Ian Hornak
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Ian Hornak was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker associated with the Hyperrealist
and Photorealist art movements.
, Ian Hornak relocated with his family to Michigan at age 8 and at age 9 he received a set of oil paints and a book of important Renaissance paintings from his Mother as a gift and immediately began copying the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci
and Raphael Sanzio. The artist remarked in an interview with the 57th Street Review in 1976, "I picked up my technique as a child through my interest in art and copying paintings I liked. I especially loved Renaissance painting, because it had clarity and simplification of form and great organization." Upon graduating from high school in New Haven, Michigan, Hornak relocated to Detroit and attended the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor and latter received his BFA and MFA at Wayne State University
where he taught for a short time.
Ian Hornak produced Hyper-Realistic
and Photorealist artwork with surreal
overtones in the midst of the pop art
movement. He was introduced into the New York
art scene in 1968 by Pop Artist, Lowell Blair Nesbitt
, with whom Hornak lived and worked with until 1969. By 1971, he maintained his primary residence and studio in East Hampton, NY
and a secondary penthouse studio in New York City
at 116 East 73rd Street near the corner of Park Avenue
. While living in East Hampton Hornak came to work with and befriend renown art world figures, Robert Motherwell
, Willem de Kooning
, Robert Indiana
, Andy Warhol
, Claes Oldenburg
and Fairfield Porter
.
In 1969, Hornak was showing in New York in group exhibitions at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery
and in 1970 upon the suggestion of Jackson Pollock
and Lee Krasner
's Nephew, Jason McCoy (assistant director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), he entered into an exclusive contract with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery
on West 57th Street (Manhattan)
, a relationship that produced the artists first New York Solo exhibition in 1971. Ian Hornak remained with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery until 1977 and in 1978 chose the Fischbach Gallery
of West 57th Street (Manhattan)
in New York to be his primary gallery, a partnership that lasted until 1984. In 1986, he entered into an exclusive contract with the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery of SoHo
and latter East 57th Street (Manhattan)
where he remained until his death in 2002.
The artists early works were pen & ink drawings and acrylic paintings of floating figures both clothed and nude, in addition to an erotic art
series. In 1970, Hornak began to produce primarily traditional landscapes in addition to conceptual multiple exposure
landscapes in the medium of acrylic, pen & ink and or pencil. From 1985 until 2002 he produced Dutch & Flemish-inspired botanical and still life paintings with 4-6 inch painted frames where the artist extended the imagery of the primary painting onto the frame itself. Author and Poet Gerrit Henry
said of these works in Art in America
Magazine in 1994 "Hornak's is a rather self-explanatory if not wholly tautological postmodernism. Perhaps, though, his excesses ring true for the approaching millennium: this is "end-time" painting that exercises its romantic license to the fullest in its presentation of multiple styles of the last fin de siecle - naturalist, symbolist, allegorical, apocalyptic." Throughout his career Ian Hornak's instruments of choice were the brush, pencil and pen; never did he resort to the creation of mixed media works or employ the use such devices as the airbrush. The artist often cited the Hudson River School
artists as major influences, especially Martin Johnson Heade
and Frederic Edwin Church
in addition to Nineteenth-Century German Romantic Artist, Caspar David Friedrich
.
Ian Hornak suffered an aortic aneurysm
on November 17, 2002 while painting in his studio in East Hampton, New York
. Though Hornak was immediately rushed to the Southampton Hospital
in New York and surgery was performed to repair the aorta
, he died on December 9, 2002 as a result of complications from the surgery. He was 58 years old.
In 2007, Ian Hornak's personal papers and effects were inducted into the Smithsonian Institution
's Archives of American Art
and in 2010-2011 Hornak's work was inducted into the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution
's National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution
's National Museum of American History
and the Library of Congress
. Ian Hornak was interred in a private section (not accessible by the public) of the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
in California on January 21, 2011. A traveling retrospective exhibition of his artwork will take place at the Forest Lawn Museum
in Glendale, California in 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
in the Eccles Building
located in Washington D.C. in 2012-2013 and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
in Hagerstown, Maryland in 2013.
(Chronicle Books, April 1, 2002 [Hardcover])
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1993 [Paperback])
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1992 [Paperback])
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association with Harry Abrams, Inc., Washington D.C., 1983 [Paperback])
"Artists of Suffolk County
," (catalogue) Heckscher Museum, September 22, 1978
December 30, 2002; written by KEN JOHNSON (NYT); The Arts/Cultural Desk
Late Edition - Final, Sect. A, p. 15.
