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