Alvin D. Loving

Alvin D. Loving Jr. (September 19, 1935 – June 21, 2005), ka niriba lahi booni o Al Loving, o daa nyɛla African-American peenta-peenta. Ka o peentiri ni peenta ko'balibu.

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Alvin Demar Loving Jr. nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Anashaara goli September 19, 1935, tiŋa yuli booni Detroit, Michigan. Loving daa deei BFA shɛhira gbaŋ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign yuuni 1963 ni MFA shɛhira gbaŋ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ŋun daa lɛri o baŋsim University of Michigan n daa nyɛ Al Mullen, ŋun daa sɔŋ o ka o kpe "Once Group organization" ni. Yuuni 1968 Loving daa kuli New York City,  ka daa be Hotel Chelsea.Nykolak, Jenevieve. "Al Loving" , National Gallery of Art, Retrieved 4 January 2019.

Exhibition history

Solo exhibitions
Alvin Loving tum tumanima pam o ni daa be biɛhigu ni.

Alvin Loving at the Gertrude Kasle Gallery in Detroit (June 15 – July 7, 1969), Alvin Loving: Paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (December 19, 1969 – January 25, 1970), Alvin Loving at William Zierler, Inc. in New York (March 11 – April 1, 1973), at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977), Al Loving: Departures at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (February 23 – June 9, 1986), Al Loving: Maker of Art at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. (April 10 – June 15, 1991), Al Loving: Material Abstraction at June Kelly Gallery in New York (November 5 – December 1, 1992), Al Loving in the Nineties: The Collaged Wallworks at the Fine Arts Center Galleries of the University of Rhode Island (January 21 – March 8, 1997), Al Loving: Detwiller Visiting Artist at the Art Gallery of the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (February 6 – March 1, 1998), Al Loving: Color Constructs at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College in New York, (September 27, 1998 – January 24, 1999), Al Loving: Elegant Ideas at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Michigan (April 30 – June 4, 1999), Al Loving: Lighter Than Air at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago (September 9 – October 29, 2004), Al Loving: Affirmations of Life at the Kenkeleba House in New York (December 6, 2005 – January 11, 2006), Al Loving: Torn Canvas at the Gary Snyder Gallery in New York (November 8 – December 29, 2012), Al Loving at the Garth Greenan Gallery in New York (May 21—June 27, 2015), Spiral Play: Loving in the '80s at Art+Practice in Los Angeles (April 22 – July 29, 2017) and at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 18, 2017 – April 15, 2018), Space, Time, Light  at Garth Greenan Gallery, NY ()ct 25- Dec 21, 2018, Al Loving: Empreor's Clothing at Garth Greenan Gallery in NY (March 24- May 7, 2022.

Group exhibitions
1968
Afro-American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts
National Acrylic Show, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

1969
Afro-American Art After 1950, Brooklyn College Art Gallery, City University of New York
5+1, Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, October 16–November 8; Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, November 12–23  curated by Frank Bowling

1970
Lamp Black: African-American Artists, New York and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19–June 23
L’art vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France, July 16–September 30

1971
Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6–May 16
The De Luxe Show, DeLuxe Theatre, Houston, August 15–September 12

1972
1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19

1973
1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 10–March 18

1975
Image, Color, and Form: Recent Paintings by Eleven Americans, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, January 12–February 9
34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 22–April 6
Selected Works from the Dillard Collection: An Exhibition of Works on Paper from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, April 15–May 18

1977
'75, ’76, ’77: Painting, Part I, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York, February 19–March 10; American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, April–May; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, June–July

1979
Another Generation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

1981
Afro-American Abstraction, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July 1–August 30

1982
Color, Material, Form: Bowling, Loving, Mohr, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 9–February 14

1983
Seven American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, January 11–February 13
New Work, New York: Newcastle Salutes New York, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, October 8–November 4

1984–1985
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1984 – November 1, 1985

1985
Recent Acquisitions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

1987
New York, New Venue, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 10–May 31

1989
The Appropriate Object: Maren Hassinger, Richard Hunt, Oliver Jackson, Alvin Loving, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, John Scott, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, March 5–April 23

1990
Legacies: African-American Artists, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, September 16–October 27

1991
The Search for Freedom: African-American Abstract Painting, 1945–1975, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, May 19–July 14

2000
An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 5–April 16"An Exuberant Bounty" , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Retrieved 4 January 2019.

2002
Six American Masters, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, May 17–June 27
No Greater Love: Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, September 12–October 12

2003
Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the Late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 8–April 27

2004
Something to Look Forward to, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 26–June 27

2005
The Chemistry of Color: African-American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970–1990, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 11–April 10

2006
Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964–1980, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 5–July 2
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 29–September 3

2006–2007
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, August 6–October 15, 2006; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2006 – January 21, 2007; National Academy Museum, New York, February 13–April 22

2008–2009
New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 16, 2008 – March 2, 2009

2009
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949–1978, Seattle Art Museum, June 25–September 7

2011
Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection, 1934–2001, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 19–November 27

2012
Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 7–November 25

2015
New Acquisitions, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, February 11–June 7
America Is Hard to See,  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 1–September 27"America Is Hard to See", Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrieved 4 January 2019.

2016
Marrakech Biennale 6, Morocco, February 24–May 8

2019

 Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 8, 2019–February 9, 2020
 Collection Ensemble, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2–present
Pattern, crime & Decoration, Le Consortium, France, Dijon.

Collections
Loving's work can be found in prominent collections in America, including the following:
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Convention Center  Philadelphia, PA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas"Cube", Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Retrieved 4 January 2018.
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Detroit Institute of Arts
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Library of Congress, Print Division
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Museum of African-American Art, Detroit
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"Cube 27", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
Newark Museum, New Jersey
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Philadelphia Museum of Art"Al Loving" , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Retrieved 4 January 2019.
Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Tucson Museum of Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 Notable artworks in permanent collections 
Rational Irrationalism (1969) Whitney Museum of American Art
Cube 27 (1970) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Untitled #32 (ca. 1975) Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
Perpetual Motion (1994) York College, City University of New York

Kundivihira

External links
NY Times obituary
LA Times obituary
www.alvinloving.com

Category:1935 births
Category:2005 deaths
Category:20th-century African-American painters
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:21st-century African-American artists
Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:American abstract painters
Category:American male painters
Category:Painters from Detroit
Category:University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts alumni
Category:University of Michigan alumni
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