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| Born 1919, Salt Lake City, Utah Education 1936-38 University of Idaho, Pocatello, ID 1940-42 Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, CA 1945 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France 1946-47 Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, CA 1947-50 Jepson Art School, Los Angeles, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 Hunches, Geometrics, Organics: Paintings by Frederick Hammersley, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA 2006 Hard Edge, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2003 LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Visual Puns and Hard-Edge Poems, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1999-2002 I've Been Here All the While, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1999 Visual Puns and Hard-Edge Poems, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1999 Visual Puns and Hard-Edge Poems, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1995 Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1993 The Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas 1993 Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1992 Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1990 Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1989-90 Paris, Berlin, Albuquerque, California State University, Northridge, CA 1989 Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1988 Statement 88, New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, NM 1987 Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1986 Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1984 Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1981 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1978 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1977 Middendorf/Lane Galleries, Washington, DC 1975 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1969 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1966 Hollis Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1965 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1963 La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1961 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 1998 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA 1993 The Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS Miniatures, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1992 Miniatures, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1991 Miniatures, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1989-90 The Alcove Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1989 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM 1987 Artists Space Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Four Abstract Classicists, R.C. Erpf, Gallery, New York, NY American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1985-86 Potential Acquisitions, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM 1980-81 Here and Now, 35 Artists in New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1977 35th Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Private Images: Photographs by Painters, L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA California: Five Footnotes to Modern Art History, L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1968 Computer Drawings, University of Illinois 1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1964 California Hard Edge, Balboa Pavilion, Balboa, CA 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum, New York, NY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS 2007-2009 Birth of the Cool, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Oakland Museum of California Oakland, Oakland, CA, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 1994-96 Still Working, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveled to The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; The New School for Social Research, New York, NY; The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA; The Fischer Art Gallery at U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR 1990-92 Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Museums in Laguna Beach, CA; Oakland, CA; San Antonio, TX; Logan, UT; Santa Barbara, CA; Palm Springs, CA 1979-80 The First Western States Biennial Exhibition, Museums in Denver, CO; Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Newport Harbor, CA; Illinois State University; Santa Fe, NM 1974 Geometric Abstraction, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and Omaha, NE; Hastings College 1970-72 The Drawing Society National Exhibition, American Federation of Arts 1969-70 Computer Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, BC 1965-67 Art Across America, Meade Corporation 1960-61 Purist Painting, American Federation of the Arts 1959-60 Four Abstract Classicists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland; Western Association of Art Museums 1957-58 California Drawings, throughout Western states SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS M. Knoedler Gallery J. B. Speed Museum Smithsonian Institute Houston Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art Butler Institute of American Art Albright-Knox Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Walker Art Center University of California at Los Angeles LA County Museum of Art International Art Fair L.A. 1987, 1988, 1989 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Richard Levy Gallery Snyder Fine Art SITE Santa Fe Charlotte Jackson Fine Art PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Corcoran Gallery of Art Mr. Harry Bellafonte San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Mr. Vincent Price Mr. Howard Ahmonson L.A. County Museum of Art Mr. David E. Bright Butler Institute of American Art Dr. Seymour Slive, Fogg Museum University Art Museum, Berkeley Dr. H.P. Widdup The Oakland Museum Mr. Nicholas Wilder The Washington Post Santa Barbara Museum of Art Petersburg Press, London La Jolla Museum of Art United States Navy University of New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe Foote Cone and Belding Mr. Gerald E. Buck Albuquerque Museum Mr. Jeffrey Rhodes University of Nebraska Roswell Museum and Art Center AWARDS 1991 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM 1988 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM 1977 National Endowment for the Arts in Painting 1975 National Endowment for the Arts in Painting 1973 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting 1966 Purchase, All City Art Annual, Los Angeles, CA 1965 Purchase, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, CA 1964 Purchase, All City Art Annual, Los Angeles, CA 1963 1st Purchase, 18th Annual Newport Harbor, CA 1961 Purchase, Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio 1960 1st Purchase, City of Claremont, CA TEACHING 1968-71 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1964-68 Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, CA 1953-62 Pomona College, Claremont, CA 1956-61 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1948-51 Jepson Art School, Los Angeles, CA PUBLICATIONS 2007 “Hunches, Geometrics, Organics:Paintings by Frederick Hammersley”, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont , CA “Birth of the Cool”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “California Cool”, by Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly, Mar. 2006 “Frederick Hammersley”, by Wesley Pulkka, Santa Fe Trend “The Comeback Classicist”, by Elizabeth Cook-Romero, The New Mexican, July 7-13 “Artist’s Paintings Focus on Classic Abstraction”, by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, July 30th 2005 “2005 Governor’s Awards”, by Elizabeth Cook-Romero, Pasatiempo, Sept. 23-29 2004 “Paintings Blend Color,Intuition,Technique”, by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, March 7th “Painting Paradox”, by Jo Ann Baldinger, The New Mexican, March 12-18 “Ahead of His Time, The Art of Frederic Hammersley”, by Ashleigh Morris, Santa Fean, Sept. issue “Seeing Hammersley Whole”, by Arden Reed, Art in America, Nov. 2003 “Frederick Hammersley”, by Bruce Hainley, Art Forum, Oct. 2002 “Frederick Hammersley, From Abstract to Inventive Clarity”, by David Pagel, LA Times, Jan. 18 1999 Visual Puns and Hard-Edge Poems, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM “His Specialty: One Liners”, by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Art & Architecture, Aug. 22 1991 "Painting from Left Field," by Kathleen Shields, Art in America, January 1989 "Personal Abstract Language of F. Hammersley," by Sandy Ballatore, Artspace, Nov.-Dec. The California Art Survey, Les Krantz, American References 1985 Art in Your Environment, 2nd edition, Brommer and Horn, Davis Publishing Art in Your World, 2nd edition, Brommer and Horn, Davis Publishing 1979 Visual Art, Mathematics and Computers, Malina Pergamon Who's Who in the West, 17th edition 1977 Art News, January, May 1974 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC International Who's Who in Art and Antiques, England Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England Who's Who in Contemporary Art, New York 1973-present Who's Who in American Art 1970 "My Geometrical Paintings," by F. Hammersley, Leonardo, Vol. 3, Pergamon Press 1969 "My First Experience with Computer Drawings," by F. Hammersley, Vol. 2, Pergamon Press 1965 Das Kunstwerk, 10-2 XVII, April-June Vogue, February 15 Artforum, Feb. 15 1964 West Coast Hard-edge, by Lawrence Alloway, Institute for Contemporary Art, London/U.S.I.S. 1963 Artforum, Vol. 1, #8 1962 Abstract Painting, by Michel Seuphor, Abrams Artforum, Vol. 1, #7 Art News, February, May 1960 Art International Art News, September 1959 Four Abstract Classicists, by Jules Langsner, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the L.A. County Museum of Art Art in America, nominated, "New Talent for 1959" Arts, December Art News, September TELEVISION 1994 "Still Working," Curator Stuart Shedletsky and artists F. Hammersley, Florence Pierce, Louise Falkenstein, Mala Breuer and others, Sunday Morning with Charles Kurault, CBS, June 1990 "The Art of Growing Older," F. Hammersley, Wilson Hurley and Charles Mattox, Colores, KNME, Public Broadcasting System, February |
