Jim Bumgardner - Available Work

JIM BUMGARDNER

James Bumgardner (1935–2015) was an expressionist/figurative painter, multimedia artist, and a Virginia Commonwealth University professor of art in the VCU School of the Arts. As an undergraduate student at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), Bumgardner was encouraged by his mentor Jewett Campbell to study with the notable Art Students League of New York instructor Hans Hoffman (1880–1966), and Bumgardner received the last scholarship given by Hoffman, a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.

Using his scholarship, Bumgardner studied with Hoffman in Provincetown in 1957, during which time he became friends with gallery director Richard Bellamy and artist Jan Müller. In 1963 in Richmond Jim Bumgardner and Jon Bowie co-directed a series of multi-media events or “happenings”. The first was called “Synthesis” and was influenced by the productions of Allan Kaprow andthe ONCE Festival of New Music of Ann Arbor, Michigan. After “Synthesis” Bumgardner and Jon Bowie invited notable outside performance and visual artists who joined in a series of annual “Bang, Bang, Bang Arts Festival” happenings in Richmond

River Window, Deltaville, 1993

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

19 x 19 inches

$1,200 framed

River Window, Deltaville, 2014

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Deltaville River Window (RWT), 2007

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

River Window (RW 4-5), 2004

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Deltaville River Window (RW 5), 2008

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Belle Isle en Mar (BI 17), 2002

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Belle Isle en Mar (BI 2), 2002

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Belle Isle en Mar (BI), 2002

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

River Window, Deltaville (RW 4-4), 2004

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

River Window, Deltaville (RW), 2008

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

River Window, Deltaville (RW 14), 2006

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

Bay Window, 1989

Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

$1,000 unframed

JIM BUMGARDNER

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EDUCATION

1958 BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University

1957 Hans Hofmann, Provincetown, MA

1954 University of North Carolina

1955 Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Poetic Mystery, Retrospective from Longwood Center for the Visual Arts

1995 Davidson College, Davidson, NC Gallery K, Washington, DC

1990 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1989 Reynolds Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA

1988 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1985 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1979 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1978 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1977 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1975 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 December Project, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2002 Gallery K, Washington, DC

2001 New Works, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2000 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1999 Gallery K, Washington, DC

1998 Gallery K, Washington, DC

199 University of Haifa, Israel Gallery K, Washington, DC

1996 Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, Lima, Peru Gallery K, Washington, DC

1995 Galeri Corti, Brussels, Belgium Gallery K, Washington, DC

AWARDS

1977 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Purchase Prize

The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction

1963 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction

1962 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award, Painting

1961 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction

1960 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award, Painting

1959 The Virginia Museum Certificate of Distinction

1958 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award, Painting

1957 North Carolina Museum of Art, Special Award, Painting

North Carolina Museum of Art, Purchase Prize

JIM BUMGARDNER

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SELECT COLLECTIONS

American Airlines

Capital One

The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Crestar Bank, Richmond, VA

Cyclops Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

El Banco de Credito del Peru, Lima, Peru

El Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru

E.R. Carpenter Co., Richmond, VA

Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA

First Union Securities, Richmond, VA

Hunton-Williams, Richmond VA

James River Corporation, Richmond, VA

Markel Corporation, Richmond, VA

The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Philip Morris Incorporated, Richmond, VA

Proctor Silex, Richmond, VA

Sheltering Arms Hospital, Hanover, VA

Shearson Lehman, New York, NY

Sidney and Francis Lewis, Richmond, VA

Solomon Brothers, New York, NY

Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

Virginia Power, Richmond VA

Virginia State Bar Association, Richmond, VA