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SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021 “Rhapsodies in Color” Mandell JCC West Hartford, CT.
2021 “Expressions of Music” Duncaster Art Gallery Bloomfield, CT.
2018 “Colors of Music” Town County Club, Hartford, CT.
2017 “Music Transparencies” Duncaster Art Gallery, Bloomfield, CT.
2016 “Feel the Harmony” St. Frances Hospital” Center for Integrative Medicine, Hartford, CT.
2009 "ENSEMBLE'', Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford, CT
2008 "MUSIC SERIES" Unitarian Meeting House Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2007 "MODULATIONS", Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT.
2005 "CONCERNING CHORDS", Exposure Gallery - Manchester, CT.
2005 "IN ABSTRACT", Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA.
2005 "ENCORE" University of Connecticut (Stevens Gallery) Storrs, CT.
2004 "IMPROVISATIONS-POLYPHONY IN PAINTING" Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT.
1996 "PROGRESSIONS" Ellen Traut Collection, West Hartford, CT.
1994 "MUSIC SERIES" Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
1984 Visual Images Art Gallery, Music Series, Wellfleet, MA.
1983 Visual Images Art Gallery, Music Series, Wellfleet, MA.
1982 Visual Images Art Gallery, Music Series, Wellfleet, MA.
1981 Visual Images Art Gallery, Music Series, Wellfleet, MA.
1976 John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT.
1976 Left Bank Gallery, “The Hartford Symphony” Wellfleet, MA.
1976 Gallery Five East, East Hartford, CT. "The Hartford Symphony...A Visual Interpretation"
1975 The Gallery, G. Fox and Co., Hartford, CT.
1970 Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted, CT.
1969 Canton Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT.
1967 Phoenix Mutual Gallery, Hartford, CT.
1965 Gallery I, Hingham, MA.
1964 Fine Arts Foundation, Hartford, CT.

ART FESTIVALS

2010 Paradise City Festival 'Music Series" Northampton, MA.
2011 Westport Fine Arts Festival, Westport, CT.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009 "VARIATIONS" Concord Library, Concord, MA. Two Person Exhibition
2006 "IN ABSTRACT", Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA. (Five featured artists)
2002 "NEW MEMBER SHOW" Artworks Gallery, Two Person Exhibition.

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2013 Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition - Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, MA.
2011 Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition - Belmont Media Center Belmont, MA.
2009 Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition - Plymouth Art Center, Plymouth, MA.
2011 Westport Arts Center Group Show, Westport, CT.
2009 Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT, Benefit Childrens Art Program
2007, 8, 9 Farmington Valley Arts Center, Farmington CT, Winter Holiday Shows
2008 Sagemark Consulting Benefit exhibition for McClean Health Care Simsbury, CT.
2008 Whitespace Gallery, New Haven, Ct. "All Small Things"
2007 Whitespace Gallery, New Haven, Ct. Gallery Group Exhibition
1979 Brandeis Studio Art Tour
1978 Springfield College, Springfield, MA.
1972 Slater Memorial Museum "Watercolor and Sculpture Exhibition"

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
UCONN John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington, CT.

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTION

Gerber Scientific, Inc., South Windsor, CT.

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS (partial list)

