HALL GROAT SR.
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Hall Groat Sr.
Biography, American Impressionist Learn about the life and career of this
important American Impressionist painter, living and working in Central New
York. Hall Groat Sr, an American Impressionist painter is a
native of Syracuse, New York, where he studied painting; worked towards his
Master of Fines Arts degree and began his life long career as an artist. Groat
has dedicated his entire full-time professional career, spanning over forty
years, to pursuing his passion for art. The Berkshire Museum was the first of
several museums worldwide to acquire a major Groat work. The Museum purchased
the prize winner, Megalopolis, one of the largest of Groat’s railroad
paintings. This is where the late Norman Rockwell first discovered him and
invited the then twenty-nine year old to dinner in the Berkshires. In recent years, Groat has turned his
attention to the corporate world with emphasis on banks, churches, brokerage houses,
and insurance companies. His work is included in numerous corporate collections
throughout the world today. Clement Greenberg, one of the nation’s foremost art
critics, once stated that “Hall Groat was an artist who could make it” and he
was proven correct. EDUCATION: 1959 Syracuse
University, School of Art, BFA 1962 Syracuse
University Graduate School of Art, Studied with Josef Albers, Yale
University ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2003 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 2001 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 1997 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 1993 Two
Generations of Painting, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington &
Jefferson, College, Washington, PA 1992 John H.
Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse, NY 1987 Left Bank
Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1986 Kendall Art
Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1985 Arlene Mc
Daniels Gallery, Simsbury, CT 1983 LeMoyne
College Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1975 SUNY
Morrisville, Morrisville, NY 1973 Wellfleet
Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1971 Main Street
Gallery, Wilkes Barre, PA 1970 Sarasota
Art Association, Sarasota, FL 1969 Janet
Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1968 Longboat
Key Art Center, L.K., FL 1967 Beau Arts
Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1966 Roberson
Center, Binghamton, NY 1962 Berskshire
Museum, Pittsfield, MA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Syracuse University United Nations Philatelic Museum, Palais des,
Geneva, Switzerland Berkshire Museum of Art Paine-Webber Corporation First National Bank Chemical Bank Norstar Bank Key Bank Deliote Haskins Hartford National Bank Emhart Corporation Merrill Lynch Bristol-Myers-Squibb Syracuse China Security Mutual Mutual of New York Insurance Bond Shoeneck & King Law Firm PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Jimmy Carter (former U.S. President) John Kennedy Henry Kissinger Senator Tarky Lombardi Emilo Pucci Senator Leverne Fred Perry LECTURES / DEMONSTRATIONS: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY Sherburne Art Society, Sherburne, NY Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Onieda Library, Onieda, NY Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY Jewish Community Center, Syracuse, NY Baldwinsville Art Guild, Baldwinsville, NY Thousand Islands Art Association, Clayton, NY Elmira Art Association, Elmira, NY Geneva Art Association, Geneva, NY Masonic Temple/Philo Lodge, Syracuse, NY Rotary Club of Syracuse Savannah College of Art & Design,
Savannah, GA Syracuse Symphony Onondaga Public Library MURALS: John H. Mulroy Onondaga County Civic Center Saint James Church, Syracuse, NY Republic of Korea (Naval) General Electric Co., Pittsfield, MA (Admirals
Gate) Johnstown, NY, Public Auditorium Fay Drug Co., Syracuse, NY SUNY Morrisville Library Ther Merrill Center, Merrill Trust Company,
Bangor, ME Bank of America Skaneateles Savings Bank, Skaneateles, NY Miller Brewing Company, Fulton, NY Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dewitt, NY St. John The Evangelist Church, Syracuse, NY St. Elizabeth Anne Seton Church, Clay, NY MONY Tower II, Syracuse, NY Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Syracuse, NY North Medical Center, Syracuse, NY EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS: United Nations, NYC, Philatelic Award,
1973 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
Ohio Avenue Art Gallery National Small Works
Painting Exhibition, Endicott, NY Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Rochester-Finger Lakes, Rochester, NY Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown,
NY, Frederick A. Godley Award Memorial, Prize/CAA Purchase Award Springfield National, Springfield, MA New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL Pittsfield Art League, Pittsfield, MA, Best
In Show Associated Artists of Syracuse, Best
In Show & Gordon Steele Memorial Award Medal, One-man Show Award Williams College, Williamsville, MA Central New York Art Open, First
Prize State of the Arts, Boston, MA JUROR: Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL,
Abstract & Non-Objective Show, 1973 Chittenango Art League, Chittenango, NY Camillus Art Association, Camillus, NY, 1973,
1978 WCNY-TV (Channel 24), TEL AUC Artists of NYC Manlius, NY, Annual Art Exhibition National Exhibition, Ellsworth Gallery,
Simsbury, CT, 1979 Associated Artists of Syracuse, 1980 Tioga Art Association, Owego, NY PUBLICATIONS: National Society of Mural Painters Who’s Who In American Art Who’s Who In The East International Biographies, London, England Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL Secretariat News, United Nations World Federation of United Nations
Associations, ten, First Day of Issue cover painting, (Pablo Picasso 90th birthday
commemorative design) WCNY Public Television, documentary
film, Hall Groat, A Man and His Art EDUCATION: 1959 Syracuse
University, School of Art, BFA 1962 Syracuse
University Graduate School of Art Studied with Josef Albers, Yale University ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2003 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 2001 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 1997 Oxford
Gallery, Rochester, NY 1993 Two
Generations of Painting, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington &
Jefferson, College, Washington, PA 1992 John H.
Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse, NY 1987 Left Bank
Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1986 Kendall Art
Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1985 Arlene Mc
Daniels Gallery, Simsbury, CT 1983 LeMoyne
College Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1975 SUNY
Morrisville, Morrisville, NY 1973 Wellfleet
Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1971 Main Street
Gallery, Wilkes Barre, PA 1970 Sarasota
Art Association, Sarasota, FL 1969 Janet
Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1968 Longboat
Key Art Center, L.K., FL 1967 Beau Arts
Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1966 Roberson
Center, Binghamton, NY 1962 Berskshire
Museum, Pittsfield, MA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Syracuse University United Nations Philatelic Museum, Palais des,
Geneva, Switzerland Berkshire Museum of Art Paine-Webber Corporation First National Bank Chemical Bank Norstar Bank Key Bank Deliote Haskins Hartford National Bank Emhart Corporation Merrill Lynch Bristol-Myers-Squibb Syracuse China Security Mutual Mutual of New York Insurance Bond Shoeneck & King Law Firm PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Jimmy Carter (former U.S. President) John Kennedy Henry Kissinger Senator Tarky Lombardi Emilo Pucci Senator Leverne Fred Perry LECTURES / DEMONSTRATIONS: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY Sherburne Art Society, Sherburne, NY Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Onieda Library, Onieda, NY Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY Jewish Community Center, Syracuse, NY Baldwinsville Art Guild, Baldwinsville, NY Thousand Islands Art Association, Clayton, NY Elmira Art Association, Elmira, NY Geneva Art Association, Geneva, NY Masonic Temple/Philo Lodge, Syracuse, NY Rotary Club of Syracuse Savannah College of Art & Design,
Savannah, GA Syracuse Symphony Onondaga Public Library MURALS: John H. Mulroy Onondaga County Civic Center Saint James Church, Syracuse, NY Republic of Korea (Naval) General Electric Co., Pittsfield, MA (Admirals
Gate) Johnstown, NY, Public Auditorium Fay Drug Co., Syracuse, NY SUNY Morrisville Library Ther Merrill Center, Merrill Trust Company,
Bangor, ME Bank of America (Formerly Norstar Bank
and Syracuse Savings Bank, Syracuse, NY Skaneateles Savings Bank, Skaneateles, NY Miller Brewing Company, Fulton, NY Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dewitt, NY St. John The Evangelist Church, Syracuse, NY St. Elizabeth Anne Seton Church, Clay, NY MONY Tower II, Syracuse, NY Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Syracuse, NY North Medical Center, Syracuse, NY EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS: United Nations, NYC, Philatelic
Award, 1973 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
Ohio Avenue Art Gallery National Small Works
Painting Exhibition, Endicott, NY Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Rochester-Finger Lakes, Rochester, NY Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown,
NY, Frederick A. Godley Award Memorial, Prize/CAA Purchase Award Springfield National, Springfield, MA New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL Pittsfield Art League, Pittsfield, MA, Best
In Show Associated Artists of Syracuse, Best
In Show & Gordon Steele Memorial Award Medal, One-man Show Award Williams College, Williamsville, MA Central New York Art Open, First
Prize State of the Arts, Boston, MA JUROR: Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL,
Abstract & Non-Objective Show, 1973 Chittenango Art League, Chittenango, NY Camillus Art Association, Camillus, NY, 1973,
1978 WCNY-TV (Channel 24), TEL AUC Artists of NYC Manlius, NY, Annual Art Exhibition National Exhibition, Ellsworth Gallery,
Simsbury, CT, 1979 Associated Artists of Syracuse, 1980 Tioga Art Association, Owego, NY PUBLICATIONS: National Society of Mural Painters Who’s Who In American Art Who’s Who In The East International Biographies, London, England Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL Secretariat News, United Nations World Federation of United Nations
Associations, ten, First Day of Issue cover painting, (Pablo Picasso 90th birthday
commemorative design) WCNY Public Television, documentary
film, Hall Groat, A Man and His Art _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ American
Impressionist: Hall Groat Sr. By Jim Hall, Art
Critic, Rochester, New York Always self-confident, Groat’s brushwork has
become even bolder and more assertive. In many of the works presented, we find
the paint is applied in broad strokes or highly apparent daubs and drips,
heightening our sense of disparity between the creative energy of the artist
and the refined sophistication of the image. The surface of these paintings is
thicker, with the addition of sand and occasionally collage to the medium, so
that lines are inscribed into the surface as often as painted upon it. The hallmark
of Groat’s style remains his uncanny ability to organize compositions through
color. But those who recall the soft, brooding landscapes of the past will find
here a warmer, more vibrant palette, with more strident contrasts of both hue
and value. So, too, has the ambient light of earlier landscapes become more
focused and dramatic. In paintings like Monhegan Surf, the light which
illuminates the landscape has become the subject of the painting. “Groat’s
depiction often treads a fine line between realism and abstraction. Objects or
entire scenes come into our presence with the force of belated recognition.” The Self-representing
Artist By Hall Groat Sr. Forty years of dragging art to galleries from
Cape Cod to Sarasota and struggling to make a living have come to an end. The
way artists have had to work with galleries as middlemen was a big disaster. Most artists have had to put their art on
consignment while the galleries keep hiking up their commissions. Freedom
for artists has come by way of cyberspace and a new breed of self-representing
artists are enjoying what is rightfully theirs–direct contact with their
customers. We are now the deal makers and can reap the profits without working
through an established gallery. No longer is there a need for a critic to nod
approval to a young artist who dreads what a bad review can do to his career.
The artist is in the driver’s seat now and galleries as we know them are dying
on the vine. each year there are fewer of these antiquated establishments in
business. Art lovers can now enjoy the luxury of attending an opening
on-line and meet the artist through his podcast or personal on line store or
any number of innovating ideas.
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