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Dean Hartung studied at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio; The School of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Institute of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine. After College, He was an assistant to Jack Beal on several large paintings and worked with him on the mosaic subway mural commission in NYC. He has received a fellowship to attend the La Napoule Art Foundation and has been invited to paint at the Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Colorado. Dean’s paintings are in private and public collections and he has been included in exhibitions organized by a number of galleries and museums. He has been commissioned to create several important murals, including 9 murals for Montefiore Hospital and 6 murals for the Delaware County Courthouse. He has taught at several institutions including The New York Academy of Art, National Academy of Design, Penn State University, Swarthmore College and the Community College of Philadelphia. He received special recognition from The Ohio House of Representatives in 1998. He was included in the Cover article for American Artist Magazine March 2007 titled “Into the Heart of the West: 20 Interpret the Forbes Trinchera Ranch,”. He had a one man show of paintings last fall at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia and is currently working on a large private commission. He teaches drawing, painting, and mural-painting. His murals have been influenced and compared to Giotto, Veronese, Michelangelo, Sargent, Thomas Hart Benton, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro, Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, Edwin Howland, Blashfield, Harvey Dunn, Andrea Mantegna, Jack Beal,

La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France 1985

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1979

Cleveland Institute of Art BFA

Chicago Art Institute, 1979

Kent State University, 1978

2009 private Mural Commission 10’x27’ Bryn Mawr, Pa

2000-01, 2005 Mosaic Subway 41st & Seventh Ave. mural

collaboration with Jack Beal Mural 6’ x 9’ Reading Hospital, Reading, PA

1997-2002 Nine murals 6’ x 12’ Montefiore Hospital, New York, NY

1995-97 Mural Diptych Desmond Hotel, Malvern, PA

1994-96 Six 10’ x 24’ murals (1,440 running feet) depicting the history of Delaware County, Media County Courthouse Law Library

2006 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1981 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1984 Don Yates Gallery, New York City

1992 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007-9 Faculty Exhibition Art Students NYC

Into the Heart of the Southwest: 20 Painters Interpret the Forbes Trinchera Ranch, at The Forbes Galleries

Faculty Exhibition Art Students League

Faculty Exhibition National Academy of Design NYC

Holiday Imagery in Art, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

1998 The Artists’ Window, Lee Hanlsey Gallery, Raleigh, NC

1997 The Still Life, Gross McCleaf Gallery

1995 Night of Champions, Art and Athletics Invitational Exhibition, The Racquet Club of Philadelphia

1995-2002 26th Annual Summer Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery

1994 Contemporary Realists, Philadelphia Art Conservatory, Berwyn, PA

1993 Estelle Gross Memorial Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance

1991-92 Philadelphia Art Show, Nan Miller Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 Sports Art, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 Small Works, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 Spectrum Spectacular, Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN

1990 A Summer Place, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990 Sport in Art, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1989 Small Works Show, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1988 The Feminine, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Art and the Law, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, Traveling Exhibition

1986 Peter Fraenkel, Dean Hartung & Les Reker, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1986 Accurate Depictions? Figurative Realist Painters, School of Art, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

1986 The North County Landscape, Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College, Potsdam, NY

1986 Short Stories, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY

1986 Art and the Law, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN, Traveling Exhibition including Blanden Memorial Art Museum, St. Paul, MN and Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, WV

1986 Still Lifes, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Six are Selected: Emerging American Realists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Works on Paper, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Mood in Landscape, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Introductions, Rachel Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

1983 Bodies and Souls, Artists Choice Museum Kornblee Gallery, NYC

1983 Running ’83, New York City Running Club

1983 Skowhegan to Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1981 Brooklyn’ 81, Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Society, Brooklyn, NY

1980 For Real, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

1978-79 May Show, Cleveland Institute Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2007 - present 2006 - present 2003 Summer 2001-present

Instructor, Art Students League NYC

Adjunct Professor, Penn State College, Abington

Adjunct Professor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Instructor, Mural Painting, New York Academy of Design, New York, NY

1997-present, Associate Professor, Community College, Philadelphia, PA

1999-2001, Instructor, Painting, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1994, Instructor, Painting, The New York Academy, New York, NY

Awarded Forbes Traveling Grant to Colorado

Awarded Mural Grant from CCP

Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1985 Fellowship, LaNapoule Art Foundation, LaNapoule, France

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Forbes Magazine, New York, NY

Chemical Bank, New York, NY

Mr. & Mrs. M.Stephen Doherty, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Malcolm Holzman, New York, NY

Jack Beal and Sondra Freckelton, New York, NY

John Whitney Payson, New York, NY

ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia, PA

The Racquet Club, Philadelphia, PA

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Alter, Horsham, PA

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, MA

Into the Heart of The Southwest: 20 Painters Interpret the Forbes Trinchera Ranch March 2007 Steven M Doherty American Artist The Internet and the Studio Mark G. Mitchell Drawing , August 2004Magazine Editors, “A Survey of Contemporary Art of the Figure”, American Artist magazine, February, 1985Everingham, Carol J., Review, Houston Post, July 15, 1984Review, Christian Science Monitor, 1987Doherty, Stephen M., Dynamic Still Lifes in Watercolor, Watson-Guptil Publications, pp. 86-98Logue, Marion, “Budding Artists Learn from a Master”, Delaware County Daily Times, December 4, 1989Donohoe, Victoria, Easel Painting Show by Courthouse Artist”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1992Ellis, Hal, Feature Article, Delaware County Times, February, 1994Durso, Christopher “Delco Tells Its History in a Big Way The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 30, 1994Doherty, Stephen M., “Painting on the Scale of the Masters”, American Artist, December 1994Kay Oliver, “Art on a Grand Scale”, Chester County Business & Industry, 1995

Dean Hartung at the Gross McCleaf Gallery