Robert Jordan
American Painter
1925 - 1993
Education and Military Service
Master of Arts
Art History & Studio Art (Painting)
Columbia University, New York, NY
1952
Bachelor of Arts
Sociology
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1950
Sergeant, Army Air Corps (Purple Heart)
445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, England
(Prisoner of War, November 1944 - April 1945)
1943-45
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1943
Solo Exhibitions
2005 - 2006
“A Sense of Place: The Paintings of Robert Jordan”
Watkins Gallery
Northampton, MA
1998
“Robert Jordan: A Retrospective”
Creiger-Dane Gallery
Boston, MA
1996
“Robert Jordan Retrospective”
Capricorn Galleries
Bethesda, MD
1995
“Southwestern Works”
The Upstairs Gallery
Tryon, NC
Mount Washington Valley Arts Association
North Conway, NH
1994
“Retrospective & Last Works”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Mt. Washington Valley Arts Association
North Conway, NH
1993
Betty Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College
Black Mt., NC
The Upstairs Gallery
Tryon, NC
1983-1991 (five shows)
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
1980
Creiger Sesen Gallery
Boston, MA
Capricorn Gallery
Bethesda, MD
1978
Martin Schweig Gallery
St. Louis, MO
1977
FAR Gallery
New York, NY
Edward Hopper House
Nyack, NY
1976
FAR Gallery
New York, NY
1964-1975 (six shows)
Martin Schweig Gallery
St. Louis, MO
1974
FAR Gallery
New York, NY
2010 - present
2010 - present
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
“Artists of the White Mountains”
Jackson Historical Society
Jackson, NH
1997
“Seasons and Regions”
The Southern Vermont Arts Center
Manchester, VT
1992-93
“The New Whitney Dissenters”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Anchorage, AK
Rockford College art Gallery
Rockford, IL
Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg, MA
1992
“A Return to the Country”
Sherry French Gallery
Palm Beach, FL
1991-92
“Collectors’ Choice”
Center for the Arts
Vero Beach, FL
The Arkansas Arts Center
Little Rock, AR
1990-92
“Illumination and Radiance: Epiphanies in Contemporary Painting”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
The University of Oklahoma Museum of the Southwest
Midland, TX Rahr-West Art Museum
Manitowoc, WI
1991
“The Eternal Male: Ares and Pluto”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition II: Gallery and Invited Artists”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
1990-91
“New Work, New Talent”
Cumberland Gallery
Nashville, TN
1990
“Group Show”
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
“Site Specific”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
“Waiting for Cadmium”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
1989-90
“Trains & Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Roberson Center for the Arts
Binghamton, NY
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
Evansville Museum of Arts
Evansville, IN
Noyes Museum
Oceanville, NJ
1989
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE
Somerville Manning Gallery
Greenville, DE
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Members Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
“The Landscape Observed”
The Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
1988
“Contemporary Landscape Show“
Cumberland Gallery
Nashville, TN
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
“Charged! Places and Things”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum
Wichita, KS
1987
“Night Life/Night Life”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
“Spectrum Auction”
Hunter Museum of Art
Chattanooga, TN
“National Invitational Drawings Exhibition”
The Arkansas Art Center
Little Rock, AR
“Boundless Realism: Contemporary Landscape of the West”
The Rockwell Museum
Corning, NY
“Self-Portraits: The Message, The Material”
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
The Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
1986
“Plein Air”
Bank of Boston
Boston, MA
“Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape: 1960-1985”
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
New York Academy of Art
New York, NY
“Still Life: Life that is Still”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
1985
“Gallery Artists: On Paper”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
“Night Lights”
Taft Museum
Cincinnati, OH
“Nocturnal Images”
The Payne Gallery, Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA
“The Figure in the Landscape”
Artists Choice Museum
New York, NY
1984
“Group Show”
Jerald Malberg Gallery
Charlotte, NC
“Mood In Landscape”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
“Night Lights”
Dart Gallery
Chicago, IL
“Romantic Paintings”
Tracy Garet Gallery
New York, NY
“Recent Works: Paintings and Sculpture from the Sherry French Gallery” Arts Signature Gallery
Tulsa, OK
1983
“Gallery and Invited Artists”
Sherry French Gallery
New York, NY
1980
“Images in Landscape: The Last Decade”
University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
1978
“Images of the Land”
William Sawyer Gallery
San Francisco, CA
“Southern New England Invitational Exhibition”
Fairfield, CT
Niblack Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
Munson Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1976-78
“America 1976” (Bicentennial Exhibition, U.S. Dept. of Interior)
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT
Fogg Art Museum
Cambridge, MA
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Milwaukee Art Center
Milwaukee, WI
The Fort Worth Art Museum
Fort Worth, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
The High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY
1977
“Midyear Show”
Butler Institute
Youngstown, OH
1973
“A Sense of Place”
Joslyn Museum
Omaha, NE
1972
“American Landscape 1972”
Boston University
Boston, MA
1970
“The New Landscape”
Moore College
Philadelphia, PA
1969
“Seven Decades”
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
Andover, MA
“Nostalgia and the American Artist”
American Federation of the Arts
New York, NY (Traveling Exhibition)