Education:
1935-40 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois B.A., M.A.
1935-39 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois--Part Time
1947 Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Teaching:
1940-41 Instructor, Art History and Painting, Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri
1941-42
1945-46 Assistant Professor, Art History and Painting, University of
Texas, Austin Texas
1947-51 Associate Professor, Painting University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1952-54 Associate Professor, Painting, University of California, Berkley,
California
1958 Lecturer, Art History, Cooper Union,
New York, New York
1965 Visiting Critic, Yale University
Graduate School, Yale University
New Haven Connecticut
1970 Guest Artist and Critic, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Awards
1937 North Chicago Artists Exhibit, Evanston
Illinois
First Prize
1947 Pepsi-cola Exhibition, New York, New York
Purchase Prize
1948 Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Purchase Prize
1949 Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Six States Biennial," Purchase Prize
1953 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
California
"American Painting," Swift Award
1960 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
"Second Biennial," Honorable Mention
1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award
Other Accomplishments:
1952 Delegate to UNESCO
1954-59 Editor and Publisher, "Contemporary Slides", New
York, New York
1959-73 Research and Programming Director Sandak, Inc New York,New
York
Catalogued Exhibitions:
Artists of the 1950's
Saturday, April 19, 1997 - Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, East 65th Street, New York, New York 10021
1974 "Three Iowans" (Morris, Ohlson,
Parker) University of Iowa Art Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
1955 Organized the Exhibition "Vanguard 1955"
for the walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1954 Since 1954 has shown frequently in Biennials of the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1954,1956,1957)
1954 "61st American Exhibition", The Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Born
January 17, 1918