Norman Gorbaty – Biography

By Dr. Margaret Rappaport

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Norman GorbatyDate of Birth
Born 1932
Brooklyn, NY

Education

1953–1955
Yale University
School of Art and Architecture
M.F.A.
Teaching Fellowship

1952
Yale Norfolk Art School
Adjunct Course work

1949–1953
Amherst College
B.A.
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Simpson Fellowship

1951–1953
Smith College
Adjunct Course work

Employment

1955–1956
James Eng Associates
Designer

1956–1958
L.W. Frohlich
Designer

1959–1968
Benton & Bowles, Inc.
Vice president, Art Group Supervisor

1968–Present
Norman Gorbaty Design, Inc.
President – Designer

Instructor

1955–Summer
Yale Norfolk Art School
Instructor

1961–1970
Cooper Union School of Art
Adjunct Professor
Advanced Graphic Design

1971
Silvermine School of Art
Instructor
Graphic Design

Visiting Lecturer

Yale University
Minneapolis School of Art
University of Winnipeg
University of Maine, Augusta
Carnegie-Mellon University
Kansas City School of Art
The Pennsylvania State University
Union College

Collections

Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT

Baruch College
New York, NY

Glucksman Ireland House
New York University, New York, NY

Mead Art Museum
Amherst College, Amherst, MA

Print Research Foundation
Stamford, CT

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Amherst, MA

National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian, Washington, DC

The Laterman Collection
New York, NY

The New Britain Museum of Modern Art
New Britain, CT

Awards

Heisey Award
Yale-Norfolk Art School Fellowship
Graduate Assistant Fellowship Yale
50 Best Books Award – A.I.G.A.
Printing for Commerce – A.I.G.A.
Society for World Literacy
Design in Glass – Corning Glass
Simpson Fellowship – Amherst
Art Directors Club of New York
50 Best Ads – A.I.G.A.
Society of Illustrators
New York Employing Printers
Lithographers & Printers National Association
Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Typmundus 20
American Television Commercials Festival
Society of Publications Designers
Award of Distinctive Merit
Trademarks U.A.A.
International Poster Competition
American Poster 64
A.I.A. Medal

Work Shown At

Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum
Springfield Art Museum
Pennsylvania University
Wesleyan College
Mead Art Museum – Amherst
Smith College Art Museum
Cooper Union
Kansas City School of Art
University of Indiana
Minneapolis School of Art
Maine State University
Typmundus 20
American Federation of Arts
New York Art Directors Club
A.I.G.A.
Tremaine Gallery at The Hotchkiss School
The QCC Art Gallery, The City University of NY
The Bellarmine Museum at Fairfield University
Thomas J. Walsh Gallery at Fairfield University

Film Title Design

Bananas (Woody Allen)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (Woody Allen)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
Little Big Man (Elliot Erwitt)
Gladys Knight and the Pips (Bill Parrott)

Contributing Designer
For the Following Publications

Time Magazine
U.S. News and World Report
Fortune Magazine
CA Magazine (Cancer Society Journal)
Impact 21
Maine Magazine
Beverage World
Beverage Aisle
Money Magazine
Financial World
One Magazine (Catholic Near East Welfare Association)

Illustrations/Posters

Gorbaty’s work as an illustrator has been included in countless magazines, annual reports, brochures, advertisements and numerous children’s books. He has also designed posters for such clients as Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Institute, The Smithsonian and Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd.

Bibliography

Print Making with a Spoon, Reinhold, 1960
Printmaking Methods Old and New, MacMillan Co. 1959