Selected Solo Exhibitions

1937
Kleemann Galleies, New York City (first exhibition)
1943-1989
Kraushaar Galleries, New York City
(numerous exhibitions)
1943-66
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University
(several exhibitions)
1945-55
Wells College, Aurora, New York (several exhibitions)
1946
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, New York
1947
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
1952
School of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,
Utica, New York
(exhibition while serving as visiting artist)
1954
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
1962
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
1971
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1973-2006
The Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, New York (two exhibitions, one retrospective)
1981
The Art Gallery, Malott Hall, Cornell University
1982
Hartell Gallery, Sibley Hall, Cornell University
2001
Washington County Museum of Art, Hagerstown, Maryland (retrospective)
2006
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Selected Group Exhibitions

1932
Architectural League, New York City
1938
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
1943-71
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
(several exhibitions)
1943
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1945
Saint Louis Art Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum
1945-47
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (annual exhibitions)
1945-54
The Art Institute of Chicago (several exhibitions)
1945-56
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
(several exhibitions)
1947
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio;
National Academy of Design, New York City
1953
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1955
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1956
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1958
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1965
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama;
Columbia Museums of Art and Science, Columbia,
South Carolina; Root Art Center, Hamilton College,
Clinton, New York
1967
State Department traveling exhibit to Australia
1970
Kent State University; Indianapolis Museum of Art
1971
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1973-81
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
(several exhibitions)
1978-79
Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey (two exhibitions)

Public Collections

  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • Washington County Museum of Art
  • Atlanta University
  • Illinois Wesleyan University
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
  • Salzburg Global Seminar
  • University of Nebraska
  • Wake Forest University
  • Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University
  • Northern Trust Company
  • 3M Company

Selected Bibliography

  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "John Hartell: And American Objectivist" Art
  • News, April 10, 1937 (Portrait of a Child reproduced on cover)
  • Helen Boswell, Review, Art Digest, March 1, 1943
  • Rosamond Frost, "Hartell: Builder in Paint" Art News, October 15-31, 1945
  • Howard Devree, Review, New York Times, October 14, 1945
  • Thomas B. Hess, Review, Art News, February 1949
  • Henry LaFarge, Review, Art News, February 1953
  • Margaret Breuning, Art Digest, February 1, 1953
  • Fairfield Porter, Review, Art News, February 1957
  • John Canaday, Review, New York Times, March 26, 1966
  • Gordon Brown, Review, Arts Magazine, November 1975
  • Verlaine Boyd, "John Hartell" Arts Magazine, October 1980