Joseph McGurl
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2008 EXHIBITIONS:

Tree's Place Gallery
Orleans, MA





Recent Paintings
October 2 - October 25, 2008
Hammer Galleries
New York, NY
  American Society of Marine Artists
30th Anniversary Exhibit
May 16 - July 6, 2008
Chase Center on the Riverfront
Wilmington, DE
July 25 - September 22, 2008
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
St. Michaels, MD
October 13, 2008 - February 22, 2009
Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville, NJ
March 3 - May 2, 2009
Spartanburg Art Museum
Spartanburg, SC
June 7 - September 5, 2009
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford, MA


PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS:

American Society of Marine Artists 30th Anniversary Exhibit 2008-2009

The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA -- A Sense of Place: Location Studies by Joseph McGurl -- 2004

Vose Galleries, Boston, MA -- Realism Now -- 2004

Daughery Gallery, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI -- America Seen -- 2004

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA -- Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke -- 2002

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY -- Re-presenting Representation V -- 2002

Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY -- Re-presenting Representation West -- 2002

Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA -- Contemporary Artists Paint Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra -- 2001
                                                            California Art Club Invitational Show -- 2001
                                                            Sea to Shining Sea: A Reflection of America 2004 to 2007

St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA -- Joseph McGurl Retrospective, Paintings from the Past Decade -- 1999

Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA -- Evolutionary Realism, Landscapes by Joseph McGurl -- 1997

Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI -- Lost Landscapes -- 1991

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA -- Copley Masters 1991 and New England Realist Artists -- 1989

GALLERY SHOWS:
Hammer Galleries, New York, NY, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2002
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005, 2002, 2000
Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1989
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY and Washington, DC, 1997, 1996, 1995
Robert Wilson Galleries, Nantucket, MA, 1996
Alfred J. Walker Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1991
Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA, 1988



MAGAZINES:
American Art Collector -- 2006
American Artist -- 2009, 2002, 1999, 1998
American Artist: Landscape Highlights Collector's Edition -- 2005
American Artist Workshop -- Spring 2007
A-Plus Art Antiques Design -- 1996
Art Ideas, American Renaissance for Twenty First Century -- 1998
Boston Globe -- 1991
Cape Cod and Islands Home -- 2001
Cape Cod Life -- 2000, 1997
Cape Cod Magazine -- 2001
Cape Cod View -- January 2006
Fine Art Connoisseur -- October 2008, Spring 2006
The Review -- 1989
Sea History -- Autumn 2000
University of New Hampshire Magazine -- Spring 2006



BOOKS:
THE ART OF MONHEGAN ISLAND, Little and Skolnick
ART OF THE STATE, MASSACHUSETTS, Harris and Lyon
THE ARTIST AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, Driscoll and Skolnick
BOUND FOR BLUE WATER, Jinishian
CREATIVE OIL PAINTING, Doherty
VISIONS IN GRANITE, LaFleur and Nelson

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