Biography:

Born in Hoquiam, WA


Education:

1962
Mills College, Oakland, CA; M.F.A.
1958
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; B.F.A.


Solo Exhibitions:

2003
Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
1997
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1994
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1993
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1989
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1986
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1983
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1981
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1978
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1976
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976
Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1975
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1973
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1971
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1968
Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967
University of Omaha, Omaha, NE
1966
Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1964
Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1963
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1957
Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2004-5
An American Odyssey 945 – 1980 (Debating Modernism), traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo
de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31;
Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2; Also to Queensborough Community
College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY, October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005
2004-5
American Photorealism, traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of art, April 4 – May 16;
Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4; Kumamoto Perfectural Museum of Art, July 16 –
September 5; Hadodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7; also to Jane
Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Dec. 12, 2004
2004     
Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection, Marsh Art Gallery,
University of Richmond, VA
Some Photorealism¸ Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
New American Realism, Tony Brunelli Fine Art, Binghamton, NY
2003   
Real Illusions: Contemporary Art from Nashville Collections, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville,TN
Hyperréalismes USA 1965 – 1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
2002
Photorealism at the Millenium, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York
As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum of Art
Private Collections, Tucson  Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
2001
Representing Representation V, Arnot Art  Museum, Elmira, NY
Horsetales: American Images and Icons, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
This Is America: American Photorealists, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark
2001
Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Illusion and Reality: Hyperrealism Paintings in Korea and New York, Samsung Museum of
Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
2000
Go Figure, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York
The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Second Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Constructing Realities, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Animal As Muse, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997-8
The Horse In Fine Art, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL; travelling to: Canton Museum of
Art, Canton, OH; Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK;
International Museum of The Horse, Lexington, KY
1997
National Horse Show, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1996
CCAC: Past, Present And Future (1906-1996) , Oliver Art Center,
California Center of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Paper Work, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership,
Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
1995-6
The Landscape of American Culture, 1967-1975, John Berggruen. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1992
Photorealism From Nashville Collections, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN
In Search of Sunsets: The Persistence of Imagery in American Art, Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, WA
How Green Is My Valley, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1991-2
Photo-Realism: Revisited, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
The Heart Of America: The O.K. Harris Collection, Dada Building, Fukuoka City, Japan
1991
Amerikansk Kunst Efter 1960, GL. Holtegaard, Denmark
In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Photorealism: The Early Years, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY
1990
California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Styles, Strands & Sequences: American Realist Paintings & Drawings, 1912-1990 From the
Philip Desind Collection, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
The New West, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Oakland's Artists ‘90, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
California A to Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1988
Spanish Watercolors: Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean, Wiegand Gallery,
College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1988
Works On Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors The Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Selections from The Ellen and Jerome Westheimer Collection, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1987
The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre
College, Danville, KY
Fifty-First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
Realism: The New Generation, R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL
1986-7 The Sturman Collection: 20th Century Works On Paper, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1986
Art Treasures of Oklahoma, organized by the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1985
Realism: Contemporary Americans, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Animals: Contemporary Visions, Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, MI
1985-7 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss
Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1985
American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveling exhibition in Japan
Photorealist Watercolors: Robert Bechtle, Ralph Goings, Richard McLean, Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art,
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; travelling to: San Diego
Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss,
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1984
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Animals! Animals! Animals!, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
America Seen: Contemporary American Artists View America, Adams Middleton Gallery,
Dallas, TX
Galerie Jean-Pierre Lavignes, Paris, France
1983-5 West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; travelling exhibition
1983
American Superrealism From the Morton G. Neumann Collection, Terra Museum of American
Art, Evanston, IL
The American Photorealists, Fischer Fine Art, London, England
Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades: 1940's - 1960's, Richard L. Nelson
Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Drawings by Fifty California
Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1983
Watercolor in America, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
Thanking the Muse, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of
American Art, Evanston, IL
Contemporary Images: Watercolor 1983, University of Wisconsin­-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Horse Show, Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Self-Portraits, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum,University of Santa Clara, Santa
Clara, CA
Northern California Realist Painters, Redding Museum, Redding, CA
The West As Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1981-3
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Gulbenkian
Museum, Lisbon; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
1981
Animals in American Art: 1880's - 1980's, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture: 1950-1980, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary Realism, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Changes: Art in America 1881-1981, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1980
