If any one artist's work is a variation on a theme, then it is Chuck Close's, who has been painting portraits with a passion since the late 1960s. "I have never wanted to paint anything else," said Close at the opening of an important retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the end of February. New York is Close territory. He moved to the city in 1967 along
with a group of artists of his generation that had been in his
class at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., such as Richard
Serra, Nancy Graves, and Brice Marden. It leads one through 17 years and 90 examples of Close's work, including people he was involved with in the New York art world. From his first works in gray and white to the painterly, colorful oils of the '90s, Close's faces stare out of their oversized canvases in an eerie way. The more recent portraits remind one of images frozen on a color television. Close's world is one of meticulous technique and unwavering hard work. All the paintings are done on grids, his work built from units. As Close says, this structural approach to a painting is a product of his nature: "I really need to break things down to a manageable and solvable problem. My work has always been driven by self-imposed limitations." This constancy and the fact that Close has never strayed from
the path of portraiture led a critic who has been following
his work since the '70s to remark recently that the artist's
work still "breathes the air of pictorial tedium." A serious illness in late 1988 and his return to painting produced portraits that are far more colorful and looser than his former work. Close said in a recent interview in The New York Times Magazine: "My new portraits have a celebratory aspect that wasn't there before ... because I feel so happy that I was able to get back to work." Once one accepts the repetition and overwhelming painstaking technique, Close's more recent work especially draws the viewer into his kaleidoscopic world of portraits.
CHUCK CLOSE Born: 1940, Monroe, WA Education: 1958-62 University of Seattle; B.A. 1961 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT 1962-64 Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT; B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964-65 Fulbright Grant to Vienna, Austria. Studied at the Akademie der Bildenen Kunste.
SOLO EXHIBITION Center, Minneapolis, MN; travelling to: St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1982 "Chuck Close Photographs," California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA; University Art Museum, UCA Berkeley, CA 1982-83 "Chuck Close: Paperworks," Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL; John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Jacksonville Art Museum, FL; Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1983 "Chuck Close: Recent Work," The Pace Gallery, New York, NY 1984-85 "Chuck Close: Paper Works," Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Spokane Center of Art, Cheney, WA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; N.I.U. Art Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; Columbia Museum, SC 1985 "Chuck Close: Works on Paper," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 1985 "Exhibition of Chuck Close," Fuji Television Gallery Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan 1985 "Chuck Close: Photographs," Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY 1985 "Chuck Close: Large Scale Photographs," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986 "Chuck Close: Maquettes," Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY 1986 "Chuck Close: Recent Work," The Pace Gallery, New York, NY 1987 "Chuck Close: Polaroids," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1988 "Chuck Close: New Paintings," The Pace Gallery, New York 1989 “Chuck Close”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Il, (Traveled to the Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, 8 Nov. 1989 - 7 Jan 1990. 1998 “Chuck Close”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1979-80 "Reflections of Realism," Albuquerque Museum, NM 1980 "American Figure Painting," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1980 "American Portraiture Drawings," National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC 1980 "Aspects of the 70s: Directions in Realism," Danforth Museum, Framington, MA 1980 "First Person Singular: Recent Self-Portraiture," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY; Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1980 "Printed Art: A View of Two Decades," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1980 "Self-Portraits: An Exhibition of Art on View at the Seagram Building, New York, NY 1980 "Ten American Artists From Pace," Wildenstein, London 1980 "The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1980 "The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1980 "American Realism of the Twentieth Century," Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ 1980 "Portraits Real and Imagined," Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 1980-81 "American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies," Montgomery Museum of Art, AL; travelling to: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO; Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 1981 "Drawings from the Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Century," The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 1981 "Seven Photorealists from New York Collections," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1981 The Akron Art Museum Inaugural Gala, OH 1981 "20 Artists: Yale School of Art 1950-1970," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 1981-82 "American Prints: Process and Proofs," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1981-82 "Inside/Out, Self Beyond Likeness," Sullivan Gallery, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; travelling to: Portland Art Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE 1981-82 "Instant Photography," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1981-82 "Photographer as Printmaker: 140 years of Photographic Printmaking," Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain; travelling to: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Castle Museum, Nottingham; The Photographer's Gallery, London 1981-83 "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Oakland Museum, CA: Germany and The