Hyperrealism (painting)
Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures...
and Photorealist art movements.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, Ian Hornak relocated with his family to Michigan at age 8 and at age 9 he received a set of oil paints and a book of important Renaissance paintings from his Mother as a gift and immediately began copying the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
and Raphael Sanzio. The artist remarked in an interview with the 57th Street Review in 1976, "I picked up my technique as a child through my interest in art and copying paintings I liked. I especially loved Renaissance painting, because it had clarity and simplification of form and great organization." Upon graduating from high school in New Haven, Michigan, Hornak relocated to Detroit and attended the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in Ann Arbor and latter received his BFA and MFA at Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
where he taught for a short time.
Ian Hornak produced Hyper-Realistic
Hyperrealism (painting)
Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures...
and Photorealist artwork with surreal
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
overtones in the midst of the pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
movement. He was introduced into the New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
art scene in 1968 by Pop Artist, Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor.-Early years:Lowell Nesbitt was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and also attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England where he created a number of works in the...
, with whom Hornak lived and worked with until 1969. By 1971, he maintained his primary residence and studio in East Hampton, NY
East Hampton (town), New York
The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York...
and a secondary penthouse studio in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
at 116 East 73rd Street near the corner of Park Avenue
Park Avenue (Manhattan)
Park Avenue is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City borough of Manhattan. Through most of its length, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east....
. While living in East Hampton Hornak came to work with and befriend renown art world figures, Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.-Life and work:Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. His family relocated to Indianapolis, where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School...
, Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
and Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus....
.
In 1969, Hornak was showing in New York in group exhibitions at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery
Stable Gallery
The Stable Gallery, originally located on West 58th Street in New York, was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward. The Stable Gallery hosted early solo New York exhibitions for artists including Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol.-History:...
and in 1970 upon the suggestion of Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
and Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
's Nephew, Jason McCoy (assistant director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), he entered into an exclusive contract with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Tibor de Nagy Gallery
The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
on West 57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, a relationship that produced the artists first New York Solo exhibition in 1971. Ian Hornak remained with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery until 1977 and in 1978 chose the Fischbach Gallery
Fischbach Gallery
The Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin...
of West 57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
in New York to be his primary gallery, a partnership that lasted until 1984. In 1986, he entered into an exclusive contract with the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery of SoHo
SoHo
SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
and latter East 57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street (Manhattan)
57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
where he remained until his death in 2002.
The artists early works were pen & ink drawings and acrylic paintings of floating figures both clothed and nude, in addition to an erotic art
Erotic art
Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making. It includes paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, music and writing.-Definition:...
series. In 1970, Hornak began to produce primarily traditional landscapes in addition to conceptual multiple exposure
Multiple exposure
In photography, a multiple exposure is the superimposition of two or more individual exposures to create a single photograph. The exposure values may or may not be identical to each other.-Overview:...
landscapes in the medium of acrylic, pen & ink and or pencil. From 1985 until 2002 he produced Dutch & Flemish-inspired botanical and still life paintings with 4-6 inch painted frames where the artist extended the imagery of the primary painting onto the frame itself. Author and Poet Gerrit Henry
Gerrit Henry
Gerrit Henry was an American art critic, author and poet.Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic...
said of these works in Art in America
Art in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
Magazine in 1994 "Hornak's is a rather self-explanatory if not wholly tautological postmodernism. Perhaps, though, his excesses ring true for the approaching millennium: this is "end-time" painting that exercises its romantic license to the fullest in its presentation of multiple styles of the last fin de siecle - naturalist, symbolist, allegorical, apocalyptic." Throughout his career Ian Hornak's instruments of choice were the brush, pencil and pen; never did he resort to the creation of mixed media works or employ the use such devices as the airbrush. The artist often cited the Hudson River School
Hudson River school
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism...
artists as major influences, especially Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes...
and Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters...
in addition to Nineteenth-Century German Romantic Artist, Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...
.
Ian Hornak suffered an aortic aneurysm
Aortic aneurysm
An aortic aneurysm is a general term for any swelling of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal, usually representing an underlying weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location...
on November 17, 2002 while painting in his studio in East Hampton, New York
East Hampton (town), New York
The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York...
. Though Hornak was immediately rushed to the Southampton Hospital
Southampton Hospital
Southampton Hospital is a 168-bed hospital located in Southampton, New York. It is the only hospital located in the Hamptons. Southampton Hospital is a member of the Stony Brook University Medical Center. It was a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System from January 2005 to July 1, 2008...
in New York and surgery was performed to repair the aorta
Aorta
The aorta is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it branches off into two smaller arteries...
