Chronology
Solo Exhibitions
Herter Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Disruptions & Continuities: Recent Work by George Wardlaw, September 25–October 25, 2019
UMass Amherst NYPOP, New York, NY, George Wardlaw: Then and Now, November 10 9–December 17, 2017
South Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA, George Wardlaw: Recent Paintings, October 9–November 9, 2017
Yvette Torres Fine Art, Rockland, Maine, George Wardlaw: I Painted, I Paint (A selection of works from 1959-60 and 2016-17), August 4-September 16, 2017
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine, George Wardlaw: 1959 Landscape Paintings, hosted by Tripp Lake Camp to celebrate their 105th Anniversary, July 24–August 7, 2015
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, George Wardlaw: A Life In Art, Works from 1954–2015, May 29–August 30, 2015
Fischer Galleries, Jackson, Mississippi, George Wardlaw: Recent Work, May 29–August 30, 2015
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine, Genesis: Exodus, September 5–October 31, 2014
Schoodic Institute, Winter Harbor, Maine,Cycles: Time-Light-Life, 2013, catalog.
Morrison Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Introduction of Geometric Abstractions, 2013
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME, George Wardlaw: Transplants, August 15–September 16, 2012, catalog, excerpt by Suzette McAvoy from George Wardlaw: Crossing Borders.
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME, George Wardlaw: Maine Windows, August 16–September 14, 2009, brochure.
Hampshire College Art Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, George Wardlaw: Windows II, September 1–28, 2008, pamphlet.
Hampden Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 2–30, 2008, pamphlet.
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1984, 1989, 1996, 2000.
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, George Wardlaw: Exodus II, April 5–June 6, 1992, catalog with essay by Marjorie Welish.
Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1970, 1982, 1990, brochure-poster.
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, George Wardlaw: Transitions II, May 7–June 25,1989, brochure.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Retrospective), Memphis, TN, George Wardlaw: Transitions, September 18–October 30, 1988, catalog with essays by J. Richard Gruber, John Slorp, and William P. Heidrich.
Memphis College of Art (Retrospective), Memphis, TN, September 18–October 30, 1988.
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, George Wardlaw, January 19–February 16, 1986, brochure.
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA, George Wardlaw Sculpture, October 2–31, 1984.
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA, George Wardlaw Recent Work, March 2–27, 1982, catalog with essay by Richard Muhlberger.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, George Wardlaw, December 3, 1978–February 4, 1979, catalog with essay by Hugh Davies.
Lincoln Campus Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, George Wardlaw “Recent Paintings”, July 26–August 27, 1971, poster.
Long Island University, Southampton, NY, George Wardlaw Recent Paintings, 1969.
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, George M. Wardlaw, April 13–May 22, 1966, brochure.
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968.
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1965
Betty Parsons Gallery, Section 11, NY, NY, George Wardlaw, November 29–December 17, 1959, pamphlet.
State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, 1959.
Campus Center, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 1951.
Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, TN, 1949.
Traveling Exhibitions
Work circulated in Europe and the Near East by the United States State Department
Work circulated in the United States by the American Federation of Arts
Work circulated in the United States by the Smithsonian Institute
Public Collections and Commissions
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
Johnson Wax, Racine, WI
Malone and Hyde, Autozone, Memphis, TN
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Honors and Awards
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2014–2015
Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant, 1987
Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant, 1985
University of Massachusetts Faculty Fellowship, 1983
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1983
Teaching
University of Massachusetts, Professor (Chairman, 1971–88), Department of Art, Amherst, MA 1968–90
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1964–68
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Associate Professor (Director, 1966–68), Norfolk, CT 1964–68
State University of New York, Assistant Professor, New Paltz, NY 1956–63
Louisiana State University, Instructor, Baton Rouge, LA 1955–56
University of Mississippi, Instructor, Oxford, MS 1952–55
Education
University of Mississippi, M.F.A., painting and sculpture, Oxford, MS 1955
Memphis Academy of Arts, B.F.A., painting, Memphis, TN 1951