A Memorable Performance
by Victoria Dalkey
The aptly titled “Paul Wonner: A Bountiful Feast” at Paul Thiebaud Gallery offers a baker’s dozen of complex still life paintings from the second half of the artist’s long career when he moved from expressive, painterly images that earned him a place in the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s to bright busy still life paintings of common objects arranged as if performing in a surrealistic stage play. At times arranged on sharp diamond shaped tables or triangles of folded napkins, the images range from those imbued with mathematical precision to displays filled with riotous images of produce from grocery store aisles: tart green-skinned Granny Smith apples, gold-green d’Anjou pears and sinuous Boscs in plain brown wrappers, bright orange Japanese persimmons on a rumpled red and white checked kitchen towel, and flowers, from dainty blossoms in small vases to elegant long stemmed roses in a tall milk carton.
The simpler of Wonner’s still lifes of fruit pay homage to the rock solid still lifes of Cezanne that led to Cubism, while his later, quixotic, often hyperactive images, updated 17th and 18th century Dutch still life paintings that often included memento mori: reminders of life’s brevity, fragility, and inevitability in the form of skulls, timepieces, burnt down candles, wilting bouquets, or partially peeled oranges or lemons. Wonner greatly admired the works of Cezanne, in particular the sense of movement and light captured in the short, squarish brushstrokes the painter used to compose scenes of bathers frolicking along a river, card players contemplating their next move, and mounds of fresh produce on tables.
However, Wonner’s methodology for creating his still life compositions was different from those of Cezanne or his contemporaries, such as Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn. Instead of gathering a group of objects together and arranging them into a desired composition, he located an object he wanted to include, placed it on the table next to his canvas, and painted it individually into the final work. Some are unexpected objects—a magnifying glass, a plate of raw steak with a sharp knife, a tall plastic bottle of orange juice on an acidic green table cloth, or seductive yet somehow melancholic black olives in a cardboard takeout container that invites comparison to Wayne Thiebaud’s cheerily light filled, bowl of Cherries (1984), a work full of mouth-watering red fruit heaped up in a shining silver bowl.
On the canvas, Wonner’s objects often are arranged just far enough apart from one another to give them a sense of isolation from one another without breaking the scene apart, allowing viewers to focus on each separately. One could read into these still lifes that they are commenting
on the proliferation of objects caused by the Industrial Revolution, especially In the post-war era of the United States. But, Wonner’s paintings are more observational in nature than dialectic, using sensuously rich colors to heighten our sense of luxuriousness at the offerings presented, and the seemingly random, almost surreal juxtapositions they contain merely reflect the bizarre and random occurrences found in our everyday lives. By incorporating these elements of surrealism and nostalgia in his paintings, Wonner challenges our expectations of what the still life can represent, making the mundane performative.
First appearing in the mid-1970s Wonner’s still lifes gave an important boost to his career at a time when the art world was returning to realism as an accepted and even lauded mode of painting. The emergence of “new realism,” from Philip Guston’s confrontational canvases to Wayne Thiebaud’s painterly realist oils of thickly frosted cakes and lemon meringue pies to Ralph Goings’ photorealist paintings of mid-American diners, came at a time when the course of modern art had reached an unexpected culmination through and conceptualism, leaving room for something as timeless as the realistic image to be considered “new” again. Its’ arrival did not come without harsh criticism from the modern art establishment, being seen as a betrayal of the project and ideas so many had spent decades building and staking their careers on.
In fact, Thomas Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was taken to the proverbial “woodshed” by the press when he curated the first show of Andrew Wyeth’s realist paintings set in the landscapes of Maine and Pennsylvania at that exalted institution in 1976. What many had not yet grasped, or perhaps they did and were not in any way happy about it, was that the modes of art making put forward through the course of modernism -- impressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism, and many -isms in between -- had lost the power of being the defining idea of what art should be about, hence the “new” attached to the realism. New Realism set the groundwork for the art world we see today, one where different styles, modes, and mediums are all equally celebrated for their aesthetic offerings.
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Victoria Dalkey is a poet and art critic and the former art correspondent of the Sacramento Bee.