, he died on December 9, 2002 as a result of complications from the surgery. He was 58 years old.
In 2007, Ian Hornak's personal papers and effects were inducted into the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
's Archives of American Art
Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...
and in 2010-2011 Hornak's work was inducted into the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
's National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
's National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...
and the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
. Ian Hornak was interred in a private section (not accessible by the public) of the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California. The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.-History:...
in California on January 21, 2011. A traveling retrospective exhibition of his artwork will take place at the Forest Lawn Museum
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California. The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.-History:...
in Glendale, California in 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
in the Eccles Building
Eccles Building
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building houses the main offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. It is located at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C. The building, designed in the stripped-down classical style, was designed by Paul...
located in Washington D.C. in 2012-2013 and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum located in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States. The building is located off Park Circle and serves as a centerpiece in Hagerstown City Park. The museum was donated in 1929 by Mr. and Mrs. William Singer, Jr. It was completed in 1931 and two...
in Hagerstown, Maryland in 2013.
Ian Hornak's artworks are owned by the following public collections
- Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, Missouri
- Allen Memorial Art MuseumAllen Memorial Art MuseumThe Allen Memorial Art Museum is located in Oberlin, Ohio and is run by Oberlin College. Founded in 1917, its collection is one of the finest of any college or university museum in the United States, consistently ranking among those of Harvard and Yale...
, Oberlin, Ohio http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-18.html - Austin Museum of ArtAustin Museum of ArtThe Austin Museum of Art is Austin, Texas's primary community art museum, since it was established in 1961 as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. The museums roots date to 1943, when Clara Driscoll donated her 1916 lakeside estate in west Austin to be used "as a museum to bring pleasure in the appreciation...
, Austin, Texas http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-19.html - Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteBarbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteThe Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is located in Detroit, Michigan. It is one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. The Institute is composed of approximately 1,000 staff members, including 300 doctors many of whom are accademic leaders...
, Detroit, Michigan - Canton Museum of ArtCanton Museum of ArtThe Canton Museum of Art, founded in 1935, is a broad-based community arts organization designed to encourage and promote the fine arts in Canton, Ohio....
, Canton, Ohio http://www.cantonart.org/ArtGateway/collection/h/hornak-dunes%20in%20winter.html - Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren's Hospital of PhiladelphiaThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. CHOP has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Parents Magazine in recent years. As of 2008, it was ranked #1 in the nation for...
, Pennsylvania - Corcoran Gallery of ArtCorcoran Gallery of ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, Washington D.C. http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-21.html http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-22.html - Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeDartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
: Hood Museum of ArtHood Museum of ArtThe Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It...
, Hanover, New Hampshire http://dciswww.dartmouth.edu:50080/v3?gparam=db%3D181%26conn%3D237950660%26page%3DResultForm%26sid%3D1%26dfn%3D0%26srt%3D-1%26rrt%3D1-10%26qry%3DAll%2520Indexes%2520%2522hornak%2522&dsel=all&nrrt=&ndfn=3&func=Display&nsrt=-1 - Detroit Historical MuseumDetroit Historical MuseumThe Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century,...
, Detroit, Michigan - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemFederal Reserve SystemThe Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
, Washington D.C. - Forest Lawn MuseumForest Lawn Memorial Park, GlendaleForest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California. The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.-History:...
, Glendale, California - Galleria Internazionale, Milan, Italy
- George Washington University Art Galleries, Washington D.C.
- Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-23.html http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-24.html
- Children's Hospital Boston (Harvard Medical School affiliate)Children's Hospital BostonChildren's Hospital Boston is a 396-licensed bed children's hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.At 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
, Massachusetts - Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and ReproductionKinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and ReproductionThe Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction is a nonprofit research institute at Indiana University. It was established in Bloomington, Indiana in 1947...
, Bloomington, Indiana - Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and CarriagesLong Island Museum of American Art, History, and CarriagesThe Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages is an open air museum located in Stony Brook, New York. Founded in 1939 as the Museums at Stony Brook, it changed its name in 2000...
, Stony Brook, New York - Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
: Rare Books and Special Collections, Washington D.C. - Museum of Fine Arts, BostonMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
, Massachusetts - Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
- Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-16.html
- Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art MuseumJane Voorhees Zimmerli Art MuseumThe Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was founded in 1966...
, New Brunswick, New Jersey - St. Mary's University, TexasSt. Mary's University, TexasSt. Mary's University is a Catholic and Marianist liberal arts institution located on northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. St. Mary’s is a nationally recognized master’s level school ranked among the top colleges in the west for best value and academic reputation by U.S. News...
