Edward Dugmore

He entered the Marine Corps in 1943, and upon his discharge, taught painting and drawing at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Connecticut.

His work is in the permanent collection of several prominent museums including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Menil Collection in Houston.

Dugmore received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966, National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976 and 1985, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

April Kingsley Suitcase Paintings, Small Scale Abstract Expressionism Georgia Museum of Art, 2007, page 56, plate 41 Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (New York School Press, 2003.)

118–121 Nicholas Fox Weber, essay The Passionate Eye – Paintings by Edward Dugmore, published by the Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, 1998 Susan Landauer The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Laguna Art Museum, 1996 Stuart Shedletsky Still Working: Underknown Artists of Age in America, Parsons School of Design, 1994 Dore Ashton, essay Edward Dugmore, Burning Bright: Paintings 1950–1959, published by Manny Silverman Gallery, 1991 Irving Sandler The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, Harper and Row, 1970