Bill Sullivan’s sublime use of color exalts the cityscapes of Midtown Manhattan, the mountains and volcanoes of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes, and the Hudson River Valley. Inspired by the Luminist painters like Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, and the painterly realists of the New York School, Sullivan set himself apart in his generation. He translated his own vision of these places into what John Ashbery called "a certain surreality." Sullivan weaves abstract passages of gradating color between striated clouds that stretch the length of the horizon. These surreal sky patterns are a recognizable feature in most of his work, a combination of design and color that is otherworldly. Reviewing Sullivan’s retrospective exhibit at the Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany in 2006, Alfred Corn wrote in Art in America, “Comparing these paintings with actual scenes, you see that Sullivan is willing to alter scale and detail so as to make a more coherent picture; realism has to make concessions to design and expression.”Sullivan was born in New Haven, CT in 1942. As a young man he attended Silvermine College and The University of Pennsylvania studying with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher and privately with Josef and Anni Albers. His first solo show of figures and still life paintings was in 1970 at Bowery Gallery, after which he further developed an interest in painting landscapes. Sullivan travelled to South America for several years with partner Jaime Manrique, which resulted in a solo show at Bogota’s Museo de Arte Moderno in 1978. Sullivan returned to New York City where he continued to exhibit his work in various galleries. He eventually moved to Hudson in 2002 until his passing in 2010. Curricilum Vitae Education University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A.Silvermine CollegePrivate study with Josef and Annie AlbersSolo Exhibitions2019 “Great Estates”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY2008 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY2007 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY2006 “The Autobiography of Bill Sullivan: A Landscape Retrospective”, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany NY2005 Roxbury Art Group, Roxbury, NY2003 The Gallery at The St. Charles, Hudson NY (two-person) "Paintings of South America" Curated by John Ashbery, Hudson NY2001 HHA Gallery, Riverdale, New York1999 Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA1996 Uptown Gallery, New York City1990 Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York City1990 Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California1989 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City1986 Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., New York City1986 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City1984 David Findlay Jr., New York City1981 Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York City1980 G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City1979 Galeria Condor, Barranquilla, Colombia1979 Galeria Finale, Medellin, Colombia1978 G.W. Einstein Company, New York City1978 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia1978 Capricorn Gallery, Washington, D.C.1976 Bowery Gallery, New York City1975 Webber Gallery, Portland, ME1974 Bowery Gallery, New York City1972 Bowery Gallery, New York City1970 Bowery Gallery, New York City1967 East End Gallery, Provencetown MA1965 John Slade Eli House, New Haven CT1964 The New Haven Library, CTSelected Group Exhibitions;2010 Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2010 Invitational Show, Brick Gallery, Catskill NY2010 New Acquisitions, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 2010 Local Self-Portraits, Hudson Opera House, Hudson NY2009 Contempocorpart, National Exibition Centre, Abu Dhabi2009 Four Hundred Years of The Hudson River, Albany Istitute of History and Art 2009 FIRST LOOK, Ramscale Fine Arts, NYC2008 Colombia County Counial on the Arts, Landscape Exbition, Hudson NY 2008 Colombian County Historical Society Show, Kinderhook NY2008 BCB Callery Group Show, Hudson NY 2007 2008 Group Show, BCB Gallery, Hudson NY2008 River Views, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 2006 2008 Group Show, BCB Gallery, Hudson NY2008 The Chair Project, Artwalk, Hudson NY 2008 Winterwalk, BCB Gallery2005 Hudson River Views, Bonnie Andretta Fine Arts, Hudson, NY 2005 Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art2004 Indelible, Gallery 2/20, NYC2004 Workshop Exibition, Dannette Koke Fine Art, NYC 2003 Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY2004 Juried Art Show, Columbian Councel on the Arts, Hudson NY Made In Hudson, Artwalk, Hudson, NY2002 Group Show, Musselman Gallery, Hudson, NY2001 The Landscape That Changed America, The Albany Instute of History and Art Albany, NY1999 Greenwoods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition; Curated by John Arthur, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma1998 Have Suitcase Will Travel; Conductor’s Gallery, London, England.1997 House/Scene; Curated by Josie McKee,The Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany 1997 Selected Prints, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY1997 Contemporary Selections, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1996 Eight Realists: Realism Then and Now, K & E Gallery, New York1996 Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 1996 Pencilvanians Drawn to New York, Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Roger Smith Gallery, New York1996 New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, New York1995 Five Aspects of American Landscape Painting, Curated by John Arthur, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts1995 New York City Views, Curated by Jim Yost, Owen Gallery, New York City 1995 Increased Visibility, Organized by Art Group, Leslie Lohman Gallery, NYC 1995 American Realism, The Bijutsu Seka, Various Japanese Cities Group Show; G.W. Einstein Co., New York City1994 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York City American Realism, Isetam, Tokyo & Seibu, Kobi & Kyoto, Japan1994 Town and Country Contemporary Landscape, A M.O.M.A. Traveling Exposition Sleeping & Waking curated by Frank Bernarducci, Wellesley Ross Gallery1994 Pride in Our Diversity, curated by Ronny Cohen, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York City1994 Paint Props and Process, curated by Margaret Mathews-Barenson, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York1993 Celebration, G.W. Einstein Co, Inc., New York City1993 Far Away Places Artists Who Travel, SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, NYC 1993 Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City1993 Art & Fantasy, Amos Eno Gallery and The Puck Building, NYC 1993 Organization of Independent Artists Benefit, Brook Alexander Gallery, NY 1993 19th & 20th Century Works of Art, Friends of OLONA Benefit, Hudson, NY1992 New York Icons, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York City1992 Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City.1992 19th and 20th Century Works of