, San Antonio, Texas - Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
: Archives of American ArtArchives of American ArtThe Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...
, Washington D.C.http://www.aaa.si.edu/search/index.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/13650?term=ian%20hornak#ian1 - Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
: National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. - Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
: National Museum of American HistoryNational Museum of American HistoryThe National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...
, Washington D.C. - University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
: The Art Gallery at the University of MarylandThe Art Gallery at the University of MarylandThe Art Gallery at the University of Maryland is a contemporary art gallery on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Founded in 1955, the Gallery was initially housed in the Tawes Building before moving to a newly-constructed exhibition facility in the Arts-Sociology Building in...
, College Park, Maryland - University of Texas at San AntonioUniversity of Texas at San AntonioThe University of Texas at San Antonio, commonly referred to as UTSA, is a state university in San Antonio, Texas. With an enrollment of more than 30,000 students, it is the third-largest of nine universities and six health institutions in the University of Texas System and the eighth-largest in...
, San Antonio, Texas - Vassar CollegeVassar CollegeVassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
: Frances Lehman Loeb Art CenterFrances Lehman Loeb Art CenterThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. It was originally founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times...
, Poughkeepsie, New York - Washington County Museum of Fine ArtsWashington County Museum of Fine ArtsWashington County Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum located in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States. The building is located off Park Circle and serves as a centerpiece in Hagerstown City Park. The museum was donated in 1929 by Mr. and Mrs. William Singer, Jr. It was completed in 1931 and two...
, Hagerstown, Maryland http://www.ianhornak.com/index_ian_hornak-20.html - Wayne State UniversityWayne State UniversityWayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
Art Collection, Detroit, Michigan
Selected statements by art critic's and historians
- "Not since the Hudson River School glorified the grandiose panorama of the natural world in meticulous detail has an American artist embraced landscape painting with the artistic totality of Ian Hornak." - Marcia Corbino, "Hornak Exhibit: Landscapes At Their Best," Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 7, 1980.
- "He [Ian Hornak] is right at the top of the list of romantically descriptive painters today." - John CanadayJohn CanadayJohn Edwin Canaday was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.-Early life:...
, New York Times, January 12, 1974
- "Given his creative guidelines, Hornak has admirably succeeded in producing an imagery at once visionary and hauntingly intimate. It is personal painting that colors the memory, and stays fixed in the mind." - John Gruen, "Ian Hornak's Personal Painting," Arts Magazine, February 1976
- "Odds are 10,000 to one against a young artist surviving in New York on painting alone. But former Detroiter Ian Hornak has been doing so… More than surviving, this painter who just turned 30 has been living comfortably in a studio apartment on 73rd Street and in a weekend home on Long Island. Collectors wait in line for Hornak's landscape paintings since his third one man show sold out at New York's Tibor de Nagy Gallery." - Joy Hakanson, "He's one in 10,000," Detroit News, June 2, 1974
- "The exotic landscapes he began to paint were evocations of a world partly inside the mind but also with a very real existence outside related to color photography and modern industrial life. I was deeply interested in the implications of these paintings." - Frederick J. Cummings, Director [former], Detroit Institute of ArtsDetroit Institute of ArtsThe Detroit Institute of Arts is a renowned art museum in the city of Detroit. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars...
, May 1974 [circulated catalogue, "Ian Hornak: New Paintings and Drawings]
- "Successive viewings of Hornak's paintings make one sense that the artist takes great risks and that the risks are often successful… Without risks there is neither art nor achievement. Hornak's recent paintings are both." -John L. Hochmann, Arts Magazine, February 1978
Selected quotes
- "My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments." -Ian Hornak, The 57th Street Review, January 1976
- "While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are today suspect I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art." -Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine 1994
- "What I so like about Poussin and Cézanne is their sense of organization. I like the way in which they develop space and shape in architectural continuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, I get the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work out a visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images." - Ian Hornak, Sneed Gallery Catalogue (circulated) 1976
Selected studios and residences
- 116 East 73rd Street (penthouse), New York City, New York 11234. Ian Hornak's New York City studio and residence. Years active: 1968-1985.
- Hands Creek Road, East Hampton, New York 11937. Ian Hornak's primary residence and studio. Years active: 1970-2002.
- 33 Main Street, East Hampton, New York 11937. Ian Hornak's administrative offices and horticultural design studio. Years active: 1976-1984 (currently owned by Ralph LaurenRalph LaurenRalph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...
