Death: January 21,1972 Denver, Colorado
Places of residence: Rock island, Illinois - 3 years, Davenport, Iowa - 14 years, Marengo, Iowa - 9 years, Iowa City, Iowa - 3 years, Boulder, Colorado - 23 1/2 years
Pre-College Education: St. Paul's Paraochial School, Davenport, Iowa 6 years, Sudlow Intermediate Public School, Davenport, Iowa - 3 years, Marengo High School, Marengo, Iowa - 4 years.
College
Education: State
University of Iowa beginning in September, 1938 - 3 years of
under graduated programs in Fine Arts which was interrupted by 4 years
of military service.
Returned to the State University of Iowa for 3 1/2 years to complete B.F.A. degree in February, 1947 and M.F.A. degree in June, 1948.
Military Service: Enlisted in the United States Army Infantry, April 1942 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Basic training, intelligence Company, Camp Roberts, California. Passed O.C.S. Examination Board, but choose assignments to G-2 Section of newly reactivated 90th Infantry Division, Camp Berkeley, Texas in the summer of 1942. Transferred to G-3 Section Fall of 1942 and remained in the service of that section until discharged, October 15, 1945. The 90th Infantry division saw combat-foreign service in England ( 3 months of intensive preparation for D-Day landing), France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. The 90th Division saw continous action from D-Day, Utah Beach, until contact was made with Russian Forces south of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Discharged at Fort She rid an. Illinois on October 15, 1945, rank of Master Sergeant, Head Operations Sergeant, G-3 Section. Headquarters, 90th Infantry Division.
Marital Status: Married to Elaine N. Carson in Iowa City, Iowa on June 3rd, 1948. Two Sons: Timyan S. Black, April 22, 1950 and Kenyan L. Black,January 25, 1958 both born in Boulder, Colorado.
Academic Record: Instructor, University of Colorado, Department of Fine Arts, September, 1948. Assistant Professor, July 1, 1950. Associate Professor, July 1, 1955. Granted Tenure, July 1, 1957. Professor, July 1, 1963.
Professional Record: from 1946 to 1963 the work of Wendell H. Black as an artist/printmaker/painter had been shown in approximately one hundred twenty regional, national and international exhibitions.
From 1956 until his death in January 1972, he had the following one-man exhibitions of prints, painting and drawings.
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
University of Illinois in Urban
University of Wisconsin in Madison
Wisconsin State Teachers College in Duango, Colorado
Oregon state college in Corvallis
Illinois Welryan University in Provo, Utah
University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington
Community Jewish Center in Long Beach, California
University of Colorado in Boulder
Carleton College in North field, Minnesota
Josyln Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
In 1973 Professor Berkeley Chapel of Oregon State University in Corvallis, and one of Black's graduate students at the University of Colorado in the 1950's, started printing the uncompleted editions of the Wendell Black plates. Not only did he complete printing the editions, but he also framed, glazed and crated a traveling show which opened at Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon in 1977.
In 1985 when Chappell came to Boulder to lecture at the opening of this traveling show exhibitions at the University of Colorado, he discovered 30 more unprinted and unknown plates in Black's home studio. The printing of the unknown plates too, then became a part of his agenda.
With the printing of the unknown plates came the book, "The Lost Prints of Wendell H. Black," written by Henry M. Sayre in conjuction with Berkeley Chappell and Published by Oregon State University Press in 1990.
Since his death there have been the following one-man exhibitions in prints:
Oregon State University at Corvallis (1972)
University of Colorado at Boulder (1972)
Salishan Lodge Art Gallery, Gleneden Beach Oregon (1977)
Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado (19779)
National College of Arts and Design, Dublin, Ireland (1979)
Slade School, London, England (1979)
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London (1980)
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (1980)
Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon (1982)
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (1985)
Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas (1986)
Oregon State University at Crvallis (1990)
Cental Washington State University, Ellensburg, Washington (1991)
Work featured in national publications:
Art News, 1955
La Revue Moderne, Paris, 1957
Black's work is represented in many private collections, and is owned by the following museums and universities:
Bibliotheque Nation ale, Paris, France
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Oakland, California Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Butler Institute, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Oklahoms City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Hall Collection, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Ohio State University, Columbs, Ohio
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota
University of Alaska, College City, Alaska
Minneapolis Musem of Art, Minnesota
|Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri
Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Witchita Sate University, Witchita, Kansas
Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, a suite of 57 prints
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, a suite of 25 prints
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
The Residency of the U.S. Ambassador, Dublin, Ireland
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, suite of 13 prints
Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, Colorado, a suite of 17 prints
Northeast Magnet High School, Witchita, Kanas, A suite of 14 prints
Maize High School, Maize, Kanas, a suite of 14 prints
Work represented in traveling exhibitions outside the United States as follows:
Bordighera Bienale, Italy
Circolo dela Stampa, Turin, Italy
Centre Cultural American, Paris, France
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Bath Academy of Art, Gorsham Court, Wiltshire, England
Lawrence Adler Galleries, Johannesburgh, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Capetown, South Africa
Galleries 'Nees Morphess' (New Forms Gallery) Athens, Greece
Black Served as Visiting Artist in the following workshops
Brigham Young University, two week workshop, prntmaking, summer, 1960 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, three day workshop, printmaking, March, 1962 Tamarad Artist-Teacher Fellow, summer, 1963 at Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Guest Instructor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, one week, May, 1965
Represented by Galleries:
Weyhe, New York City
Otto Selimann, Seattle, Washington
The Gallery, Denver, Colorado