Netherlands; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Salas de Exposiciones de Belles Artes (Recoletos), Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nuremburg, Germany 1981-83 "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," The Oakland Museum, CA 1982 "Great Big Drawings," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1982 "Homo Sapiens: The Many Images," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1982 "Surveying the Seventies," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County Branch 1982 "Late 20th Century Art," Worcester Art Museum, MA 1982 "Making Paper," American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1982 "Momentbild: Kunstlerphotographie," Kestner-Gessellschaft, Hanover, Germany 1982 "New American Graphics 2: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Prints," Madison Art Center, University of Wisconsin 1982 "Photo-Realisme-dix-ans-apres," Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris 1982 "The Human Figure," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1982-83 "Black & White," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1982-83 "New Portraits Behind Faces," Dayton Art Institute, OH 1983 "American Super-Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL 1983 "Faces Since the '50s: A Generation of American Portraiture," Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1983 "New Work, New York," Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; traveled to: Harrowgate Gallery, Harrowgate, England 1983 "Photographic Visions by Martha Alf, Chuck Close, Robert Cumming, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, CA 1983 "Self-Portraits," Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle; traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA 1983 "Subjective Vision: The Lucinda Bunnen Collection of Photographs," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 1984 "Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists," Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1984 "Drawings 1974-1984," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC 1984 "Paper Transformed - A National Exhibition of Paper Art," Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 1984 "The First Show: Painting and Sculpture, Eight Collections, 1940-1980," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1984 "The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf," Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA; traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1984 "The New Portrait," The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York 1985 "Self-Portrait Today," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 1985 "37th Annual Purchase Exhibition Hassam and Speicher Fund," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1985 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1985 "Workshop Experiments: Clay, Paper, Fabric, Glass," Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT 1985 "American Realism: The Precise Image," Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to: Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Yokohama Takashimaya, Japan 1985-86 "Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840-1985," The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1986 "Nude, Naked, Stripped," Hayden Gallery, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1986 "The Real Big Picture," The Queens Museum, New York 1986 "50 Years Modern Color Photography," Cologne, Germany 1986 "Painting and Sculpture Today-1986," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN 1986 "Big and Small," Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1986 "The Changing Likeness: Twentieth-Century Portrait Drawings," The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY 1986 "Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940," Philadelphia Museum of Art 1986 "An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940," Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1986 "Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th National Print Exhibition," The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 1986 "Group Portrait Show," Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY 1986 "70's into 80's" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1986 "New Etchings," Pace Editions, New York, NY 1986 "Viewpoint: The Artist as Photographer," Summit Art Center, NJ 1986 "Contemporary Work from the Pace Gallery," Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama 1987 "The Monumental Image," Sonoma University, CA 1987 "Contemporary Works on Paper," Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York 1988 "Made in the 60's: Painting and Sculpture From the Permanent Collection of the Whitney," Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York 1988 "1988, The World of Art Today," Milwaukee Art Museum, WI 1988 "Altered Images," The Penson Gallery, New York, NY 1988-89 "Three Decades; The Oliver Hoffmann Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1988-89 "Identity: Representation of the Self," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY 1989 "Contemporary Art From the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, The Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan 1989 "Field and Frame: Meyer Shipiro's Semiotics of Painting," New York Studio School 1989 "52nd National Midyear Exhibition," The Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH 1989 "The Face," The Arkansas Arts Center, 1989 "Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Malcolm Morley, Sigmar Polke," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY 1990 "Group Show," Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY 1990 "Je Est un Autre," Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal 1990 "Portrait of an American Gallery," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium 1990 "The Humanist Icon," Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 18 - May 20; The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, June 7 - July 1; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS, October 18 - December 2 1997 “Photorealists”, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA,October 2 - November 25 1999 “Photorealism/Periphery” Museum of Art Brigham Young University, Provo, UT May 6 – Oct. 23
SELECTED BOOKS
Arthur, John. Realist Drawings and Watercolors: Contemporary Works on Paper. Boston: New York Graphic Arts Society/Little Brown and Co., 1980.
