About the artist:

Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently Professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. He is a visual artist, with a place in American art history. He also donates his time to help spread the Visual process of art to many communities throughout the world. Saunders works in a large variety of media, but is mainly known for work that encompasses painting and transversal media juxtaposition, sometimes bordering on the sculptural (as in Pieces of Visual Thinking, 1987) but always retaining the relation to the flat wall key to modernism in painting. Saunder's painting is expressive, and often incorporates collage (mostly small bits of printed paper found in everyday life), chalked words (sometimes crossed out), and other elements that add references and texture without breaking the strong abstract compositional structure. This lends a sense of social narrative to even his abstract work which sets it apart from artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, or Cy Twombly, with which is has obvious affinities. Besides his painting, Saunders in known for his late 1960s pamphlet Black is a Color arguing against metaphoric uses of the concept 'black' in both the mainstream abstract and conceptual art world and Black Nationalist cultural writing of the time. Raymond Saunders has had numerous solo and group exhibitions from 1952 to the present. Contrary to popular perception, his work is a part of several important collections including the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, California), Bank of America (San Francisco, California), the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), Hunter College (New York, New York), Howard University (Washington, D.C.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (San Francisco, California), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York), the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, California), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, California), the Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis, Minnesota), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York). His famous painting of Jack Johnson (1972, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art) was used as the cover of Powell's Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. Saunders has received numerous awards since 1956. SOLO EXHIBITIONS ----------------------- 2001 Paintings & Works on Paper, Stephen Wirtz Gallery 2000 Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1999 "New Works," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Hunter College/CUNY Fine Arts Building Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1997 "Presence and Absence", Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisburg, VA 1996 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Center For The Arts, Pittsburgh PA College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID Holderbank, Zurich, Switzerland (two-person) "Raymond Saunders: Works of Paper," Miami University Art Museum, Oxord, OH Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA American Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 1995 "Raymond Saunders: Black Paintings," M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA De Chirico Museum, Greece 1994 G.R. N'Nambi Gallery, Birmingham, MI Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ "Raymond Saunders: New Work," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1993 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1992 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 1991 "Flowers from a Black Garden," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA "Raymond Saunders," Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1989 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC 1987 Bank of America, San Francisco, CA Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1986 University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Terry Ditenfass, Inc., New York, NY 1985 Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 1982 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1981 Hunter College, Art Gallery, New York, NY Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA 1980 Triton Museum of Art, Santo Clara, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1979 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1975 Carleton College, North Field, MN 1974 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1972-73 The Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Providence Museum of Art, Providence, RI Toronto Gallery, Toronto, Canada Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1971 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1970 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1969 Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1966 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS ---------------------------------------- 2000 "Strength & Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1999 "Bay Area Now 2," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA "Seeing Jazz," traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC "California Dreamin': Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection," Bank of America Gallery, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC 1997 "Seeing Jazz," traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution. Venue: International Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; "It's Only Rock and Roll," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; North Carolina Museum of Art; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI "The Unbroken Line, 1897-1997: One Hundred Years of Fellowship, A Centennial Exhibition", Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA "Homage to George Herriman", Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Highlights of Art from the Bay Area", The Shorenstein Company, San Francisco, CA 1997 "The Old 'New' Guard: Part I", J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA "It's Only Rock and Roll," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA "30 + East Bay Painters and Graphic Artists", Oakland Coliseum, organized by the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA 1995 "Blue," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Paper Prescence," Jan Abrams Gallery West Hollywood, CA 1994 Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY "Art of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, NY "Hine Editions/Limestone Press: Selections from the Archive," T.W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1993 "The Purloined Image," traveling exhibition. Venues include: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH; Louisiana State University Museum of Fine Arts, Baton Rouge, LA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Bergstrom- Malher Museum, Neenah, WI "Ten African American Artists," Denfrei Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Galerie Resche, in conjunction with FIAC "Present Tense," University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI "California: North and South," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1991 "Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Part Two: 1950 - 1991," California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA "Cruciformed," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH "African and Latin American Art," National Museum of Arts, Santiago, Chile "Behind the Scenes: The Collaborative Process," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA "California Monoprints," Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX 1990 "42nd Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "The Decade Show, Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's," traveling exhibition. Venues include: Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY "African American Artists, 1880-1987," Selections from the Evans Tibbs Collections, Smithsonian Institution, traveling exhibition. "Art In Bloom," A.P. Gianni Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Mind & Matter," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand; Bishop Sutter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand; Manila, Philippines; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong; National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; National Museum, Singapore "Oakland's Artists," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1989 "Award for Visual Arts: South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art," traveling exhibition. Venues include: New Orleans, LA; SECCA South Carolina; Fogg Gallery, Harvard, Boston, MA; BMW Gallery, New York, NY; BMW Gallery, Munich, Germany. "Twentieth Century Water Colors: Then and Now," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Raymond Saunders: Some Choices; Icono Negro: The Black Aesthetic on Video Art," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Appropriate Object," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1988 "40th Annual Academy Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "Drawing Invitational," Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX "Peter Seltz Selects," The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA "West Coast Contemporary," Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV "National Drawing Invitational," sponsored by AT&T Foundation and M.M Cohn, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR "Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY "Recent Prints from West Coast Presses," The Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Ltd., Seattle, WA 1987 "Made in USA," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, traveling exhibition. Other venues include: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, MO; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; "Bay Area Influences: Four Artists," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA "Second Stage of Modernism (1945 to the present,)" Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH "Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963-1973," traveling exhibition organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem and circulated by the Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, 1986-1988, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Curator. 1986 "Between Metaphor and Fact: Recent Drawing," Leonarda Di Maura Gallery, New York, NY "Selected Works," Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA "Personal Reference," Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO "Afro-American Abstract Artists: 1945-1985," The Evan- Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC "Black Creativity, Generations in Transition: 80 Years of Black American Expression," Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL "Artists Food," San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA "Generations in Transition: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Recent Black Americans, 1970-1984," Hampton University, Hampton, VA "Martin Luther King: A Documentary," Eloise Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 1985 "The Menagerie," San Francisco Airports Commission, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA "37th Annual Purchase Exhibition Hassam and Speicher Fund," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "Artist's Forum: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition traveled to Studio Museum, Harlem, NY "Harlem Renaissance," Bucknell University Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1984 "Highlights: Selections from the Bank of America Corporation Art Collection," Bank of America, San Francisco, CA "San Francisco Bay Area Painting," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE "The Human Condition: SF MOMA Biennial III," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Second Western State Exhibition/Corcoran 38th Biennial of American Painting," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "West Coast Artists:Part II," Alternative Museum, New York, NY Afro-American Pavilion, 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, LA "In Visible Places," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA 1983 "Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Part I," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Seoul/San Francisco: Exchange of Prints and Drawings," Seoul Fine Art Center, Seoul, South Korea "Second Western States Exhibition/The Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ "Contemporary California Prints/World Prints '83," College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont, CA "Resource/Reservoir: CCAC 75 Years," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Seven American Artists," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH "Second Western State Exhibition/The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1982 "Resource/Reservoir: Collage and Assemblage," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA "Afro-American Abstractions," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA 1981 "Carnival of Critters," Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL "Forty Famous Californians," Bennington College Art Gallery, Bennington, VT "Forty Famous Californians," Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY "Ten California Artists," The Museum of Afro-American Art, Loker Gallery, California Museum of Science and Industry, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA "Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Post-Modernist Metaphors," The Alternative Museum, New York, NY "Masterpieces from our Bay Area Museums," Bay View Town Gallery, sponsored by Bay Federal Savings and the San Francisco of Modern Art, (works from the Bay Area Museums enlarged to billboard scale installed in various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area) 1980 "Selections from the James Michener Collection of American Art, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, TX "Fruits, Vegetables, Fish & Flowers," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA "The Controlled Gesture: As Aspect of Bay Area Expression," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA "Collage Show," Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA "Freeing the Spirit: The Church in the Black Community," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA "Art of Hearts," The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Downtown Center, San Francisco, CA 1979 The Art of Collage Today," Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA "Ten x Ten: The Oakland Museum, The First Decade," Oakland, CA "Collage Show," Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Group Show," Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY "Approaches to Xerography," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsall Park, Los Angeles, CA "Paper on Paper," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1978 