1. Charles Florian Cajori was an abstract expressionist painter who, through his drawing, painting and teaching, made a significant contribution to the New York School of artists that emerged in the 1950s.
20 Facts About Charles Cajori
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Charles Cajori was born in Palo Alto, California, to Florian Cajori and Marion Huntington Haynes.
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Florian Charles Cajori was a bio-chemist and taught in the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Charles Cajori went to school on the Main Line in the western suburbs of Philadelphia before enrolling in Colorado Springs Art Center in 1939 and the Cleveland Art School from 1940 to 1942.
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Charles Cajori was drafted in 1942, and spent four years in the US Air Force.
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Early on Charles Cajori discovered New York's downtown scene, and began attending the lively gatherings at the Cedar Tavern and the panels at the fabled Eighth Street Club.
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Charles Cajori became especially close to Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, and in 1952 he joined with Lois Dodd, Angelo Ippolito, William King and Fred Mitchell to found the Tanager Gallery on East 10th St The gallery was to become central to the lives of many of the contemporary working artists.
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Charles Cajori was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Italy in 1959.
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Charles Cajori met his wife, Barbara Grossman, at Cooper Union and they married in 1967.
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Charles Cajori's work appeared in numerous group shows including annual and biennial shows at the Stable Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Charles Cajori was to teach at the school for the remainder of his active years.
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Charles Cajori retired from full-time teaching in 1986 to devote his time to painting and drawing.
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Charles Cajori exhibited in New York City at the Howard Wise Gallery, Ingber Gallery, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, and at the Gross-McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia as well as numerous colleges and universities, including Dartmouth College, American University, Cornell University, Wright State University, the New York Studio School, Central Connecticut State University, Cincinnati Art Academy, University of Texas at Austin, Bennington College, and the University of Washington at Seattle.
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Charles Cajori's work was reviewed in all the major art journals and newspapers of the day.
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Charles Cajori keenly focused on the ideas about perception and the way we as humans are encompassed by the environment we found ourselves in.
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Charles Cajori drew about once a week in his studio, hiring people with whom he often developed friendships.
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Charles Cajori exhibited those drawings along with the paintings and sometimes mixed-media inventions.
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In 2011, Cajori submitted a statement to E Ashley Rooney for inclusion in his book on New England artists:.
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Reviews of Charles Cajori's work appeared in the New York Times, The New York Observer, Art News, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Art New England, Review, SoHo Weekly News, Art International, The New York Post, The Brooklyn Rail and artcritical.
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Charles Cajori's work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Arkansas Art Center, the Honolulu Art Academy and the National Academy of Design.