John Leavey

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    Biography

    Lectures:

    From 2003 to 2010, John Leavey gave a series of illustrated lectures on Art History at the Clark Art Institute, Berkshire Community College, and Hancock Shaker Village for the adult organization, The Osher Lifetime Learning Institute (OLLI), as follows:

    Four lectures on “Aspects of Italian Renaissance Painting: The Trecento to the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome”

    Four lectures on “French and Other European Painting, 1700 to 1850.”

    Three lectures, as a guest speaker, as part of the course, “Visit Mantua/Visitate Mantova”: Mantegna’s “Camera degli Sposi” Ruben’s “Marie de’Medici Cycle at the Louvre” Antico’s “Neo-Platonism and the Paschal Candelabrum”

    An illustrated lecture on: “Arthur Pope’s Venetian Pictorial Mode of Representation- Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese.”

    Facilitator for six slide lectures on Renaissance Art by The Teaching Company.

    Teaching Experience:

    Painting, Seamen’s Church Institute, NYC, 1967-1968
    Art History, The International Club, Rome, Italy, 1971
    Painting, Drawing, and Art History, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy, 1972
    Painting and Drawing, Studio 7A, Via Orti d’Alibert, Rome, Italy, 1972 to 1976
    Workshop and Lecture, “The Perfect Squint: The Teaching Legacy of Edwin Dickinson” (filmed as a video), Spring Studio, NYC, 2003 and 2005
    Landscape Painting, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, 2000 to 2003

    As a member of the United Scenic Artists of America, John Leavey painted scenery for The Metropolitan Opera (NYC), The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, The Cincinnati Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, Houston Ballet, and numerous productions of the Papermill Playhouse of New Jersey.

    He is a member of The Art Students League, The Audubon Artists, The Allied Artists of America, and The United Scenic Artists of America. He is included in “Who’s Who in American Art,” and in “Who’s Who in America.”

    John Leavey is a Fellow of The American Academy in Rome (F.A.A.R.). He has been on the Board of Governors of the Faculty Club of Williams College, Williamstown, MA, from 2003 to the present.

    Education:

    Art Students League, New York, New York 1955-1961, where he studied with Edwin Dickinson, George Grosz, and Robert Beverly Hale

    Awards:

    Art Students League Award – Audubon Artists, 1998
    R.B. McNeely Memorial Award, Audubon Artists, 1994
    Benjamin Altman Prize (figure), National Academy of Design, 1988
    Prix de Rome, Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship in Mural Painting to the American Academy in Rome, 1969-1970 and 1970-1971
    Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in Painting, 1965
    Robert Ward Johnson Scholarship, Art Students League, 1961

    Solo Exhibitions:

    Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT 2007
    Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, 1996, 1998, 2005
    Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1989
    St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy, 1974
    Agostino Gallery, Rome, Italy, 1974
    United States Information Service, Rome, Italy, 1973
    American Academy in Rome, Italy, 1972
    Seamens Church Institute, New York, NY, 1969
    Columbia University, New York, NY, 1965

    Group Exhibitions: 

    Allied Artists of America Inc, New York, NY, 2011
    Prince St. National Competition, New York, NY, 2011
    Studio 21 South, North Adams, MA, 2010
    Evolution of a Gallery, Blue Mountain, New York, NY, 2010
    Southern Vermont Artists Fall Competition, Manchester, VT, 1995-1998, 2000, 2010
    White Snow Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, 2009
    Hudson Gallery, Williamstown, MA, 2009-2010
    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 2007-2009
    Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA, 2000-2004
    Elm Street Gallery, Manchester, VT, 2001-2002
    Stanford Smiths Works on Paper, New York, NY, 1997
    Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1997
    Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, 1997
    Allegory Exhibition, Blue Mountain, New York, NY, 1997
    Springfield MA Museum of Art, 5 Landscape Painters, Springfield, MA, 1997
    Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY, 1997
    Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1997
    An American in Italy, Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, MA, 1996
    Zone One Invitational, Asheville, NC, 1996
    Gallery 84, National Competition, New York, NY, 1995
    First Street Gallery National Competition, New York, NY, 1995
    Southern Vermont Artists Winter Competition, Manchester, VT, 1995-1997
    Spring Studio, New York, NY, 1995, 2003,2009
    Atelier A/E, New York, NY, 1994-1998
    Southern Vermont Art Center Collectors Gallery, 1995-1998
    Audubon Artists, New York, NY, 1994-2008
    Southern Vermont Artists Annual, 1994-2008
    Water Mill Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1992
    National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1963, 1978, 1988, 1990
    Grand Central Gallery, New York, NY, 1988-1989
    Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, 1980-1982, 1984-1989, 1990-1998, 2000-2011
    Prince Street Invitational, New York, NY, 1985
    Organization of Independent Artists, 1981
    Country Art Gallery Locust Valley, N.Y 1977
    Forum Gallery, New York, NY, 1973
    American Academy in Rome, 1970-1971
    Agistino Gallery, Rome, Italy, 1974-1976
    Gallery 88, Rome, Italy, 1971-1976
    Gallery Schneider, Rome, Italy, 1970-1976
    Harbor Gallery, Long Island, NY, 1965-1967
    Allied Artists, New York, NY, 1961

    Collections:

    The Lila Acheson Wallace Collection at Readers Digest Headquarters Pleasantville, NY
    Pfizer Collection NYC, NY
    Hirschhorn Collection,  Washington D.C.
    Walter Yetknof, New York, NY
    Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
    Museo della Citta da Roma, Rome, Italy
    Luciano Sansoni, Rome, Italy
    Mrs. Payne Whitney Middleton, New York, Rome
    Mr. and Mrs. Lino Caiola, New York, Rome, Zurich

    Murals:

    American Academy in Rome
    Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh, New York, NY

    Represented by:

    Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY