Babe Shapiro

American (1937 - 2016)

Birth place: Irvington, NJ

Addresses: NYC

Studied: State Teachers College, Newark, NJ (B.S.); Hunter College (M.A.), with Robert Motherwell.

Exhibited: AFA, 1960; Biennial Exhib. Contemporary Am. Painting, Univ. Illinois, 1963; New York World's Fair, 1965; Cincinnati AM, 1966; Indianapolis Mus. Art, 1970; A.M. Sachs Gal., NYC & Gertrude Kasle Gal., Detroit, MI, 1970s. Awards: Newark Mus. Triennial Purchase Prize Award, 1958 & 1961; first prize in painting, Monmouth College, NJ, 1963; Ford Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Quincy (IL) Art Club, 1966.

Work: Kresge AC, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing; Newark Mus.; Andrew Dickson White Mus., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Cooper-Hewitt Mus, Smithsonian Inst., NYC

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics. Teaching: painting instructor, Maryland Inst. College Art, Baltimore, 1964-.