Elinore Schnurr-Colflesh Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Schnurr has an art studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo shows were at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in Long Island City, both in 2014; in 2011 she was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, Capricorn Galleries in Bethesda, Maryland, and the DFN Gallery in New York City, to name a few. She was the recipient of the Thomas B. Clarke Award for figurative painting at the National Academy of Design (now, National Academy Museum) in New York in 1986 and the Second Place Award at the Butler Institute of American Art Midyear in 2002. She also received an NEA Grant and a NYFA fellowship during these years. Her paintings are in museum collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Museum of the City of New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Florida, to name a few, and she has work in more than 50 corporate collections and hundreds of private collections in this country and abroad. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL Museum of the City of New York, NY Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Cape Cod, MA Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS Beach Elements IV (curated by Nancy Gesimondo), PLAXALL Gallery, Long Island City, Members’ Exhibition, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY America: Here and Now, curated by Eric Fischl, Buchanan Center for the Arts, New York State of Mind...