biografia di Victor CANDELL (1903-1977)

Birth place: Budapest, Hungary

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: privately in Budapest; Paris; NYC

Exhibited: Carnegie Internationals; WMAA annuals (purchase award, 1952); Artist as Reporter Exhib., MoMA, 1940 (second prize); WMA, 1945; Albany Inst. Hist. & A., 1945; Audubon A., 1945; NAD, 1945; Everhart Mus. A., Scranton, Pa., 1944 (solo); Brooklyn, NY, 1946; PAFA, 1947-66; Corcoran Gal., 1947-61; Chicago Graphic Int.; Am.-French Art Exchange Exhib., Galerie Jean Bucher, Paris, 1954; UNESCO sponsored European tour of Am. painting, 1956-57; Silvermine New Eng. Show, 1968 (prize); Grand Central Art Gal., NYC, 1970s.

Member: AEA (dir.); fel. Edward MacDowell Art Colony; life fel., Int. Acad. Arts & Lett.; Am. Assn. Univ. Prof.; Audubon Artists (dir.).

Work: MMA; Clark Fund, WMAA; CGA; CI; Krannert Mus, Urbana, Ill.; U.S. Gov.; BMA; Children's Hospital, Schenectady, NY. Commissions: Outdoor mural, Govt. Iraq, NYWF, 1939.

Comments: Positions: adv., Marquis Biog. Libr. Soc., 1968-; trustee, Provincetown Art Assn., 1971-. Teaching: instr. painting, Brooklyn Mus. Sch. Art, 1946-54; instr. painting, Cooper Union, 1954-68; co-dir. & instr., Provincetown Workshop, 1958-; asst. prof. painting, New York Univ., 1969-70s.

Sources: WW73; WW47Falk, PAFA, vol. 3