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY "Graffitti," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Rome, Italy Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Mythology, New York, NY Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsall Park, Los Angeles, CA Minneapolis Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek (Copenhagen), Denmark "5 Painters," American Academy in Rome, New York, NY Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Instituttion's National Museum of Design Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1977 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands North Jutland Museum, Aalborg, Denmark Kunstlerhaous, Vienna, Austria Henie-Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway 1976 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY ICA Gallery, London, England Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland 1974 William Hayes Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN Sweetbriar College, Sweetbriar, VA Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scripps College, Claremont, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Pace Gallery, New York, NY Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsall Park, Los Angeles, CA Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Indiana University Art Museum,. Bloomfield, IN Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Fisk University, Nashville, TN Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO "Expo 4," Spokane, WA Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI E.B. Crocker Art gallery, Sacramento, CA Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Columbia Museum of Art And Science, Columbia, SC Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Students' Union Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire, Canada "Drawings USA," St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul, MN San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Sahawa, Canada Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada 1972-73 York University, Downsview, Toronto, Canada Winona State College, Winona, MN "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Temple University, Philadelphia, PA St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Pace Gallery, New York, NY "Black USA: Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada Kitichener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitichener, Canada Galerie d'art, Universitie de Moncton, Moncton, Canada Ball State University, Washington, DC The Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI American Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada 1971 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA "Contemporary Black Artists in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Contemporary Prints by Major Artists," Judith Golden Gallery, Woodmere, NY Illinois Arts Council, (traveling exhibition - 8 Museums) "Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Terry Dentenfass Gallery, New York, NY "Collages by American Artists," Ball State University, Muncie, IN 1970 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Smith College, Northampton, MA New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ "Card Design," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Lincoln University, Lincoln, PA Lehigh College, Lehigh Pennsylvania La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA 32nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, FL Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY 1969 "Recent Trends in American Art," Westmoreland, PA "Thirty Contemporary Black Artists," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Afro-American Artists, 1800-1969," Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Spring American Art Survey, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1968 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Minneapolis Institute of Art, New York, NY "Fifteen American Artists," American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (traveling exhibition) 1966-67 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (traveling exhibition) 1966 "The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting," City Series, Forum Gallery, New School of Social Research, New York, NY 1965 Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark American Academy , Rome, Italy 1964 "The American Conscience," New School of Social Research, New York, NY Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark American Academy, Rome, Italy 1963 New School of Social Research "Landscape in Recent American Painting," New York, NY Pennsylvania Academy, Fellowship, Annual, Philadelphia, PA 1962 Cheltenham Annual, Philadelphia, PA Museum of Modern Art, Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1961 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, CA 1953 Carnegie Museum of Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA 1952 Carnegie Museum of Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA AWARDS 1989 Visual Arts Award: South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Award 1977 National Endowment for the Arts Award 1976 Guggenheim Fellowship 1975 KQED Art Award, San Francisco, CA Granger Memorial Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1972 Society of Four Arts Award, Palm Beach, FL 1970 Atwater Kent Award 1968 Lee Cultural Center Award, Philadelphia, PA 1964 Prix de Rome, 1964-66 Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1961 Schwabcher Frey Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1959 Pittsburgh Playhouse Gallery Invitational, Third Prize 1957 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, First Prize in Oil Painting 1956 Cresson European Traveling Scholarship Eakins Prize (Thomas Eakins) Thoron Oil Painting Prize, First Prize First Prize-Figure Drawing, First Prize - Oil Composition, Pennsylvania Academy Scholarships PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ------------------------------------ ARA Services, Burbank, CA ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA Achenbach Foundation, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA William Hayes Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Arizona State University, Matthews Center, Tempe, AZ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA California State College, San Bernadino, CA Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Chemical Bank, New York, NY Chermayeff & Geismar, New York, NY Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Dartmouth College, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hanover, NH Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, MN Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Fisk University, Nashville, TN Frito Lay corporation, Plano, TX General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Hunter college, New York, NY Howard University, Washington, DC International Paper Corporation, New York, NY Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Mobil Oil Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Oakland, Museum, Oakland, CA Park Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco, CA The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ The St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Security Pacific National Bank Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA University of Texas, James A. Michener Collection, Austin, TX University of Utah, Art Museum, Salt Lake City, UT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY