Waitzkin Memorial Library Trust
The Waitzkin Memorial Library Trust is a not-for-profit organization representing the art estate of Stella Waitzkin (1920-2003).
Stella Waitzkin 1920-2003
One Woman Exhibitions
2022 Materiality: Stella Waitzkin, Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME
2018 Lost Library: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2017 Volumes: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2014 Reflections from Another Life: Stella Waitzkin, A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2009 Selected Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
2008 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2005 A Retrospective, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Vineyard Sculptures, Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1989 Environments, Gay Head Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
1988 The French Collection, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
1984 Creiger Sesen Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Selected Work 1973-1983, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1978 Works of Art, E.P. Gurewitsch, New York, NY
1977 A Library–Sculpture, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Donnell Library Center, New York Public Library, New York, NY
1975 Sculpture and Wall Works, James Yu Gallery, NY
1974 An Essay on Sobriety, Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY
Rare Books, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Serious Literature, Yale University Calhoun College Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1973 Iris Clert, Paris, France
1972 Exhibition Closed (Performance), Battiliem Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Book Arts Gallery, University of Maine, Machias
2021 Works from the Collection, Art Gallery, University of Maine, Machias
The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Extended exhibition University Galleries and Collections,
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
ARTGAWK: Choice Pickings from the Radford University Permanent Collection, Radford University, Radford, VA
2020 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
Celebrating Women: Female Artists from the Permanent Collection, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Through Her Eyes: A Year of Female Artists at the Hunter, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Galleries and Collections, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Women’s Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Vineyard Haven, MA
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Art Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
Objects to be Destroyed, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
2019 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Exactly! Artists NO!art, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
Shit and Doom: NO!art Cell Project Space, London
Seeing the Light of Day, Selections by the Registrar from the Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection: Part II, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2018 Silent Music: Alison Weld and Stella Waitzkin, Homer Center for the Arts, Homer, NY
Permanent Collections exhibition galleries, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
AAM@60: The Diamond Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Recent Acquisitions, The Art Museum at the State University of New York, Potsdam
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA
2017 Portable Magic: Reading and Writing in the Visual Arts, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
[dis]functional: Products of Conceptual Design, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Selections from the Collection, University of Maine, Machais
Musée des antiquités, Rouen, France
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
2016 Women! Women! (Of the ‘50s), Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Home Sweet Home, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2015 Recent Acquisitions 2007-2015, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Livin’ Large: Works from the 1980s, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Testing Testing: Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Lycée Bernard Palissy, Maronne, France
Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Collège Pablo Picasso, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France
Livre d’artiste, Maison Henri IV, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France
2014 X, Y + Z: Dimensions in Sculpture, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Looking Back Six Years: Part Two: Selected New Acquisitions, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
L’artiste en bibliophile, Musée Victor Hugo, Villequier, France
Inventaire Vol. 4, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2013 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN
Material World, Springfield Museum, Springfield, OH
(M)other Natures, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
Permanent Collection Galleries, Delaware Art Museum (2013-present)
Still Life from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH
Inventaire Vol. 3, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès=Rouen, France
2012 Piece by Piece: Quilts, Collages, and Constructions, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Size Matters: Small Works from the Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2011 BOOK-ISH, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
Works from the Permanent Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Selections from the Collection, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
3D: Focus on Abstraction, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
W. Carl Burger: Artist as Curator, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2010 American Art 11: 1960 to the Present, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2010-2011)
Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
Selections from the Collection, American Sculpture Gallery, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University (2010-present)
American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, (2010-present)
University of Memphis Museum of Art: a Waitzkin work in the collection exhibited in conjunction with the exhibition:
Alison Weld: Art is My Natural World, 1980B 2009
Livres Délivrés, Espace le Garage, Saint-Saëns, France
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque. Gasny, France
2009 Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Cool, Collected, and in Context, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Kresge Art Collection: Celebrating the 50th, [Kresge Art Museum] Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Collection in Progress, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ
Livres Délivrés, Lycée du Bois, Envermeu, France
2008 American Masterpieces, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Form as Content: The Book as Object and Design, Works from the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Recent Acquisitions, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
The World Around Us, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2007 Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Museum of Art, VA
Selections from the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University (2007-2010)
Inside and Out, Porterfield Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA
Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Chambray, Gouville, France
Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque, Le-Petit-Quevilly, France
