Norman Daly Timeline
August 9, 1911: Birth of Norman Daly, Pittsburgh, PA
Schooling
– St. Philomena Grade School
– Schenley High School
1930-1939
1930-1934: Carnegie Institute of Technology (evening classes with Roy Hilton etc.)
1934-1937: University of Colorado, BFA (studies with Muriel Sibell, Fran Truxes)
1936: first public exhibition of work at the Denver Art Museum
1937-38: fellowship Year in Paris,
1938: first solo exhibition at the University of Colorado
1938-40: Ohio State University, MA (Art History)
1940-1949
1940-41: taught Art at Oberlin College; moved to New York City
— 1941-42: taught at Douglass College of Rutgers University
— 1941-1942: graduate study at Institute of Fine Arts at NYU
— Extensive contact with Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
1942: began Cornell teaching career: (was appointed professor of art in the late 1950s)
1945-65: New York City gallery career
1945: Mortimer Brandt Gallery (two-person exhibition curated by Betty Parsons)
1947: Durand-Ruel Galleries (first one-person exhibition)
1945-53: selected for numerous national group exhibitions (including the Carnegie International in 1948 and the Whitney Annual Exhibitions 1947-48 and 1950)
1950-1959
1950-1965: regular NYC exhibitions at Bertha Schaefer Gallery (one-man and group)
1950: Beginning of sabbatical in France in September (interrupted by acute medical events which nearly ended his life)
1951: convalescence in Arizona (February–May)
1951: (May-October) return to France as instructor for Parsons School of Design in France and Italy. Visit to Brancusi in his studio in Paris.
1954: First meeting of Norman Daly and Br. David Steindl-Rast (life-long friendship)
1957: Painted wall mural with Etruscan theme for the College Spa restaurant in Ithaca, New York
1958: Won contest at Munson-Williams-Procter Institute (Utica, New York) with “The Legend of Oneida Stone” mural design (never commissioned)
1958: Commission to design stained-glass windows for Mount Savior Monastery in Pine City, New York
1960-1969
1961: one-person exhibition at A.D. White featured in the Trojan Horse (first exhibition of assemblages)
1963: Juror’s Show at The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (acquisition of a marble sculpture)
1965: Sculpture and Paintings, A.D White Museum
1965: Constructive Sculpture at Bertha Schaefer Gallery (group show which was Daly’s last New York gallery exhibition)
1965: American School in Lugano, Switzerland (summer session instructor)
1966: Application to Cornell for support of a multimedia project involving “mythical antiquity” (prototype of Llhuria/Llhuros)
1967: first residency at Yaddo during Spring 1967 sabbatical; intensive work on new project
1967: Instructed a Cornell Anthropology fall term course which studied a collection of artifacts called “Llhuria” (first name and smaller version of Llhuros)
1968: EPOCH cover design uses image of “Llhurian” object, first publication of elements of “The Civilization of Llhuros”
1968: Meets Robert Moog and David Borden who assist him in creating the sonic elements for “Llhuros”
1969: letter from Tom Leavitt about “The Civilization of Llhuros” exhibition schedule for Fall 1969 (postponed to 1972)
1969: Faculty Travel Grant to Mexico City
1970-1979
1971: College Art Association (CAA) notice of upcoming exhibition of “Llhuria”
1972: premiere exhibition of “The Civilization of Llhuros” at Cornell University1972-74: “The Civilization of Llhuros” visits several US venues
1973: Cornell Faculty Grant trip to Greece
1974: Project ’74 in Cologne (Römisch-Germanisches archaeological museum) installation of Llhuros including newly created site-specific works
1975: Xerox Square Group Exhibition “Unordinary Realities” (September-November)
1976 Mandatory retirement from Cornell (continued to teach in Emeritus status until 1999)
1979-80: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | “Masks Tents Vessels Talismans” group exhibition (catalog introduction discusses “Llhuros” with several illustrations)
1980-1989
1981: receives Hartell Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell
1981: “Imaginary Civilizations, Temple University, Tyler School of Art1983-84: “Imaginaire Landen” Group Exhibition in Rotterdam, Netherlands
1985: Beauvais Lyons contacts Norman about his interest in “Llhuros”
1987: earliest drafts of the play “Llhuros Revisited”
1988: CAA Program “Artist’s Visions of Imaginary Cultures”
1989: first staged reading of “Llhuros Revisited” at Franklin Hall, Cornell University
1990-2009
1991: Norman Daly and Beauvais Lyons article on “Llhuros” published in Leonardo Journal (MIT)
1991: Roberson Exhibition “Ancient Civilizations, Modern Interpretations”
1991-2000: rewriting the play, renamed “The Stiltwalkers”
1993: Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) commemoration of 50 years of teaching at Cornell held at the A.D. White House at Cornell
2001: 90th birthday celebration at the A.D. White House
2004: Johnson Museum “Llhuros and Other Works” (retrospective)
2005: Kendal-At-Ithaca (CCRC) private art exhibition
2008: Death of Norman Daly in Ithaca, NY (see obituary)
2010-2019
2010: normandaly.com and civilizationofllhuros.org websites are launched
2012: Asheville Museum of Art acquires “Tobias and the Angel”
2014: Cornell Prof. Adam Smith uses objects in his Archaeology class
2017: sampling of Llhuroscian objects at the “Plurivers” Exhibition, Montpellier Centre d’arte Contemporain
2019: “The Civilization of Llhuros” is the key exhibition at the 16th Istanbul Biennial
2020-current
2021: “Llhuros” featured in Antionette LaFarges’s “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation”
2021: Wikipedia entry for Norman Daly
2021: Norman Daly’s paintings offered for donation to museums through Museum Exchange
2022-4: Acquisition of paintings by American museums
2022-: Cornell University Archives begins acquisition of Norman Daly papers and electronic media
2022: International virtual “Llhuros Symposium 2022” organized by Beauvais Lyons and hosted by University of Kentucky Knoxville
2024: Prof. Poppy McLeod and seminar make visit to CU Archives
2026: Cornell University Anthropology Collection acquires “Llhuros”
FAMILY
TBA.
Marriage
Helen Gebbie ( )
Children
David (1944—)
Nicolas (1953—1969)
