Emilio Sanchez
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Born in Camaguey, Cuba 1921, d.1999
Education
1944 Art Students League
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 The Caribbean, Collins, Lefebvre, Stoneberger Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2006 Abstracciones Arquitectonicas, Latin Collector Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Doral Bank, New York, New York
2005 Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Library, Miami, Florida
2004 ACA Galleries, New York, New York
2004 The Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, Connecticut
2002 Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida
2000 Krasdale Galleries, Bronx and White Plains, New York
2000 Polka Dot Playhouse Gallery, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1998 Eagle National Bank/Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1997 Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida
1994 Elite Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida
1992 Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall, Florida
1991 Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
1990 Park Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1988 Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
1987 Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1985 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
ACA Galleries, New York, New York
The Gallery at 24, Miami, Florida
1984 The Gallery at 24, Miami, Florida
1983 ACA Galleries, New York, New York
The Gallery at 24, Miami, Florida
1982 Museo la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1981 Associated American Artists, New York, New York
1980 The Gallery at 24/Pagoda Gallery at Ransom-Everglades, Miami, Florida
S.G. Matthews Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1979 The Gallery at 24, Miami, Florida
S.G. Matthews Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1978 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1977 Harriet Griffin Gallery, New York, New York
Miami-Dade Public Library Print Show, Miami, Florida
Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia
1976 Museo Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Galería Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1975 Harriet Griffin Gallery, New York, New York
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York
Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York
Galería Doble Ele, Valencia, Spain
Galería Lucas, Valencia & Gandia, Spain
Centro de Arte Actual Pereira, Colombia
1974 Museo la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York
Museo del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1973 Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York
Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia
1972 Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
1971 Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York
Coe Kerr, Gallery, New York, New York
Associated American Artists, New York, New York
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1970 Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1968 Zegri Gallery, New York, New York
Galería Colibri, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Associated American Artists, New York, New York
1967 Zella Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana Gallery, Houston, Texas
1966 Contemporaries Gallery, New York, New York
1965 Galería Colibri, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1964 Galería Fortuny, Madrid, Spain
1961 Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut
1959 Lyceum, Havana, Cuba
1958 Zegri Gallery, New York, New York
Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1956 Peridot Gallery, New York, New York
Lyceum, Havana, Cuba
1955 Tucker Gallery, Miami, Florida
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
1953 Ferargil Gallery, New York, New York
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
Ateneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1951 Ferargil Gallery, New York, New York
Ateneo Español, Mexico City, Mexico
1949 Joseph Luyber Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 A Well-Kept Secret: 40 Years of Collecting at Miami Dade College, Miami Dade College Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Abstraction: Presence of Cuban Painters in New York (1950s-1970s), Latin Collector Gallery, New York, New York
A Sense of Space: Cuban Artists and Architecture, Cuba Art NY, New York, New York
Pan American Art, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York
2005 New York Views in the Viewing Room, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Art of the Print, Organization of American States Museum, Washington, DC
2004 Hope and Glory: The Enduring Legacy of Oscar B. Cintas, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
2003 Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio,New York, New York
2001 ACA Galleries, New York, New York
1999 Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
1998 Lejos de Cuba, Aix-en-Provence, France
Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, New York
1997 In the Country, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, New York
1996 Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, New York
1994 The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
The Center for American Art, New York, New York
1993 Cuban Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Art in Embassies Program, Havana, Cuba
Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
Spice of Life, Krasdale Galleries, Bronx, New York
Miami, Miami, Florida
1991 Traffic Jam, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1990 Image Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Armory Shows, New York, New York
1989 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
Artists of the Americas, Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988 Latin American Spirit in America, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
New York Pictures, John Szoke Gallery, New York, New York
Images of the Bronx, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, New York
Latin American Print Biennial, Mocha, New York
1987 ACA Galleries, New York, New York
Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Satellite Show, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, New York
Outside Cuba, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey/Univeristy of Miami, Miami, Florida (Traveling exhibition to various venues)
