CHRONOLOGY
1898-1912 Born February 11, 1898, Savannah, Georgia. Family moves to New York City.
Before the age of six, receives first lessons in figure drawing from his father, whose analytical approach makes a deep and lasting impression. Exposed to works and reproductions of the masters as well as contemporary art in his father’s extensive library and periodical collection.
1910 At age 12, begins painting in oils.
1913 Attends the Armory Show in New York, where he is impressed by the work of Cézanne, Duchamp, Matisse and Gauguin.
Begins to study the work of Italian Futurist, Boccioni, initiating his own work with kinetic organization.
1916 Meets Robert Henri, organizer of the landmark 1908 group exhibition “The Eight.” Occupies a studio in Greenwich Village.
1917 Moves to a new studio above the Penguin Club on 15th Street. During these early years works alone and educates himself by visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Meets Pascin, the English Cubo-Futurist, at the Penguin Club.
1918 Meets Walter Pach, John Sloan and Arthur B. Davies.
1919 Visited by Gaston Lachaise.
Takes first trip to Paris and enrolls himself at the Académie Colorossi as an independent student in life drawing. During his stay in Paris, notes exhaustion of Cubism and revival of classicism.
1920 Returns to New York, moves into a studio on 14th Street.
Sees work of Brancusi, most likely at the Société Anonyme.
Impressed by the early work of Nadelman.
Creates one square of a composite wall-hanging by “The Eight,” at the request of John Sloan.
1922 Returns to Paris.
Aware that artists Picasso, Derain, Théophile Robert and others are working in a classical style; critics proclaim Cubism to be dead and Neoclassicism the new mode.
Turns from kinetic organizations towards more formal figure compositions. Travels through Italy and is re-inspired by the early Renaissance masters.
1923 Visits Corsica, Italy; his sketches from this island will become the basis for later neo-classical works of peasant subjects.
1924 Returns to New York, occupying a studio on East 64th Street.
Begins exhibiting at the Daniel Gallery and receives critical acclaim for his neo-classical painting, Judgment of Paris.
1925 Premiere solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery, New York.
1925-26 Brooklyn Museum acquires Feitelson’s large painting, Diana at the Bath. 1926-27 Returns to Paris and takes a studio on Rue de la Seine.
1927-28 Exhibits in the Salon d’Automne
Returns to the United States and travels to Los Angeles in November for a winter stay which becomes his permanent residence.
1928 Moves into a studio on Highland Avenue, in the heart of Hollywood. Exhibits with Nathalie Newking at Wilshire Galleries, directed by an acquaintance of Winslow Homer.
Premiere solo museum exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Meets Stanton Macdonald-Wright.
1929 Exhibits at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Conrad Buff, Nathalie Newking and Hanson Puthuff.
Teaches a summer painting course at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles.
1930 Formulates first ideas of Subjective Classicism, to be known as Post- Surrealism.
Los Angeles Times publishes Feitelson’s article, “Eclecticism...What Is It?” on January 26th.
Hired as an instructor at the Stickney Hall School of Art in Pasadena, California. Meets Helen Lundeberg, one of his students.
Exhibits in a Neo-Classical show at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Meets art critic and writer, Jules Langsner.
1930-31 Ruben Kadish and Philip Goldstein (Philip Guston) are among Feitelson’s students.
1932 Resides on DeLongpre Avenue in Hollywood.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquires his painting, Two Peasant Children.
1933 Resides on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood.
Exhibits at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
1933-34 Stanley Rose and Murray Youlin open the first contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles at the Centaur bookshop on Selma near Vine in Hollywood. Feitelson directs and designs the gallery.
1934 Feitelson founds Subjective Classicism or Post-Surrealism with Helen Lundeberg. The first Post-Surrealist exhibition is held at the Centaur Gallery in November, includes the work of Feitelson, Lundeberg, Labaudt, Merrild, Ret and Lehman.
Creates murals for the Federal Public Works Art Project.
1935 Designs and directs the new Stanley Rose Gallery, organizing exhibits of Juan Gris, Carlos Merida, Post-Surrealists, Lundeberg, Kadish, Merrild and Goldstein (Guston). Leaves the Rose Gallery to direct the Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, located across from the Egyptian Theatre.
Along with Alexander Archipenko, juries a Modern Art Show.
Included in a Post-Surrealist show at the War Memorial Museum in San Francisco, which traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
1936 Included in a critically acclaimed Post-Surrealist exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Exhibits in “Fantastic Art: Dada and Surrealism,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, through 1937.
1936-37 Begins work on the Los Angeles County Hall of Records mural for the California Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP).
1937 Moves to studio on Western Avenue just north of Melrose where he will remain for ten years.
Appointed Supervisor of Murals, Paintings and Sculpture for Southern California, Federal Art Project.