Betti, Claudia and Teel Sale. Drawing: a Contemporary Approach. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, with Capital City Press, VT, 1980.
Canaday, John. What is Art? An Introduction to Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
Daval, Jean-Luc. Art Actuel/Skira Annuel 80. Geneva: Skira, 1980
Goodrum, Charles A. Treasures of the Library of Congress. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1980.
Hill Patricia, and Roberta K. Tarbell. The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art in association with University of Delaware Press, 1980.
Johnson, Una E. American Prints and Printmakers. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1980.
Lindey, Christine. Superrealist Painting and Sculpture. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1980.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art in the Seventies. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980.
Armstrong, Tom. Amerikanische Malerie 1930-1980. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1981.
Brommer, Gerald F. Discovering Art History. Worcester, Mass: Davis Publications, Inc., 1981.
Cummings, Paul. Twentieth-Century Drawings: Selections for the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
Elsen, Albert E. Purposes of Art. 4th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1981.
Gabay, Neil. Modern Painters. Akron, Ohio: Nina Books, 1981.
Goodyear, Frank H., Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1981.
Huyghe, Rene, ed. Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art from 1880 to the Present Day. New York: Excalibur Books, 1981.
Melot, Michael, Anthony Griffiths, and Richard S. Field. Prints: History of an Art. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1981.
Sachs, Samuel. Favorite Paintings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. New York: Abbeville Press, 1981.
Selz, Peter. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History 1890-1980. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981
Vogt, Paul. Contemporary Painting. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981.
Bujese, Arlene, ed. Forward by Thomas M. Messer. Twenty-five Artists. Frederich, Maryland: University Publications of America, Inc., 1982.
Daval, Jean-Luc, ed. Photography: History of an Art. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982.
Goldstein, Nathan. One Hundred American and European Drawings: A Portfolio. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Mendelowitz, Daniel. Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing. Revised by Duane A. Wakeham. 3rd ed. New York: CBS College Publishing/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
Mollison, James, and Laura Murray, eds. Australian National Gallery: An Introduction. Canberra Australian National Gallery, 1982.
Vaizey Marina. The Artist as Photographer. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
Johnson, Ellen H. American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Arthur, John. Realists at Work. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1983.
Emanuel, Muriel, et. al., eds. Contemporary Artists. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Kaplan, Ellen. Prints: A Collector's Guide. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1983.
Martin, Judy. The Complete Guide to Airbrushing Technique and Materials. New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1983.
Naef, Weston. New Trends from the Gallery of World Photography Series. Japan: Shueisha Publishing Co., 1983
Baigell, Matthew. A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.
Lee, Marshall. Art at Work. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
Markowski, Eugene D. Image and Illusion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.
Oldenburg, Richard E. The Museum of Modern Art: The History of the Collection. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
Piper, David, ed. Looking at Art. New York: Random House, 1984.
Robins Corinne. The Pluralist Era: American Arts, 1968-1981. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.
Vitz, Paul, and Arnold Glimcher. Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984.
Armstrong, Tom. American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing from the Collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1984.
Adrian, Dennis. Sight Out of Mind: Essays and Criticism of Art. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.
Arthur, John. American Realism: The Precise Image. Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan: The Asahi Shimbun, 1985.
Billeter, Erika. Das Selbstportrait. Lausanne: Musee Cantonal des Beaux- Arts, 1985.
Feldman, Edmund Burke. Thinking About Art. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1985.
Gorgoni, Gianfranco. Beyond the Canvas: Artists of the Seventies and Eighties. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1985.
Hertz, Richard. Theories of Contemporary Art. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1985.
