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Nathan Oliveira
(
American
, 1928–2010)
Nathan Oliveira
Dog Man,
1994
7,000 USD
Nathan Oliveira
The Twin Runners,
2005
12,000 USD
Nathan Oliveira
Torso II
Price on Request
Biography
Timeline
Exhibitions
Literature
Timeline
1928
Born: Oakland, CA
1950
Mills College, Oakland, CA
1951
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1952 - 1953
Teacher, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1952
MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1955 - 1956
Teacher, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1957
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1958
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1964 - 1996
Teacher, Studio Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1974
Artist Grant-National Endowment for the Arts
1988
Endowed Chair-Ann O'Day Maples Prof. in the Arts, Stanford, CA
1994
Elected Fellow-American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA
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Exhibitions
2005
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2004
“Contemporary Prints,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2003
“Oil Paintings and recent monotypes,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
“Solitary Shape Figure Watercolors,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2002
The Art of Nathan Oliveira, retrospective, San Jose Museum of Art, guest curated by Peter Selz. Traveling to: Neuberger Museum of Art, Puchase College, State University of New York; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Orange Count Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (solo)
“Nude Watercolors,” University of Southern Oregon
Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2001
“Singular,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
“Prints/Copperplate Figures,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“Centennial Exhibition 1989 – 1998,” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1997
“Important Bay Area Paintings, 1954-1960,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Variations in Time/ Nathan Olivera/ Monotypes and Monoprints, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Singular Impressions, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1996
Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1995
Nathan Oliveira: The Windhover, Dedicated to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Stanford University, Standford,CA; traveling to Pepperdine University, Malibu,CA (solo)
1993
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Works on Paper by Nathan Oliveira-Gifts from the John Young Collection, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI
1992
Nathan Oliveira: Figurative Work 1958-92, The Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College Moraga, CA
1991
Nathan Oliveira Painting & Works on Paper, 1959-1991, Salander O'Reilly Galleries New York, NY
American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952-1990, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; traveling to Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi, Japan
1989
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco (traveled)
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950 - 1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1986
Autunno in Toscana 1986, Recent Monotypes, Il Bisonte Galleria d'Arte Florence, Italy
Public and Private: American Prints Today, The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
1985
Contemporary American Monotypes, The Chrysler Museum Norfolk, VA
1984
Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition, 1957 - 83, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: traveling to Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Catalogue (solo)
1981
Contemporary American Prints and Drawings 1940-80, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
1980
Nathan Oliveira: Swiss Sites Series, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (solo)
Nathan Oliveira Print Retrospective: 1949-1980, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA; traveling to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA; University Art Collections, Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Catalogue (solo)
FIAC 79, Grand Palais Paris, France
The Painterly Print, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1977
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; traveled to University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonia, TX; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue
1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1973
Nathan Oliveira: Recent Works on Paper, Linda Farris Gallery Seattle, WA
1969
Watercolors, Picadilly Gallery London, The United Kingdom
1969 Nathan Oliveira: Works on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Ca
1968
The Humanist Tradition in Contemporary American Painting, New School Art Center, New York, NY; catalogue
1967
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, , Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1965
Ten Years of Printmaking, San Francisco Museum of Art Sa Francisco, CA
1964
Contemporary Sculptors and Painters as Printmakers, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
Nieuwe Realisten ( New Realism ), Haags Germeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
1963
Major Comprehensive Exhibition of Five Years Work, Nathan Oliveira, San Francisco Museum of Art San Francisco, CA
1962
Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: traveling to Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; San Francisco, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; catalogue
1961
Nathan Oliveira: Paintings and Drawings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (solo)
1959
New Image of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Paul Kantor Gallery Beverly Hills, CA
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Literature
2002
'Nathan Oliveira', by Peter Selz. With an introduction by Susan Landauer and essay by Joann Moser, University of California Press