Plate 1:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels on Two Tables, 2001 acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on paper, 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 2: Fruit and Kitchen Towels (Small #6), 2000-2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper, 9 3/4 x 15 inches
Plate 3:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels (Two Tables), 2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper, 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 4: Fruit and Kitchen Towels, 2002-2003 acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on paper, 8 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches
Plate 5:
Garden Furniture, 1997
acrylic and graphite on paper, 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 6:
Tulips in a Milk Carton, c. 1983
acrylic and charcoal on paper, 26 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches
Plate 7:
Carton of Olives, 1992
acrylic on paper, 9 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches
8:
Plate
Untitled (Table with Fruit, Potatoes, Meats and Flowers), 2000 acrylic and charcoal on paper, 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 9: Fruit and Kitchen Towels #1, 2001 acrylic and charcoal on paper, 10 x 13 5/8 inches
Plate 10:
Green Cloth, Orange Juice and Magnifying Glass, 2000
acrylic and charcoal on paper, 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 11: Fruit and Kitchen Towels #2, 2001 acrylic and charcoal on paper, 7 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Plate 12:
Persimmons on Kitchen Towel, 2002
acrylic and charcoal on paper, 9 x 13 1/2 inches
Exhibition Checklist
Plate 1:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels on Two Tables
2001
acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on paper
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 2:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels (Small #6)
2000-2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper
9 3/4 x 15 inches
Plate 3:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels (Two Tables)
2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 4:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels
2003-2003
acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on paper
8 7/8 x 15 1/8 inches
Plate 5:
Garden Furniture 1997
acrylic and graphite on paper
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 6:
Tulips in a Milk Carton c. 1983
acrylic and charcoal on paper
26 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches
Plate 7:
Carton of Olives 1992
acrylic on paper
9 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches
Plate 8:
Untitled (Table with Fruit, Potatoes, Meats and Flowers) 2000
acrylic and charcoal on paper
39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 9:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels #1 2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper 10 x 13 5/8 inches
Plate 10:
Green Cloth, Orange Juice and Magnifying Glass 2000
acrylic and charcoal on paper 39 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Plate 11:
Fruit and Kitchen Towels #2 2001
acrylic and charcoal on paper
7 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Plate 12:
Persimmons on Kitchen Towel 2002
acrylic and charcoal on paper 9 x 13 1/2 inches
Paul Wonner
Born Tucson, Arizona,1920
Died San Francisco, California, 2008
Education
1956
1953
1952
1948-1950
Master of Library Science, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Art, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Art with Honors, University of California, Berkeley
Subjects of the Artist School (later Studio 35), New York, NY
1947 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1941
B.A. in Art Education, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (now California College of the Arts, San Francisco)
Teaching
1987 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1985 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1983-1984
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
1982 Laguna Beach School of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1981 California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1978-1979 University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
1975-1976
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
1975 California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1973 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1968-1971 College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1965-1968
Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
1961-1963 University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1959-1960 David Art Center, Davis, CA
Awards
2004 Elder Artist of the Year, conferred by Eldgergivers of Napa County in collaboration with di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, CA
1960 First Place (later rescinded), Los Angeles All-City Art Festival
1958 Prize, Seventy-Seventh Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
1955 Second Prize, Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art
1954 Walter Haas Award for promising young artists, San Francisco Museum of Art
1953 Ann Bremer Prize in Art, San Francisco Art Institute
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Paul Wonner: A Bountiful Feast, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2023-2024
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (April-August 2023); Travels to: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (October 2023-January 2024); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (January-March 2024)
2022 Paul Wonner: Landscapes of Objects, 1966–2001, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 The Cone Family Legacy, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2008 Paul Wonner: A Memorial Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Art20, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2004 Paul Wonner: Bay Area Elder Artist of the Year 2004, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
2004 Paul Wonner: Forty Years of Paintings on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Paul Wonner, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Paul Wonner: Selected Works from the Sixties, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Interiors, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
1999 Paul Wonner, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Paul Wonner: Recent Work, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paul Wonner: Still Lifes, Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California,Laguna Beach, CA
1997 Paul Wonner: Small Format Paintings and Watercolors, 1958-1965, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992-1993 Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1992 Paul Wonner, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987-1988 Paul Wonner: Small Paintings on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, The Monadnock Building, San Francisco, CA
1987 Paul Wonner, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1985-1986 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, John BerggruenGallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Paul Wonner, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1982 Laguna Beach School of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1981-1982 Paul Wonner: Abstract Realist, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (October- November 1981); Travels to: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX (March-May 1982), and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (August- September 1982)
1981 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paul Wonner, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1980-1981 Studies for Romantic Views of San Francisco, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings and Drawings, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1974 Paul Wonner: Illustrations for an Imaginary Book of Poems Called “Lunacy,” Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Paul Wonner Paintings, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Paintings and Drawings by Paul Wonner, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Watercolors by Paul Wonner, Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Recent Paintings and Drawings by Paul Wonner, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967 Paul Wonner: Oils and Watercolors; Still Life, Landau-Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Paul Wonner: Paintings, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Paul Wonner: Watercolours, 1963-1964, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom
1964-1965 Paul Wonner: Recent Paintings, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Paul Wonner: Gouaches, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Recent Paintings/Paul Wonner, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Paul Wonner, Poindexter Gallery, New York
Watercolors: Paul Wonner, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings by Paul Wonner, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Ca
1960 Paintings by Paul Wonner, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1959 Paintings by Paul Wonner, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1956-1957 Paul Wonner, San Francisco Art Association Gallery, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions (cont.)
1956
Paintings by Paul Wonner, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1944 Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021-2022
Moment to Moment: Figuration and the Northern California Avant Garde, Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2021 101 Years of Still Life: 1920-Present, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020
Still Life, Still, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner: Seen Through Different Lenses, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2017 Spring Group Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
Group Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdon
Return to Nature: Bay Area Figurative Artists from 1948 to 1980 (re)discovered, Art Ventures Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
Bay Area Figurative Drawing: 1958–1968, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2016 Giants Intertwined: The Estate of Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown, Sullivan Goss-An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2015-16
As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco, Hackett | Mill, San Francisco, CA
Still Life: Capturing the Moment, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Back to Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawings, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2014 In with the New: 2014 Reductions--Consignments & Select Gallery Artists’ Works, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 The Collection of the Davis Art Center: A Small Community Collects Big, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012-13
Partners Collection: Exhibition and Sale, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Treasures: From the Charles & Glenna Campbell Collection, Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between Abstract and Figurative, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Theophilus Brown: A Celebration, Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2011-2012 The Dynamics of Painters, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Group Show: Self Portraits and Others, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
End of Summer Deaccession Sale, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawings & Prints by Bay Area Artists, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Gothic: Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
2010-2011 The Art of Giving, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2010 Lost and Found: Visions of the Davis Art Center, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
AQUA: Art on Water, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
They Knew What They Wanted: One Exhibition Curated across Four Galleries by the Artists Robert Bechtle, Shannon Ebner, Katy Grannan and Jordan Kantor, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Group Show, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Real and HyperReal, San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Close Observation: Drawings, Sketches and Mixed-Media Works from the Gallery Collection, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009-2010
Bay Area Figurative: Paintings and Drawings, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. (with an accompanying exhibition of works on paper),
2009
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948–2008 (Part 1), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of Bay Area Painting, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008-2009 Stimulus Package: 5-30% Price Reduction, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Every Thursday Evening: The Drawings of Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2008 Here and Now: Group Show, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007-2008 Celebrating a Centennial: Contemporary Printers at CCA, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
2007 Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
CCA[C] Alumni @ di Rosa Preserve, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
California College of the Arts Alumni and Faculty Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Culture in the Making: New York and San Francisco in the 1950s and ‘60s, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 A Culture in the Making: New York and San Francisco in the 1950s and ‘60s, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2006 Bay Area Painting, 1948-2006, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Selections, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Posed at Midcentury: Master Drawings by Bay Area Figuratives, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Paul Wonner and Larry Cohen, SCAPE Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
