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Born Bridgeton, New Jersey
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| Education |
| 1988 |
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute |
| 1968 |
LLB, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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| 1965 |
BA, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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One Person Exhibitions
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| 1998 |
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA |
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Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA |
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Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX |
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Artworks, Santa Monica, CA |
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201 California Street Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
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| 1997 |
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Bank of America World Headquarters, Concourse Gallery,San Francisco, CA |
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Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
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| 1996 |
California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
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| 1995 |
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| 1993 |
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
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| 1992 |
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| 1991 |
Stanford University, Art Spaces Program, Palo Alto, CA |
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Bank of America World Headquarters,Concourse Gallery,San Francisco, CA
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| 1989 |
Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Braunstein/Quay Gallery,San Francisco, CA
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| 1988 |
Limestone Press, San Francisco, CA |
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University Club, San Francisco, CA
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| 1987 |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery,San Francisco, CA
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| 1976 |
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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Awards/Commissions/Fellowships
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| 2000 |
Artist-in-Residence, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA |
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Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
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| 1999 |
Garden Pathway Design, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA
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| 1997 |
Purchase Award, 14th National Exhibition, LA Printmaking Society, Loyola Marymont Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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Rembrandt Award, North American Print Exhibition Boston Printmakers, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
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| 1996 |
Award of Merit, Sixty Square Inches/Small Print Exhibition Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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| 1995 |
Award of Merit, Book Design Rounce & Coffin Club, Los Angeles, CA |
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Merit Award, Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
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| 1994 |
Reames Award, Pacific Prints 1994,Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA
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| 1993 |
Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, CA
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| 1991 |
Award of Distinction, Seventh Annual Juried National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
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Acquisition Award, Hawaii Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hilo National Drawing Exhibition, Hilo, HA |
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Award of Merit, Kansas 16th National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Hays State University, Hays, KS
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| 1990 |
Moses Lasky Monotype Award, Pacific Prints 1990, Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA |
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Award of Merit, Sixty Square Inches/Small Print Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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Commission, 1990 Benefactor Print, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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| 1989 |
Jerome Fellowship, KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA |
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Artist in Residence Fellowship, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA |
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David Ruttenberg Art Foundation Grant, Pastels '89 Exhibition, Midwest Pastel Society, Chicago, IL |
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Award of Distinction, Fifth Annual Juried National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
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| 1988 |
Print Making Department Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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| 1970 |
First Prize - Painting, Statewide Exhibition, California State Bar Association, Sacramento, CA
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| 1967 |
First Prize - Painting, All University Art Exhibition, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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| 1965 |
McClain Meritorius Painting Award, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA |
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Founder's Day Exhibition Purchase Award, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA |
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Selected Teaching/Publishing
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Adjunct Faculty, Print Making/Artists' Books, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1990 - present |
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Parisian Encounters, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1994 (trade edition French door style book with pastel monotypes) |
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Leonardo Knows Baseball, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1991 (trade edition accordion style book with pastel monotypes) |
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Publisher, Pacific Editions, 1986 - present |
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| Group Exhibitions |
| 2001 |
Book UNbound, Agnes Scott College, The Dalton Gallery, McCain Library, Bradley Observatory, Decatur, GA |
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Artists' Books by the Boston Printmakers, University of New Hampshire The Art Gallery, Durham, NH |
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Once Upon A Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Legends & Myths, The Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
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| 2000 |
Experiments in the Future of Reading, The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA |
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Baseball Art & Artifact, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Diamonds & Rust, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Nature Books, Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes, CA |
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TOYS, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
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| 1999 |
The Art of Reading: Books and Non-Books, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
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The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA |
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Artist's Books/The Boston Printmakers, University of Vermont and Boston Public Library, Boston, MA |
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Print Variation on a Musical Theme, Gallery Concord, Concord CA and Art Concepts at California Cafe, Walnut Creek, CA |
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Tenth Annual Minature Invitational, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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Print Types, Highland Community College, Highland, KS |
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American Print Survey, Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, TX
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| 1998 |
Art Making Book Making Art, San Francisco, Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA |
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Columbia Biennial Exhibition of Book & Paper, Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
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Livres d'Artists, Château de Coupiac, Coupiac, France |
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The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV |
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Printmaking In Marin, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA |
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Booked, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH |
