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| Born: 1951 - Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Education: 1970-74, B.F.A., Tyler College of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA 1972 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
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| 2010 | The Painting Center, “Terrains” , New York, NY |
| 2007 | The Painting Center, “Furnishings”, New York, NY |
| 2006 | The Projects Gallery, “Observations”, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2005 | The Painting Center, “ Bad Botany”, New York, NY |
| 2003 | The More Gallery, “Plants and Animals”, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2001 | Binghamton University, Rosefsky Memorial Gallery, Binghamton, New York |
| 1997 | The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, VT |
| 1995 | The Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1990 | The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1988 | The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1984 | Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1983 | Landmark Gallery, New York |
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| 2011 | “Winter Salon”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2011 | “Pennsylvania Impressionism and Landscape from the Col lection of the Woodmere Art Museum”, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia , PA |
| 2011 | “Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper”, Boscobel House and Garden, Garrison, NY |
| 2010 | “Portrayals”, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | “New Walls, New Paint”, The Painting Center, New York, NY |
| 2010 | “Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition”, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 | “Spring”, Ober Gallery , Kent , CT |
| 2009 | “Gone to the Dogs” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York , NY |
| 2009 | “Foundation Faculty Exhibition”, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn |
| 2008 | “Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts |
| 2007 | Crossing Disciplines: Furniture”, The Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. |
| 2007 | “Altered Landscapes”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006 | “Black and White”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia , PA |
| 2006 | “25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2006 | “Inaugural Exhibition”, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT |
| 2005 | “Creatures”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | “Crossing Disciplines”, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | “Staying on Point”, Figure Drawing , Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2003 | "What’s Black and White, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art”, |
| 2003 | “Light and Landscape: Reflections of Italy”, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA. |
| 2003 | “IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints”, The Clarke Galleries, Traveled , Stowe Vermont, Palm Beach FL., New York City (catalog) |
| 2002 | “Imaginative Affinities, Echoes of Edwin Dickenson in Contemporary American Paintings”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2000 | “175th Annual Exhibition” The National Academy of Design Museum New York, NY (received the Laufman Award for drawing) |
| 1999 | “Please Be Seated”, The MetLife Exhibition Program, MetLife Building, NY |
| 1998 | “173rd Annual Exhibition”, The National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY (received the Joseph S. Isador Medal for painting |
| 1997 | “Birds in Art”, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI |
| 1996 | “Smith College Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Smith College, Northhampton, MA |
| 1995 | “NY Collection, ‘95”, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 1992 | “Man and Beast”, Fan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “New Acquisitions", New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
| 1991 | ““Figures”, Seraphim Gallery, Englewood, NJ |
| 1990 | “Nocturne”, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1987 | “The Figure”, William and Mary College, Williamsburgh, VA |
| 1986-87 | “Works on Paper”, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| 1985 | “Works on Paper”, Woodmeer Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1983 | “Four Painters”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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Prince Street Gallery: Fortieth Anniversary, catalog, June 2010 |
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| Krytynn Warchol “ Gallery Turns Art World Upside Down ; Altered Landscapes” Key to Philadelphia Magazine, March, 2007 |
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| James Cooper, “ Douglas Wirls at the Painting Center” , American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2005 |
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| Edward J. Sozanski, “Drawings With Punch”, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2003 |
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| E. Lynn Moss, “Drawings in Flux”, American Artist Magazine, January 2001 | |
| Birds in Art 1997, Leigh Yawkey Wodson Art Museum, p. 121 | |
| Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1993 |
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| William P. Scott, “ Douglas Wirls at the More Gallery”Art in America, January, 1989 |
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| Jennifer Crohn, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1990 | |
| Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 1986 |
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| Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 15, 1984 | |
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| 2008 | FIPSE “Dean’s Award”, Pratt Institute |
| 2007 | Distinguished Teacher Award, Pratt Institute |
| 2002 | Faculty Development Grant, Pratt Institute |
| 2000 | Laufman Award for Drawing, National Academy of Design |
| 1998 | Joseph S. Isador Medal for Painting, National Academy of Design |
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Ashville Art Museum, Asheville, NC |
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| Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
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Western Carolina University, Belk Art Gallery, Cullowhee, NC |
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| Cigna Museum Philadelphia, PA |
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Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA |
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| New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
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Ciba-Geigy Collection, Ardsley, NY |
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| Woodmeer Art Museum, Woodmeer, PA |
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| Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI |
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