Bay Area Figurative: 1950s and 1960s, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Bay Area Figuration: Then and Now, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2005 Drawn Across the Century, Selections from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Highlights: New Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
A Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Bay Area Figuration Show, University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004-2005
It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (May-July 2004); Travels to: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (October 2004- February 2005)
2004 The More Things Change, George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I Got My Art in San Francisco, Odd Fellows Building, San Francisco, CA
A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2003-2004 Color, Form, and Figure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San José Museum of Art, California (November 2003-February 2004); Travels to: Pasadena Museum of California Art, CA (March-June 2004)
2003 A Room of Their Own: Images of Interiors from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2002-2003
A Way with Words, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Cone Family Legacy: Selected Gifts to the Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
2002-2003 Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2002 The Art of Giving: Holiday Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Odd Fellows building, San Francisco
2001-2002 Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawings/Bay Area Collections, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2001 Flowers, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2000 Concerning the Figure, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Painters of the Northern California Bay Area Figurative Movement, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1999-2001
Drawn Across the Century, Selections from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1999-2000 Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (September-November 1999); Travels to: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (FebruaryMarch 2000), and Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA (April-June 2000)
1999 From the Figurative Tradition: Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner; Selected Paintings: 1954-1999, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
Painted Canvas, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Selection of Still-Lifes from the Collections of the Museum, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
California Dreamin’: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
The Contemporary City with Red Grooms, Yvonne Jacquette, Jacob Lawrence, and Philip Pearlstein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Views from the Bay Area: The Shift toward Figuration, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1997-1998 Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (June-August 1997); Travels to: Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA (January-February 1997); Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK (March- May 1997); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (June-August 1997); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (September-November 1997); The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (January-February 1998); and Salina Art Center, Salina, KS (March-May 1998)
1997 California Painting Sampler: Selections from Bank of America Corporation Art Collection, Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Approaching the Figure, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Important Bay Area Paintings, 1954-1960, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996-1997 Grounded: Suburban Landscapes, from the museum’s collection of work by Southern California artists, Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1996 Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art: A Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1995-1996 Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flora: Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (April-June 1995); Travels to: Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (September-November
1995-1996 1995); New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, (November 1995-January 1996); the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (February-April 1996); and Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (April-June 1996)
Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, 1954–1984, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1995 XXV Years: An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Selections of 20th Century Art from the Academy’s Collections, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1995 XXV Years: An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery and Saluting the Opening of the New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Imagery Series Collection, a show of designs for wine labels made for Benziger Family Winery, Herrett Center for Arts and Science, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID
1993-1994 The Art of Giving/The Giving of Art, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Still Life, 1963–1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Drawings III: A Group Exhibition, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992-1994 American Realism: The Urban Scene-Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (April-May 1992); Travelled to: Redding Museum of Art and History, Redding, CA (March-May 1993); Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA (June- August 1993); Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH (September-November 1993); Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI (November 1993-January 1994); Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries, Naples, FL (February-March 1994); The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY (June-July 1994); and Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, lA (August-September 1994)
1992-1993 Objects of Affection: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Directions in Bay Area Printmaking, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1992 23: Recent Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Corporations Collect, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1991 American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952-1990, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980’s from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
“Postwar California Painting 1950- 1980,” part of Different Stories: Five Views of the Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Still Life: Paintings and Drawings, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
20th Century Flower Paintings, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1990 Northern California Figuration 1945-1990, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
Realist Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989-1990 Selections 2 from the Honolulu Advertiser Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950–1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (December 1989-February 1990); Travels to: Hirshhorn Museum and
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
1989-1990 Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (JuneSeptember 1990), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (October-December 1990)
1989 Potent Environments: Selections from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Selected Works from the Security Pacific Collection, Security Pacific Bank Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
1988-1989 Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (July-September 1988); Travels to: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI (September-November 1988) and the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois (January-February 1989)
1988 Inaugural Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Paintings and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987-1988 Contemporary Realism, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1987 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA Highlights of California Art Since 1945: A Collecting Partnership, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1986-1987 The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1986 Objects Observed, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Contemporary American Still Life, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
Elizabeth Paul Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Postwar California Painting and Sculpture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Life Drawing—1980’s: Seven San Francisco Artists (Mark Adams, Theophilus Brown, Gordon Cook, Charles Griffin Farr, Wayne Thiebaud, Beth Van Hoesen), Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985-87
American Realism: Twentieth- Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (November 1985-January 1986); Travels to: deCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA (February-April 1986); Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX (July-September 1986); Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (October-December 1986); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (JanuaryMarch 1987); Akron Art Museum, OH (April-May 1987); and Madison Art Center, WI (July- September 1987)
1985 California Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Capitol Group, Security Pacific Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Travels to Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan (October), and Takashimaya Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan (November)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
American Art Today: Still Life, The Art Museum at Florida International University, University Park, FL
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 San Francisco Bay Area Painting 1984, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (+ Posters), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Benjamin and Anne Wortham Cone Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1984
The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956-1966, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; Travels to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (June-September)
New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1983-1985 Aspects of Color: Works on Paper from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Travels to: Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (May-July 1983); The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (September-October 1983); The Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX (November 1983-February 1984); Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (March-April 1984); Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA (April-June 1984); Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (June- July 1984); Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA (August-September 1984); Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY (October-November 1984); Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MI (December 1984-January 1985); Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (February- March 1985); and The Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA (March-May 1985)
1983-1984 20th Century Figurative Art from the Weatherspoon Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA (June-July 1983); Travels to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (November- December 1983), and Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (January- February 1984)
1983 Lumiere Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
American Still Life: 1945–1983, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Vintage California: Works of Art from 1950 to 1970, TLK [Turnbull, Lutjeans, Kogan] Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
American Paintings Since 1945 from the Weatherspoon Gallery Collection, St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
1982 Selected Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Inaugural Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Art on Paper: The Dillard Collection, Art and Architecture Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1981-83 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (September- December 1981); Travels to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (February- March 1982); The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (May-July 1982); Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (September-October 1982); Salas de Exposiciones de Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain (November 1982-January 1983); and Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany (February-April 1983)
1981 Selections of Contemporary Art: 1950-1980 from the Collection of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Wellington B. Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Recent Acquisitions: Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Small Paintings, 1930-1980: From the Permanent Collection of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
American Painting and Sculpture,1900-1945, St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
“world’s largest art exhibit.” Dutch Still Life with Lemon Tart and Engagement Calendar is selected as one of twelve Old Master and contemporary works to be repainted and featured on billboards in Berkeley, CA
1980 Stanislaus State College Art Gallery, Turlock, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1980
(cont.)
