Sarah Belchetz-Swenson Vita

Vita

Solo Exhibits

Group Exhibits

Public and Corporate Collections

Publications and Bibliography

Honors, Awards and Service

Lectures and Speaking Engagements

Teaching and Employment

Education

Birthplace, Date

Contact

SOLO EXHIBITS

2007 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

1997 Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.

1995 Smith College, Northampton, MA.

1993 Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA.

1989 Passpartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont.

1987 Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont.

1986 Scripps College, Claremont, California.

Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York.

1984 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

1981 Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.

Gallery 2, Woodstock, Vermont.

1979 The Jewish Museum, New York, New York.

McCarthy Art Center, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont.

1978 Union House of Living Judaism, New York, New York.

Governor’s Corridor, The Pavilion, Montpelier, Vermont.

1977 Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont.

1975 Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont.

1972 Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont.

1968 Richardie Gallerie, Northampton, Massachusetts.

GROUP EXHIBITS

2007 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2006 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA

2000 The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. Curated by Elaine Gazda. Invitational.

Historical Display, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia,

1997 Self-Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA. Invitational.

Dinner, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA. Invitational.

1991 Intimate Perspectives, Artists’ Foundation Gallery, City Place, Boston, Massachusetts. Curated by May Stevens. Invitational.

1987 Connections Project/Conexus, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York. Curated by Sabra Moore and Josely Carbalho. Invitational.

1986 Portraiture: The Art of the State, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Curated by Emmy Donadio. Invitational.

1984 Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Invitational.

1982 Women’s Art—Women’s Lives, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1982. Invitational.

1981 Re: Pages, Artists’ Books, Hera Educational Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Gary Richmond. Invitational.

Words and Images, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania. Curated by Suzanne Horvitz, Sandra Lerner, Michael M. Strueber. Invitational.

1979 Jewish Women in the Arts, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland.. Invitational.

1977 Vermont Printmaker ’77, Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont. Invitational.

1976 Vermont Landscape Images, 1776-1976, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont. Invitational.

1971 Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. Invitational.

1967 Roko Gallery, New York, New York. Invitational.

1964 Van Bovenkamp Gallerie, New York. Invitational.

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1, 2, 3

College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York.

Columbia University, New York, New York. 1, 2, 3, 4

The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York.

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1, 2

Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia.

Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 1, 2

Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.

The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Treat Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

Woodstock Foundation, Woodstock, Vermont.

Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont.

PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005 Sarah Belchetz-Swenson and Phoebe Dent Weil, “Exploring Rembrandt’s Painting Materials and Techniques: Rembrandt and Burnt Plate Oil”, in Art of the Past-Sources and Reconstructions, Mark Clarke, Joyce H. Townsend and Ad Stijnman, eds. (London: Archetype)

2000 Diane Kirkpatrick, The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii; Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, (exhibition catalogue), Kelsey Museum and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2000 Emily De Nito, "Execs’ Brush with Destiny", Crain’s New York Business, February.

2000 Lori Rolk, "Bold Strokes", Working Woman Magazine, February.

2000 Amy Duffey, "Portraitist Emerses Herself in Subject’s Life", Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 18-19.

1991 Jennifer Gilman Nelson, "Sarah Swenson’s Portraits", Daily Hampshire Gazette--Hampshire Life, January 11-17.

1989 Tom Slayton, "Artist’s Works Express Pain of Growing Old", Rutland Herald and Times Argus (Vermont Living), June 25.

1989 Theodore F. Wolff. The Many Masks of Modern Art (Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society,) 153-156.

1987 New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, (Cover Illustration), Vol. IX, no. 4, Summer.

1986 Catherine Saxon, "A Classicist’s View", Sarah Swenson: Rites, (exhibition catalogue), Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, August-October.

1984 Maggie Maurice, "Sarah Swenson Wants to Paint All She Sees", The Burlington Free Press-Living, June 26.

1984 Deborah Merrill, "Rites/Rythms: Painting and Sculpture", The Stowe Reporter, July.

1982 Noel Suter, "Vermont", Art New England, October.

1980 Recent Gifts and Acquisitions 1976-1980, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.

1984 Elinor W. Gadon, "Sarah Swenson: Rites", Art New England, May 6.

1984 Peggy Sadler, "Rites", New Hampshire Times, April 24.

1982 Alexandra Johnson, "Out of the Daily, the Sacred", Christian Science Monitor, December.

1978 Alexandra Johnson, "Blueprints Past and Present", Christian Science Monitor, March.

HONORS, AWARDS AND SERVICE

1984 Visiting Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT.

1983 Artist in Residence, Marlboro college, Marlboro, VT.

1983-1987 Vermont Council on the Arts, Board of Trustees.

1982, 1981 Vermont Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Panelist.

1981 Ossabaw Island Project, Ossabaw Island, GA.

1981 Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Award, Lithography, Cambridge, MA.

