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Ernest Briggs

Ernest Briggs (1923 - 1984) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Ernest Briggs is known for Abstract expressionist painting, other modern, teaching.

Ernest Briggs studied at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, 1946-1947 and the California School of Fine Arts, 1947-1951. Briggs co-founded Metart Galleries in San Francisco, 1949 and then in 1953 moved to New York. Taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1958; Pratt Institute, New York, 1961-1984; and Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture, 1967-1968.

Solo Exhibitions: Metart Galleries, 1949; Stable Gallery, New York, 1954, 1955; California School of Fine Arts, 1956; Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1960, 1962, 1963; Yale University Art Gallery, 1968; Green Mountain Gallery, New York, 1973; Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, 1975; Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984

Selected Group Exhibitions: 68th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949; 72nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Fra   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3225 characters.]  Artist bio

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