).
- 7193 Pine Glen Court, Sarasota, Florida (P.O. Box 34) 33583. Ian Hornak's winter studio and residence. Years active: 1985-2001.
Selected solo exhibitions
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1971 - Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington D.C.: 1971
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1972 - Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington D.C.:1973
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1973 - Gertrude Kasle GalleryGertrude Kasle GalleryThe Gertrude Kasle Gallery opened in 1965 in Detroit, USA. It operated for eleven years, displaying American contemporary art.- History :The founder of the Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Gertrude Kasle, was born in New York City on December 2, 1917, and began her life-long career in the art world very...
, Detroit, MI: 1974 - Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1974 - Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York: 1974
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1975 - Watson-de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX: 1975
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1976 - Sneed Gallery, Burpee Art Museum of Rockford, IL: 1976
- Tibor de Nagy GalleryTibor de Nagy GalleryThe Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1977 - A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: 1979
- John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA: 1980
- Fischbach GalleryFischbach GalleryThe Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1977 - Fischbach GalleryFischbach GalleryThe Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1979 - Fischbach GalleryFischbach GalleryThe Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1981 - Marie Selby Botanical GardensMarie Selby Botanical GardensThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens are extensive botanical gardens dedicated to research and collections of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems...
and Museum of Botany and Art, Sarasota, FL: 1981 - Fischbach GalleryFischbach GalleryThe Fischbach Gallery was founded by Marilyn Cole Fischbach in 1960 in New York City at 799 Madison Avenue. The gallery in its early days became known for hosting the first significant solo exhibitions of now leading art world figures including Alex Katz, Ronald Bladen and Eva Hesse. Knox Martin...
, 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1983 - The Gallery of Western Carolina UniversityWestern Carolina UniversityWestern Carolina University is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States. The university is a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system....
, Cullowhee, NC: 1984, (Retrospective of portraits and landscapes on paper) - Armstrong Gallery 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1985 - Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York: 1988
- Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, SoHoSoHoSoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
, New York, New York: 1988 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, SoHoSoHoSoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
, New York, New York: 1990 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, SoHoSoHoSoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
, New York, New York: 1992 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, SoHoSoHoSoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
, New York, New York: 1994 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, SoHoSoHoSoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...
, New York, New York: 1996 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, Fuller BuildingFuller BuildingThe Fuller Building is a tower block in Manhattan on the northeast corner at 41-45 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue.-Construction:The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building...
, East 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 1998 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, Fuller BuildingFuller BuildingThe Fuller Building is a tower block in Manhattan on the northeast corner at 41-45 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue.-Construction:The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building...
, East 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 2000 - Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, Fuller BuildingFuller BuildingThe Fuller Building is a tower block in Manhattan on the northeast corner at 41-45 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue.-Construction:The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building...
, East 57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street (Manhattan)57th Street is one of New York City's major east-west thoroughfares, which runs east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a...
, New York, New York: 2002 - Galleries Maurice Sternberg, John Hancock CenterJohn Hancock CenterJohn Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan...
, Chicago, IL: March–April 2009 ("Light From the Past: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective") - Galleries Maurice Sternberg, John Hancock CenterJohn Hancock CenterJohn Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan...
, Chicago, IL: April–May 2010
Selected bibliography
- Audrey Michelle Mast, "Spotlight: Labor of Love," Chicago Collection Magazine, Fall 2010
- Elise D’Haene, "The Art Scene: Ian Hornak in Chicago," East Hampton Star, April 29, 2010
- Chris Miller, "Review: The Big Picture Show/Galleries Maurice Sternberg," Newcity Art, Aug. 10, 2009
- Sara Herbert-Galloway, "Southampton's Star Studded Benefit: Southampton Hospital Celebrates 100 Years Of Healing," The Insider, Aug. 04, 2009
- Susan Saiter, "A Hospital Born from Two Surgeons in an Attic," Dan's Papers, July 10, 2009
- Chris Miller, "Review: Ian Hornak/Galleries Maurice Sternberg," Newcity Art, April 20, 2009
- Alan Artner, "Alan Artner's Gallery Roundup," Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, April 17, 2009 - "Light From The Past: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective," Galleries Maurice Sternberg, March 2009 (Circulated Catalogue)
- "The Art Scene: Ian Hornak Retrospective," East Hampton Star, Oct. 14, 2008
- Paul Varnell, "Art in bloom: Fall art exhibits feature wide range of genres," Chicago Free Press, Sept. 8, 2008
- Stephanie Cash, David Ebony, "Ian Hornak", Art in AmericaArt in AmericaArt in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, Feb. 2003 - "Ian Hornak", Washington Post, Jan. 1. 2003
- "Ian Hornak", West Hawaii TodayWest Hawaii TodayWest Hawaii Today is a Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i based daily newspaper. It is owned and published by Stephens Media, LLC.-History:West Hawaii Today began in 1962 as a special weekly edition of Hilo Tribune-Herald. Known as the Kona Tribune-Herald it continued in 1964 as a weekly.From late 1964 until...