Introductions 1987-88, Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Pitney Bowes Headquarters, Stanford, Connecticut
1986 Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
Bienal, Cali, Colombia
Bionayel Galeria de Arte, Santo Domingo
1985 Triennial, Grenchen, Switzerland
1983 Sexta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Urban Documents, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, New York
1982 Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Opening Group Exhibition, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, New York
Prints of the Seventies from the Permanent Collection, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Prints America, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown
1981 Quinta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Latin American Paintings and Drawings at Vizcaya, Miami, Florida
1980 Paperwork, Ellis Gallery, New York, New York
Realism in Latin American Painting, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Miami, Florida
Latin American Artists, Sutton Gallery, New York, New York
Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami, Florida (Cuban Flag)
The Sun in Art, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
Lumley-Cazalet Gallery, London, England (Various Print Exhibitions)
1979 Cuarta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1978 Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Latin American Artists, Great Neck Public Library, Great Neck, New York
Edward J. Brown Studio and Associates, New York, New York
1977 Latin American Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
Lines of Vision, John & Barbara Duncan, Collection of Drawings, Center for Inter- American Relations, New York, New York
Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Miami, Florida
1976 Latin American Artists, Sarasota Museum, Sarasota, Florida
1975 By the Sea, Associated American Artists, New York, New York
1974 De Mers Gallery, Harbour Town
Tercera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico (First Prize, “Garden Wall”)
Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
Latin American Prints in the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1973 Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Bienal, Cali, Colombia
1972 Latin American Graphics, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York
Latin American Artists in American Collections, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York
Tercera Bienal de Arte Coltejar, Medellin, Colombia
Windows & Doors, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York
Segunda Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1971 Pan American Art Festival, Cali, Colombia
1970 New Jersey State Museum Color Print Annual (David Kaplan Purchase Award)
Bienal de Arte Coltejar, Medellin, Colombia
Primera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Color Prints of the Americas, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Group Shows, Jan Kugère Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1969 Bienal, Cali, Colombia
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (First Prize, Eyre Medal)
1968 Inter-American Graphics Biennial, Santiago, Chile
Listening to Pictures, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
52 Printmakers Contributing to the 1966 UNICEF Calendar, Print Exhibition by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Indoors and Outdoors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (Drawing Exhibition by Curator A. Hyatt Mayor)
1965 Salute to 1965, Benefit Exhibition for the Pratt Graphic Center, Pan Am Building, New York, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1962 Birmingham Art Festival, Organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1960 Various Group Shows: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Madrid, Spain; Galeria Sudamericana, New York, New York; Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1956 American Prints, Cork Street Gallery, London, England
1955 Print Group Shows, Contemporaries Gallery, New York, New York
1950 Print Group Exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group Shows in Havana, Cuba (mostly at the Lyceum Gallery)
1949 Inez Amor Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Mizrachi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Works in Museums and Private Collections
AT&T Art Collection, Warren, New Jersey
Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
The Century Foundation, New York, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, Miami, FL
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Krasdale Foods, White Plains, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
J P Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo Nacional, Havana Cuba
Museo la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Organization of American States, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
R J Reynolds, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) was born into one of Cuba’s most prominent families, much of his schooling was in the United States and in the 1940s studied at the Art Students League in New York. He traveled extensively throughout the world, often visiting his mother and stepfather in Mexico and returning to Cuba for extended stays, but by the early 1950s he had chosen New York City as his home.
A prolific, talented, recognized artist, Sanchez never embraced the type of abstraction identified with the New York School. With their precise line and rich palette, his renderings of colonial archways and houses, architecture from the Caribbean to North Africa, and such New York scenes as Bronx street signs and Chelsea warehouses recall the modernist approach to vernacular subject matter used by a generation of great American artists who emerged in the 1920s, among them Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Sanchez broadened this uniquely American terrain.
Yet he shares with such contemporary Cuban artists as Agustin Fernandez, Carmen Herrera, Zilia Sanchez, and Hugo Consuegra a formal vision that integrates aspects of representational art and geometric abstraction. His preoccupation with architecture, the history of modernism, and the investigation of utopian ideologies also resonates with the work of a more recent generation of Cuban artists- Alexander Arrechea, Carlos Garaicoa, and the collective Los Carpinteros.
Ann Koll