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Title:Wild Dogs
Artist:Leonard Koscianski (American, born Cleveland, Ohio, 1952)
Date:1982
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:72 × 48 in. (182.9 × 121.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Karl Bornstein, 1984
Object Number:1984.222
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Leonard Koscianski '82
[Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York]; Alan Lobel; Karl Bornstein, Santa Monica (by 1983–84; his gift to MMA)
New York. Allan Stone Gallery. "New Talent," Summer 1982, no catalogue.
New York. Phyllis Kind Gallery. "Dialect/Dialectic: A Group Show of Artists with Complex Individual Vocabularies," Fall 1982, no catalogue.
New York. Grace Borgenicht Gallery. "Invitational Exhibition," June 1–30, 1983, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ten New Narrative Paintings," September 15–November 30, 1983, no catalogue (Extended loan and promised gift of Karl Bornstein).
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. "New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," February 9–26, 1984, no. 17.
Gubbio, Italy. Palazzo Ducale. "Dialoghi nell'arte (Dialogues in Art)," June 16–September 30, 1984, unnumbered cat. (p. 111).
Mexico City. Museo Rufino Tamayo. "Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," November–December 1984, no. 20.
Washington, D. C. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "Art for Collectors," April 24–June 14, 1985.
Phoenix Museum of Art. "New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 14–April 27, 1986, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The 1980s: A New Generation, American Painters and Sculptors," April 13–July 31, 1988, brochure no. 28.
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. "Made in America," April 5–June 11, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 33).
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 51.
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 51.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 51.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 51.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 51.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 51.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 51.
Grace Glueck. "The Met Makes Room for the 20th Century." New York Times (September 18, 1983), p. H30.
William S. Lieberman in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1983–1984. New York, 1984, p. 101, ill. (color).
William S. Lieberman inDialoghi nell'arte (Dialogues in Art). Exh. cat., Gubbio Palazzo Ducale. Gubbio, 1984, pp. 110–11, ill. (color).
William S. Lieberman. Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, 1984, pp. 32, 44, ill.
William S. Lieberman inNew Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale . Fort Lauderdale, 1984, unpaginated, no. 17, ill. (overall and detail).
Anne Stephenson. "Exhibit Captures Narrative Tradition." Arizona Republic (March 21, 1986), ill. p. F1 (installation photo).
Robert S. Cauthorn. "Canvas Sirens: Alarming Show from New York is on View in Phoenix." Arizona Daily Star (April 6, 1986), p. E1, ill.
Amei Wallach. "The 80s, So Far." Newsday (April 24, 1988), p. B18.
Lowery S. Sims inMade in America. Exh. cat., Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. Virginia Beach, 1989, pp. 13–14, 33.
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 145, no. 51, ill. (color) pp. 132 (detail), 144.
Robert Rosenblum inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 14.
Eliot Nusbaum. "Joslyn Hosts a Vivid Landscape Show." Des Moines Sunday Register (September 22, 1991), p. 7F.
Ellsworth Kelly (American, Newburgh, New York 1923–2015 Spencertown, New York)
1963
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