Exhibits in the School of Paris show at the Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles. Exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in “1937 Exhibition of Contemporary American Art.”
1938 Two of Feitelson’s murals are shown at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and three more murals are completed for The Thomas Edison School.
1939 Lithograph entitled Reading is included in the New York World’s Fair. Begins directing exhibitions with Helen Wurdemann at the Los Angeles Art Association.
Lithograph, Post-Surrealist Configuration: Biological Symphony is exhibited at the Whitney Annual, New York.
1942 United States enters World War II and the WPA/ FAP begins to limit operations.
Begins romantic paintings of an introspective, subjective nature.
1943 WPA/FAP officially ends.
1944 Begins teaching at the Art Center School, Los Angeles.
Solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art, featuring romantic paintings incorporating abstract images and his first abstract paintings called Magical Forms. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts includes Feitelson in the “Fourth Biennial Exhibit of Contemporary American Painting.”
1945 Incorporates principles of abstraction in his courses at the Art Center School.
1947 Becomes director of the Gallery of Mid-20th Century Art on Clark Street, in Los Angeles.
Exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago in Abstract and Surrealist American Art.
Exhibits at the Pasadena Institute of Art, California in “Eighteen California Artists.”
Moves to Clark Street in Los Angeles.
Organizes exhibits at the Mid-20th Century Gallery that include De Chirico, Leonor Fini, Eugene Berman, Helen Lundeberg, Lepri, Brauner, Jacques Herold and Matta, et al.
1948 Organizes a Stanton Macdonald-Wright exhibition at the Art Center School Galleries.
Paints first Magical Space Form, exploring for the first time the ambiguity of space/form which becomes the predecessor of hard-edge abstraction. Moves to Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
1949 Exhibits and lectures widely in Southern California and San Francisco. Moves to studios on Ardmore Street in Los Angeles.
1950 Exhibits at the University of Illinois and in Los Angeles.
Paints several small paintings in which he uses the bisected format and manipulation of space within the frame. These works presage his later Dichotomic Organizations of the late 1950’s through 1960’s.
1951 Named Carnegie Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Exhibits Magical Space Forms, 1951 (68 x 100 inches), at the Los Angeles Art Association, bridging his Magical Forms and Magical Space Forms series.
Exhibits in “Contemporary Painting in the United States” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Juries several exhibitions in Southern California.
For the first time, uses plain, primed canvas in a painting.
Serves as a juror and is included in the exhibition, “American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Moves to studios on 3rd Street in Los Angeles in September.
“Functionists West” group exhibits for the first time at the Los Angeles Art Association, featuring originators Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Stephen Longstreet and Elise Cavanna.
1952 Retrospective exhibition at the Pasadena Art Institute, California, is a critical success.
1953 Exhibits at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado.
Second exhibit of the “Functionists West” group with fourteen new members.
Completes a Stripe painting, which derives from ideas taught to students at the Art Center School of Design, using color and spacing to create visual activity.
1955 Thirty year retrospective at the McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Exhibits in the Whitney Annual, New York.
Exhibits in the 3rd Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil.
1956 Begins a successful television series on NBC entitled “Feitelson on Art,” which lasts through 1963.
1958 Exhibits at the University of Nebraska Art Galleries in Lincoln.
Exhibits with Helen Lundeberg at Scripps College, Claremont, California. Participates in “Black and White Exhibition,” curated by Jules Langsner in Los Angeles.
1959 Organizes and leads a meeting of Abstract Classicists, including Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, John McLaughlin, with the critic Jules Langsner.
The landmark exhibition, “Four Abstract Classicists” is held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Organized by Jules Langsner, this show travels to the San Francisco Museum. Later, a revised version under the title of “West Coast Hard Edge” travels to London (Institute of Contemporary Art) and Belfast, Ireland (Queens College).
Exhibits in “50 Paintings by 37 Painters of the Los Angeles Area” at the University of California, Los Angeles, Art Galleries, curated by Henry Hopkins.
Begins to exhibit at the Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles.
Uses masking tape for the first time to create sharp edges in his paintings.
1961 Participates in group exhibition “Paintings from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand” in Auckland, New Zealand.
1962 Exhibits in “Geometric Abstraction in America” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Solo exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Introduces curvilinear forms, which remain the prominent motif in future work.
Joins the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles.
1962-63 Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquires and exhibits Feitelson’s painting, Magical Space Forms, 1955.
Exhibits at the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Des Moines Art Center in “Fifty California Artists,” organized by San Francisco Museum with assistance from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1963 Begins first paintings of pure lines, which, by 1965 become the major pictorial element in his painting.
1964 Exhibits at Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona.
1965 Exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in “The Responsive Eye.”
Exhibits at the Whitney Annual, New York, through January 1966.
