Florence Miller Pierce - CV

American, b. 1918 Washington D.C, d. 2007 Albuquerque, NM

Education:

  • 1933 Private art studies with May Ashton, Washington D.C.
  • 1935 Classes at the Studio School located in the Phillips Collection
  • 1936 Emil Bisttram’s School of Art, Taos NM

Collections:

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
  • City of Albuquerque Public Art Program
  • Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
  • Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
  • Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  • Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
  • Liquid Paper Company, Houston, TX
  • The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
  • New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • Rockefeller University, New York, NY
  • Rust Tractor Company, Albuquerque, NM
  • Sasebo Museum, Sasebo, Japan

Museum exhibitions:

Current and upcoming:

April 5 - July 20, 2025,  'Light, Space, and the Shape of Time', Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM
June 27 - January 13, 2026, 'Once Within a Time', SITE Santa Fe 12th International, Santa Fe, NM

Selected past exhibitions:

  • 2023  Harwood Museum 100 Year Anniversary, Taos, NM 
  • 2023  Shadow and Light” Inaugural Exhibition, New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2022  'Another World; The Transcendental Painting Group',  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, travelled in 2023 to LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2014 SITE Santa Fe Biennal, Santa Fe NM
  • 2010  Emil Bisttram and the Taos School of Art (group), Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
  • 2009  Illumination: Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
  • 2005 Florence Miller Pierce (solo exhibition), Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
  • 2004-05 In Pursuit of Perfection: The Work of Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez and Florence Pierce, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2003 Collectors Gallery XXXIV (group), McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
  • 2001 Originals: New Mexico Women Artists, organized by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
  • 1998 The City Series (group), Cedar Rapids Museum, Cedar Rapids, IA
  • 1997 Florence Miller Pierce (solo exhibition), New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1995 Florence Miller Pierce (solo exhibition), The Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX
  • Independent Spirits: Women Artists of the American West, 1890-1945, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA
  • Selected Works by Taos Artists From the Collections of the University of New Mexico Museum and the Jonson Gallery, Harwood Foundation, Museum of the University of New Mexico. Taos, NM
  • 1992 Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde: 1912-1950, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH. Traveled to The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago IL; and Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth TX
  • 1991-92 The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940’s Selections from The Penny and Elton Yosuna Collection, The Worchester Art Museum MA; traveled to: Samuel P Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
  • 1990-91 Alcove Show Invitational, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1990 The Art of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
  • 1989 Albuquerque 50s, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
  • 1982 The Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
  • 1975, 1973 The Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico Biennial, Santa Fe , NM

Gallery exhibitions:

  • 2024  Florence Miller Pierce: Into the Light, The Wright Contemporary, Taos , NM
  • 2022  James Marshall and Florence Miller Pierce, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2017  Works on Paper, Armory, NYC Group show, Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2016  Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA, Group show, Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2010  Estate of Florence Pierce (solo exhibition), Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2006, 1996, 2004, 1994,  Florence Miller Pierce (solo exhibitions),Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1993  Three Women – Mala Breuer, Agnes Martin, Florence Pierce, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Select Publications:

  • 2021 'Another World, the Transcendental Painting Group', by Michael Duncan, published by the Crocker Museum
  • 2009 'Illuminations: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Pierce', Timothy Robert Rodgers, Sharyn R. Udall, Michael Zakian, and Karen Moss. Merrell Press
  • 2005 'Florence Pierce: A Light-filled Domain', Julie Sasse., Tucson Museum of Art
  • 2004 'In Pursuit of Perfection – The Art of Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez, and Florence Pierce', Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
  • 1998  'Florence Pierce: In Touch With Light',  Lucy Lippard, Palace Press International
  • 1998 'American Abstract Art of 1930s and 1940’s: The J. Donald Nichols Collection', Harry Abrams Press
  • 1995 'Independent Spirits – Women Painters of the American West, 1890 – 1945', Patricia Trenton, Editor. Autry Museum of American Heritage in conjunction with the University of California Press
  • 1994 'Still Working', Stuart Shedletsky, Editor. The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Parsons School of Design in association with the University of Washington Press
  • 1992 'Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde 1912-1950', Gail Levine and Marianne Lorenz. Dayton Art Institute
  • 1991 'The Second Wave: American Abstraction of 1930s and 1940’s', Susan E. Strickler and Elaine D. Gustafson. Worcester Art Museum
  • 1988 'Exposures: Women and their Art', Betty Ann Brown, Arlene Raven, and Kenna Love. Newsage Press
  • 1983 'Transcendental Paintings Inspired by the Landscape and Mind', Kathryn Gabriel. Quantum, University of New Mexico
  • 1982 'Daily Bread: Art from the Female Experience', New Mexico Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts
  • 1982 'The Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico, 1938-1941', the Albuquerque Museum.

Television and Film:

  • 2015 “Painting Albuquerque” .New Mexico PBS, KNME.
  • 1994 “Still Working,” CBS, The Sunday Morning Show, June 26, 1994
  • 1990 “The Art of Growing Older,” KNME-TV, Los Colores, NM, February 14, 1990
  • 1943 “Meshes of the Afternoon”. Short film. Directed by Maya Deren

 

 

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