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Bolinas Minatures, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA |
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Print Types, Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, IA |
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World Print Survey, Truman State University,Kirksville, MO |
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Bolinas Miniatures, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
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| 1997 |
Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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The Sequential Desire: Book Arts from the Bay Area, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA |
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The Uncommon Book, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID |
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North American Print Exhibition - Boston Printmakers, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College, Boston, MA |
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14th National Exhibition-LA Printmaking Society, Loyola Marymont Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles |
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The Book As Art, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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International Miniature Print Exhibition, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CN |
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Book Works, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA |
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You Call That a Book?, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
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| 1996 |
Sites of Surrealist Collaboration, The Getty Center, Santa Monica, CA |
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The Book As Art, Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat Springs, CO |
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Science Imagined, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
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Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO |
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Sixty Square Inches: National Small Print Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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East/West Exchange Exhibition, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA and the Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA and the Art Gallery of Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT and 479 Gallery, New York, NY |
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Just Add Water, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI |
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Stockton National Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA |
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Bay Area Sampler: A Book Arts Celebration, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
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| 1995 |
Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
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The All American Game, A. P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco |
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The Monotype Forum, University Of California at Davis, Davis, CA & Amador Arts Council Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA |
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Let's Play House, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI |
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Art, the Great American Pastime, George Krevsky Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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Minatures from the Bolinas Museum, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
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| 1994 |
Book Works, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA |
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Diversity & Vision of the Printed Image, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
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Enchanted Light, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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The Book as Art: First Triennial Invitational, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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Livre d'Artiste - 1932-1988, BankAmerica Gallery, Costa Mesas, CA |
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Summer Prints, Okeonos Press, Berkeley, CA |
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Objects, However Humble, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA |
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Two Book Makers: Marie Dern & Charles Hobson, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA |
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Aesthetics of Athletics, Wustrum Museum, of Fine Art, Racine, WI |
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Between the Covers, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
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Consortium Prints - Gallery 206, Missouri Western State College, St. Louis, MO |
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Pacific Prints 1994, Palo Alto Arts League, Palo Alto, CA Wustrum Museum, of Fine Art, Racine, WI |
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Miniatures from the Bolinas Museum, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
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| 1993 |
Self-Portraits: True Stories, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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Magnolia Editions: Ten Years of Printmaking, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA |
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Fine Arts Presses of the Bay Area, San Francisco Mayor's Office, San Francisco, CA
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Cimmaron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
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14th Annual Paper in Particular Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO |
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BOOKS, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA |
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Minatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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7th National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
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| 1992 |
International Federation of Artists Exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI |
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In Progress, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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25th Biennial Exhibition of Works on Paper, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
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Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
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Bay Area Hall of Famers, Chevron Corporation Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Word & Image, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA |
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Pacific Prints 1991, Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA |
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Seventeenth Kansas National Small Works Exhibition, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS |
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Book as Container, Artist Book Works, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
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6th National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI |
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13th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
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| 1991 |
Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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Seventh Annual Juried National, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
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Recent Monotypes, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA |
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Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutralite Products, Incorporated, Buena Park, CA |
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Print Types, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN |
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1st Annual International Miniprint Exhibition, Juniper Gallery, Napa Art Center, Napa, CA |
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Bay Area Bookmaking: The Art and Craft Tradition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA |
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15th Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL and Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL |
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First Biennial Competitive Exhibition, Bedford Gallery/Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA |
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Hilo National Drawing Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI |
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25th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX |
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5th National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, WI |
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Print Types, Owatonna Art Center, Owatonna, MN |