2022 Major award in CT. Academy of Fine Art 111th exhibition Jurors, Kate Henderson and Michael Rose
2016 The Best Graphic Award Will Lusternader and Darby Cordonsky
2013 Connecticut Watercolor Society, Juror, Dennis Nolan, Saltbox Gallery West Hartford, CT.
2012 Connecticut Academy 100 Anniversary Exhibition, J Jurors, Anne von Stuelpnagel and Joy Pepe, Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT.
2011 Connecticut Watercolor Society, Juror Chet Kempczynski, Saltbox Gallery, West Hartford, CT.
2012 New Britain Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition Juror, Robert Burns, Director Mattatuck museum of Art, CT.
1979 New Britain Museum of American art Friends Exhibition HONORABLE MENTION- Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director of New Britain Museum
1978 New Britain Museum of American Art Friends Exhibition BEST GRAPHIC AWARD
1977 New Britain Museum of American Art Friends Exhibition BEST GRAPHIC
1976 New Britain Museum of American Art Friends Exhibition BEST GRAPHIC - Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director of New Britain Museum
1975 Mystic Art Association Mystic, Ct. HONORABLE MENTION
1975 Connecticut Society of Women Painters THE GRAPHICS AWARD
1974 Essex Gallery Essex, Ct. GRAPHICS AWARD Jurors, Allen Tompkins, Former Director,
Hartford Art School and Cynthia Eckstrom, Instructor, Painting, Pair School of Art The New Group New Haven, Ct. AWARD Juror, Sister Thoma Awanson Chairman, Art Department, Albertus Magnus College
Canton Gallery on the Green 13th Anniversary Show WATERCOLOR AWARD Juror, Frank Casa Instructor, Central Connecticut State College
Connecticut Watercolor Society CONNECTICUT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD Juror, Ruth Gikow
1972 Canton Gallery on the Green 11th Anniversary Show G. FOX & CO. AWARD
Connecticut Watercolor Society PAST PRESIDENTS PRIZE Juror, Julia Pearl
1971 Connecticut Society of Women Painters JESSIE WATERS PRIZE FOR A WATERCOLOR Juror, Joseph Gualtieri, Director, Norwich Academy Art School and Museum.
1970 Canton Gallery on the Green 10th Anniversary Show AWARD Juror, Joseph Gualtieri,
Director Norwich Academy Art School and Museum
New Haven Paint and Clay Club BEST PORTRAIT OR FIGURE COMPOSITION Jurors, Herbert Gute and Robert Vickrey Trinity Church Exhibition, Hartford, Ct - .BEST IN SHOW
1969 Bristol Chrysanthemum Festival HONORABLE MENTION Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director New Britain Museum of American Art
Benedictine National Competition FINALIST CERTIFICATE Jurors, American Federation of Arts
Canton Gallery on the Green 8th Anniversary Exhibition ART FRAMING AWARD Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director New Britain Museum of American Art
1967 Enfield Art Festival Enfield FABERS CARPET AWARD
Canton Gallery on the Green 6th Anniversary Exhibition CITIZENS AWARD Juror, Allen Tomkins, Dean. Hartford Art School
1966 Berkshire Annual (Berkshire Museum Lenox Ma.) AWARD Juror, Daniel Cotton Rich, Director, Worcester Art Museum
Enfield Art Festival Enfield - MOUNTAIN LAUREL AWARD
1965 Canton Gallery on the Green 45th Anniversary Show THIRD PRIZE Juror, Peppino Mangravite, Former dean and Professor Emeritus of Columbia University Art School Berkshire Art Association Berkshire Art Museum Lenox, Ma. ADAMS SUPERMARKET AWARD Juror, Gordon Mackintosh Smith, Director Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Essex Annual Essex, Ct. AWARD Jurors, Wick Knaus. Donald Thompson, Frederick Endrich Enfield Art Festival Enfield Ma. BIGELOW SANFORD AWARD Juror, Paul Zimmerman, Professor of Painting, Hartford Art School East Hartford Art Festival BEST IN SHOW Juror, Mitchell Pappas, Professor of Painting. Head of Art Department, Trinity College

1964 Manchester Lions Club Exhibition Manchester, Ct. AWARD
1961 Canton Gallery on the Green 1st Anniversary Show BEST IN SHOW

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list)

Wilson, Mary, "Estelle Laschever Community Canvas" Hartford courant "I- Towns" Nov. 23, 2008
Weiss, Tracey "Music is at the Heart and Soul of Estelle Laschever's Art" West Hartford Life Feb. 5, 2005 Vol 7 Issue 10
Kores, Noal, "Polyphony" The Hartford Courant CAL Nov 4 - 10
"Music For our Eyes" Portrait ARTistic FX Magazine October-November 2004 Vol. 4 Issue 2
"Music To Your Eyes". The Hartford Courant Calendar October, 1994.
Biser, Jeremy. "Images of Music Powerful, Evocative, Harmonizing.Music, Art Flow together at Jorgensen Gallery exhibit'. The Daily Campus University of Connecticut, November, 1994.
Silver, Ruth Lee. "Her Art Expresses Essence of Music". West Hartford News January, 1985
Seaver, Margaret. "Laschever work Evokes Music; Artist Produces Music Series". The Provincetown Advocate August 1984.
Review. Cape Cod Guide August, 1984.
Abell, Mary. "Laschever, Spontaneous, Lighthearted". The Provincetown Advocate August, 1983.
Smith, Rosalind. "Estelle Laschever'. Provincetown Magazine August, 1983.
Rae, Betsy. "Estelle Laschever's New Work at Visual Images Art Gallery in Wellfleet". Nauset Weekly Calendar August, 1980.
Review. "The Only Symphony With a 'Painter in Residence'". West Hartford News April 1976.
Goldenthal, Jolene. "Sounds Translated Into Color". The Hartford Courant April, 1976 Berkman, Florence. Review. The Hartford Times April, 1976.
Jouett, Sara. "Art Abstracts". The Hartford Courant 1968.
Matesky, Ross. "Local Talent". The Hartford Times February, 1968

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Monotype Guild of New England
Connecticut Academy of Fine Art (Member of the Board)
Connecticut Watercolor Society

EDUCATION

BFA Cornell University Ithaca, NY.
Masters Art Education, University of Hartford, CT.
Art Students League, NY. Study with Will Barnett and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Further study with prominent printmakers