SUSAN HAUPTMAN
DRAWINGS, 1989 – 2012
July 7th – August 14th, 2026
During July and August, the George Adams Gallery will present a selection of drawings by Susan Hauptman (1947-2015). The exhibition is the artist’s first with the gallery.
Hauptman (1947-2015) is best known for her austere and subtly provocative charcoal self-portraits and poetic still-life drawings incorporating porcelain figurines, five of which will be featured in the exhibition. Also included in the exhibition is her whimsical and perhaps most ambitious work, "Self-portrait (with Feathers)," 2007, and a charcoal portrait of her husband, Leonard, from 1991.
Susan Hauptman was born in Detroit, Michigan, and studied at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the University of Michigan, and received her MFA from Wayne State University in 1970. She has had solo museum shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Oakland Museum, the Triton Museum, the Norton Gallery, and the University of Georgia, where she held the Dodd Chair. In 2020, Wayne State University mounted a solo show of her line drawings.
Hauptman’s work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, FL; the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; the California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; and the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI; among others. She was the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Gottlieb Foundation grant.
ACCESSIBILITY
The gallery has a rail-mounted chair lift on the back staircase leading directly to the exhibition. For visitors who use manual wheelchairs and are comfortable transferring to the chair lift, gallery staff is available to assist with the transfer and to carry manual wheelchairs down the stairs.
There is a ramp available at the front entrance to navigate the three steps. For ramp & mobility assistance, call 212-564-8480.