Hunter, Sam, and John Jacobus. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985.
Kramer, Hilton. The Revenge of the Philistines: Art and Culture, 1972-1984. New York: The Free Press, 1985.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Movements in Art Since 1945. Rev. ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.
Simms, Patterson. Forward by Tom Armstrong. The Whitney Museum of American Art: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection. New York: W. W. Norton in association with The Whitney Museum of Art, 1985.
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.
Fischl, Eric, and Jerry Saltz, eds. Sketchbook with Voices. New York: Alfred Van der Marck Editions, 1986.
Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
Marshall, Richard, Robert Mapplethorpe. 50 New York Artists. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986.
Martin, Alvin. American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1986.
Piper, David. The Illustrated Library of Art. 4 vols. New York: Portland House, 1986.
Lyons, Lisa, and Robert Storr. Chuck Close. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987.
Cirlot, Lourdes. Las Ultimas Tendencias Pictoricas. Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Vicens-Vives, S.A., 1990.
Storr, Robert. Chuck Close. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998.
SELECTED CATALOGS
Carmean, E. A., with Trinkett Clark and Eliza E. Rathbone. Selected Works from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980.
Castleman, Riva. Printed Art: A View of Two Decades. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980.
Gelburd, Gail. American Realism of the 20th Century. Morris Museum of the Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ, 1980.
Gordon, Joy L. Aspects of the 70's: Directions in Realism. Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 17 May - 24 August 1980.
Hills, Patricia. The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1980.
Kalan, Mitchell D. American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, 4 April - 25 May 1980.
Lyons, Lisa and Mart Friedman. Close Portraits. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1980.
Sadik Marvin and Harold Francis Phister. American Portrait Drawings. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1980.
Spaeth Eloise. Portraits, Real and Imagined. Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 23 August - 21 September 1980.
Ten American Artists From Pace. Wildenstein Gallery, London. 18 June - 18 July, 1980.
Badger, Gerry. Photographer as Printmaker, 140 Years of Photographic Printmaking. Northampton England, Belmont Press, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981.
Brandt, Frederick R., and Susan L. Butler. Late Twentieth Century Art: From the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation. The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA, 1981.
Chase, Linda. Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Catalogue for traveling exhibition, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI, 1981.
Danoff, Michael, and Carolyn Kinder Carr. The Image in American Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1980. Akron Art Museum, OH, 1981.
Gomwell, Lynn, and Victoria Kogan. Inside/Out: Self Beyond Likeness. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1981.
Morrin, Peter, and Eric Zafran. Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Centuries. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 14 May - 28 June 1981.
Shestack, Alan, and Andre Forge. 20 Artists: Yale School of Art 1950-1970. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981.
Barents, Els. Instant Fotographie. The Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1981.
Goldman, Judith. American Prints: Process and Proofs. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Harper & Row Publishers, 1982.
Garver, Thomas H., and Warrinton Colescott, and Gordon Scott. New American Graphics 2. Madison Art Center, WI, 1982.
Haenlein, Carl. Momentbuild: Kunstler Photographie. Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, 5 March - 18 April 1982.
Monett Alexandra. The Human Figure. The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 5 March - 4 April 1982.
Phillips, Lisa. Surveying the Seventies. The Whitney Museum of Art, Fairfield County Branch, 12 February - 31 March 1982.
Smith, Paul A. Making Paper. American Craft Museum, New York, 20 May - 26 September 1982.
Sosnoff, Martin. Homo Sapiens: The Many Images. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1982.
Houk, Pamela. New Portraits: Behind Faces. The Dayton Art Institute, OH, 19 October 1982 - 6 February 1983.
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Biennial Report, 1980-82. Uxbridge, Middlesex, Great Britain: The Hillingdon Press, 1983.
Coleman, A.D. Subjective Vision: The Lucinda Bunnen Collection of Photographs. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1983.
Frank, Peter. Self-Portraits. Linda Farris Gallery and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA, 1983.