Art, Olana State Historical Site, Hudson, New York1992 Shanti Foundation Benefit Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1992 Contemporary American Landscape, World Art Collection in conjunction with Quatre Pieces Gallery, Yokohoma, Japan1992 The Scarf, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City1991 Urban Icons, curated by Susan Schreiber, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, NY1991 Edge of Night, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA1991 Spirit of Place Dada Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan. Group Show, Tatistchieff, Santa Monica, CA1991 Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City.1991 American Images, Crane Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World Art Collection, Yokohama; Daimon Art Gallery, Sapparo; Beersheba Gallery, Osaka, Japan1990 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York.1990 Plein Air Painting: Capturing the Moment, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California1990 Land/Sea/Air, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.1990 Penn Prints: 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.1990 A Little Night Music: Manhattan in the Dark, curated by Gerrit Henry, S.S.C. & B., Lintas Worldwide, New York.1990 Gallery Group Show, Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York.1990 Painting California: Five New York Artists Look at Los Angeles, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.1989 Food Show, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York1989 June Moon: Lunar Reflections by Contemporary Artists, G. W. Einstein Company, Inc.1989 Neo Romantics, Lafayette College, The Gallery, Williams Center for the Arts Romance is Back, curated by Margaret Matthews-1989 Berenson, S.S.C. & B.: Lintas Worldwide, New York.1988 New York Inspired: Past and Present, John Szoke Gallery, New York.1988 Contemporary Art at the Bayly, Bayly Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA.1988 The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA. 1988 The Nude, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza, New York.1988 Waterworks, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, S.S.C. & B.: Lintas Worldwide1987 The World is Round: Artist and Expansive Vision, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Parish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY; Arts and Science Center, Nashua, NH; College Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz, NY; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.1987 One of a Kind, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, S.S.C.& B.: Lintas Worldwide, New York City1987 Lush Landscapes, curated by Marc Cohen, Attitude Art, New York.1986 Self-Portraits, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc.1986 Night Landscapes, Schreiber/Cutler, Inc.1985 New York Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York.1985 Contemporary Still Life, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza.1985 American Art Now!, Columbus Museum of Arts and Science, Columbus, GA. 1985 Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, curated by John Yau, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; The Arsenal, New York.1985 Prints from the Lower East Side Printshop, Department of Cultural Affairs Gallery, New York.1984 Gifts to the Museum, Reading Museum, Reading, PA1984 New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, curated by Janice Oresman, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Tucson, AZ1984 Bowery on the Bowery Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York1984 Eight Years Later, Artists’ Choice Museum, New York1984 New Landscapes, Rahr-West Museum, Mantowac, WI; Frumkin Strobie Gallery, Chicago, IL.1983 Painted Light, Artist’s Choice Museum Travelling Exhibition: Queens Museum, New York; Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH.1983 The New Landscape, One Penn Plaza1983 In Honor of the Brooklyn Bridge, curated by John Yau, David Findlay Jr.1982 Contemporary Realism, One Penn Plaza 19811981 Escapes, curated by Ann Lauterbach, Art Latitude Gallery, New York.1980 Salon des Independants, New York Critics’ Choice, selected by Gerrit Henry, Grand Palais, Paris, France.1979 16 Realistas, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, Colombia.1979 Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museo de Artes Graficas, Maracaibo Venezuela.1978 Museo de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela1978 Grabados Internacionales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia.1978 Three Realists, Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Habatat Gallery, Dearborn, MI; and Jessie Besser Museum, Alpina, MI. 1978 The Classic Revival, Illinois State Museum; Quincey Art Center; Kirkland Gallery; Sharp Museum; University of Minnesota; Lakeville Center of the Arts Artists’ Choice: Figurative Art in New York, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NYC.1978 New Images: Figuration in American Painting, Queens Museum.1975 Selections from the Bowery Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA; Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ.1973 The Representational Spirit, New York State University at Albany, NY. 1971 Annual Purchase Exhibition, Smith College Museum of Art.1970 Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition (curator) Smith College Museum of Art, Baldwin-Wallace College, Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art, Long Island Univ. Albrecht Callery, Syracuse Univ. Lowe Art Center, Mobile Art Gallery, Winona St. College, Wisconsin State Univ., Louisiana State Univ. Univ. of South Western Louisiana, Edmonton Art Gallery. Awards2006 The Edgar and June Martin Fund2005 Furthermore Foundation (J.M. Kaplan Fund) 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1981 Ingram Merrill Fellowship, New York1979 Quirama Award, Instituto de Integracion Cultural, Medellin, ColombiaPublic and Corporate Collections Albany Institute of History and Art Cleveland Museum of ArtHudson River Museum Metropolitan Museum of ArtMuseo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia Museo de Artes Graficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela Museo de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela Museum of the City of New YorkNew York Public LibraryReading Public Museum and Art GalleryThe Alantic GroupAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company Bank of BermudaBank of Boston Bessener TrustChase Manhattan Bank, N.A. Chemical BankCitibank N.A.Continental American Life Insurance Diner’s Club, S.A.Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc. Lewis Foods, Inc.Mellon Bank of PittsburghMilbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy Mobil OilJ. P. Morgan Associates Morgan Lewis, Inc. Mutual of New YorkOlwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell, and Weyher Pittsburgh Plate Glass CompanyPrudential Life Insurance Company of America Reader’s DigestReliance NationalSecurity Pacific National Bank Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co. Time WarnerUnited Parcel ServiceU.S. Trust Company of New York Western Electric Company