Robert Kabak received his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Brooklyn College in 1952. He went on to earn his master’s of fine art from Yale University two years later. Some of his honors include appointment to the institute for the Creative Arts at the University of California, residences at Yaddo and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, and multiple fellowships at MacDowell and Huntington Hartford Foundation. He also received research grants from the University of California, Northern Illinois University, and University of Missouri. Some of his solo exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Art, Harry Salpeter Gallery, Angeleski Gallery, and Osgood Gallery among many others. Major invitational exhibitions include New Talent (1956), Recent Acquisitions in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many more. Kabak also taught in a variety of schools and institutions, including Greenport, NY Public Schools (where he also served on the Board of Education from 1954-1956), New York High School Museum, Brooklyn College, the University of California, Berkeley, Northern Illinois University at Dekalb, and the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Robert Kabak
Studios
Cheney
Robert Kabak worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…