Charles Cajori is a painter and co-founder of the Tanager Gallery in New York City, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1956. He was born in Palo Alto, CA, and studied at Columbia University (NY) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME). Cajori’s work is exhibited in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina (Greensboro, NC), and the Denver Art Museum (CO). He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a Fulbright Grant.