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.

## Maŋmaŋa yɛltɔɣa

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.

## 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 Lovin*g 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
 
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
 
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
*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
*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
*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
**[https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2012.167/ 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