Gregory Gillespie
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Gillespie with self-portrait in his Rome studio c. 1969
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| Born |
November 29, 1936 Roselle Park, New Jersey |
| Died | April 26, 2000 (aged 63) Belchertown, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | San Francisco Art Institute |
| Known for | Painting |
Gregory Joseph Gillespie (November 29, 1936 – April 26, 2000) was an American magic realist painter.
He was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he became a nondegree student at Cooper Union in New York. In 1959 he married Frances Cohen (1939–1998), who was also an artist, and the following year they moved to San Francisco where Gillespie studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1962 he received the first of two Fulbright-Hays grants, for travel to Italy to study the work of Masaccio. He lived and worked in Florence for two years, and in Rome for six years, studying the works of such Renaissance masters as Carpaccio, Mantegna, and Carlo Crivelli, who was a particular favorite of Gillespie. During this time he was awarded three Chester Dale Fellowships and a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant. In 1971 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994.
He had his first solo show in 1966, at the Forum Gallery in New York. In 1970 he returned to the United States, where he settled in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. He exhibited in several Whitney Biennials, and in 1977 the Hirshhorn Museum organized a touring retrospective of his work.
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