Lloyd Toone Gallery

Lloyd Toone Bio/ Bibliography

Lloyd Toone was born and raised in Chase City, Virginia. As a child, he noticed the lack of Black artists in segregated museums of the South. Undaunted by the palpable absence of Black cultural heritage in American cultural institutions, Toone looked homeward and sought inspiration in his mother’s patchwork quilts. The assemblage of scrap materials in wildly colored, textured, and pieced quilts became the blueprint for Toone’s own mixed-media collages, paintings, and sculptures, which employ frenetic abstraction and figural representation to explore the dimensions of Black humanity. He earned his bachelor of science degree in art education from Hampton University in 1962, followed by permanent certification in art from the City College of New York in 1964 and a master of arts degree in special education from Manhattan College in 1972. Toone has exhibited his art alongside that of important American artists including Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Mayhew.

Toone’s art has been included in group exhibitions at the Greenville County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City; the Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, Virginia; and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His works are in the collections of the Hampton University Museum, the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and New Hampshire College. They are also in the corporate collection of Philip Morris International in Stamford, Connecticut and the Absolute Vodka Collection in Sweden. Toone divides his time between New York City and Spartanburg, South Carolina.

LLOYD TOONE, Fine Artist Bibliography

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Lloyd Toone Bibliography
Born May 12, 1940
Chase City, Virginia

Phone: 864-978-1851

Studied at:
Bachelor of Science in Art Education - Hampton University, Hampton , VA
Permanent N.Y. State Certification in Art, City College, N.Y.
Master of Science Special Education, Manhattan College, Bronx, N.Y.

Employer:
1967-1995 Children’s Village of Dobbs Ferry, NY. _ Director of Art Department 1965_1966 Saint Christopher’s School, Dobbs Ferry, NY

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:

Hampton University Museum C.W. Post College
Boston Museum of Fine Arts New Hampshire College
Bronx Museum Hampton University Museum
Greenville County Museum Phillip Morris Corporation
Diggs Museum Gallery Renalda House Museum
Milliken Art Gallery Absolut Expressions Collections
Flinn Gallery Greenwich, Conn.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

New Hampshire College
Hampton University Museum
Phillip Morris Corporation
Renalda House Museum
Absolut Expressions Collections
Museum C.W. Post College

Awards: C.W. Post College Purchase Award
Hampton University Sculpture Award
Spartanburg Artist Guild Sculpture Award
Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, Minority Business of the Year
Penn Center Artist of the Year, St. Helena, SC 2003

One-Man Exhibition:

2023 Lloyd Toone Gallery, New York, MY
2021 Harlem International Fine Art Show
2016-2018 Toone Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2015 Heath Gallery , New York, N.Y.
2014 Toone Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2010 Flynn Gallery , Greenwich,CT
2008 Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
2003 -2008 Indasa Fine Art Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2003` Cannon Elementary School, Spartanburg, SC
2003 Red Piano Gallery, St. Helena Island, SC
2003 Penn Center Museum , St. Helena Island, SC
1999 -2001 Parlor Gallery, NY
1996 Aaron Davis Hall, City College, NY
1992 Greenville County Museum of Fine Arts, Greenville, SC
1986 Spiral Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1984-1985 Parlor Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
1974 & 1972 Acts of Art Gallery, NY

Select Group Exhibitions:
2011 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Conn.
2004 Spartanburg Museum , Spartanburg SC
2002 Absolut Expressions
2001 Diggs Gallery Museum, Winston Salem, NC
1998 - 2001 National Black Fine Arts Show, Arterior Motives Gallery, NY
1998 -1999 Art at the Atrium, Morristown, NY
1999 Grace Baptist Church Gallery, Mt. Vernon, NY
1998 Mosadi’s Collection, Denver, Colorado
1998 Madam C.J. Walker Show House, Irvington, NY
1998 Art on Main Street Gallery, Yonkers, NY
1997 Hampton University Museum, VA
1996 Penn Center, St. Helena Island, SC
1993 “State of the Arts”, New England Fine Arts Institute, Boston, MA
1990 NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Auction, Christie’s, NY
1988 “Who’s Uptown Harlem '87",
Shomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, NY
1987 “Varied Media”, Spiral Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1986 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1984 Nassau County Black History Museum, Hempstead, NY
1982 “Competitive Art Exhibition ‘82’”, Kingston, NY
1982 “Contemporary Black Artist”, Westchester County Court House,
White Plains, NY
1981 “Sculpture :81’”, Lever House, NY
1978 Carrefour-Mehu Gallery, York, NY
1972 Dutchess Community College, Dutchess County, NY
1971 “Show of Contemporary Afro-American Artist”,
Great Neck Library, Great Neck, NY
1971 Riverview Annual #5, Riverview Galleries, NY
1971 “Rebuttal to the Whitney”, NY
1971 Acts of Art Gallery, NY
1971 International House, NY
1970 “Afro-American Artist New York & Boston”, Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1969 “Afro-American Artist 1800-1969”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1969 Rhode island School of Design, Providence, RI
1969 C.W. Post College, Brooksville, NY.
1969 Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
69-70 “Fifty Contemporary Black Artist” Traveling Exhibition, Ruder and Finn Fine Arts, NY

Sources:

2008 “ Harlem Torch Magazine”, June 2008
2004 “ Essence Magazine”
2002 “Savoy Magazine”, February Issue
1999 “The International Review of African American Art”, Hampton University.
1998 “Denver Design Resources”, Integrity Publications
1996 “African American Art, the Long Struggle”, Crystall Britton, Smithmark Pub.
1993 “Jumping the Broom”, by Harriette Cole, Holt Pub.
1988 “Who’s Uptown: Harlem”87, Shomberg Museum, cat.
1987 “Amsterdam News”, Arts and Entertainment, Oct. 10th,
1986 “Essence Magazine”, October,
1984 “Japanese Playboy Magazine”,
1981 “Sculpture 81”, Lever House, cat.,
1978 “The Complete Annotated Resource Guide to Black Art”
1973 “The Afro-American Artists, A Biographical Directory”
1972 “New York Times ”, Sunday, April 23
1972 “New York Magazine ”, April 17
1972 “Art Gallery Magazine ”, April
1972 “Art Gallery Magazine”, April
1971 “Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition”, Coalition of Black Artist, cat.
1970 “Afro-American Artist: New York & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,MA,.
1969 “Afro-American Artist 1800--1969”, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, PE,
1969 “Fifty Contemporary Black Artists”, Ruder & Finn Fine Arts,NY, cat.