Jacobs, Joseph. Faces Since the 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture. Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 11 March - 17 April 1983.
Perreault, John. Chuck Close. The Pace Gallery, New York, 25 February - 26 March 1983.
Varely, William. New York New Work. New Castle Polytechnic Gallery, 1983.
Ackley, Clifford S. The Modern Art of The Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf. Medford, MA: Acme Printing Co. with the Museum of Fine arts. Boston, 1984.
Brown, Julia, and Bridget Johnson, editors. The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940-1980. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, in association with Arts Publisher Inc., New York, 1984.
Gettings, Frank, and forward by Abraham Lerner. Drawings 1974-1984. Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1984.
Kettenring, Pat, and Ann Kent. Viewpoint: The Artist as Photographer. Summit Art Center, NJ, 1984.
McDonald, Robert, and forward by Robert Fitzpatrick. Art of the States: Works from A Santa Barbara Collection. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1984.
Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1984.
Exhibition of Chuck Close. Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, 1985.
Pillsbury, Edmund P. Chuck Close: Works on Paper. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 1985.
forward by Devine, Alison, and text by Susan Taylor. Workshop Experiments: Clay, Paper, Fabric, Glass. Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT, 1985.
Buck, Robert T. Public and Private: American Prints Today: The 24th National Print Exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1986.
Close, Chuck. interview with Arnold Glimcher. Chuck Close: Recent Work. The Pace Gallery, New York, 1986.
Cummings, Paul. The Changing Likeness: Twentieth Century Portrait Drawings. The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, 1986.
Day, Holliday T. Painting and Sculpture Today--1986. Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, 1986.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. Nude, Naked, Stripped. Hayden Gallery, List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 1986.
Heiferman, Marvin. The Real Big Picture. The Queens Museum of New York, 1986.
Heiting, Manfred, and Gert Koshofer, and Hans Staubach. 50 Years of Modern Color Photography. Photokina, Cologne, September 1986.
Hunter, Sam. ed. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Museum of Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1986.
Bowman, Russell. 1988 The World of Art Today. Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, 1988.
Kertess, Klaus. Chuck Close, New Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York, 1988.
Van Baron, Judith & Betz, Margaret. Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 1997.
ARTICLES
Andreae, Christopher. "Taking a Look," Christian Science Monitor, 19 March 1980.
Blau, Douglas. "Artists by Artists," Arts, February 1980, p. 12.
Bourdon, David. "Chuck Close: Portraits," Vogue, January 1980, p. 27.
Cavaliere, Barbara. "Art Reviews - Chuck Close," Arts, February 1980, p. 33.
Diamonstein, Barbaralee. "Chuck Close: I'm Some Kind of a Slow Motion Cornball," ARTnews, Summer 1980, pp. 112-16.
Grundberg, Andy. "20 x 24 at Light," Art in America, February 1980, pp. 133-4.
Kertess, Klaus. "Figuring It Out," Artforum, November 1980, pp. 30-5.
Kramer, Hilton. "Art View: Today's Avant-Garde Artists Have Lose the Power to Shock," The New York Times, 16 November 1980.
Meisel, Louis K. "Fifteen Years of Photo-Realism," Horizon, November 1980, p. 59.
von Raddatz, Fritz. "Amerika auf der Suche nach seinen Wurzein," Die Zeit, December 1980, p. 26.
Schwartz, Ellen. "New York Reviews: Chuck Close at Pace," ARTnews, January 1980, p. 157.
Simon, Joan. "Close Encounters," Art in America, February 1980, pp. 81-83.
Bass, Ruth. "New York Reviews - Chuck Close (The Whitney Museum of American Art)," ARTnews, November 1981, p. 189.
Canaday, John. "Painters Who Put the World in Focus," Smithsonian, October 1981, pp. 68-77.
Casademont, Joan. "Close Portraits," Artforum, October 1981, p. 73.
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, and Hess, Thomas B. American Photographer, February 1981, p. 33.
