SYD SOLOMON
Born Uniontown, PA 1917 - 2004
Education: Art Institute of Chicago; L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Teaching: Pittsburgh Art Institute; Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota School of Art; Famous Artists School;
New College in Sarasota; Visiting Instructor at University of Illinois in Urbana; Visiting Professor at
Roberson Center for the Arts in Binghamton, NY; Visiting Artist at Tampa Bay Art Center.
Awards: Wrote and directed original play "Off Limits", which toured in France, Belgium and
Luxembourg during 1945; State Department U.S. Cultural Exchange program to Israel;
Ford Foundation Special Purchase Grant for the Guggenheim Musuem.
Exhibitions: Many exhibits from 1944 including Clearwater Museum of Art in Clearwater, FL;
Lowe Art Gallery in Coral Gables; Associated American Artists Galleries;
Saidenberg Gallery in New York; Midtown Gallery; Trend House Gallery in Florida;
Brevard College; Paintings of the Circus at Sarasota Art Association;
Annual Exhibition at the American Water Color Society 1955;
Fifty Ninth Annual Exhibition at the National Collection of Fine Arts,
Smithsonian 1956; Invitational Exhibition at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art in 1964; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
Biography from Wikipedia