1990-1994

In 1991 the Jewish Museum in New York City held an exhibition, "Painting A Place in America," which featured "The Ten {Whitney Dissenters}" and included four works by Schanker.

 "Louis Schanker was prominent among the painters of the 1930's and 1940's for his advocacy of expressionism in American abstraction.  The thrust of Schanker's teaching and his own work was Independence and experimentation, and he motivated many innovative artists."
 
The print "Abstraction With Heart" was the poster for the show at the Worchester Art Museum in Massachusetts.

  From the catalog:
"Louis Schanker stood at the ·center of the circle of avant-garde woodcut artists in New York in the middle of the twentieth century. Beginning in the mid-1930s, the artist exerted a profound influence on printmaking,  through his own technically innovative works and through his activities as a teacher.  Schanker's inventive attitude toward technique became a hallmark of his color woodcuts in the 1940's."

In 1992 Schanker oils were sold to provide money for the Peconic Land Trust at a benefit auction, "Artists of the Hamptons," at the 26th Street Armory in Manhattan.

In 1993 the Nassau County, New York,  Office of Cultural Development  held a major retrospective show, "Louis Schanker -Sixty Years of Experimentation," which included over 100  prints, drawings, oils and sculpture at the historic Chelsea Estate.

The Rosenfeld Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan included several Schanker pieces in shows during this period:

            1991   AAA Artists 30' and 40's

            1993  Lines and Myths - Abstraction in American Art 1941-1951

            1993 Aspects of American Abstraction 1930-1942

Other exhibitions which included Schanker's works were:

1992 Sid Deutsch Gallery   American Cubism 1909-1949

1992 AAA Gallery - Color Block Prints of the 20th Century

 1993 David Findlay Jr. Gallery - American Modernism 1930's and 1940's Abstraction

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