1980 Memoirist, William E. Weiner Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee, New York, NY.

1975, 1974 MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Peterborough, NH.

1975 Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant.

LECTURES AND PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2007 Lecture, "Rites", Art & Soul Café, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 June.

2007 Workshop, "Claude Lorrain and 17th C. Italian Studio Practice", with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with "The Painter as Draftsman; Drawings from the British Museum", Clark Art Institute, 29 April.

2005 Lecture, “Caravaggio’s Painting Materials and Techniques”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “ Caravaggio; Una Mostra Impossibile”, Loyola University, Chicago, 5 December.

2004 Presentation, “Rembrandt and Burnt Plate Oil”, with Phoebe Dent Weil for symposium “Approaching the Art of the Pasts: Sources and Reconstructions”, Instituut Collectie Nederlands, Amsterdam, 14-15 October.

2004 Lecture, “The Painting Materials and Techniques of Rembrandt”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “Rembrandt’s Journey”, Art Institute of Chicago, 9 March.

2004 Three workshops, “The Painting Materials and Techniques of Rembrandt”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “Rembrandt’s Journey”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 11 January.

2004
Lecture, “Aphra Behn; Genesis of a Portrait”, for F.I.D.A.P.A. (International Federation of Business and Professional Women), Sezione di Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy, 22 October.

2001 Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA.

1997 Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.

1996, 1995 Smith College, Northampton, MA.

1994 Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

1994 Holocaust Studies Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

1994 Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.

1988 University of Maine, Lewiston, ME.

1987 Trinity College, Burlington, VT.

1986 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.

1986 Scripps College, Claremont, CA.

1984 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1981 Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.

1972 Johnson State College, Johnson, VT.

TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT

1990 Lecturer, Smith College Art Department, Northampton, MA.

1981 Visiting Artist, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.

1985 Visiting Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson VT.

1961-1963 Statistical Draftsman, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION

1960 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, BA.

1951-1956 Art Students' League of New York.

BIRTHPLACE, DATE

1938 Cairo, Egypt.

CONTACT

5 Nash Hill Road
Williamsburg, Massachusetts 01096
Phone 413-268-3020
email: sarah@remove thisbelchetz-swenson.com



Solo Exhibits
Group Exhibits
Public and Corporate Collections
Publications and Bibliography
Honors, Awards and Service
Lectures and Speaking Engagements
Teaching and Employment
Education
Birthplace, Date
Contact

SOLO EXHIBITS
	2007	Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
	1997	Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.
	1995	Smith College, Northampton, MA.
	1993	Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA.
	1989	Passpartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont.
	1987	Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont.
	1986	Scripps College, Claremont, California.
		Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York.
	1984	Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
		Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
	1981	Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.
		Gallery 2, Woodstock, Vermont.
	1979	The Jewish Museum, New York, New York.
		McCarthy Art Center, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont.
	1978	Union House of Living Judaism, New York, New York.
		Governor’s Corridor, The Pavilion, Montpelier, Vermont.
	1977	Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont.
	1975	Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont.
	1972	Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont.
	1968	Richardie Gallerie, Northampton, Massachusetts.

GROUP EXHIBITS
	2007	Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
	2006	Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
	2000	The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. Curated by Elaine Gazda. Invitational.
		Historical Display, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia,
	1997	Self-Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA. Invitational.
		Dinner, Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA. Invitational.
	1991	Intimate Perspectives, Artists’ Foundation Gallery, City Place, Boston, Massachusetts. Curated by May Stevens. Invitational.
	1987	Connections Project/Conexus, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York. Curated by Sabra Moore and Josely Carbalho. Invitational.
	1986	Portraiture: The Art of the State, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Curated by Emmy Donadio. Invitational.
	1984	Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Invitational.
	1982	Women’s Art—Women’s Lives, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1982. Invitational.
	1981	Re: Pages, Artists’ Books, Hera Educational Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Gary Richmond. Invitational.
		Words and Images, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania. Curated by Suzanne Horvitz, Sandra Lerner, Michael M. Strueber. Invitational.
	1979	Jewish Women in the Arts, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland.. Invitational.
	1977	Vermont Printmaker ’77, Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont. Invitational.
	1976	Vermont Landscape Images, 1776-1976, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont. Invitational.
	1971	Dibden Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. Invitational.
	1967	Roko Gallery, New York, New York. Invitational.
	1964	Van Bovenkamp Gallerie, New York. Invitational.

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
		Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1, 2, 3
		College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York.
		Columbia University, New York, New York. 1, 2, 3, 4
		The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York.
		Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1, 2
		Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
		The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
		The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
		Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts
		Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
		Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.
		Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 1, 2
		Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.
		The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
		Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
		Treat Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.
		Woodstock Foundation, Woodstock, Vermont.
		Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont.

PUBLICATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
	2005	Sarah Belchetz-Swenson and Phoebe Dent Weil, “Exploring Rembrandt’s Painting Materials and Techniques: Rembrandt and Burnt Plate Oil”, in Art of the Past-Sources and Reconstructions, Mark Clarke, Joyce H. Townsend and Ad Stijnman, eds. (London: Archetype)
	2000	Diane Kirkpatrick, The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii; Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, (exhibition catalogue), Kelsey Museum and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	2000	Emily De Nito, "Execs’ Brush with Destiny", Crain’s New York Business, February.
	2000	Lori Rolk, "Bold Strokes", Working Woman Magazine, February.
	2000	Amy Duffey, "Portraitist Emerses Herself in Subject’s Life", Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 18-19.
	1991	Jennifer Gilman Nelson, "Sarah Swenson’s Portraits", Daily Hampshire Gazette--Hampshire Life, January 11-17.
	1989	Tom Slayton, "Artist’s Works Express Pain of Growing Old", Rutland Herald and Times Argus (Vermont Living), June 25.
	1989	Theodore F. Wolff. The Many Masks of Modern Art (Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society,) 153-156.
	1987	New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, (Cover Illustration), Vol. IX, no. 4, Summer.
	1986	Catherine Saxon, "A Classicist’s View", Sarah Swenson: Rites, (exhibition catalogue), Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, August-October.
	1984	Maggie Maurice, "Sarah Swenson Wants to Paint All She Sees", The Burlington Free Press-Living, June 26.
	1984	Deborah Merrill, "Rites/Rythms: Painting and Sculpture", The Stowe Reporter, July.
	1982	Noel Suter, "Vermont", Art New England, October.
	1980	Recent Gifts and Acquisitions 1976-1980, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.
	1984	Elinor W. Gadon, "Sarah Swenson: Rites", Art New England, May 6.
	1984	Peggy Sadler, "Rites", New Hampshire Times, April 24.
	1982	Alexandra Johnson, "Out of the Daily, the Sacred", Christian Science Monitor, December.
	1978	Alexandra Johnson, "Blueprints Past and Present", Christian Science Monitor, March.

HONORS, AWARDS AND SERVICE
	1984	Visiting Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT.
	1983	Artist in Residence, Marlboro college, Marlboro, VT.
	1983-1987	Vermont Council on the Arts, Board of Trustees.
	1982, 1981	Vermont Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Panelist.
	1981	Ossabaw Island Project, Ossabaw Island, GA.
	1981	Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Award, Lithography, Cambridge, MA.
	1980	Memoirist, William E. Weiner Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee, New York, NY.
	1975, 1974	MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Peterborough, NH.
	1975	Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant.

LECTURES AND PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
	2007	Lecture, "Rites", Art & Soul Café, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 June.
	2007	Workshop, "Claude Lorrain and 17th C. Italian Studio Practice", with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with "The Painter as Draftsman; Drawings from the British Museum", Clark Art Institute, 29 April.
	2005	Lecture, “Caravaggio’s Painting Materials and Techniques”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “ Caravaggio; Una Mostra Impossibile”, Loyola University, Chicago, 5 December.
	2004	Presentation, “Rembrandt and Burnt Plate Oil”, with Phoebe Dent Weil for symposium “Approaching the Art of the Pasts: Sources and Reconstructions”, Instituut Collectie Nederlands, Amsterdam, 14-15 October.
	2004	Lecture, “The Painting Materials and Techniques of Rembrandt”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “Rembrandt’s Journey”, Art Institute of Chicago, 9 March.
	2004	Three workshops, “The Painting Materials and Techniques of Rembrandt”, with Phoebe Dent Weil in connection with the exhibition, “Rembrandt’s Journey”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 11 January.
	2004	Lecture, “Aphra Behn; Genesis of a Portrait”, for F.I.D.A.P.A. (International Federation of Business and Professional Women), Sezione di Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy, 22 October.
	2001	Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA.
	1997	Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.
	1996, 1995	Smith College, Northampton, MA.
	1994	Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
	1994	Holocaust Studies Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
	1994	Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
	1988	University of Maine, Lewiston, ME.
	1987	Trinity College, Burlington, VT.
	1986	Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
	1986	Scripps College, Claremont, CA.
	1984	Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
	1981	Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.
	1972	Johnson State College, Johnson, VT.

TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT
	1990	Lecturer, Smith College Art Department, Northampton, MA.
	1981	Visiting Artist, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT.
	1985	Visiting Critic, Vermont Studio School, Johnson VT.
	1961-1963	Statistical Draftsman, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION
	1960	Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, BA.
	1951-1956	Art Students' League of New York.

BIRTHPLACE, DATE
	1938	Cairo, Egypt.

CONTACT
		5 Nash Hill Road Williamsburg, Massachusetts 01096 Phone 413-268-3020 email: sarah@remove thisbelchetz-swenson.com