Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, Mass., October 23-November 11. Group Exhibitions Whitney Museum of American Art, “1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”, November 10-December 31. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, “4th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”, November 25-January 1, 1951. Publication “19 Young American Artists,” Life Magazine, March 20, 1950. An historically significant art publication. Tony Smith recommends Stamos for teaching position at the Hartley Settlement House which he holds for the next four years.
Illustrates book “The Sorrows of Cold Stone: Poems 1940-1950”, by John Malcom Brinin, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1951. Publications “The Metropolitan and Modernism”, Life Magazine, January 15, 1951. “Betty Parsons: Her Gallery and Her Influence”, Vogue, October 1, 1951. John I. H. Baur, “Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art”, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1951. 1952 One-man Exhibitions Betty Parsons Gallery, February 16-March 8. Baldwin Kingrey Inc., Chicago, April 15-May 24.
Also teaches at the famous Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where painter Kenneth Noland is among his students. Clement Greenberg was also in residence at the time.
Group Exhibitions Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, “The 1952 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting”, October 16-December 14.
1951 One-man Exhibition Betty Parsons Gallery, January 8-27
The Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C., “Paintings Purchased by Patrons 1943-1952”.
Group Exhibitions Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, Ca., “Seventeen Modern American Painters”, January. The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. “Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America”, January. Whitney Museum of American Art, “1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings”, March 17-May 5. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ca., “Contemporary Painting in the United States, 1951 Annual Exhibition”, June 2-July 22. The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., “Revolution and Tradition”, November 15, 1951-January 6, 1952.
Stamos takes part in “Artists Sessions at Studio 35”, edited version published in Modern Artists in America, ed. Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, No. 1, Wittenborn, Schulz Inc., N.Y., 1952 1953 One-man Exhibition Betty Parsons Gallery, January 5-24. Group Exhibitions The Metropolitan Museum of Art N.Y. “The Edward Root Collection”, February 12-April 12. The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y. “International Watercolor Exhibition”, 17th Biennial, May 13-June 21.
Stamos awarded Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, “First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture”, October 2-November 1.
Builds house on Long Island, designed for him by sculptor Tony Smith.
Whitney Museum of American Art, “1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”, October 15-December 6.