Discipline: Visual Art

Adele Henderson

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Buffalo, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993

Adele Henderson is a visual artist who has earned many honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Works on Paper, in 1996 and residency fellowships including MacDowell, Yaddo, Brandywine Workshop, Roswell Museum, and Art Center, Open Studio (Toronto) and the Electronic Arts Institute at Alfred University. Henderson's artwork has been exhibited in more than 33 solo exhibitions across the U.S. and wore than 160 national and international group exhibitions. Henderson's work is held in public collections, including: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Blanton Museum, Austin; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Burchfield-Penny Art Gallery, Buffalo; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Kennedy Museum of American Art, Athens, OH; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; New York Public Library, New York; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; and the Whitney Museum, New York.

Studios

Putnam

Adele Henderson worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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