WARD L. DAVENNY b.1951
15 LOG CABIN RD. NEWVILLE, PA 17241
email: davenny@dickinson.edu
7177767906
EDUCATION:
  1980 - 82 Yale University. M.F.A. Degree in Printmaking/Painting
  1973 - 77 San Francisco Art Institute. B.F.A., Printmaking.
     
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
 

1994 - Present

Associate Professor, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking.
    Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  1999 - 02 Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  1998, '00, '04 CoDirector, Dickinson College Summer Studio Program, Toulouse, France
  1992 - 94 Assistant Professor, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking.
    Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  1988 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Printmaking and Drawing, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.Graduate and Undergraduate programs.
  1991 Consultant to Second Edition of the Harper Collins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques by Ralph Mayer
  1989 Vice President, Honolulu Printmakers
    Contributing writer to 5th edition of The Artists Handbook by Ralph Mayer.
  1988 Instructor, Figure Drawing, Intaglio, Wesleyan University
   

Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Middletown, CT

  1985 - 87

Lecturer, Printmaking and Drawing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

  1985 Instructor of Printmaking, Assumption College, Worcester, MA
    Instructor of Printmaking, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
  1983 - 84 Instructor of beginning and advanced Intaglio and Lithography,
George Walter Vincent
    Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
  1982 - 83 Assistant Printer with Prudential Press, Old Lyme Artworks, Old Lyme, CT
  1982 Teaching Assistant to Bryan Kay, Printmaking, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
  1981 - 82 Yale University, Teaching Assistant to Gabor Peterdi, Undergraduate Printmaking and Graduate Seminar in Printmaking
  1979 Member, Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS)
 
GUEST LECTURES:
  2004 Chicago Art Institute Graduate Program, Chicago, IL
  2003 Dominican University, River Forest, IL
    Oberlin College Performance Space, Cleveland, OH
  2001 Millersville University, Millersville, PA
    Amherst College, Amherst, MA
  2000 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
  1998 University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
  1997 California State University at Chico, Chico, CA
    Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Juror, Harrisburg, PA
  1996 New Arts Program, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
    Long Island University, Southampton, NY
  1995 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
(Juror, Undergraduate Exhibition)
    Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
  1994 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
  1993 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
  1992 Wright State, Dayton, OH
  1988 Yale University Summer Program, New Haven, CT
  1987 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
    Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  1986 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
  1984 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
     
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: Invitational Shows:
  2005 Solo Exhibition, "Wind Wheels / Serious Weather of the Midwest"
    Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  2003 Solo Exhibition, "Works on Paper", A Ten Year Retrospective, Dominican
    University, O'Conner Gallery, River Forest, IL
    "Mediated Nature; Visual, Sonic, and Interactive Art", Oberlin College Gallery
    and Performance Space, Cleveland, OH
  2002 "The Art of Hawaii: Enriched by Diversity", Hawaii State Art Museum,
Honolulu, HI
    Solo Exhibition, "Filling the Sky", Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 W. 57th St. NY, NY
    Solo Exhibition, "Digitally Reconstructed Landscapes", Ganser Gallery,
    Millersville University, Millersville, PA
  2000 "Filling the Sky", Recent Work by Ward Davenny and Sara Frankel, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
    "Four Artists", Mary Ryan Gallery 24 W 57th St, New York, NY .
  1999 "Changing Nature", Invitational Exhib., Susquehanna Art Museum,
Harrisburg, PA
  1998 Solo Exhibition, "Monumental Landscapes", Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 W. 57th St. New York, NY
    Solo Exhibition, Sainsbury Center Annex, Univ. of East Anglia,
Norwich, England
  1997 Solo Exhibition, The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
    Solo Exhibition, Dickinson Center, Toulouse, France
    "Collective Visions 19671997", Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, HI
    "Susquehanna Valley Invitational" Messiah College, Grantham, PA
  1996 Solo Exhibition, University of Long Island, Southampton, NY
 

1995

Solo Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY

  1994

Ward Davenny, Sara Frankel, Joint Exhibit, Gettysburg College,
Gettysburg, PA

  1993

Solo Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY

    Solo Exhibition, Trout Gallery, Weiss Center, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  1992 "Voyaging and Discovery": Hawaii Printmakers Invitational,
Honolulu Academy of Arts
    "Honolulu Art for Life", Invitational Benefit Exhibition and Auction for AIDS, The Contemporary Museum, Advertiser Gallery, Honolulu, HI
    "11", Group Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street,
New York, NY
  1991 Solo Exhibition, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
   