, Dec. 31, 2002 - "Ian Hornak", Orlando SentinelOrlando SentinelThe Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of the Orlando, Florida region. It was founded in 1876. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Company and is overseen by the Chicago Tribune. As of 2005, the Sentinel’s president and publisher was Kathleen Waltz; she announced her resignation in February 2008...
, Dec. 31, 2002 - "Ian Hornak", Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 31, 2002
- "Ian Hornak", Dallas Morning News, Dec. 31, 2002
- "Ian Hornak", Milwaukee Journal SentinelMilwaukee Journal SentinelThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state...
, Dec. 31, 2002 - "Ian Hornak", Amarillo Globe News, Dec. 31, 2002
- "Ian Hornak", Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Dec. 31, 2002
- "Ian Hornak", The State, Dec. 31, 2002
- "Artist Ian Hornak", Victoria Advocate, December 31, 2002
- "Ian Hornak", Associated PressAssociated PressThe Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
, Dec 30, 2002 - Ken Johnson, "Ian Hornak, 58, Whose Paintings Were Known for Hyper-Real Look", New York Times, Dec. 30, 2002
- "Ian Hornak, 58; Painter Was Known for Photo-Realism Style", Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Dec. 20, 2002 - Morgan McGivern, "Ian Hornak, East Hampton Painter", East Hampton Star, Dec. 19, 2002
- Edward AlbeeEdward AlbeeEdward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
, Constance Ayers, Helen Harrison, Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach
(Chronicle Books, April 1, 2002 [Hardcover])
- "Ian Hornak: A perfusion of color", Florida Design Magazine, Volume 1-2, June-Aug, 2001
- Kay Kipling, "The Hamptons", Sarasota Magazine, Feb 1, 2001
- Phyllis Braff, "The Artistry of Getting Into Costume", New York Times, Nov 12, 2000
- John AshberyJohn AshberyJohn Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
Karen Wilkin, Tibor de Nagy: The First Fifty Years, 1950-2000 (Tibor de Nagy 2000 [Paperback]) - Gerrit HenryGerrit HenryGerrit Henry was an American art critic, author and poet.Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic...
, "Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie," November 1999 (Circulated Catalogue) - Sheridan Sansegundo, At The Galleries, East Hampton Star, November 4, 1999
- Phyllis Braff, "Moods of the Land and Its Other Inhabitants", New York Times, July 25, 1999
- Phyllis Braff, "What the Material Contributes to the Work", New York Times, April 18, 1999
- Phyllis Braff, "A 20th-Century Master, and Signs of the Season", New York Times, Feb 7, 1999
- Patsy Southgate, "Ian Hornak: Creating an Art Apart", East Hampton Star, November 11, 1997
- Jerry Gargiulo, Art Byte, The Independent, September 4, 1996
- Grace Glueck, "City Sophistication Spends The Summer on Long Island", New York Times, July 12, 1996
- Helen A. Harrison, "Gardening Themes, Diverse Pleasures", New York Times, June 23, 1996
- Genie Chipps Henderson, Rameshwar Das, "The Doll House" (1996 [Hardcover])
- Roger Caras, "Cats of Thistle Hill: A Mostly Peaceable Kingdom" (Fireside July 1, 1995 [Paperback])
- Readers Digest [back cover image & feature article], July 1994
- Gerrit HenryGerrit HenryGerrit Henry was an American art critic, author and poet.Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic...
, Art in AmericaArt in AmericaArt in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, July 1994 - Paul Cummings, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (Palgrave Macmillan; 6th edition June 15, 1994 [Hardcover])
- Leslie Ava Shaw, "The Sanity of Absolute Beauty", Cover Magazine, Feb. 1994
- "Drawing on Friendship, Portraits of Painters and Poets," The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Jan. 31, 1994 - Hilton KramerHilton KramerHilton Kramer is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator.Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of Arts Magazine, art critic for The Nation, and from 1965 to 1982,...
, "De Nagy, Secret Banker Charmed Bohemians," New York ObserverNew York ObserverThe New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and...
, Jan. 17, 1994 - "Folk Art by Loustau", The Press of Atlantic CityThe Press of Atlantic CityThe Press of Atlantic City is a daily newspaper based in Pleasantville, New Jersey. It is the primary newspaper for most of southeastern New Jersey and the Jersey Shore, publishing regional editions for Atlantic County, Cumberland County, Cape May County, and southern Ocean County...
, Jan 9, 1994 - Linda Southwood, "Love in a Pencil Line," The Westside Resident, Jan., 1994
- "West art & the law: annual exhibition: an exhibition of work by contemporary artists interpreting the law and society in our
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1993 [Paperback])
- Rose Slivka, East Hampton Star, Dec. 2, 1993
- "West art & the law: annual exhibition: an exhibition of work by contemporary artists interpreting the law and society in our
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1992 [Paperback])
- Phylis Braff, New York Times, Dec. 13, 1992
- Richard J. Bilaitis, Selections from the Wayne State University Art Collection (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1992 [Paperback])
- "West art & the law: annual exhibition: an exhibition of work by contemporary artists interpreting the law and society in our
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1990 [Paperback])
- Ian Hornak, "Birds on Canvas", Bird Talk Magazine, August, 1990
- "West art & the law: annual exhibition: an exhibition of work by contemporary artists interpreting the law and society in our
times" (West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, MN 1989 [Paperback])
- Robert Long, Four Painters and a Sculptor at the Benton, Southampton Press, Aug. 11, 1988
- Joan Altabe, "Modern Artist Draws Inspiration from Old Masters," Sarasota Herald Tribune, May 22, 1988
- Steven Chrzanowski, "Ian Hornak: A modernist tied to the past," HAMPTONS Newspaper/Magazine, July 17, 1987
- Dennis Longwell, "Masquerading as works of art," East Hampton Star, October 16, 1986
- Alvin Martin, "American Realism- 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors" (San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
in
association with Harry Abrams, Inc., Washington D.C., 1983 [Paperback])
- David L. Shirey, "Glimpses of Whats Current", New York Times, June 20, 1982
- Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, June 11, 1982
- Frank H. Goodyear, Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (New York Graphic Society 1981 [Hardcover])
- "to the Editor: 'Happiest Times,' 'Spacious Attack,' 'Vendetta,'" East Hampton Star, Oct. 2, 1980
- "to the Editor: 'Amateur Critic,' 'Thus Rests...,' 'A Perfect Eye,' East Hampton Star, Sept. 25, 1980
- "to the Editor: 'Artistic Meal,'" East Hampton Star, Sept. 18, 1980
- Peter SchjeldahlPeter SchjeldahlPeter Schjeldahl, , is an American art critic, poet, and educator.Schjeldahl was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up in small towns throughout Minnesota, and attended Carleton College and The New School...
, "33 Artists Offer 33 Views of Realism", New York Times, April 13, 1980 - Marcia Corbino, "Hornak Exhibit: Landscapes At Their Best," Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 7, 1980
- Gerrit HenryGerrit HenryGerrit Henry was an American art critic, author and poet.Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic...
, Art in AmericaArt in AmericaArt in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, Feb., 1980 - "New York realists 1980," (catalogue) Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York 1980
- Victoria Donohoo, The Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia InquirerThe Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
, June 3, 1979 - David L. Shirey "Guild Hall Displays Landscape's Lure", New York Times, Jan 14, 1979
- Jean Kemper Hoffmann, "Palette to Palate, The Hamptons Artists Cookbook," (A Guild Hall Museum Book; Times Books 1978 [Hardcover])
- John T. Elton, Romanticism in Painting, Humphrey Milford/Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, New York, 1978 - Helen Harris, "The New Realists", Town & CountryTown & Country (magazine)Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States.-Early history:...
, Oct. 1978 - Joy Hakanson Colby, "Painting in the Big Apple," Sunday News Magazine, Detroit News, September 18, 1978
- David L. Shirey, "More Real Than Real", New York Times, Aug 6, 1978
"Artists of Suffolk County
Suffolk County, New York
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," (catalogue) Heckscher Museum, September 22, 1978
- "Long Island This Week", New York Times, July 23, 1978
- "Aspects of realism," (catalogue) Guild Hall, East Hampton July 22, 1978
- John Hochmann, "Wordsworth in the Tropics and Hornak's Painting", Arts Magazine, Feb. 1978
- Anne Sargent Wooster, Art News, Jan. 1978
- Vivien Raynor, "Representation Is Alive in SoHo", New York Times, Dec. 30, 1977
- Ann Barry, "Arts and Leisure Guide", New York Times, Oct. 30, 1977
- Ann Barry, "Arts and Leisure Guide", New York Times, Oct. 23, 1977
- Mary Lou Kelley, "At Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeDartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
," The Christian Science MonitorThe Christian Science MonitorThe Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper published daily online, Monday to Friday, and weekly in print. It was started in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As of 2009, the print circulation was 67,703.The CSM is a newspaper that covers...
