Jules Engel Biography
Budapest, Hungary, 1909 ? California, 2003
Infuential ABSTRACT PAINTER and ILLUSTRATOR Jules Engel moved to California from his native Hungary in 1938. Engel is renowned for creating the storyboards for the Russian and Chinese dance scenes in Disney's monumental feature length cartoon 'Fantasia' and for being the founding director of the Experimental Animation course at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts).
2003 - "Films, Paintings, Drawings, Constructions and Lithographs", Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
2001 - "Anything but Still", Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 - "Spatial Concerns" A Retrospective, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
1997 - Donnell Media Center, New York.
1996 - "On the Edge of America-California Modernist Art, 1900-1950" Archives of American Art, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles.
1994 - Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992 - "American Cubism", Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York. - "The Meadow", Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles. - Merrill Lynch Corporation Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, US.
1990 - "Turning the Tide:Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1950" Santa Barbara Museum of Art and five other venues.
1978 - "Film Als", Cologne, Stuttgart, Germany.
1977 - Landfall Press, Chicago.
1976 - Montgomery Art Center, Claremont College, Claremont, California.
1974 - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
1968 - Artist-in-Residency Exhibition, Ogden, Utah, US.
1967 - Gemini GEL Graphics, Ltd, Los Angeles. - Syracuse University Galleries, Syracuse, New York. - Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California.
1966 - Ruth White Gallery, New York.
1965 - "Contemporary Print Exhibition", The White House, Washington DC.
1964 - Galleria Zero, Verona, Italy. - Cornell University Galleries, Ithaca, New York.
1963 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US. - The Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. - "Contemporary Masters" Kane Memorial, Providence, Rhode Island, US. - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadephia, US.
1962 - Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas. - Wight Art Gallery, U. C. L. A, Los Angeles.
1960 - Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. - Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
1955 - "Pacific Coast Art:United States, Third Biennial", Sao Paolo, Brazil. - "Fifteen American Painters" University of Michigan, US.
1953 - M.H.deYoung Museum, San Francisco.
1952 - "Whitney Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1951 - "Contemporary Painting in the United States", L. A. C. M. A. - Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado. - San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California.
1950 - "American Abstract andSurrealist Art", Art Institute, Chicago.
1949 - "California Centennials", Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1947 - American Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles.
1945 - Frederick Kann Circle Gallery, Los Angeles.