Gardner, Paul. "Confessions of a Plaintain Chip Eater or Artists Are Just Like the Rest of Us," ARTnews, January 1981, p. 137.
Glueck, Grace. "Artist Chuck Close: I Wanted to Make Images That Knock Your Socks Off!" The New York Times, 10 June 1981.
Goodyear, Frank H. Jr. "American Realism Since 1960: Beyond the Perfect Green Pea," Portfolio, November/December 1981, pp. 72-81.
Hoelterhoff, Manuela. "Close-Ups By Close," The Wall Street Journal, 17 April 1981.
Hughes, Robert. "Close, Closer, Closest," Time, 27 April 1981, p. 60.
Kramer, Hilton. "Chuck Close's Break with Photography," The New York Times, 19 April 1981.
"Portraiture; The Living Art," Bazaar, March 1981, pp. 14,28.
McClain, Matthew. "Realist Blockbuster Stirs Controversy: Interview with Curator Frank Goodyear," The New Art Examiner, December 1981, pp. 7-27.
Perreault, John. "Encounters of the Close Kind," Soho Weekly News, 29 April 1981.
Perreault, John. "Photorealing in the Years," Soho Weekly News, 20 October 1981.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Realism on the Comeback Trail," The Village Voice, 11-17 November 1981.
Wallach, Amei. "Looking Closer at Chuck Close," Newsday, 19 April 1981.
Wilson, William. "The Chilly Charms of Close," Los Angeles Times, 8 June 1981.
Wolff, Theodore F. "Huge, Photographically Exact Paintings That Signify... What?" Christian Science Monitor, 29 April 1981.
Cebulski, Frank. "Close to Photography," Artweek, 17 April 1982.
Perreault, John. "Paperworks," American Crafts, August/September 1982, pp. 2-7.
"The Year In Pictures Among Other Things," Soho Weekly News, 12 January 1982.
"Realisms," Art Express, March/April 1982, pp. 34-38.
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York Letter," Art International, January 1982, pp. 116-117.
Worts, Melinda. "New Editions," ARTnews, April 1982. (or 1984?)
Baker, Kenneth. "Leaving His Fingerprints," Christian Science Monitor, 4 August 1983.
Cottingham, Jane. "An Interview with Chuck Close," American Artist, May 1983, pp. 62-67, 102-105.
Danoff, I. Michael. "Chuck Close's Linda," Arts, January 1983, pp. 110-111.
Peters, Lisa. "Reviews: Chuck Close," Arts, May 1983, p. 52.
Kramer, Hilton. "MOMA Reopened: The Museum of Modern Art in the Postmodern Era," The New Criterion, Summer 1984, p. 34.
Sandback, Amy Baker, and I. Sischy. "A Progression of Chuck Close: Who's Afraid of Photography," Artforum, May 1984, p. 50.
Gibson, Eric. "Thinking About the Seventies," The New Criterion, May 1985, pp. 45, 47-48.
Grundberg, Andy. "Chuck Close at Pace/MacGill," Artforum, May 1985, pp. 174.
Hagen, Charles. "Chuck Close/Pace/MacGill," Art in America, April 1985, pp. 96-97.
Hartman, Rose. "Close Encounters," American Photographer, April 1985, p. 8.
Jordon, Jim. "A Question of Scale," Artweek, 13 July 1985, p. 10.
Close, Chuck. "New York in the Eighties: A Symposium," The New Criterion, Summer 1986, pp. 12-14.
Davis, Douglas. "The Return of the Nude," Newsweek, 1 September 1986, pp. 78-79.
Grundberg, Andy. "A Big Show That's About Something Larger Than Style," The New York Times, 23 February 1986.
Poirier, Maurice. "Chuck Close," ARTnews, May 1986, p. 127.
Raynor, Vivien. "Chuck Close," The New York Times, 28 February 1986.
Squiers, Carol. "The Monopoly of Appearances," Flash Art, February/March 1987, pp. 98-100.
Johnson, Ken. "Photographers by Chuck Close," Arts, May 1987, pp. 20-23.
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