SY KATTELSON 1923 - 2018
MAIN ART EDUCATION
1947-1948..... Sid Grossman Workshop
1953.............. Paul Strand Workshop
1951-1953..... Hans Hofmann School of Art
1947-1953..... Photo League: Executive member and teacher
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Canada
University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography
New Orleans Museum of Art
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
Jersey City Museum, N J
New York Transit Museum
Le Fonds National d'art Contemporain, Paris, France
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Musee d'art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
Jewish Museum, New York City
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,Washington D.C.
Jewish Museum, New York City
EXHIBITIONS
1948..... This is the Photo League, New York City
1949..... New Workers, Photo League, New York City
1977......* Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, NY
..............* Catskill Center For Photography, Woodstock, NY
1978..... Photographic Crossroads, The Photo League, National Gallery of Canada,
Traveled to International Center Of Photography, NYC
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
University of Iowa Museum of Art
1981..... Witkin Gallery, New York City
1983..... Witkin Gallery, New York City
............. Phototypes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1984 .....Witkin Gallery, New York City
1985..... Photofind Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1986..... Photofind Gallery, New York City
1987..... The Photo League, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
Traveled to: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead, NY
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Herkimer County Community College, Herkimer, NY,
Adirondack Community College, Glen Falls, NY,
Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY, Oswego, NY
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx , NY
Michael Rockefeller Gallery, SUNY at Fredonia, NY
Towson State University, Baltimore, MD
Munson Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Tower Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1988.... * Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
1989..... Coney Island of the Mind, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
............. Photofind Gallery, New York City
1990..... Photographic Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
1991..... Jazz, Photofind Gallery, New York City
............ * Photofind Gallery, New York City.
1992..... Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City
1993..... The Photo League, Gallery 292, New York City
1995..... Stills From Life, Jersey City Museum, NJ
............. Galerie Snapshot, Amiens, France (Walker Evans, Sy Kattelson, Harry Callahan, Louis Fauer)
1998..... Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City
1999 ....* Gallery 292, New York City
............ PhotoEspana 1999, Fundacion Telefonica Sala de Exposiciones, Madrid, Spain
Traveled to: Fundacion Municipal de Culture, Valladolid, Spain
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Gallerie d'arte Contemporaneo, Piazzetta Olivotti 2, Mestre Italy
Wessel & O'Conner Gallery, New York City
2000.... The Photo League, Queens College
2002.... Images de la rue, Photographies americaines des annees 1940-1960 Nante, France
(Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, Helen Levitt. Louis Faure, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson,
Sy Kattelson, William Klein, Leonard Freed)
............ This Was the Photo League, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
............ Columbus Museum Of Art, Columbus Ohio
2007.... Let Your Motto Be Resistance, International Center of Photography, New York City
2011-2012....The Radical Camera, New York's Photo League 1936-1951, The Jewish Museum, New York City
............ Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Ohio
............ Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco California
............ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Flordia
2017....* Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City
............ Street Style, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City
*One Man Show
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Common Ground, autumn 1949
PM Magazine, 1949
Camera, International edition, Sept. 1950
Photo Arts, Sept. 1951 (profile)
Architectural Forum
Kingston Freeman, Kingston NY, Oct 2, 1977
Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY Nov. 29, 1979
Ovo Magazine, Canada 1981
The Photo League 1936-1951, Publisher Photofind Gallery, New York City, 1985
Coney Island, Publisher Photofind Gallery, 1987
The Consolidated Freightways, Inc. Collection, 1988
The Jersey Journal, NJ, Feb.26, 1988
The Sunday Star Ledger, Jersey City, NJ, Mar 6, 1988
Aperture, Publisher Aperture Foundition Inc. Fall, 1988
The Photo League, Publisher Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, July, 1999
This Was the Photo League, Publisher Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2001
Images De La Rue, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France, 2002
Let Your Motto Be Resistance, African American Portraits, 2007
The Radical Camera, New York's Photo League 1936-1951, Yale University Presss, 2011
The Life and Work of Sid Grossman, Steidl/Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2016
New York Times, Jan 29, 2017
W Magazine, Jan 17, 2017
New York Times, Dec 7, 2018