biografía de Charles HARSANYI (1905-1973)

Lugar de nacimiento: Tapolcza, Hungary

Lugar de defunción: Fort Myers, FL

Direcciones: Jackson Heights, NY, 1947; Stephentown, NY/ Cape Coral, FL, 1973

Profesión: Painter, drawing specialist

Estudios: Royal Acad. Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, with A. Bankhard, 1923-28.

Exposiciones: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1929, 1930, 1936-40, 1943-44; NAD, 1933-55; Salons of Am., 1934; BM, 1934; Corcoran Gal., 1935-51 (4 exhibs.); All. Artists Am., 1935-53 (bronze medals, 1944, 1953); Denver AM, 1937-39; Wash. Co. MFA, 1937-46 (prizes, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1954, gold med., 1946); WFNY 1939; BMA, 1939; AIC, 1941-44; CM, 1941; PAFA, 1942, 1948-1949; SC, 1946 (prize), 1951 (prize); CAFA, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1953, 1955 (Wm. Bradford Green Mem. Prize in 1945, 1953, 1955); Virginia MFA Biennial, Richmond, 1942 & 1946; Audubon Artists, 1945-52; Mint MA, 1946; Springfield MA, 1947-50; Farnsworth Mus., 1950; AFA traveling exhib.; Butler AI, 1953; Doctor Saharunis Art Gal., Naples, FL, 1970s. Awards: prizes, Long Island AL, 1954; Cumberland Valley Artists, 1949, 1950, 1952.

Asociaciones: SC; Brooklyn P&S; Am. Artists Congress; Soc. Indep. Artists; Audubon Artists (jury awards dir., 1952; chmn. admissions committee, 1953; nominating committee, 1955 & 1956); Artists Fellow; All. Artists Am. (life mem.; jury awards, 1945; jury selection, 1954).

Obra: MMA; Wash. Co. MFA, Hagerstown, MD; Rensselaer Co. Mus. Art, Troy, NY; Hungarian Studies Found, Rutgers Univ., Princeton, NJ; U.S. Govt., Wash., DC.

Comentarios: Preferred medium: oils. Marlor lists place of death as Fort Myers, FL.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Am. Art Today (Am. Fed. Art, 1939); Monhegan Island," Life Magazine (August 21, 1950); "A Wreck at Monhegan," Am. Artist (Feb., 1951); Falk, Exh. Record Series.