Bio

John A. Parks

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

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Solo Exhibitions

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Selected Group Exhibitions

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Collections

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
• Royal College of Art, London, UK.
• Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
• Numerous private collections.

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Selected Reviews and Articles on the Work

• “There’s One in Every Crowd.” Interview with the artist by Steve Heller. Print Magazine’s Daily Heller, April 8, 2015.
• Feature article in ArteFuse, April 2, 2015.
• Review by Roberta Smith, New York Times, December 13, 2012.
• Profile on New York Review of Books blog, November 2012.
• Feature article on the artist’s teaching, Workshop Magazine, Winter 2006.
• Feature-length article on the artist’s work, Passport Magazine, Winter 2005.
• In-depth interview, Pulse Magazine, June 2005.
• Review by John Goodrich, New York Sun, June 2005.
• Feature article with reproductions by Jane Cottingham, American Artist, May 1992.
• “John Parks at Allan Stone.” ArtSpeak, February 1984.
• Review by John Russell, New York Times, May 30, 1982.
• Review, Arts Magazine, September and November 1978.

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Grants and Fellowships

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Commissions

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Selected Published Writing

Books

Book Chapters

• The Portrait as Illustration. In Teaching as Illustration, ed. Stephen Heller and Marshall Arisman. Allworth Press, 2007, pp. 131–134.
• Training Illustrators: The View from the Trenches. In The Education of the Illustrator, ed. Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman. Allworth Press, 2000, pp. 106–113.

Periodicals (Selected)

• Philip Pearlstein: The Late Work. Feature interview with the artist at 90. The Artists Magazine, April 2015.
• The Drawings of Edward Sorel. Feature and interview with Ed Sorel. Drawing Magazine, Fall 2013.
• The Renaissance Portrait: Donatello to Bellini. Feature on the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. American Artist, November 2012.
• Black Mountain College. Feature. American Artist, September 2012.
• The World As Goya Saw It. Feature. American Artist, June 2012.
• Renoir and Degas. Cover story. American Artist, March 2012.
• Around the World in Watercolor 1860–1920. Feature on the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Watercolor Magazine, Winter 2012.
• The Art of the American Twenties. Feature on the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. American Artist, November 2011.
• The Tradition and Techniques of Spanish Master Diego Velázquez. Feature. Workshop Magazine, Summer 2011.
• Paul Resika: A Painter’s Painter. Feature. American Artist, July/August 2011.
• Money and Beauty in Renaissance Florence. Feature. American Artist, June 2011.
• Heatwaves in the Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield. Feature. American Artist, August 2010.
• Agnolo Bronzino: The Drawings of an Italian Master. Feature. Drawing Magazine, Winter 2010.
• A Very Spanish Appetite: The Paintings of Luis Meléndez. Feature. American Artist, December 2009.
• Raphael and the Invention of the Sublime. Feature. Drawing Magazine, Spring 2009.
• The Quietest Magician: The Paintings of Giorgio Morandi. Feature. American Artist, December 2008.
• Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow: The Paintings of Jan Lievens. Feature. American Artist, November 2008.
• Great British Watercolors. Feature on the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. Watercolor Magazine, Fall 2008.
• The Intelligent Line of Albrecht Dürer. Survey. Drawing Magazine, Summer 2008.
• The Ideal Classicist: Nicolas Poussin and Nature. Feature. American Artist, May 2008.
• The First Realist: The Paintings of Gustave Courbet. Feature on the Metropolitan Museum retrospective. American Artist, May 2008.
• Naughty and Nice: Children’s Portraits. Feature on the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition, London. American Artist, February 2008.
• Turner: The Great Painter of Light. Survey. American Artist, January 2008.
• Rembrandt at 400: The Painter in Context. Article on the Metropolitan Museum exhibition. American Artist, November 2007.
• Learning from the Masters: Whistler’s Mark. Feature. Drawing Magazine, Summer 2007.
• John Ruskin and his Influence on American Art. Feature. American Artist, June 2007.
• Adam Elsheimer: Rich and Magical Storytelling. Feature. American Artist, May 2007.
• The Drawings of Alfonso Ossorio. Drawing Magazine, Spring 2007.
• The Hidden Line: Underdrawings in Renaissance Painting. Drawing Magazine, Winter 2007.
• Edward Hopper’s Preliminary Drawings. Feature. Drawing Magazine, Winter 2006.
• The Dark, Black Outline. Feature on Kara Walker. Drawing Magazine, Summer 2006.
• The Golden Age of American Illustration. Feature. American Artist, June 2006.
• Renoir’s Pastel Counterproofs. Feature. American Artist, June 2006.
• Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape. Feature. Watercolor Magazine, Spring 2006.
• Tablet and Pen: Islamic Drawings at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Drawing Magazine, Summer 2006.
• Winslow Homer: His Melancholy Truth. Survey. American Artist, July/August 2006.
• Rubens Drawings. Cover article. Drawing Magazine, Spring 2005.
• The Drawings of Lucien Freud. Feature. Drawing Magazine, Fall 2004.
• Wayne Thiebaud: Drawings. Cover article. Drawing Magazine, Fall 2003.
• Paula Rego. Feature. American Artist, March 2003.
• The Sculpture of Louis Marinaro. Feature. American Artist, December 1997.
• The Watercolors of Ralph Goings. Feature. Watercolor Magazine, Fall 1995.
• In Pescara, Paradise under the Ombrellini. Travel essay. New York Times, Travel Section, July 2, 1995.
• Five Parks Best Known to Neighbors. New York Times, Travel Section, July 10, 1994.
• The World According to David Beck. Catalogue for exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, 1993.

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Film and Video

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Teaching Experience