CHRONOLOGY

Born, Vitebsk, Russia

Family moves to Jamaica, Long Island

Training at the National Academy of Design under portraitist Ivan G. Olinsky

First one-man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery, NYC, where Mark Tobey and Mark Rothko were also introduced

Formation of the group “The Ten” at Solman's studio, including Rothko, Gottlieb, Ben-Zion, Bolotowsky and others

Worked in the easel division of the WPA Arts Project

First show of “The Ten”, Montross Gallery, New York

Exhibition of "Les Dix", Galerie Bonaparte, Paris

Second show of “The Ten”, Montross, New York

"Recent Oils - Joseph Solman”, Another Place Gallery, New York

Editor-in-Chief, Art Front Magazine

“Whitney Dissenters” (The Ten), Mercury Galleries, New York

Becomes a member of J.B. Neumann's New Art Circle which includes Beckman, Chagall, Grosz, Klee, Knaths, and Weber

Three-man show with Gromaire and Rothko at the Neumann-Willard Gallery, New York

"Recent Paintings - Joseph Solman", Bonestell Gallery, New York

Retrospective at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

One-man show at A.C.A. Gallery, New York

Solman writes the catalogue forward for Alice Neel’s ACA exhibition

Solman joins the A.C.A. Gallery, New York

Instructor of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York

International Association of Plastic Arts travelling show of 75 contemporary Americans throughout Europe

“31 American Contemporary Artists”, A.C.A. Gallery, New York (Group exhibition)

National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for painting

President, Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors

Instructor of Painting and Drawing, City College of New York

One-man exhibit of recent portraits at the A.C.A. Gallery, NYC

Childe Hassam Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

First Exhibition of monotypes, Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York

Saltus Gold Medal and Ranger Fund Purchase of oil at National Academy of Design, New York

Childe Hassam Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

Maynard and Neilson Portrait Awards at the National Academy of Design, New York

Maynard and Neilson Portrait Awards at the National Academy of Design, New York

One-man show of oils and monotypes at the A.C.A. Gallery, New York

“New Deal for Art”, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York (Group exhibition)

Thomas R. Proctor Prize ($500), National Academy of Design, New York

Retrospective of work of the thirties at A.C.A. Gallery and A.M.A. Adler Fine Arts, New York

"Joseph Solman: Paintings", sixty works at the Wichita Art Museum, KS

"Joseph Solman's New York: 50 Years of Painting, 1934-1984" at Robert Brown Contemporary Art, Washington,D.C.

Portrait of “Chrystal” wins Maynard Portrait Prize at the National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition

"Joseph Solman - Portraits - A Fifty Year Survey", A.C.A. Gallery, NY

"Joseph Solman - Paintings from 1929 to 1949", Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston

"Joseph Solman's Portraits from the 60's", Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston

Joseph Solman's Mozartiana is published by Random House

"Joseph Solman's Mozart", Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston

"Retrospective of Works on Paper", Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

”Joseph Solman: A Retrospective of Portraits from 1929-1994", Mercury  Gallery, Boston, MA

"Celebrating Sixty-Five Years Of Painting & The Publication Of A New Book", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

“Joseph Solman - Paintings and Gouaches”, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.

"Monotypes and Related Works on Paper", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

"Twentieth-Century Still-Life Paintings from The Phillips Collection”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

"Paintings from 1935-1996", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

"Joseph Solman at 89”, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"The Ten: The Birth of the American Avant-garde", Mercury Gallery, Boston

"Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

"Joseph Solman at 90 - Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings”, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.

"Works on Paper", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA (Group Exhibition)

"A Retrospective of Works from 1932 - 1999”, Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

"A Retrospective of Works from 1932 - 1999”, Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA

"A Painter Rediscovered”, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Portrait Retrospective and Subway Riders", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

"Monotypes and Early Works on Paper”, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"City Life”, Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA (Group Exhibition)

"Joseph Solman: Cape Ann Diary”, Mercury Gallery, Rockport, MA

"Two of The Ten: Adolph Gottlieb and Joseph Solman", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA

"American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920s - 1950s”. Traveling exhibition to OH, IL, NY and MA

"Joseph Solman: Works 1934 - 2003”, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Joseph Solman of The Ten”, Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Seventy Years of Painting", Six Chapel Row, Bath, England

"Transportation", Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA (Group Exhibition)

Dies on April 16 in New York, New York.

"Transit Sketches”, New York Transit Museum, New York, New York (Group Exhibition)

"Art For the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection”, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (Group Exhibition)