Stephen Greene (1917–1999), a native New Yorker, attended the National Academy of Fine Arts and the Arts Students League before receiving his B.F.A. (1942) and M.A. (1945) at the University of Iowa, where Philip Guston became an important mentor. His work entered the public stage in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 and he had his first solo exhibition at Durlacher Brothers, New York, in 1952. Over the following four decades Greene exhibited widely, and was the focus of special presentations at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1963), The Akron Art Institute (1978), and The Saint Louis Art Museum (1989). Greene’s career was celebrated by a memorial exhibition at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 2003.
