Born March 21, Colón, Panama Canal Zone
BA, Wesleyan University
Marries Constance Taffinder
MFA, Yale University
Begins teaching at Yale, Graphic Design program
Publication design for:
Boston & Maine Railroad
Museum of Primitive Art
Knoll International
Yale University
Designs exhibition catalog for Albers show at Yale Art Gallery
Designs mark and murals for Peter Pan Restaurant, Boston (project with William Riseman)
Works with Herbert Matter on projects for the New Haven Railroad and Knoll International
Designs exhibition: The Arts at Yale, Chicago Art Institute
Designs mark and murals for Amy Joy Donut Shop, Boston Project with William Riseman
Sets up studio at 1098 Chapel Street, New Haven Forms formal partnership with Sewell Sillman to become Ives-Sillman, Inc. Design mark, architectural graphics, menu, napkins, etc., for Ken’s at Copley Square, Boston (project with William Riseman)
Exhibition, Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center Receives AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year” award for Josef Albers, Poems and Drawings (New Haven, Readymade Press, 1958)
Begins work with Sillman on Albers’s The Interaction of Color Exhibition, Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center
Wins Yale Award for Distinction in the Arts
Publishes article: “Letter Forms on Architecture,” Wins Yale Award for Distinction in the Arts
Architectural Record 27 (1960): 150-156. Publishes article: “Dialogs on Graphic Design,” Industrial Design 7 (July, 1960) 50-55.Publishes 8 Symbols, a book of symbols designed by Ives, produced as a thesis project by Hiram Ash.
Receives AIGA award, “Fifty Books of the Year” for Contemporary American Artists, a series of nine catalogs done for the American Federation of Artists (one designed by Ives)
Exhibition (group), Contemporary Painting at Yale, Yale Art Gallery
Visiting Critic in Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Designs publications for: Doubleday Inc.
Yale University Press Wadsworth Atheneum Designs for Cinema 5, New York: all graphics—letterheads, passes, annual reports, marquees, and some additional murals for An Theatre, and Cinema III (Plaza) Designs murals for: Hanover Manufacturers Trust, London Southwest High School, Baltimore The Enquirer, Columbus, OhioExhibitions (dates uncertain) Southern Connecticut State College
Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode IslandUnion College, New York
Brooklyn Museum Annual Print Show (group)Metrobank, Boston
Wins annual design award, Industrial Design magazine
Designs new and additional graphics for Ken’s at Copley, Boston Designs mark and murals for the Iron Horse, Boston’s South Station Project with William Riseman
Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, London, England Exhibition, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Produces mural for Cinema I, New York, and other graphics for Cinema I & II, and Rugoff Theatres
Ives-Sillman publishes Homage to the Squareportfolio be ALbers
Designs mark and letterhead for Eastern Press, New Haven.Publication of The Interaction of Color, Josef Albers, by Yale University Press, the culmination of five year project
Designs architectural graphics and menus for Bradlees restaurant chain (project with William Riseman)
Exhibition (group), Contemporary Painting at Yale, Yale Art Gallery Exhibition, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Designs traveling exhibition of The Interaction of Color which opened at the Junior Council Chamber of the Museum of Modern Art. Designs and installs mural for the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University
Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii
Exhibition, University of Hawaii, July–August.
Group exhibition: “Classical Spirit in 20thCentury Art,” Sidney Janis Gallery Group exhibition: “Communication by design,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston Group exhibition: “Seven new artists,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, May Receives AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year” award for Isabella L. Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, University of Hawaii Press, 1964 Studio moves, for short period, to Palladium Building, Orange Street. Ives-Sillman publishes Book AC by Diter RotDesigns graphics and murals for Park Square Cinema, Boston (project with William Riseman)
Exhibition, Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center
Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, October 26–November 13
Ives-Sillman publishes Homage to the Square: Soft Edge – Hard Edge, by Josef Albers
Ives-Sillman publishes Book FC by Diter Rot Studio moves to ##@^ Chapel Street
Visiting Professor of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Art Director, Yale Alumni Magazine
Ives-Sillman publishes A Portfolio of Ten Paintings by Piet Mondrian
Exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 7–September 11.
