Art
Review Excerpts
Vivian Raynor, The New York Times:
"A painter whose reputation goes back to the Manhattan of
the 60's, Mr. Fussiner has covered a lot of ground in his career.
Mr. Fussiner's art has grown bolder, simpler, and closer to Marsden
Hartley's."
Judy Birke, New Haven Register: "Howard
Fussiner is a very good painter ... one once again has the opportunity
to observe this artist's expressive brushstrokes as they burst
forth with vivid color that brings each picture surface to exuberant
life ... Fussiner imbues day and night, storm and sunshine with
a glowing intensity and magical light that clearly captures teh
moment of the day and the season of the
year ... This (the parade paintings) is a wonderful series of
works. In colors that are mainly primary, the artist's simplification
of line and form and his gregarious use of paint give life to
... paintings in which the paraders' high-spirited energies come
vividly to life."
Jude Schwendenrien, The Hartford Courant:
"Fussiner's art calls to mind other 20th century landscape
painters who were exceptional colorists, such as Arthur Dove and
Marsden Hartley. These images possess a unique and persuasive
power capable of instilling in the viewer a rush of a metaphysical
or highly emotional experience."
Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram:
"Fussiner is a kind of joyful Hartley with a touch of Matisse.
Hartley's stark primitive shapes find echoes in Fussiner's forms,
but the brooding cynicism is replaced by an exuberance of light-soaked
color."
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Education
Art Students' League; Hans Hofmann
School, Cooper Union School of Art, 1947-1949
New York University, B.S. 1951; M.A. 1952
Studied with Carl Nelson, Hans Hofmann, Robert Gwathmey, Hale
Woodruff
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College
Teaching
Southern Connecticut State University, Professor
of Art, 1960 to retirement 1988 as Professor Emeritus; Colby Sawyer
College, New
London, NH 1958-1960; Morehouse College, Atlanta,
GA 1952-55
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Selected
Exhibitions
Yale University (Slifka Center and Pierson College);
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.;
Hobart College, Geneva, NY; Slater Memorial Museum
(retrospective);
Choate School, Wallingford, CT, Mattatuck Museum,
Waterbury, CT as well
as many gallery exhibitions in CT, ME, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions
PA Academy, American Academy of Arts & Letters,
National Academy, The
Century Association, Swarthmore College, Directors' Choice at
the
Cooper Union.
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Collections
Represented in private, corporate,
museum and college collections in
the United States, England, Holland and Japan.
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Curator
"The Natural Vision", 399 Park Avenue,
New York City, which included,
among others, Leland Bell, Elmer Bischoff, Nell Blaine, Gandy
Brodie,
Robert DeNiro, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Georges, Leon Goldin,
John
Heliker, Wolf Kahn, Fairfield Porter, Hyde Solomon, Karl Schrag,
Reuben
Tam, Jane Wilson.
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Publication/Talks
Articles include "Organic Integration in
Cezanne's Painting", The Art
Journal; "The Use of Subject Matter in Recent Painting",
The Art
Journal; "John Sell Cotman, A Modernist Before His Time",
The
Connecticut Review.
Yale Art Gallery: "The Drawings of Rembrandt
and Claude Lorain", "The
Early Paintings of Corot" and "Saul Steinberg".
Yale Center for British Art: painting demonstration
for docents' training.
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Membership
Trustee, David T. Langrock Foundation, awards
grants to museums and
educational intstitutions
Associate Fellow, Morse College, Yale University
Member, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
