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The paintings of James McGarrell have been exhibited since 1955 at galleries and museums in America and Europe. They are in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Art Museums of New Orleans, Saint Louis, Santa Barbara, Hamburg, Germany, the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University and the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia. His work has been included in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials, two Carnegie International Exhibitions, Documenta in Kassel, Germany; and the American Pavilion of the 1968 Venice Biennale. In 1995 McGarrell received the Jimmy Ernst lifetime achievement award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With his wife, the writer and translator Ann McGarrell, he lives and works in Newbury Vermont.