Exhibition, Washburn University of Topeka, Topeka, Kansas
Ives-Sillman publishes Ten Variants by Josef Albers
Group exhibition: “Whitney Museum Annual Painting Show,” New York
Group exhibition: “Art of the Poster,” Museum of Modem Art, New York
Studio moves to 126 Park Street, New Haven
Group exhibition: “3 Graphic Designers”, organized and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Receives AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year” award for his contribution to Bradbury Thompson, ed., Homage to the Book, Westvaco Corporation, 1968
Exhibition, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November–December 2
Designs and installs mural for the Torin Corporation, Torrington, Connecticut
Exhibition, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Designs mark and architectural graphics for Apogee Apparels, Boston (project with William Riseman)
Designs marks and murals for series of Cinemas owned by National Amusements, Inc. (Showcase Cinemas). Project with William Riseman.
Designs mark and mural for Ridge Road Cinema, Richmond, Virginia (project with William Riseman)
Ives-Sillman publishes Vibration by Armin Hofmann
Ives-Sillman publishes Six Variants by Josef Albers
Designs mark and mural for Ridge Road Cinema, Richmond, Virginia (project with William Riseman)
Exhibition: Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, Kansas, February 2–March 2
Ives-Sillman publishes Walker Evans: 14 Photographs Exhibition, Jorgenson Auditorium, University of Connecticut, December 1-23
Designs exhibition catalogs for Cordier and Ekstrom, and others
Group exhibition:
“Color/Constructivism/Realism in Contemporary Graphics,”
San Francisco Museum of Art, December 1971-February 1972.
Exhibition, Katonah Art Gallery, Katonah, New York Exhibition, Litchfield Memorial Library, Litchfield, Connecticut, April
Exhibition, Saidenberg Gallery, New York, November 13–December 9
Exhibition, Fieter Brartinga Print Gallery, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Exhibition, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago.
Ives-Sillman publishes Josef Albers, Formulation:Articulation (in partnership with Harry N. Abrams)
Designs exhibition of Formulation:Articulation which opens at the Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor
Made full Professor, Yale School of Art
Exhibition, Pollack Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition, Saidenberg Gallery, New York
Ives-Sillman publishes Two Sculptures, by Erwin Hauer
Exhibition, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York, April
Exhibition, Katonah Art Gallery, Katonah, New York
Exhibition, Pollack Gallery, Toronto
Ives-Sillman publishes (together with Cordier and Ekstrom)
Prevalence of Ritual by Romare Bearden Commission: “Print of the Year,” Print Club, Philadelphia
Exhibition of Ives-Sillman publications, Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor Exhibition, Galerie Estel, Tokyo
Designs mark, architectural graphics for U.S. Trust Company, Boston (project with William Riseman)
Designs mark and graphic lettering for Metrobank (project with William Riseman)
Exhibition, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Exhibition, Form-Meditation International, Amsterdam, The Hague
Group exhibition: “Images of an Era,” poster exhibit, National College of Fine Arts, Smithsonian
Group exhibition: “Artists at Yale,” Webb and Parsons, New York Group exhibition: “Works on Paper,” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Group exhibition: “Flags and Banners,” Litchfield Memorial Library, Litchfield, Connecticut
Exhibition, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Exhibition, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago. January
Wins prize, Hartford Art Festival
Exhibition, Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Moves studio (Ives and Ives-Sillman) to 153East Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Exhibition, American University, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition, Neuberger Gallery, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, December 1977–January 1978
Designs The Legend of John Brown, Jacob Lawrence portfolio produced by Ives-Sillman for the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978
Ives-Sillman publishes Herbert Matter, 13 PHOTOGRAPHS: Alberto Giocometti
Exhibition, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
Dies of lung cancer at St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven, on February 2
Wins Printing Industries of America award for Norman Ives, exhibition catalog (posthumous award)
Exhibition, Madison Gallery, Madison, Connecticut
Exhibition, Constructions & Reconstructions, AIGA Gallery, New York, New York
Exhibition, Constructions & Reconstructions, Rochester Institute of Technology, University and Bevier Galleries, Rochester, New York