Still Life / A Selection of Contemporary Paintings, Kent State University School of Art Gallery, Kent, OH; Travels to Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH (June-July)
West Coast Drawings, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Bay Area Art: Then and Now, Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Selected Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gifts of Benjamin and Anne Wortham Cone to the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1979 The Big Still Life, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY; Travels to: Boston University Art Gallery (June-July) as The Big Still Life: Painting from the Allan Frumkin Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 Berggruen at ArtCenter, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Drawing Invitational, Viterbo College Fine Arts Center, La Crosse, WI
1977 Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Post WW II Figurative Styles in American Art, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1975-76
Portraits of Artists, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1975 New Acquisitions, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1974
Watercolor Exhibition, Gardiner Gallery of Art, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Art on Paper from the Dillard Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1973
“California School,” E. G. Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Twentieth Century American Artists, St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
1972 “semisurrealistic”, Art Building, California State University, Fresno, CA
Crocker Art Gallery Association 1972 Invitational, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Travelled to: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (December 1973-January 1974)
Surrealism is Alive and Well in the West, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Relativerend realisme, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1971 The 73rd Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
“Bay Area romanticism,” The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1970
Painting and Sculpture from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Casady of Santa Fe, The Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Looking West: 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
Second National Invitational Exhibition of drawings, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI
Hollywood Collects, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
Dealers’ Choice, Creative Arts Center, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
1969 The Dillard Collection: First Four Years, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1968 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
California College of Arts and Crafts Alumni, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
East Coast-West Coast Paintings- Inaugural Exhibition, Oklahoma University Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
The California Landscape, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA (August-September); Travels to: Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA (October)
Drawings and Prints from the Collection of Arizona State University, A. J. Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Tempe, AZ
National Invitational Art Exhibition, Goodall Gallery, Doane College, Crete, NB
Bay Area Artists, California State College at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Show, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
1967-1968 Dillard Traveling Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; Travels to: Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, and Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC (June 1968)
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
California Art Festival, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
California Contemporary Art from the Lytton Collection, California State College, Long Beach, CA (September-October 1967); Travels to: San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA (November-December 1967); Sonoma State College, Sonoma, CA (February- March 1968); California State College at Los Angeles, CA (June 1968); California State College at Hayward, CA (August-September 1968); and California State College, Dominguez Hills, CA (December 1968)
1967 37 Museums, 67 Artists, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Artists’ Artists, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
The West-80 Contemporaries, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Selections from the Collection of André and Dory Previn, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1966 Third Annual Purchase Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Cross Section: Some Trends in Contemporary American Art, Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965 Art on Paper 1965, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Selections from the Work of California Artists, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
2nd Annual Summer Exhibition, Art Dealers Association of America, Parke- Bernet Galleries, New York, NY
A Survey of Contemporary Art, J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY
California Business and Industry Collect Californians, Westside Jewish Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1964-1965 The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1964 A Hundred and One Drawings: A Representative Collection, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Van Nuys, CA
Recent Paintings of Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown, Hack-Light Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Seven California Painters, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
70th Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Mid-America Annual, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
Sixty-Seventh Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
1964
(cont.)
Paul Wonner: Watercolors and Drawings; William Theo Brown: Paintings and Drawings, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1963 Drawing Show, Art Gallery, Long Beach State College, Long Beach, CA
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Artists West of the Mississippi: The Realistic Image, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Living Room Show (informal), Residence of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Santa Monica, CA
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Jefferson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
James David Gallery, Bar Harbor Islands, FL
1962-1965
1962-1963
USA: Now, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukie, WI; Travels to numerous cities internationally and within the United States.
