Edward Avedisian

Edward Avedisian studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Edward Avedisian is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Edward Avedisian • Born — 15 June 1936 • Birthplace — Lowell, Massachusetts, US • Died — 17 August 2007 • Place of death — Philmont, New York, US • Known for — Painting • Training — School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By the late 1950s he moved to New York City. Between 1958 and 1963 Avedisian had six solo shows in New York. In 1958 he initially showed at the Hansa Gallery, then he had three shows at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and in 1962 and 1963 at the Robert Elkon Gallery. He continued to show at the Robert Elkon Gallery almost every year until 1975. During the 1960s his work was broadly visible in the contemporary art world. One of his paintings appeared on the cover of Artforum, in 1969, his work was included in the 1965 Op Art The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought after by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere.

In 1996 Avedisian showed his paintings from the 1960s at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, then in SoHo. His last show, dominated by recent landscapes, was in 2003 at the Algus gallery, now in Chelsea. Edward Avedisian's only marriage ended in divorce. His partner, Judson Baldwin, died in 2006. Avedisian died from unspecified causes following a period of declining health at his home in Philmont, New York, aged 71. Avedisian was survived by his son, Joseph, of Brooklyn, New York, and a grandson.

Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena Art Museum, The Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, The Stamford Museum & Nature Center Stamford, CT, The Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, TX. He has also been exhibited in galleries, such as the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City.