Al Newbill /// new acquisitions

Will be exhibiting new Al Newbill paintings down the hall from our space.


Al Newbill was born on January 13, 1921, in Springfield, Missouri. Although born in Missouri, Al Newbill was primarily raised in Detroit. His first painting at the age of twelve, was a copy of Winslow Homer’s “The Gulf Stream.” While attending Cass Tech High School, he concurrently enrolled in courses at Detroit’s Art Museum. Additionally he studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts, currently known as The College for Creative Studies.


After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Newbill headed for New York where he studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art, and the New School of Social Research, where he studied Painting, Aesthetics, Psychology of Art, Art History, Art Criticism, and Chinese Art and Poetry. He remained in New York for fifteen years amid the exciting atmosphere generated by the Abstract Expressionists, one of the most important movements in 20th century American painting. Amoung his aquaintances were Franz Kline, William de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.


Originating at Queens College, the lure of teaching eventually took Newbill away from New York to the Universities of Southern Illinois, University of California, Berkeley, Kansas, and Cornell. He then became the director of the art program for the Rodman Job Corp in New Bedford Massachusettes. He finally moved to the regional campus of Ohio State University in Mansfield where he taught until 1976. Newbill still resides today in Mansfield.

His work has been exhibited widely at prestigious institutions and galleries across the United States and remains in the permanent collection of many.

We welcome everyone to come and see the new paintings in Suite 27 of the Michigan Design Center.



Selected Exhibits
Detroit Institute of Art
Toledo Art Museum
Santa Fe Art Museum
University of Kansas, Museum of Fine Art
Arts & humanities Gallery, Ashland College, Ohio
Don Coburn Gallery, Ashland
New Paltz State Teachers College, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New york
Laurel Gallery
Stable Gallery
Mortimer Levitt Gallery
Creative Gallery
Parma Gallery
Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago
Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia
Stanley Yulish Gallery, Cleveland

Selected Collections
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
University of Kansas, Museum of Fine Art
Gallery of the University of Illnois
Kings College, New York
Marist College, New York
Ashland College, Ohio
The Olsen Foundation Collection, NY
The Chrysler Collection, NY
The Dalad roup, Ohio, Cleveland
American Recovery, Inc, Cleveland
Summit Venture Corporation, Newport Beach
Kichler Lighting, Cleveland
Paul Hamlin Interior Design, Cleveland