The Artist’s Environment: West Coast, 1962-1963, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX (November- December 1962), Travels to: University Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (JanuaryFebruary 1963), and Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA (March- April 1963)
Recent Painting USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (May- September 1962); Travels to: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (November 1962); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (January-February 1963); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (March-April 1963); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (May-June 1963); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (August- September 1963); and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (October-November 1963)
1962 Contemporary American Painting, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO
Treasures from East Bay Collections, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Newport Harbor, Balboa Pavillion Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
The Artist Looks at Peace, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Downey Museum of Art, Doney, CA
American Painting, 1962, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
A Selection of East Coast and West Coast American Painters, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
1961-1962
Third Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1961 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Twenty-Fourth Annual Drawing, Print, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Five Painters, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961 Northern California Painters’ Annual, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1960-1961
Second Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1960 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
All-City Art Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Barrios Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Seventy-Ninth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Painting–Some Current Directions, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Community Art Association Exhibition, Palos Verdes Library Art Gallery, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Winter Invitational Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1959-1961
1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (December 1959-January 1960);
1959-1961 Travels to: Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, IN (January-February 1960); J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (May 1960); Cedar Rapids Art Association Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA (September 1960); Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN (December 1960); and East Tennessee State College Student Center, Johnson City, TN (February-March 1961)
1959-1960 East-West, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (December 1959-January 1960); Travels to: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (February-March 1960)
Third Pacific Coast Biennial: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Artists of California, Oregon and Washington, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (October-November 1959); Travelled to: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA (December 1959-January 1960); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (January-February 1960); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (March-April 1960); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (May-June 1960); and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (July-August 1960)
1959 Seventy-Eighth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Art U.S.A., New York Coliseum, New York, NY
San Francisco Art Bank Exhibition, American River Junior College Library, Sacramento, CA
1958-1959 The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1958 Art Gallery at Mt San Antionio College, Walnut, CA
Artist Members’ Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
Seventy-Seventh Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
Sixty-Eighth Annual Nebraska Art Association Show, Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NB
Some Younger Names in American Painting, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
California Painting, Scripps College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
1958 California Painters’ Exhibition, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1957-1958 Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA (September 1957); Travels to: Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, CA (NovemberDecember 1957); Dayton Art Institute, Ohio (January-February 1958); and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (March 1958)
1955-1957 Pacific Coast Art, III Bienal do Museu de arte moderna, São Paulo, Brazil (June-October 1955); Travels to: Mesbla Department Store, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October-December 1955); San Francisco Museum of Art (June-July 1956); Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (1956); Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado (August-September 1956); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (October-November 1956); and Dayton Art Institute, Ohio (December 1956-January 1957)
1955-1956 Vanguard 1955, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (October-December 1955); Travels to: Stable Gallery, New York, NY (December 1955-January 1956)
1955 Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
United Nations Anniversary, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 61st Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Action 1 (The Merry-Go-Round Show), Looff Hippodrome (Santa Monica Pier Carousel Building), Santa Monica, CA
1954-1956 Younger American Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (May – July 1954); Travels to: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (September-October 1955); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (October-November 1955); San Francisco Museum of Art
Selected Group Exhibitions
(cont.)
1954-1956 (November 1955-January1956); Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art (February 1956); Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK (March-April 1956); and Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (April-May 1956)
1954 Western Painters’ Annual Exhibition, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland CA
Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Seventy-Third Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1953
1952
1944-1945
Seventy-Second Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Sixteen Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Fourth Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
1939 Delta Phi Delta Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1938 Annual Watercolor Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1937 Annual Watercolor Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Annual Exhibition, Tucson High School, Tucson, AZ
1935 Student Exhibition, organized by the Tucson Fine Arts Association, Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, AZ
Collections
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Capitol Records, Los Angeles, CA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Pacific Bell Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, AZ
Philip Morris Corporation, New York, NY
Reader’s Digest Association, New York, NY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The Buck Collection, UC Irvine Jack & Shanaz Langston Institute & Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine, CA
The Flood Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Putt-McCann Art Collection
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Arthur, John. Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1989.
Arthur, John. Still Life, 1963-1993. Santa Fe, NM: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1993.
Bakersfield Museum of Art. Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration. Essay by Roberta Carasso. Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield Museum of Art, 2012.
Barr, Alfred H. Recent Painting USA: The Figure. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Boas, Nancy. David Park: A Painter’s Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Chadwick, Whitney. From the Figurative Tradition: Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner; Selected Paintings: 1954-1999. Introduction by Charles Strong and Robert Poplack. Belmont, CA: Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, 1999.
Charles Campbell Gallery. Life Drawing— 1980’s: Seven San Francisco Artists. Essay by Theophilus Brown. San Francisco: Charles Campbell Gallery, 1986.
Crocker Art Museum. San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay AreaAbstract Expressionism. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2004.
DC Moore Gallery. Paul Wonner. Essay by Nancy Grimes. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 1999.
Felix Landau Gallery. Paintings by Paul Wonner. Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery, 1959.
Garchow, Walter. Paul Wonner: Artist. Davis: University of California, Davis, 1968.
Goldberg, Trisha Lagaso, editor. Home is Where the Art is: Ten Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Stanford, CA : The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 2024.
Heather James Fine Art. Parks from the Paul Wonner Collection. Palm Desert, CA: Heather James Fine Art, 2020.
Heather James Fine Art. Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown. New York: Heather James Fine Art, 2019.
Heather James Fine Art. Paul Wonner: Still Life. New York: Heather James Fine Art, 2020.
Hirschl & Adler Modern. Paul Wonner. New York: Hirschl & Adler Modern, 1987.
Hirschl & Adler Modern. Paul Wonner. Essay by Paul Wonner. New York: Hirschl & Adler Modern, 1983.
Hopkins, Henry. Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1981.
John Berggruen Gallery. Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of Bay Area Painting Essay by Steven Nash. San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 2008.
John Berggruen Gallery. Paul Wonner: Recent Work. Essay by John Arthur. San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 1998.
Jones, Caroline A. Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950– 1965. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1990.
Landauer, Susan. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Books and Exhibition Catalogues (cont.)
Landauer, Susan, William H. Gerdts, and Patricia Trenton. The Not-So-Still Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Linetzky, Jason, Et al. A Family Affair: Modern and Centemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Essays by: David Cateforis, Evelyn C. Hankins, Molly S. Hutton, Branden W. Joseph, Carolyn Kastner, Alexander Nemerov, Karen M. Rapp, John Seed, and Rachel Teagle. New York: Prestel USA, 2014.
