1951 Solo, University of Maine Art Gallery, Orono, Maine; “Stone Series”
Solo, Macbeth Gallery, New York, “Stone Series”
1952 Solo, Detroit Artists Market
1954 Worcester Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, solo
1955 Solo, Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Solo, Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Retrospective, Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan Retrospective, DAM
“New Watercolors” solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
“Small Watercolors of Beasts and Birds”, solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
Solo, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan
1964 Solo, Saginaw Museum of Art, Saginaw, Michigan
“Recent Watercolors” solo, Garelick's Gallery
"Old Master Parodies and Paraphrases", solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
“Birds, Beasts, the Land” solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
The Charles Culver Memorial Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market
2005 “Watercolors” solo, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City,
Detroit Institute of Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Cranbrook Art Museum
Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College
National Gallery of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
New Britain (Connecticut) Museum of American Art
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House - Grosse Pointe
Michigan Butler Institute of American Art
Flint Museum of Art
Illinois State Museum
Dearborn Art Institute, Worcester (Massachusetts) Museum of Art
Lever House (New York)
Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan)
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
International Business Machines (New York)
First Federal Savings of Detroit
Middlebury (Vermont) College, University of Maine,
Albion (Michigan) College
Mt. Pleasant (Michigan) College,
American Embassy; Kampala, (Uganda), Africa
American Embassy, Brazil, Central Michigan College
Dr. W.R. Valentiner
Lawrence A. Fleischman
Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman
John S. Newberry
Robert M. Tannahill,
Dr. E.P. Richardson
Mrs. Edsel Ford
Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II
Gold Medal of Merit
Audubon Artists Society
Gold Medal, Scarab Club (twice)
First Prize, Butler Institute of American Art (twice)
First Prize, Michigan Watercolor Society
and fifteen prizes and awards, Exhibitions for Michigan Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts
Twelve views of the Detroit Institute of Art, commissioned by Lawrence A. Fleischman
Two hundred illustrations for Ford Times and Lincoln-Mercury Times, commissioned by Ford Publications, the Ford Motor Company
Designs for hand puppets and scenery for The Bear that Played the Bijou
Designs for shadow puppets for Trappers’ Return, commissioned by the Detroit News for the Detroit Institute of Arts Puppet Theater
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