Frank Lobdell
Biography
BORN
1921 Kansas City, Missouri
EDUCATION
1939-40 St. Paul School of Fine Arts, St. Paul, MN 1947-50 California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (now San Francisco Art Institute) 1950-51 L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris
TEACHING
1957-65 California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute) 1966-91 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Professor of art; appointed Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art, 1989
VISITING ARTIST/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
1948 College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Instructor, summer session 1948-49 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Painting instructor 1964 Artist-in-Residence, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1966 Fellow, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME 1985 Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1986 Artist-in-Residence, New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting, New York, NY, June 9–August 1 1992 Visiting Artist (with David Kelso), Yale University School of Art, February 1993 Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1947 First Prize (oil painting), Minnesota State Fair 1948 Artists’ Council Prize, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association 1950 San Francisco Bank Prize, 69th Annual Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association Purchase Prize, 14th Annual Drawing and Paint Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association 1960 Nealie Sullivan Annual Award for a California Artist, San Francisco Art Association 1986 Pew Foundation Grant, awarded through Stanford University 1988 Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Painting, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1992 Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY 1994 Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY 1998 Elected to National Academy of Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1948 College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 1958 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, June 1960 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: An Exhibition of Paintings, January 19–February 18. Brochure Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Catalogue of Paintings 1953–1959, April 19–May 7. Catalogue 1962 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, April 16–May 5 1963 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Drawings, April 30–May 21 1964 Galerie D. Benador, Geneva, Switzerland, Frank Lobdell: Peintures, Gouaches, Dessins, November–December. 1965 Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris, April 7–May. Catalogue 1966 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Graphics from 1948 to 1965 (organized by Walter Hopps), March 15–April 10. Travel to Stanford Art Museum, Stanford, CA, May 1–31. Catalogue Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, November 5–December 4 San Jose City College, San Jose, CA, December 5–19 1967 Marylhurst College, Portland, OR, Lithographs by Frank Lobdell, October– December 1969 San Francisco Museum of Art, Frank Lobdell: Twenty-Seven Lithographs and A Large Painting, January 21–February 16. Brochure 1971 Cheney Cowles Museum, Eastern Washington University, Spokane St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA, Frank Lobdell: Paintings–Drawings, May 1–28 1972 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Paintings, 1969–1971, March 1–25. Brochure 1974 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell, Paintings and Drawings, 1955–1973, October 17–November 16. Brochure 1975 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1977 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Monotypes 1978 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1981 Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA. Frank Lobdell: Summer Mural and Preparatory Drawings. Travel to Pepperdine University Art Gallery, Malibu, CA, October 25–November 25; Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, OR. Catalogue Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Drawings and Prints 1982 Smith Andersen Gallery, 2140 Bush Street, San Francisco, February 27–March 27 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, December 1982–January 1983 1983 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Monotypes, January 20–March 27. Catalogue Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Recent Paintings and Monotypes, December 7, 1983–January 7, 1984. Brochure 1985 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Gouaches, 1958–1972, February 27–March 30. Brochure Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, November 15–December 12 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, November 20–December 14 1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, March 10–April 4 1988 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Figure Drawings 1964–1974, September 27–October 29. Catalogue Stanford University Museum of Art, Frank Lobdell: Recent Etchings and Aquatints, September 27–November 27 1990 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Recent Paintings, Drawings, Prints, September 4–October 13 1991 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Frank Lobdell: Recent Monotypes, November 22, 1991–January 4, 1992 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco 1992 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Viewpoints XVIII: Frank Lobdell. Brochure Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: New Work, September 1–October 10. Catalogue 1993 Stanford University Museum of Art, Frank Lobdell: Works, 1947–1992, January 12–April 25. Catalogue 1995 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco Printworks, Chicago, Frank Lobdell, Aquatint Etchings 1998 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Etchings by Frank Lobdell Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco Shorenstein Building, 425 Market Street, San Francisco Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, Frank Lobdell: Master Artist V, October 11–December 20. Catalogue Printworks, Chicago, Frank Lobdell, Recent Prints, November 17–January 6 2000 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Recent Paintings and Drawings, May 2–June 3 The Art Exchange, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: A Decade of Etchings, September 2002 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Three Phases, 1947–2001, March 7–30. Catalogue Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Early Works, November 23- December 21 2003 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning, March 1-May 25. Catalogue Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Early Figurative Drawings, March 6-29 B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA, Frank Lobdell: Etchings & Aquatints, May 6-31 2004 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Frank Lobdell: Making and Meaning, May 22– August 29 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell, Recent Work: 1990–2004, Oct. 14-–Nov. 27. Catalogue Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning, Nov. 16, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005 2005 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning, Nov. 16, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1947 Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis. Award San Francisco Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition. Catalogue Rex Art Theatre, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell and John Hultberg, October California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Second Annual Exhibition of Painting, November 19, 1947–January 4, 1948. Catalogue 1948 San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition: Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture of the San Francisco Art Association, February 4–29. Catalogue California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Young Artists of the Bay Area. Brochure San Francisco Museum of Art, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association. Award. Catalogue Reed College, Portland, OR (exhibition organized by Kenneth Sawyer) California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, Current Trends in Bay Region Art Seashore Gallery of Modern Art, Sausalito, CA, Five Young Moderns, May 9 – June 15
