EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, GALLERIES, COLLECTIONS
Solo Exhibitions
Time and Transformation, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME 2023
Distant Visions, Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME, 2023
Woodcuts: Straight-Up and Restructured, Second State Press, Philadelphia, 2021
Musings on the Relativity of Time Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME 2012
Fernald's Neck Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME, 2010 (catalogue)
30 Years of Landscape, Xavier College, Cincinnati OH 2007
Landscape as Portrait and Still-Life Phoenix Loft Gallery, Belfast, ME, 2003
Erratics and Other Maine Landscapes Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME, 2003
Plein-Air Maine St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, 2000 (reviewed, Philadelphia Inquirer)
Darby’s Gallery, Belfast ME, 1994
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison WI, 1988
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1988
Recent Pastels Art In Progress Gallery, Bryn Mawr PA, 1987
Belfast Free Library, Belfast ME, 1983
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, 1980 (reviewed, Art News, Feb. ’80)
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1980 (reviewed, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. ’80)
West Chester University, West Chester PA, 1979
University City Arts League, Philadelphia, 1979
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg VA, 1979
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1978
Madison Art Center, Madison WI, 1977
University of Pennsylvania, Houston Hall Gallery, Philadelphia, 1976
South Street Gallery, Philadelphia, 1974
St. Peter’s Center, New York, 1973
Harrison House Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972
University of Wisconsin, Wausau WI, 1969
Group Exhibitions
Expanding Methodologies In Print, Joseph H. Baker Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester PA 2024
Maine: Marks and Tracks L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2021
Heaven and Earth: David Raymond, John Wissemann and John Woolsey, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME 2021
Hot and Cold, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME Spring 2020
Gallery Group, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME Dec. 2019, summer 2020
Second Sate Press, Philadelphia, June 2019
Bluegrass Printmakers’ Co-op, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2019
PressNorth Printmakers, Townsville, QLD, Australia April 2019
Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, VIC, Australia, March 2019
Member Print Exchange Exhibition, Second State Press, Philadelphia 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Maine: Wood L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2017
Open Spaces: Reimagining Pastoral Maine, L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2016
Maine: The Seasons, L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2015
Maine: The Clear Light, L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2014
Archipelago, Isalos Fine Art, Stonington ME 2013
Intimacy of Place, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, Belfast, ME 2013
John Woolsey, Rebecca Daugherty, Barbara Brady, Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME 2013
Selected Works, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME, 2013
Gift of the Glacier, The Maine Landscape, L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME 2013
Small Works, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME, 2011, 2012
Naples FL Art Fair (Projects Gallery), 2012
Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL 2011
Drawings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME, 2010
Ice Box Gallery, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2007 (catalogue)
Kroiz Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham PA 2000
Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2000, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, 2000
New York State Museum, Albany, 2000
PostPENNism, Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997
Retrospective exhibition, 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 1990, (catalogue)
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1988, 1989 (catalogue)
Sazama/Brauer Gallery, Chicago, 1987, 1988
Prints from Gallery 68, Belfast Free Library, Belfast ME, 1986
Tianjin College of Art, Tianjin, Peoples’ Republic of China, 1985
Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, 1984
University of Michigan, Flint MI, 1983
Affect/Effect II, Philadelphia College of Art, 1983 (catalogue)
West Chester University, West Chester PA, 1983
Work of Faculty and Visiting Critics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982
Five Working Artists, Burrison Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 1982
22nd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY, 1981 (catalogue)
Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA 1981
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1975
Gallery 4, Alexandria VA, 1981
Current Representational Painting in Philadelphia, Federal Courthouse, Philadelphia, 1980 (reviewed, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 1980)
Multiple Impressions, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1980
Educational Testing Service, Princeton NJ, 1980
In Celebration of Prints, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1979
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, 1979
Cheltenham School of Fine Arts, Cheltenham PA, 1979
Montserrat School of Visual Art, Beverly MA, 1979
International Biennial Print Exhibition, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1977, 1978
Recent Acquisitions, Madison Art Center, Madison WI, 1978
Community Arts Center, Wallingford PA, 1978
Philadelphia Illustrators, Walnut Street Theater Gallery, Philadelphia, 1978
University City Arts League, Philadelphia,, 1977, 1978
Penn State University, College Park PA, 1977
Dreamstage, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1977, (catalogue; article, The New York Times Magazine)
Hahn Gallery, Chestnut Hill PA, 1977
American Color Print Society Annual, Philadelphia, 1976–1981 (purchase prize, 1977)
Invitational Print Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA, 1977
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington DE, 1976
Glassboro State College, Glassboro NJ, 1976
Steadman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden NJ, 1976
Long Beach Island Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, 1976
Widener College, Chester PA, 1976
Folio ’76, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1976 (traveling exhibition)
Prints from the University of Pennsylvania Graphics Studio, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973, 1975–88
Biennial Print Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA, 1975 (prize)
Invitational Drawing Exhibition, SUNY, Cortland NY, 1975
Annual Award Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham PA, 1974, 1979
St. Peter’s Center, New York, 1972
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1971–73
PUBLICATIONS/VIDEO
Carl Little, Records of Existence: “Marks and Tracks” at the L. C. Bates Museum, Maine Arts Journal, Summer 2021
“John D. Woolsey, Paintings”, Catamaran, Summer 2021
The Printmaker's Dilemma: What Do You Do With All Those Multiples? A YouTube studio visit by Second State Press: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuYQR_5xSgtZrRGsE05zIMg/
Carl Little, Distant Visions: John Woolsey, Zillman Art Museum/University of Maine, Bangor, ME • zam.umaine.edu• Through December 30, 2023; Art New England, November/December 2023, https://artnewengland.com/distant-visions-john-woolsey/
GALLERIES/ART DEALERS
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME 2010 - present
Projects Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2013
Isalos Fine Art, Stonington ME 2003-2014
Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, 1985-88
Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, 1987-88
Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, 1982-87
Corporate Art Directions, New York, 1982-85
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 1980-82
Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1981
Crieger-Sesen Gallery, Boston, 1980-83
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, 1979-80
Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, 1977-79
Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1975-80
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (partial list)
AT&T Corp.
ARCO Petroleum Corp.
Cigna Corp.
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, Chicago
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Hurley Hospital, Flint Michigan
Imperial Clevite Corp.
L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME
Madison Art Center, Madison WI
Maine Savings Bank, Portland ME
Oracle Corp. (Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit), Bala Cynwyd PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Chicago
Zillman Art Museum, Bangor ME