2006 Smithsonian American Art Museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art
Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Livres Délivrés, Maison de l’Étudiant, Le Havre, France
2005 Selections from the Collection, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Boris Vian, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf, France
Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Gilbert Martin, Le Neubourg, France
2004 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque municipale de Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2003 Words on Fire, New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
A Decade of Collecting: Fine Art & Cultural History, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Jacques Prévert à Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France
2002 Designing the Future, Queens Museum of Art, NY
Women’s Work: Fine Art from the Museum’s Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Livres Délivrés, Musée du Prieuré å Harfleur, France
1999 Memories of the Past-Intimations of the Future: New Works, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
Glorious Prints: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Prints, Japanese Prints and Artists; Books from the Colelciton of the Newark Public Library,
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1998 Earthly Delights, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Details of a Lost Library, extended exhibition, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Collecting for Queens: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Queens Museum of Art, NY
1997 Artists of the 1950s, Part 2, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1996 L’expérience des livres, Université de Rouen, France
Still Working: underknown arists of age in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
IBM Gallery, New York, NY
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1995 Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
No Art!, Berlin, Germany
1994 Fantasy and Myth, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1993 United States Exhibition Agency, Africa, Traveling Book Show
Recent Acquisitions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Artists’ Books and Art about Books, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists and Guests, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Traveling Show: Portugal:
Salon du Livre de Lisbonne
Casa das Artes a Porto
A La Galeria da Biblioteca Municipal, Guimaraes
Centre Culturel de Sines
Palais de Galdeias, Lisbon
Renée Fotouhi Fine Art East Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Bi-National Center in Bogota, Columbia
Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Skirball Museum
1991 Drôles de Livres, Centre Culturel “La Nacelle,” Auberginville, France
Livres d'Artistes, Livres Objets, Espace Marquelet de La Noue, Meaux, France
1990 Fox, Ley, Leech, Carrega Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Book Arts in the U.S.A., Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
The Expanding Figurative Imagination, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Twentieth Anniversary Show, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Book as Art/The Book in Art, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY
Le Chateau de Vascoeuil, France
Médiathèque D'Elbeuf, France
Hotel de La Région, Rouen, France
Morceaux Choisis 2 - Acquisitions 1988-1989, Conseil Régional d Haute-Normandie à Rouen, France
Les Matériaux, Palais Bénéndictine à Fécamp, France
Salon d’Art Contemporain-Les Matériaux, Parc des Expositons a Rouen, France
1989 A Density of Passions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
délires de livres: 100 créateurs contemporains, Centre Culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Entbundene Bücher, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
1988 Le Livre dans tous ses États, Galerie Caroline Corre
Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Livres Délivrés, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1987 The Self Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The Chair, Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Encounter, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Livres Délivrés, École Normale d’Instituteurs à Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France
Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Unique Books by Unique Artists, Patricia Carega Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1986 Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
A Survey of Book Arts, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Artists Make Books, Lynn Plotkin’s Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
1985 Book ARTchitecture, The Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Discotheque Faidherde, Paris, France
Books as Sculpture, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1984 Books Artists Have Made, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Center for Books Arts: The First Decade, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY;
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Nakhmkin Osterwell Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1983 Centre d’art contemporain, Rouen, France
Les États du Livre, Tome I Livres d’Artistes Americains, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris
Canadian Arts Council, New Brunswick, Canada
You Can’t Tell a Book by its Cover, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1982 La Bibliothèque Publique du Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (traveling exhibition)
Artists’ Books, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
Sculptural Bookworks Montgomery College Gallery, Takoma Park, MD
1981 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1980 Grand Palais, La Première Foire, Institute de Livres, Paris, France
Artists’ Books, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1979 Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Women Artists in Washington Collections, The University of Maryland, College Park
Illusions, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1978 Artists’ Books, USA, Independent Curators Inc., Traveling exhibit, 1978-1980
E. P. Gurewitsch Works of Art, Inc., New York, NY
Sez Who? Language and Image, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1977 The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Book as Art II, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1976 The Year of the Woman: Reprise, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
The Presence and Absence in Realism, State University of New York College at Potsdam
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1975 Potsdam Plastics, State University of New York College at Potsdam
Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY
1974 Recent Acquisitions, Finch College Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary American Sculpture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1973 Recent Acquisitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
25th Annual Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1972 University of Wisconsin, Center for 20th Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI
Iris Clert, Paris, France
American Women Artist Show, Gedok Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
1971 Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch College Museum, New York, NY
1970 Light, Motion and Sound, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1968 Destruction Art: Destroy to Create, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Art Colonies 1974-1985
Yaddo
MacDowell
Ossabaw Island
Blue Mountain
Virginia Center for Creative Arts