Contemporary Gallery, Sausalito, CANorth Beach Studio Gallery, San Francisco Schillerhaus, Sausalito, CA Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, Group Show, Sixteen Lithographs Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Oakland Art Gallery’s Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture. Catalogue California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Third Annual Exhibition of Painting 1949 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell and George Stillman Alta Mira Hotel, Sausalito, CA San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Museum of Unknown and Little Known Objects 1950 San Francisco Museum of Art, 69th Annual Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, February 10–March 12. Award. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, 14th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association. Award. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, New Bay Region Artists(Fifteenth Anniversary) San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery 1951 Petit Palais, Paris, 6éme Salon des Rèalitès Nouvelles 1952 San Francisco Museum of Art, Bay Region Painting and Sculpture 1953 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, Six San Francisco Painters 1954 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, Drawings and the Like 1955 United States Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Third Biennial of Sao Paulo—Pacific Coast Art, July–October. Catalogue 1956 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, California Artists Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, CA, in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Art, California Painting: 40 Painters. Catalogue Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, California School, Yes or No? San Francisco Museum of Art, Pacific Coast Art: United States Representation at the Third Biennial of Sao Paulo. Travel to Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Catalogue 1957 San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Now: 76th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association. Catalogue Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (Inaugural exhibition), March 15–April 11 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, December 6, 1957–January 4, 1958 1958 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, May 9–31 (with Jay DeFeo, Hassel Smith, Julius Wasserstein, others) Osaka International Festival, Osaka, Japan, International Art of a New Era Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, November–December (with Richard Diebenkorn, Sonia Gechtoff, David Park, Hassel Smith, Julius Wasserstein, others) Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1959 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, First Anniversary Group Show (with Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Philip Roeder, Hassel Smith, Joel Barletta, Robert Morris) Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, July 20–August 15 (with Jay DeFeo, Sonia Gechtoff, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, Hassel Smith, others) 1960 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 60 American Painters: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties, April 3–May 8. Catalogue Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, June 20–July 16 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, drawing exhibition with Richard Diebenkorn 1961 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Group Exhibit, April 3–29 (with John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Sonia Gechtoff, Jay DeFeo, Robert Irwin, Ed Kienholz, John Mason, Kenneth Price, Richards Ruben, Hassel Smith) San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Exhibition (with Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson) Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, A Selection of Drawings Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell, December 15, 1961–January 17, 1962 1962 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York San Francisco Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fifty California Artists. Catalogue Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Fifty California Artists, October 23 –December 2. Travel to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–March 17, 1963; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, April 10–May 8, 1963; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, May 24–June 23, 1963. Catalogue Stanford University Art Gallery, Some Points of View—'62: San Francisco Bay Area Painting and Sculpture, October 30–November 20. Catalogue Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, The Artist’s Environment: West Coast, November 6–December 23. Travel to UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, and The Oakland Museum. Catalogue Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, San Francisco 9, November 29– December 29. Catalogue 1963 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, The James A. Michener Foundation Collection, February 2–March 20. Catalogue Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, June–July San Francisco Museum of Art, 82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, March 21–April. Catalogue Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Drawings by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Lobdell International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, September Art Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA, Fourth Art Center Annual of California Painting and Sculpture, November 17–December 15. Catalogue Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, The Michener Foundation Collection, December 8, 1963–January 12, 1964 1964 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Drawings, September 17 –October 27. Travel to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Seattle Art Museum; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Grand Rapids; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. Catalogue Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 100 Artists for Free Speech, December 22, 1964– January 3, 1965 1965 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, Figuration, February 