| Timeline |
| 1923 |
Born 27 October in Manhattan |
| 1940 |
Attends painting class at the Art
Students League over the summer; begins studies in fine arts at Ohio State University in the autumn |
| 1943 |
Drafted into U.S. Army |
| 1945 |
Enrols in history and French language classes at the Cité
Universitaire in Paris |
| 1946 |
Discharged from the army, returns to Ohio State University |
| 1949 |
Receives M.F.A. degree from Ohio State University; marries Isabel Wilson |
| 1951 |
Receives a Brooklyn Museum Purchase Award and one of his works enters the collection; first solo exhibition in Manhattan, at Carlebach
Gallery; family moves to Cleveland |
| 1957 |
Takes position as assistant professor of art at the State
University of New York at Oswego |
| 1960 |
Takes
position as assistant professor of art at Douglass College, family moves to New Jersey |
| 1963 |
First solo exhibition in Europe, at Sonnabend's gallery in
Paris |
| 1965 |
Divorces Isabel |
| 1968 |
Marries Dorothy Herzka |
| 1969 |
Begins works on films for the Art and Technology exhibition for Universal City Studios |
| 1971 |
Inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences |
| 1977 |
Receives Skowhegan Medal for Painting; awarded Doctorate of Fine Arts from California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia |
| 1979 |
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New
York
|
| 1980 |
Awarded honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Southampton College in
New York
|
| 1988 |
Receives an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from his alma mater, Ohio
State University
|
| 1989 |
Stays at the American Academy in Rome as
artist-in-residence |
| 1995 |
Receives the National Medal of Arts; receives Kyoto Prize from Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1996 |
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from George
Washington University in Washington, D.C.
|
| 1997 |
Dies 29 September from complications due to pneumonia |
