BIOGRAPHY
1922
Born Jevel Demikovosky on March 27th in Snovsk, Ukraine.
1923
Emigrated with his mother to Brooklyn, NY.
1939
Scholarship to the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
1939-1942
Attended the National Academy of Design, New York.
Drafted into US Army
1940-1942
Attended the Beaux Arts Institute, New York.
1945
Marries Gladys Katz
1948
Birth of daughter, Eve
1949
Studied with Ossip Zadkine in the Zadkine School of Sculpture, Paris.
1949-1950
Attended the Academia de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris.
1951
Divorce from first wife
1952
B.S., New York University, New York.
1954
M.A., New York University, New York.
1954-1955
Associate Professor of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.
1955-1956
Curator, New York University Art Education Gallery, New York, NY.
Marries Andrea Hill Pearce
1956-1963
Art Instructor and Fine Arts Department Coordinator, C. W. Post College, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY.
1957
Birth of daughter, Lauren
1963-1967
Instructor in Art, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
1964
Awarded Purchase Prize, Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
1967
First Prize and Gold Medal, 30th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC.
1973
Divorce from second wife
1975
Distinction in the Arts Award, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
1980
Maries Joan C. Fourgis Gorby
1987
Sally and Milton Avery Professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
1991
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sceinces, Cambridge, MA.
1993
Associate, National Academician, National Academy of Design, New York, NY.
1996
Distinguished Artist Arkansas Celebration of the Arts, Hot Springs, Arkansas
1997
Honorary Doctorate of Arts" Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Ct
1998
Honorary Doctorate of Arts Keene State College, University of New Hampshire
2003
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH
2006
Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters
2007
Skowhegan Award for Painting
Dies February 4 in New York, NY.