Linetzky, Jason, editor. Left of Center: Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Stanford, CA : The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 2019.
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. Paul Wonner: Paintings. San Antonio, TX: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1965.
McChesney, Mary Fuller. A Period of Exploration: San Francisco, 1945–1950. Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1973.
Mills, Paul. Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting. Oakland: Oakland Art Museum, 1957. Museu de arte moderna. III Bienal do Museu de arte moderna de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil: Museu de arte moderna, 1955.
Neubert, George. Paul Wonner: Abstract Realist. Forewords by Nancy Yewell and Henry T. Hopkins. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Franciso: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
Pal, Pratapaditya. The Flute and the Brush: Indian Paintings from the William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner Collection. Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976.
San Francisco Museum of Art. 69th Annual Oil, Tempera and Sculpture Exhibition of The San Francisco Art Association. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950.
Skolnick, Arnold, ed. Paintings of California. Introduction by llene Susan Fort. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Younger American Painters: A Selection. Essay by James Johnson Sweeney. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1954.
Thomas Reynolds Gallery. Treasures: From the Charles & Glenna Campbell Collection. San Francisco: Thomas Reynolds Gallery, 2012.
Walker Art Center. Vanguard 1955: A Painter’s Selection of New American Paintings. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1955.
Wonner, Paul. Paul Wonner. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Association Gallery, California School of Fine Arts, 1956.
Zaferatos, Olga. Painting the Still Life: Developing Your Own Personal Style. New York: Watson- Guptill, 1985.
Articles
Artweek. “Paul Wonner, 1920-2008.” Artweek 39 (June 2008): 3. Ashton, Dore. “Watercolors at the Poindexter Gallery.” Studio (August 1964): 88. Barr, J. “Exhibition at Waddington Galleries.” Apollo 35 (January 1965): 55. Boettger, Suzaan, and Sandy Ballatore. “Morandi and Wonner: The Metaphysical Philosopher Meets the Abstract Realist.” Images & Issues (Summer 1982): 48–51.
Breton, Harriette von. “Paul Wonner and William (Theo) Brown.” Artforum 2 (March 1964): 11, 13. Campbell, Lawrence. “Reviews and Previews: Paul Wonner.” ARTnews 66 (December 1967): 56. Chipp, Herschel B. “Summer Events: San Francisco.” ARTnews 55 (Summer 1956): 22, 61-62. Dunham, Judith L. “The Moon, Lunacy and Art.” Artweek 5 (December 21, 1974): 5. Gonzalez, Matt. “Paul Wonner and the ‘Femme au Coq’ Paintings of the 1950s.” The Matt Gonzalez Reader, November 5, 2016. http://themattgonzalezreader.com/2016/11/05/ paul-wonner/. Haber, Karen. “Paul Wonner: Beyond Still Life.” American Artist 56 (August 1992): 24-31, 78-79. Haggerty, Gerard. “Landscapes of Objects.” Artweek 9 (June 17, 1978): 1, 16. Haggerty, Gerard. “Paul Wonner: D. C. Moore.” ARTnews 98 (November 1999): 195. Keats, Jonathon. “Western Unorthodox.” Art and Antiques (October 2007): 126–32.
Kessler, Charles S. “Los Angeles: Paul Wonner.” Arts Magazine 34 (June 1960): 16. Kultermann, Udo. “Vermeer and Contemporary American Painting.” American Art Review 4 (November 1978): 114-19.
Das Kunstwerk. “Review.” Das Kunstwerk (February 1970): 18.
Langsner, Jules. “Art News from Los Angeles.” ARTnews 58 (April 1959): 48, 65. Leider, Phillip. “California After the Figure.” Art in America 5 (October 1963): 73-83.
Life. “The Human Figure Returns in Separate Ways and Places.” Life, June 8, 1962, 54-61.
Marmer, Nancy. “Paul Wonner, Felix Landau Gallery.” Artforum 3 (February 1965) : 39.
McCann, Cecille N. « Renaissance Concerns. » Artweek 3 (August 12, 1972): 3. McClellan, Douglas. “Paul Wonner, Felix Landau.” Artforum 1 (April 1963): 45. Mendenhall, Lauri. “Paul Wonner-Bouquet of Contradictions.” Coast Magazine (January 22, 1998): n.p. Mikotajuk, Andrea. “In the Galleries: Paul Wonner.” Arts Magazine 46 (December 1971– January 1972): 70. Mills, Paul. “Bay Area Figurative.” Art in America (June 1964): 42-45.
Raynor, Vivien. « Paul Wonner. » Arts Magazine 38 (September 1964) : 66. Roberts, C. « Lettre de New York.” Aujourd’hui (September 1962) : 60.
Swenson, G. R. “Reviews and Previews: Paul Wonner.” ARTnews 63 (May 1964): 16.
Tapley, George. “Paul Wonner at the Art Institute of Southern California.” Artweek 29 (March 1998): 30. Terbell, Melinda. “Exhibition at Felix-Landau.” Arts Magazine 43 (November 1968): 60. Tillim, Sidney. “In the Galleries: Paul Wonner.” Arts Magazine 36 (May/June 1962): 89. Time. “Art: Here: Now.” Time 80 (September 7, 1962): 14-15.
Wall Street International Magazine. “Bay Area Figurative Drawing: 1958-1968.” Wall Street International Magazine (February 14, 2017): n.p.
Wholden, Rosalind G. “Los Angeles: The Relay Race.” Arts Magazine 39 (February 1965): 78–80. Winter, David. “Paul Wonner-John Berggruen.” ARTnews 85 (February 1986): 106. Young, Joseph E. Art International (June 20, 1971): 104.
Newspapers
Akron Beacon Journal (OH): May 22, 1980; June 3, 1985.