9–March 6 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, The San Francisco Collector Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA, Non-Objective Paintings from the Michener Foundation, May 1–30 Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA, American Painting Since 1950, from the Michener Collection, October 1–31 1967 The White House, Washington D.C., group exhibition from the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1968 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Late Fifties at Ferus, November 12– December 17. Catalogue Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Painting as Painting. Catalogue 1969 Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, exhibition of artists from Martha Jackson Gallery, July 31–August Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, West Coast 1945–1969. Catalogue Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Kompas 4: West Coast USA, November 21, 1969–January 4, 1970. Catalogue 1971 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Catalogue Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, The Sixties, from the Michener Collection, University of Texas at Austin, September 19–October 18 1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 32nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Catalogue E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, West Coast—72 Painters and Sculptors. Catalogue Michener Galleries, University of Texas, Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, November 22–March 1, 1973 1973 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945–1950. Catalogue Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection. Catalogue University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson. Travel to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Finch College Museum of Art, New York. Catalogue Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (with Keith Boyle and Nathan Oliveira) 1974 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. Catalogue 1975 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Selections from the Martha Jackson Collection, February 16–March 30. Catalogue 1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, September 3, 1976–January 2, 1977. Travel to The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 20– September 11, 1977. Catalogue Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957–1966, March 7–April 17. Catalogue 1977 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., New American Monotypes. Travel to U.S. Museums. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collectors Collecting: American Abstract Art Since 1945, April 22–June 5. Catalogue 1980 Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Bay Area Art: Then and Now, March 20– April 17. Catalogue 1983 Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco 1984 The Grolier Club, New York, NY, Selections from the Rutgers Archives 1985 Richard Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, CA, Art of the Bay Area ECHO Gallery, Austin, TX 1986 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Process/Prints 1987 The Allport Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Etchings from made in California 1989 Faculty Club, Stanford University, made in California Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, The Abstract Expressionist Years & After: Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, Alvin Light, April 2–June 3. Catalogue 1990 Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA, made in California: A Ten-Year Survey Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, Intaglio Printing in the 1980s. Catalogue 1991 Faculty Club, Stanford University, made in California Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Etchings from made in California, December 5, 1991–January 5, 1992 1992 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: Three Decades. Catalogue IPA Gallery, Boston 1993 Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA, Paper Trails: Abstract Expressionist Prints. Catalogue Office of the Mayor, City Hall, San Francisco, Exhibition of Bay Area Fine Art Presses. Brochure. 1994 Office of the Mayor, City Hall, Berkeley, CA American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Purchase Exhibition 1995 Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, made in California Intaglio Editions— A Fifteen-Year Survey, May 1–31 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, California Abstractions Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, 1954–1984, November 1, 1995–January 28, 1996. Catalogue Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists. Catalogue 1996 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, January 27–April 21. Travel to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 18–September 29. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, made in California Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, June 18–July 27 Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York, San Francisco Art Institute: Illustrious History 1871–1996, September 5–28. Travel to Montgomery Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, November 12–December 11. Catalogue 1997 Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, International Print Exhibition Smith Andersen Editions at The Drawing Center, New York, The 1997 New Editions Fair, November 6–9 1999 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Prints from made in California 2000 Spokane Falls Community College Fine Arts Department, Spokane, WA, made in California: Limited Edition Intaglio Prints Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Twenty-Five Treasures, September 5– October 7. Catalogue Worcester At Museum, Worcester, MA, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints. Catalogue 2001 Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA, made in California Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco Abstract Expressionism: Selected Works, 1948–1982, September 6–October 27. Catalogue 2002 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Escape from the Vault: The Contemporary Museum’s Collection Breaks Out San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, made in California Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell: Figurative Drawings, November 23-December 21 2003 Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL, Expressive Impressions: Three Decades of American Abstract Prints from the Collection of Charles R. Dean, May 15–August 17. Brochure International Print Center, New York, NY, California Works from the Charles R. Dean Collection, September 11–October 25 2004 Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, February–May B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA, made in California: Intaglio Editions, March 2–April 3 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Select Works—A Changing Exhibition, Aug. 5–Oct. 2 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, Oct. 2, 2004–Feb. 13, 2005. Catalogue Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Intaglio Editions from made in California Press, Dec. 2, 2004–Jan. 22, 2005 2005 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, Looking Back and Seeing Forward: A 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Jan. 11–Feb. 19