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Kansas 16th National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Hays State University, Hays, KS
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| 1990 |
Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY in association with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with venues in Boston, Buffalo, La Jolla, Winston-Salem, Scottsdale and Tokyo |
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Portraits of Literature, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA |
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Off the Shelf, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL |
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Jerome Foundation Fellowship Awards Exhibition, KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA |
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American Print Survey Martin Museum/University Art Gallery, Baylor University, Waco, TX |
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Miniature Invitational Exhibition, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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California Society of Printmakers Annual Exhibition, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
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Top of the Ninth - 9th Annual Fine Arts Look at Baseball, Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY |
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1990 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY |
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Limestone Press-Livres d'Artiste, Print Editions, Monographs, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
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First Pull . . . an Exhibiton of Monotypes, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA |
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Eighth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
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One of a Kind: Monotypes and Monoprints, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford CT and Sigma Gallery, New York, NY, organized by the International Graphic Arts Foundation |
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Living Artist Project - Stinson Beach, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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Fourth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI |
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Exhibition 49, Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, UT |
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Pacific Prints 1990, Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA |
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Sixty Square Inches Small Print Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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Sixth Annual Juried National, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
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| 1989 |
Tradition & Innovation, 1500 to 1989, Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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Book Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Fifth Annual Juried National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
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1989 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY |
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Nocturnes, Miller Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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Pastels '89, Midwest Pastel Society, Chicago , IL |
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Waterbourne, Simon James Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
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Tools; Instruments; Implements; Utensils, San Francisco Airports Commission |
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San Francisco Seventh Annual Printmaking and Drawing Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
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National Print Exhibition, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX |
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Boston Printmakers 41st North American Print Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA |
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Ninteenth National Works on Paper Exhibition, Minot State University, Minot, ND |
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Magnolia Editions: Works on Paper, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA |
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Fourteenth National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KA
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| 1988 |
Prints from Limestone Press: California Prints: North/South, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA |
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Alumni Biennial, Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA |
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Recent Prints from West Coast Presses, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Fourth Biennial Print Competition and Exhibition, Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA
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| 1987 |
Miniatures, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco
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| 1986 |
The Subjective Object: Still-Life in Prints, The Art Corridor, Sacred Heart Schools, Menlo Park, CA
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| 1982 |
Still Life, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA |
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NCECA Exhibit, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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Eight Passages, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
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| 1980 |
West Marin Artists, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA |
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Bibliography
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¥ Jim Leitzell, "Creative Approaches to the Monotype," About Art, Sacramento, CA, February, 1996
¥ Marilyn Mole, "Manifestations of the Monotype," Davis Enterprise, January 18, 1996
¥ Gary Shaffer, "East/West: Print Exchange Exhibition," Journal of the Print World, Fall, 1995
¥ Adela Roatcap, "Charles Hobson's Book Performance," The Book Club of California Quarterly, Fall, 1995
¥ Karen Branson, "Books," Imprints, University of California Press, Fall, 1995
¥ Jacqueline Brody, "Charles Hobson, Magritte's Buckets," The Print Collector's Newsletter, November-December, 1995
¥ Charles Hobson, "Coming to Terms: An Introdution to Artists' Books," Artweek, January, 1995
¥ Sonia Benjamin, "Book Marks," France Today, December, 1994
¥ Jim Higgins, "Games People Play," Milwaukee Sentinel, July 22, 1994
¥ Catherine Maclay, "Mixed Doubles," San Jose Mercury News, April 9, 1993
¥ Laura J. Tuchman, "Museums Strut Their Stuff," San Jose Mercury News, April 30, 1993
¥ Ann Hunter Greene, "Season Openings," Where/Chicago, September 1992
¥ Mary Hull Webster, "Between Thee & Me," Artweek, June 18, 1992
¥ Timothy Hunter, "Into the Windup," The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, April 5, 1992
¥ Patricia Sondgren Smith, "Charles Hobson, Monotypes," The California Printmaker, January, 1992
¥ David Streitfeld, "In the Margin," Washington Post, December 15, 1991
¥ Robert Armstrong, "Catch a Tale of Sport", Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, December 8, 1991
¥ Dolores & Roger Flaherty, "Leonardo on Baseball," Sun-Times, Chicago, IL, December 1, 1991
¥ Joyce Meskis, "Leonardo Knows Baseball", KUVO, Book Review, Denver, CO, December, 1991
¥ William Zimmer, "Monotypes and Monoprints Reveal an Elusive Freshness," New York Times, July 29, 1990
¥ Robert Shryock, "In Art, Hobson Makes Baseball a Winning Game", Gloucester County Times, Woodbury, NJ, August 1, 1990
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| Selected Collections |
¥ Museum of Art & History of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
¥ California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
¥ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
¥ Getty Center for Art & Humanities, Santa Monica, CA
¥ Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
¥ KALA Institute, Berkeley, CA
¥ Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
¥ Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
¥ Mills College, Oakland, CA
¥ Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
¥ National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
¥ New York Public Library, New York , NY
¥ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
¥ Stanford University Green Library, Palo Alto, CA
¥ State of Hawaii Cultural Foundation, Hilo, HA
¥ UCLA Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, Los Angeles
¥ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
¥ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
¥ ARA Services, Inc, San Francsico, CA
¥ Comdisco, Inc., Rosemont, IL
¥ Index Group, Cambridge, MA
¥ Sonnenschein, Carlin & Rosenthal, Los Angeles, CA
¥ Gail and Barry Berkus, Santa Barbara, CA
¥ Rena Bransten, San Francisco, CA
¥ Dr. Austin Conkey, San Francisco, CA
¥ Ruth and Ted Nash, Belvedere, CA
¥ Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Haas, Jr., San Francisco, CA
¥ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kramlich, San Francisco, CA
¥ Mr. and Mrs. David Steinmetz, Corona Del Mar, CA
¥ Dr. and Mrs. Norman Stone, San Francisco, CA
¥ Mr. Arthur Schwartz, Lynn, MA
¥ Roselyne C. Swig, San Francsico, CA
¥ Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr., San Francsico, CA
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