, August 18, 1977 - Julian Weissman, Art News, March 1976
- John Gruen, "Ian Hornak's Personal Painting", Arts Magazine, Feb. 1976
- "Arts and Leisure Guide", New York Times, Jan. 4, 1976
- Norman Lombino, "Interview", The 57th Street Review, Jan. 1976
- C. Greene, "Critique, Editor," East Hampton Star, September 1, 1975
- "Hornak paintings add interest to two areas," Ohio Citizens Trust Co. Tempo Magazine, April 1975
- John Gruen, The Soho News, Jan. 1975
- David Bourdon, The Village VoiceThe Village VoiceThe Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, Jan. 20, 1975 - "Arts and Leisure Guide", New York Times, Jan. 19, 1975
- "Arts and Leisure Guide", New York Times, Jan. 12, 1975
- Gregory Battcock, Super Realism: A Critical Analogy (E.P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1975 [Paperback])
- Joy Hakanson, "He's one in 10,000", Detroit News, June 2, 1974
- Jack Mitchell, "The Artist as a Subject", Arts Magazine, Jan. 1974
- John CanadayJohn CanadayJohn Edwin Canaday was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.-Early life:...
, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 1974 - John Scarborough, Houston ChronicleHouston ChronicleThe Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...
, May 27, 1974 - Frederick Cummings, [circulated catalogue] "Ian Hornak: New Paintings and Drawings", May 1974
- "Ian Hornak," ARTnews, March 1974
- Judith Van Baron, Arts Magazine, March 1974
- "Opening Saturday," East Hampton Star, January 3, 1974
- "What's New in Art; In the Galleries", New York Times, Dec. 30, 1973
- "Art Shows", Washington Post, June 1, 1973
- "Georgica Pond at Sunset," East Hampton Star, May 24, 1973
- Paul Richard, "Major Influence, Minor Artist", Washington Post, May 24, 1973
- "Stage", Washington Post, May 18, 1973
- Gregory Battock, Art and Artists, Feb. 1973
- Jo Ann Lewis, "Seeing is Believing," Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1972
- Painting and Sculpture Today, The Contemporary Arts Society and Indianapolis Museum of ArtIndianapolis Museum of ArtThe Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum, which underwent a $74 million expansion in 2005, is located on a campus on the near northwest area outside downtown Indianapolis, northwest of Crown Hill Cemetery.The...
(Indianapolis, 1972) - Phyllis Braff, "From the Studio," East Hampton Star November 4, 1971
- "A Tree is a Tree, Hornak Works His Canvas in Romantic Realism," The Herald-Time Off, Oct. 24, 1971
- Joy Hakanson, The Detroit News, Oct. 10, 1971
- Jack Mitchell, "Portrait of an artist as a contemporary," After Dark Magazine, May 1971
- Frank Getlein, The Evening Star, Washington D.C., May 12, 1971
- Sarah Booth Conroy, "Realism Back In Art", Washington Post, May 17, 1971
- "Printmaking in Retrospect 1946-1984," (catalogue) Wayne State UniversityWayne State UniversityWayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
, November 20, 1964 - Who's Who in American ArtWho's Who in American ArtWho's Who in American Art is a biographical hardcover directory of noteworthy individuals in the visual arts community in the United States, published by Marquis Who's Who, formerly by R.R. Bowker Publishing. The directory has also listed some individuals from Canada and Mexico, plus some American...
- Who's Who in the East
External links
- Official Website of the Estate of Ian Hornak
- The Athenaeum: 13 paintings by Ian Hornak
- Hood Museum: Dartmouth College, New Hampshire: 10 artworks by Ian Hornak
- Canton Museum of Art, Ohio: 1 Ian Hornak Painting
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December 30, 2002; written by KEN JOHNSON (NYT); The Arts/Cultural Desk
Late Edition - Final, Sect. A, p. 15.
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- http://www.art.wayne.edu/alumni.php Wayne State University: Department of Art & Art History Alumni Profiles (Ian Hornak 1944-2002)
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_2_91/ai_97551497?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle Art in America, Feb 2003, Ian Hornak Obituary
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