Quiet Work Grand
Themes, The Boston Sunday Globe, July 30, 1990.
Ibid. Jon Imber: A New Maturity, The Boston Globe, March 21, 1989.
Ibid. Allegory becomes headliners, The Boston Globe, Jan. 28, 1982.
Ibid. Homegrown Headliner, The Boston Globe, Oct. 14, 1982.
Van Siclen, Bill. Landscapes Grounded in Tradition, Providence Journal, March 14, 1994.
C A T A L O G U E S
Antonsen, Lasse. Personal Imagery: A Return to the Inquiry of the Self, Danforth Museum of
Art, Framingham, MA, 1985.
Arthur, John. Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since
1950, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1999.
Ibid. Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting & The American Tradition, Bullfinch
Press, Boston, MA, 1989.
Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern, Figurative Expressionism as Alternative
Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press, Durham, NH, 2005.
Bragen, Joan. Boston Baroque: Elements of Drama in Contemporary Art,
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1987.
Crusan, Ronald L., et al. Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg
Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2000.
Driscoll, John. The Artist and the American Landscape, First Glance Books, 1998.
Frank, Peter. Awards in the Visual Arts, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1985.
The Gettysburg Review. Jon Imber Portfolio, Gettysburg College, Autumn 2002.
Goodman, Susan Tumarkin. Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists, The Jewish
Museum, New York, NY 1986.
Imber, Jon. Phillip Guston: Teacher, Mentor and Friend, Art New England, Dec. 1994 – Jan.
1995.
Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield, et al. Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, and Umass Press, Amherst, MA, 2002.
Ibid. New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1987.
Little, Carl. Paintings of Maine: A New Selection, Down East Books, Camden, ME, 2006.
Art of the Maine Islands, Arnold Skolnick, editor. Down East Books, Camden, ME, 1997.
Master-Karnick, Paul, et al., Expressionism in Boston: 1945-1985, DeCordova Museum And
Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1986.
Open Studios Press, New American Paintings, Summer, 1996.
Ross, David et al. Boston Now: Figuration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1982.
Selected 20th Century Paintings, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Ma,
1989.
Stapen, Nancy. Jon Imber – Survey of Paintings, 1978-1989, Fitchburg Art
Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1990.
Stromberg, John. Jon Imber: World as Mirror, Retrospective of Paintings 1978-1998, 808
Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 1999.
Wolff, Theodore. New England Impressions: The Art of Printmaking, Fitchburg Art Museum,
Fitchburg, MA, 1989.
F I L M S
Film in progress, one-hour documentary by Richard Kane, 2013
Wake Up Call, in collaboration with Pooh Kaye. Shown at New England Film & Video Festival
(First Prize, Animation); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The Algerian Film Festival;
Seque Film Series, New York, NY; New England Artists’ Foundation; LA MAMA Theatre;
Jacob’s Pillow.
The Painted Princess, in collboration with Pooh Kay. Shown at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
and various other film festivals.