Photo-Realist Painting in California: A Survey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Painting and Sculpture
from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1979-80
Reflections of Realism, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
1979
America in the 70's as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection,
Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1978-9
American Drawing, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1977
Masters of Watercolor, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1977-8
Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; travelling to: Western Australia
Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart
1977
New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
A Comparative Study of Nineteenth Century California, Paintings and Contemporary California
Realism, California State University, Chico, CA
American Paintings and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
30 Years of American Art: 1945-1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1976-8
Realist's Prints, travelling exhibition organized by the Australian Council, North Sydney;
touring Australian museums
Aspects of Realism, Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Stratford, Ontario; travelling to:
Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vancouver; Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Winnepeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton Art Gallery,Edmonton, Alberta; Memorial University
Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec; Dalhousie University Art
Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario; London Art
Gallery and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, London, Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, Ontario
1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Cows, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
Photo-Realist Watercolors, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Amerikanske Realister, Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Works on Paper, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1975-6
Super Realism, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
1975
American Realism, Reed College, Portland, OR
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
The New Realism: Rip-off or Reality?, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art,
Wichita State
University, Wichita, KS
1975
New Realist Painting in California, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974
Watercolors and Drawings -American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Living American Artists and The Figure, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art,   
University Park, PA
Aspects of the Figure, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Tokyo Biennale ‘74, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection,
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
New/Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Horse in Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
California Climate, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton,
1974
Hyperrealistes Americains, Realistes Europeens, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris,
France;Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1973-8
The Stuart M. Speiser Collection of Photo-Realism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY;
travelling to: Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester,
NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum,
Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas
Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Brooks Memorial Museum, Memphis, TN; Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL; University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A.Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Rice University, Sewall Art Gallery, Houston, TX; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1973-4
Hyperrealisme: Maitres Americains et Europeens, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
1973
Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decade, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Photo Realism 1973, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Kunst Nach Wirklichkeit em Neuer Realismus in Amerika und in Europe, Kunstverein, Hannover, West Germany
The Super-Realist Vision, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Amerikansk Realism, Lunds Konsthall, Lunds, Sweden
Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Hyperrealisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
Mit Kamera, Pinsel und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, West Germany
Photo-Realisme, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France
Ekstrem Realisme, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, West Germany
Iperrealisti Americani, Galeria Medusa, Rome, Italy
1972-3
Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein; Frankfurt Kunstverein;
Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, West Germany
1972
California Representation: Eight Painters in Documenta 5, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, CA
Working in California, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
32 Realists, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
The Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Realism Now, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
L'Hyperrealisme Americains, Galerie de 4 Mouvements, Paris, France
Documenta and No-Documenta Realists, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
Documenta 5, Neue Galerie and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
Sharp-Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1971
New Realism, State University College, Potsdam, NY
Neue Amerikanische Realisten, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1971-3 36
California Painters, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA;
travelling exhibition to New Zealand and Australia
1971
Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1970
The Highway, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Beyond the Actual - Contemporary California Painting,
Pioneer Museum and Haggin Gallery, Stockton, CA
The Cool Realists, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
Directly Seen - New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA
West Coast ‘70, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Twenty-Two Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
People Painters, University of California, Davis, CA
Expo ‘70, Osaka, Japan
1969
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969,
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,Urbana, IL
A Decade of Accomplishment: American Drawings and Prints of  the 1960's,
Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL
Views of Sacramento, Artist's Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento,CA
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1967
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
80 Contemporaries in the West, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Four Painters, California State College, Hayward, CA
1966-8
East Bay Realists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1966
Kingsley Annual, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1965
Mills College, Oakland, CA
1964
13th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Max 24, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
1963
12th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1962
San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
SFAA Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
1961
SFAA Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1960
Watercolor/Graphics Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1957
California Sculptors Annual, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1957    
Northern California Painters Annual, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA


Selected Collections:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Utrecht Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Hanover, Hanover, West Germany
R-L Canadian Fuel Inc., Toronto, Canada
Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, CA
Southland Corporation, Dallas, TX
Pacific Telesis, San Francisco, CA
Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Dr. Peter Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany
Glenn Janss, Sun Valley, ID
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris, France
Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, VA
Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, FL
George Sturman, Las Vegas, NV
Richard and Gloria Manney, New York, NY