Albuquerque Journal (NM): November 1, 1970; January 25, 1985; August 5, 1993. American Israelite (Cincinnati, OH): April 3, 1986. Argus (Fremont, CA): August 15, 1968.
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson): January 17, April 13, April 14, 1935; December 13, December 22, 1936; March 16, March 25, April 4, May 16, May 18, August 4, 1937; April 10, 1943.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff): July 23, July 24, 1969.
Arizona Republic (Phoenix): June 17, 1962; November 1, 1964; March 13, July 14, 1968; March 21, 1976; May 8, 1977; March 19, 1980; June 2, 1989; July 27, 2008.
Asbury Park Press (NJ): November 5, 1970; October 26, 1990.
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC): June 23, 1968; August 7, August 14, 1988.
Austin American (TX): March 4, 1945. Baltimore Sun (MD): July 22, 1990. Beatrice Daily Sun (NE): September 22, 1984. Berkeley Gazette (CA): November 15, 1975. Boston Globe: June 13, 1965; June 24, 1979; June 5, 1992.
Capital Times (Madison, WI): October 17, 1987.
Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, NJ): May 18, 1986.
Charlotte News (NC): February 17, 1968.
Charlotte Observer (NC): February 18, 1968; November 8, 1970; August 27, 1999.
Chicago Tribune: March 8, 1964.
Cincinnati Enquirer: July 1, 1962; June 22, 1980.
Coto de Caza News (Orange County, CA): January 15, 1998.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY): May 22, 1960; May 9, 1965.
Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ): May 2, 1986; January 19, 1992.
Daily Herald (Provo, UT): January 18, 1998. Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City): February 10, 1985. Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA): March 7, 1988. Dispatch (Moline, IL): May 8, 1969; April 16, 2000.
Elizabethton Star (TN): February 16, 1961. Evening Sun (Baltimore): June 26, 1965. Express and News (San Antonio, TX): August 12, 1962; October 17, November 7, 1965.
Fresno Bee (CA): October 29, November 19, 1972; June 6, 2004; November 20, 2008.
Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder (Arroyo Grande, CA): December 22, 1995.
Folsom Telegraph (CA): January 8, 1959.
Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter (WI): September 22, 1988.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: November 3, 1963; July 31, 1966; August 15, 1999. Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): August 28, 1960.
Glens Falls Times (NY): October 8, 1966.
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI): September 20, 1970. Greenville News (SC): July 22, 1988. Greeneville Sun (TN): February 15, 1961.
Hattiesburg American (MI): December 16, 1984.
Hobbs Daily News-Sun (NM): November 29, 1966.
Honolulu Advertiser: January 6, 1963; November 9, 1989; May 7, 1995; July 17, 2005. Honolulu StarBulletin: November 5, 1989. Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA): March 20, 1960; March 18, 1962; November 24, 1963; March 1, 1964; September 17, 1967; March 24, 1968; March 23, 1975; January 11, 1976.
Independent Star-News (Pasadena, CA): April 19, 1964; August 6, August 9, 1967; April 7, June 23, 1968.
Ithaca Journal (NY): June 30, 1994.
Johnson City Press-Chronicle (TN): February 16, 1961.
Journal News (White Plains, NY): November 13, 1998.
Journal Times (Racine, WI): May 29, 1968.
Kansas City Star (MO): March 8, 1964; December 24, 1972; November 11, November 18, 1973.
Kingsburg Recorder (CA): October 31, 1985. La Crosse Tribune (WI): October 7, 1978. Lancaster New Era (PA): November 24, 1969.
LA Weekly (CA): January 2, 1981; September 24, 1982; June 2, 1983; October 10, 1985; June 11, 1987; July 22, 1993; August 20, 1998.
Lincoln Journal Star (NE): March 2, 1958.
Lincoln Star (NE): April 14, 1968.
Los Angeles Times: November 24, 1957; February 2, 1958; March 8, August 2, December 27, 1959; February 7, February 21, April 17, April 24, June 25, July 3, July 31, September 11, 1960; January 29, February 12, October 1, 1961; January 13, January 14, February 18, February 23, April 1, August 12, September 23, October 14, October 16, October 26, 1962; January 6, 1963; January 19, December 6, 1964; February 7, March 21, 1965; June 12, September 11, 1966; February 17, July 2, November 12, 1967; March 15, June 17, August 29, November 10, November 15, December 1, 1968; March 30, October 30, 1970; February 28, March 12, March 14, March 21, March 26, April 4, April 5, 1971; March 6, September 24, 1972; January 14, March 18, 1973; February 22, March 16, April 6, November 16, 1975; January 11, January 18, January 19, February 2, February 6, October 3, October 31, 1976; March 6, September 25, 1977; November 13, 1978; November 4, November 9, November 11, December 23, 1979; April 27, December 14, 1980; January 4, February 23, March 1, March 9, September 27, November 20, 1981; February 7, May 7, July 2, September 19, 1982; June 22, August 14, 1983; January 19, March 1, April 15, April 26, May 6, June 29, July 1, July 2, July 3, 1984;. November 24, December 26, 1985; January 10, February 2, February 10, March 14, December 29, 1986; October 16, 1987; March 13, 1988; December 10, December 15, 1989; March 5, March 11, 1990; March 9, July 15, 1991; October 24, November 19, 1996; June 28, June 30, 1997; January 8, January 12, January 13, 1998; June 28, 2001; December 15, 2002; February 9, March 5, 2003; November 15, 2007.
