Education: Philadelphia College of Art, BFA, 1956
University of Arizona, Tucson, MFA 1969
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Water, Land and Life, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C.
2001 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1994 Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, TX
1984 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, TX
1982 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth TX
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
1975 Larcada Gallery, New York, NY
Shelburne Gallery, Shelburne, VT
GROUP EXHIBITIONSSELECTED COLLECTIONS
2010 Group Show, American Watercolor Society, NYC and Traveling Exhibitions
(Award: Walser Greathouse Medal and Cash Award)2010 Four Realists, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C. 2009 Group Show, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C. 2008 Group Show, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C. 2007 A Juncture of Three American Realist Masters, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington D.C. 2006 Thirtieth Anniversary Group Show, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2005 Contemporary Realism: Selections from the Arnot Art Museum, Lyme, MA
Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
(Elsie H. Pedersen Memorial Cash Award prize)
2005 Regional Exhibition, 71st Annual, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY Group
Landscape Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
New Work, Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY2004 Re-presenting Representation San Francisco, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sense of Place, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Art and Environmentalism, Coffee Gallery, Kingston, NY
Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY2003 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Aviary, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID2002 9/11, Before and After, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Reinventing Landscape V, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Joy, Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ2001 Re-presenting Representation NYC, The Corning Gallery, New York, NY
New York Paintings, 611 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Contemporary Realist Art From Around the World,
Arnot Art Museum at the Corning Gallery, New York, NY
A Reverence for the Earth, Esopus Gallery, Lake Hill, NY
Summer Exhibition, Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, D.C.2000 Reinventing The Landscape III, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Inaugural Show in Chelsea, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Flora – A Common Thread VI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID1999 Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Five Landscape Painters, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Kindred Spirits, Esopus Gallery, Lake Hill, NY
Enduring Vision, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY1998 Contemporary American Watercolors, Susan Arnold Gallery, Annville, NY 1997 Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY. 1996 Group Exhibition, Susan Conway Gallery, Washington DC 1995 Artfair Seattle, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Re-presenting Representation II, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
In Celebration of Spring: Watercolors and Pastels,
Group Exhibition, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY1994 George Harkins and James Cook, Davis Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Contemporary American Realism, Broden Galley Ltd., Madison, WI1993 Three Landscape Painters, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
Celebration of Place, Walker-Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX1992 Two Man Show: George Harkins and James Cook, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Realist Art from Sazama Gallery, Chicago, Sheldon Swope
Group Exhibition, Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Survey Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Dwight Frederic
Group Exhibition, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College, St. Mary City, MD
Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1991 Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Black & White Mixed Media Group Show, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL1990 Realist Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State U., PA
Contemporary Landscapes, Anniversary Exhibition,
Group Exhibition, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL1989 Watercolor: Contemporary Currents, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Tenth Anniversary Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1988 People, Places, Things, Tatistcheff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, PA
Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection,
Group Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Watercolors, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA1987 American Realists, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
10 Artists, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY1986 Watercolor U.S.A. 1986, The Monumental Image, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Museum Choice, Orlando Museum at Loch Haven, Orlando, FL
Adventures in Image Making: Selections from the E. F. Hutton Collection,
Metropolitan Museum & Art Center, Coral Gables, FL, Images Gallery, Sun Valley, ID1985 American Realism: Twentieth -.Century Watercolors and Drawings,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The New American Scene, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Group Exhibiton, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
George Harkins and John Stuart Ingle, University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, AZ1984 Group Exhibiton, Images Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 1983 Realist Watercolors, Florida International University, Miami, FL
New American Watercolor, Frumkin/Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Images Watercolor: 1983, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI1979 American Watercolor Society Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
George Harkins, James G. Davis and Thomas Cornell, Hamilton Gallery, Charleston, SC1978 Five Realists, Automation House, New York, NY 1977 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
American Watercolor Society Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
George Harkins and Maurice Grosser, Larcada Gallery, New York, NY1975 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Conseco Corp.SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Glenn C. Janss Collection
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Citicorp, New York, NY
American Express, Minneapolis, MN
American Telephone and Telegraph, New York, NY
Equitable Companies, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
INA Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells, New York, NY
InterFirst Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Banque National de Paris, New York, NY
IBM, New York, NY
The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
Home Box Office, Atlanta, GA
Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates, New York, NY
E. F. Hutton, New York, NY
The Barnes Group, Hartford, CT
The Reliance Group, New York, NY
Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer & Wood, New York, NY
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY
Texaco, NY
FMC Corp., Chicago, IL
Exxon, Dallas, TX
Lombardi, Dominick, “Art and Environmentalism: An Ethic of 24 Artists of the Hudson River Valley”, The New York Times, Art Reviews, Sunday, July 4, 2004.
Pyne, Lynne: “Innovations in Watercolor: Southwest Art, April 2000, pp116-117, illustrated.
Re-representing Representation (exhibition catalog), Arnot Art Museum, 1999, Pages 6, 57, illustrated Pages 18 and 57.
Dewey, David: The Watercolor Book, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1995, illustrated.
Long, Robert::"Perspectives. Thematic Exhibition", Southampton Press, May, 1995.
Braun, Roby: Review: "ArtBeat", The East Hampton Independent, May 3, 1995.
Lowe, Charlotte: Review. "Galleries' Pairings Work Well," The Tucson Citizen, May 12, 1994, p.11.
Raynor, Vivien: Review: "Three Landscapists and What They See", The New York Times, Sunday, October 24, 1993, illustrated, p. 16.
Quick, Edward R., Director Sheldon Swope Art Museum: 'Artist Adds Intimacy to Landscape, Realism', Tribune Star, August 16, 1992, Terre Haute, IN
Arthur, John: Realist Watercolors (exhibition catalog), Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, 1990, p. 5, illustrated: p. 18.
Arthur, John: Spirit of Place, Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown & Co., 1989, p. 118, illustrated: p.121.
Doherty, M. Stephen: 'George Harkins', American Artist, May, 1989, illustrated.
Martin, Alvin: American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1986, p. 143, 145, illustrated: plate 45.
Miller, Marjorie: 'George Harkins', ARTS Magazine, May 1984.
Brenson, Michael: Review, The New York Times, March 16, 1984.
Philips, Jonathan: Review: Art/World, December 20, 1988.
Watercolors by George Harkins and John Stuart Ingle, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, November 1984.
Doherty, M. Stephen: 'Watercolor Today', American Artist, February 1983, illustrated.
Henry, Gerrit: Essay, Realist Watercolors, (exhibition catalog), Florida International University, January 1983, illustrated.
Baker, Kenneth: 'American Watercolor Today', Portfolio, September/October 1982, illustrated.
Meyer, Susan E.: 40 Watercolorists and How They Work, Watson Guptil Publications, 1976, illustrated.
'The Watercolor Page', American Artist, September 1975.