"Selected Acquisitions", Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

    "Small Works", Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
    "Landscapes" works on paper, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 W. 57th St,
New York, NY
  1990 "Inland and Island Printmakers", Washington State University, Pullman, WA
  1989 Solo Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY
    "Land and the Elements" Prints, Louise Ross Gallery, 50 W. 57th St,
NewYork, NY
    "Special Arts" Charity Auction of Contemporary Art, Christie's 502 Park
    Avenue, New York, NY
  1988 "Contemporary American Artists", McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
    "350 Years Contemporary Landscapes of New Haven", John Slade Ely
    House, New Haven, CT
  1987 Solo Exhibition, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
    "Ten from Storrs", Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
  1986 Solo Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 W. 57th St. New York, NY
    "The Peterdi Years", Recent Prints by Former Students of Gabor Peterdi, Yale
    University, Art and Architecture Gallery
  1984 Solo Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 W. 57th St. New York, NY
    Ward Davenny, Nancy Flanagan, Prints & Paintings, Assumption College,
    Worcester, MA
    "Landscapes, Prints & Works on Paper" Group Show, Kevin Pantry, .
    1000 St. Louis Street, New Orleans, LA
    Group Show, Wilhelm Gallery, 5201 Bayard, Houston, TX
    Connecticut Artists", Shippee Gallery, 41 E. 57th Street, New York, NY
  1983 "Four Contemporary Printmakers", Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
    "Contemporary American Landscapes" Group Show, Terrain Gallery, 141
    Greene Street, New York, NY
  1981 "5 Printmakers", Elmira College, New York
  1980 Solo Exhibition, "Landscapes", Thorne's Gallery, Northampton, MA
 
JURIED SHOWS:
  2000 Natl. Academy of Design, 175th Exhibition. Richard Recchia Mem. Prize. NY.
  1994 'Printwork '94' National Exhibition, Dutchess County Art Assoc. David Kiehl,
    Curator of Prints, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Juror. Award winner
    'Art of the State' State Museum, Harrisburg, PA. Linda KonheimKramer,
    Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum
  1992 "Prints and Paper" International Print Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute.
    Garo Antreasian, Juror. Award Winner
  1991 "Pacific Prints", California Hawaii Traveling Exhibition
  1989 Honolulu Printmakers 61st Annual Exhibition, Award Winner
  1985 8th Annual Eastern United States Print and Drawing Exhibition, Charlotte, NC
  1982 60th Annual Print Competition, Society of American Graphic Artists, NY, NY
  1979 Boston Printmakers 32nd Print Competition, DeCordova Museum Lincoln,MA
    World Art Exposition International Print Competition, Boston, MA
    57th Annual Print Competition, Soc. of American Graphic Artists, NY, NY
     
GRANTS:
  2001 Special Opportunities Stipend, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
  2001 Dickinson College Summer Scholar Award
  1999 Dickinson College Summer Scholar Award
  1996 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Individual Fellowship Grant
  1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
  1989 University of Hawaii Research Council Grant
  1987 University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant
  1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  1983 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant
  1981 Ford Foundation Materials Grant, awarded by Yale University
     
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
    British Museum, London, England
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Newark Public Library Print Collection, Newark, NJ
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
A.T. & T. Collection
Fraad Collection
American Express Collection, New York
Wiggins Print Collection, Permanent Print Collection of the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Academy of Arts
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Hawaii State Foundation for the Arts
Honolulu Advertiser Collection
The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Janet Turner Collection California State University Print Collection, Chico, CA
Department of State, Washington DC, United States GovernmenT
     
BIBLIOGRAPHY: (National publications)
    Big Weather, Mark Svenvold, author. H. Holt & Co. New York, NY. 2005
Sirena, Journal of Art, Poetry and Criticism,
2005
New York Times;
Arts section, March 24, 2000
New York Times;
Arts section, February 25, 2000
The New Yorker Magazine;
Arts, September 21,1998
Antiques and the Arts Weekly;
September 11,1998
Art in America;
reviews, July,1995
Journal of the Print World;
Summer,1989
   
CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
  1980 - present Mary Ryan Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY