Kahlil George Gibran: November 29 1922 - April 12 2008
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Sometimes known as "Kahlil George Gibran" (note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name), was a Lebanese American painter and sculptor from Boston, Massachusetts. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists". Called a "master of materials", as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who was cousin both to his father Nicholas Gibran and his mother Rose Gibran, the sculptor co-authored with his wife Jean a biography of the poet entitled Kahlil Gibran His Life And World. Gibran is known for multiple skills, including painting; wood, wax, and stone carving; welding; and instrument making.
STUDIED
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts ~ Boston, MA.
PAINTINGS [1945 - 1952]
Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston
Mortimer Leavitt Gallery,
NY
Group shows: Niveau and Seligmann Galleries, NY
Boston Museum
Carnegie Institute
Gulf Coast Circuit Show
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Museums & Galleries nationwide
SCULPTURE [1953 - Present]
Bloomfield Art Association
Boston Arts Festival
Chicago Art Institute
Houston Museum
National Academy
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pennsylvania Academy
Portland Art Festival
Jaques Seligmann Gallery
Utica Museum
Art USA
Washington Cathedral
Whitney Annual
Yale University
Chrysler Museum, Provincetown
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Fuller Art Center, Brockton, MA
Norfolk Museum of Fine Arts, VA
Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville
Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
Wm. Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Obelisk Gallery, BostonShore Gallery, Boston & Provincetown
Ward-Nasse Gallery, Boston
Lee Nordness Gallery, Boston
Southwest Harbor Galleries, Boston
Cambridge Art Association
Boston Center for the Arts
Provincetown Fine Arts Center
Boston Athenaeum
Elmira College, NY
Bologna Landi Gallery, Easthampton, LI
Esthetix Gallery, Boston
La Posada, Santa Fe, NM
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts
Duxbury Fine Arts Complex
The Gallery at India Street, Nantucket
Ann Woods Ltd. Charlottesville, VA
Aura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Copley Society of Boston
Denenberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
Pierce Galleries, Hingham, MA
Contemporary Sculpture, Chesterwood, MA 1997
St. Botolph Club 1998French Library 1988
Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, 1999
Provincetown Art Association, 1999
School Scholarships
Popular Award and Grand Prize, Boston Arts Festival
George Widener Award, Pennsylvania Academy
Two, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
John Gregory Award, National Sculpture Society
Gold Medal, International Exhibit, Trieste, Italy
Citation of Merit, Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Sculpture Kahlil Gibran, introduction by Evan H. Turner
Gibran Muses Medallions Monuments, illustrated catalogue
Kahlil Gibran His Life And World - Biography of the poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran [1883 - 1931]
NY Graphic Society: 1974; revised Interlink; 1993
Observations On The Reasons For The Cremona Tone, Boston: 1993
COMMISSIONS
Bronze Bas Reliefs
Austin Smith Forsythe Dental Clinic, 1971
Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931 Copley Square, Boston, 1977
Boston City Hall. 1987
Judge Francis Ford Federal Court House, Boston, 1977
Daniel Ahern Boston, 1978
Austen Jones Federal Court House, Boston, 1980
Judge Anthony Julian Federal Court House, Boston, 1995
Bronze 12 Foot Lady of the Cedars Jamaica Plain,
1981 Silver Medallion
Elliot Norton Awards Annually, 1983 - 1993
Elliot Norton Plaque Wilbur Theater, 1993
Bronze Torso Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931 Worcester State College, 1987
Bronze Figure West Canton Street Child Hayes Park, Boston, 1992
Hand Wrought Processional Cross All Souls' Church, San Diego, CA 1994
Bronze John Singleton Copley Award, Copley Society of Boston, 1996
Bronze Clasped Hands Alimed Inc., Dedham, 1997
Several privately commissioned portraits