Miami Herald: January 27, 1963; February 26, 1967; October 28, 1984; February 2, 1991. Miami News: January 17, 1985. Modesto Bee (CA): December 17, 1989. Montgomery Advertiser (AL): November 7, 1984. Morning Call (Allentown, PA): December 17, 1967; September 23, 1990. Napa Valley Register (CA): May 12, 2004. New Mexican (Santa Fe): September 20, October 11, October 18, 1970; October 19, 1975. New York Times: June 6, June 25, 1964; December 4, 1971; March 4, December 2, 1979; March 20, 1981; January 28, October 21, 1983; March 30, August 19, 1984; May Newspapers (cont.)
26, 1985; May 11, 1986; February 13, 1987; August 29, 1990; March 1, 1992; July 3, July 10, July 24, August 7, November 15, 1998; March 12, 1999.
News and Observer (Raleigh, NC): July 29, 1988.
News Journal (Wilmington, DE): October 28, 1990. News-Pilot (San Pedro, CA): November 30, 1968; August 27, 1982.
North Bay Bohemian (Sonoma, CA): July 21, 2004.
North East Bay Independent and Gazette (Berkeley, CA): April 17, 1980; February 18, 1981. Oakdale Leader (CA): November 19, 1980. Oakland Tribune: December 12, 1937; December 18, 1938; October 29, December 9, 1939; March 2, 1940; May 15, 1941; July 23, 1954; April 24, November 20, 1955; March 15, March 22, December 23, December 30, 1956; April 28, 1957; April 20, December 14, 1958; April 19, 1959; December 31, 1961; January 7, January 14, January 28, June 10, 1962; March 17, March 24, August 18, 1963; July 3, 1966; September 30, November 3, 1968.
Observer (London): March 18, 1962; January 3, 1965.
Oshkosh Northwestern (WI): January 15, 1987; September 15, September 29, 1988; November 28, 1993.
Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL): January 12, 1984. Patch (Menlo Park, CA): March 6, 2017. Petaluma ArgusCourier (CA): March 2, 1968. Philadelphia Daily News: October 5, 1990. Philadelphia Inquirer: July 19, 1964; April 26, 1986; October 14, 1990.
Phoenix Gazette: October 30, 1964.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: July 7, 1990; April 20, May 19, 2001.
Pomona Progress Bulletin (CA): January 13, September 29, October 3, October 13, 1958; February 4, 1962. Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI): September 18, 1988.
Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA): June 30, 1985. Press-Tribune (Roseville, CA): August 28, 1972. Record (Hackensack, NJ): August 16, 1987.
Rio Grande Sun (Española, NM): October 20, 1970; December 7, 1995.
Sacramento Bee: March 17, 1956; May 10, October 16, 1958; January 3, February 1, April 26, May 24, December 27, 1959; January 31, April 3, May 29, June 19, July 24, 1960; January 22, February 5, February 19, 1961; May 27, July 29, August 5, 1962; July 13, August 3, 1969; June 16, August 18, September 10, 1972; June 27, July 7, 1976; September 30, 1978; August 15, 1986; September 24, November 7, 1987; December 31, 1989; November 18, 1990; February 3, March 5, 1991; March 5, March 19, 1995; April 23, 2000; May 26, 2002; May 16, 2004; March 13, 2005; June 23, July 2, 2006; May 16, October 24, November 5, 2010; January 30, 2011; September 4, December 4, 2015; June 24, 2016.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: November 4, 1962; March 24, 1974; October 30, 1985.
Salina Journal (KS): April 26, 1998.
Salt Lake Tribune (UT): August 22, October 12, December 26, 1999.
San Francisco Chronicle: March 11, 1956; May 27, 1978; December 17, 1985; January 21, May 17, 1986; October 7, 1987; December 13, December 15, December 17, 1989; January 17, 1990; October 14, 1994; June 23, 1995; September 6, September 28, December 17, 2002; July 6, July 16, September 24, 2004; March 4, 2005; January 28, 2006; April 25, 2008; January 24, 2009; February 18, 2010; October 2, 2011; February 10, 2012; June 10, 2013; October 9, 2014; May 23, 2016; October 3, 2020.
San Francisco Examiner: August 15, 1954; April 15, 1955; March 18, December 23, 1956; April 3, 1960; February 5, 1961; January 7, 1962; October 12, 1969; November 29, 1970; July 7, July 9, September 6, 1972; July 18, July 22, 1973; December 8, 1974; May 28, June 7, 1978; June 22, June 29, September 27, October 2, October 4, October 18, November 15, December 14, 1981; January 3, May 10, December 7, 1982; May 16, 1983; December 9, 1985; April 22, 1988; December 1, December 10, December 13, December 17, 1989; June 5, June 10, June 17, September 16, September 30, 1990; April 7, 1991; September 9, November 29, 1992; January 24, February 7, 1993; October 21, 1994; February 11, 1996; January 5, February 2, 1997; March 29, 1998; October 17, October 24, October 31, 1999; April 2, July 16, 2000; May 29, 2001; September 10, 2002; July 21, 2008; February 3, 2013.
Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA): December 29, 1976; January 4, 1981.
Santa Fe New Mexican: August 6, 1993. Santa Maria Times (CA): September 23, 1972. Signal (Santa Clara, CA): November 13, 1967. South Pasadena Review (CA): June 19, 1968. Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): February 18, 2000.
Taos News (NM): October 8, 1970.
Times (San Mateo, CA): March 2, March 13, 1956. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA): July 20, July 27, 1990.
Newspapers (cont.)
Times News (Twin Falls, ID): November 4, 1994. Tucson Daily Citizen (AZ): January 31, 1935; March 18, May 17, 1937; April 10, 1943.
Tulare Advance-Register (CA): January 20, 1966. Valley News (Van Nuys, CA): December 10, 1964. Valley Times (North Hollywood, CA): November 22, 1968.
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Cover: Fruit and Kitchen Towels on Two Tables (detail), 2001
Rear Cover: Carton of Olives, 1992
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