1966 Exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the “Recent
Acquisitions” show (Untitled, 1964).
1968 Joins the David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1969 Awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the Art Center College of Design.
1969-71 Exhibits at the American Embassy, Moscow, in “American Contemporary Art,” organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1972 “Lorser Feitelson: A Retrospective Exhibition” is presented at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in August.
Named Chairman Emeritus of the Fine Arts Department, Art Center College of Design.
1973 Honored by the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, as a Distinguished American Artist.
1974 1976
1977
1978
1980-81 2007-09
Included in “Nine Senior Southern California Painters,” the opening exhibition of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
Exhibits in “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era,” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The Oakland Museum, California, acquires Feitelson’s line painting, Untitled, 1969.
Exhibits at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Exhibits at the National Collection of Fine Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
David Stuart Galleries presents a solo exhibition of Feitelson’s early works.
Feitelson dies of heart failure on May 24th brought on by a recent illness. Summer. A memorial is held at the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles.
Retrospective exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show travels to The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery at UCLA.
Included in “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-century,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1925 The Daniel Gallery, New York.
1926 Neumann Galleries, New York.
Dudensing Galleries, New York, 1926-27.
1928 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Los Angeles County Museum, California.
Wilshire Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1931 Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California.
1932 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Ilsley Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1933 Ebell Salon, Los Angeles, California.
Laguna Beach Art Association, California.
1935 Stanley Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, California. 1944 Los Angeles County Museum, California.
San Francisco Museum of Art, California.
1947 Hartwell Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1949 Art Center School Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1952 Pasadena Art Institute, California.
1955 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas.
1958 Scripps College Art Galleries, Florence Rand Lang Art Building, Claremont, California.
1959 Anna Mahler/Lorser Feitelson, Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1960 Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1961 Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1962 Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1963 Chapman College Purcell Art Association, Orange, California.
1964 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1967 Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
1968 Feitelson, The Years of Vision: 1920-1950, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries, California.
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1972 Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
Lundeberg, Feitelson, First Showing: A Series of New Color Prints, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries, California.
1977 Lorser Feitelson, Selection of Small Paintings, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1978 Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) A Memorial Tribute, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1980-81 Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Catalogue published. Also shown at The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of Los Angeles, California.
1982 Lorser Feitelson Paintings 1964-1971, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1983 Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978): Early Drawings and Late Paintings, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1987 Lorser Feitelson: Magical Space Forms, Boulder Series, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1988 Lorser Feitelson 1895-1978, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1989 Lorser Feitelson: Artist / Teacher, Long Beach City College, Fine Arts Gallery, California.
The Kinetic Line, Lorser Feitelson, University of California, Riverside, University Art Gallery.
1990 Lorser Feitelson: Exploration of the Figure, 1919-1929, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, California.
Lorser Feitelson: The Organic Line:1916-1977, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1992 Lorser Feitelson: Motion as Line, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1995 Lorser Feitelson / John McLaughlin: Abstract Classicists, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1996 Lorser Feitelson: The Romantic Years 1919-1949, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1998 Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms to Hard Edge, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2001 Lorser Feitelson, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Catalogue published.
2003 Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting 1945-1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2005 Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series—Works from 1916-1923, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2006 Lorser Feitelson: 10 Paintings, Los Angeles, The 1960’s. Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, New York. Catalogue published.
2009 Lorser Feitelson – The Late Paintings, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2018
Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
Lorser Feitelson: Curvilinear, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, New York.
2020 Lorser Feitelson: Allegorical Confessions, 1943-1945, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1924 A Group of Modern Painters, The Daniel Gallery, New York. Catalogue published.
1926 Independents Exhibition, New York. Salon d’automne, Paris.
1927 Whitney Studio Club Exhibition, New York.
1928 Ninth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles Museum.
Catalogue published.
1929 Conrad Buff, Lorser Feitelson, Nathalie Newking, Hanson Puthuff, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Tenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles Museum. Catalogue published.
1930 Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1932 Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1933 Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California. Catalogue published.
1934 Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Paintings by California Modernists, Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Public Works of Art Project, 14th Region Southern California, Los Angeles County Museum.
Group Exhibition, El Capitan College of the Theatre, Los Angeles. Surrealism & Post-Surrealism (New Classicism), Centaur Gallery, Los Angeles.
1935 Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published under title “Opening Exhibition.”
Post Surrealist Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Also shown at The Brooklyn Museum, New York under title “Postsurrealism.”
Post-Surrealists and Other Moderns, Stanley Rose Gallery, Los Angeles.
Group Exhibition, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, Los Angeles.
1936 Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalogue published.
Oil Painting and Water Colors by California Artists, also known as “The Post Surrealist Show,” Brooklyn Museum, New York.
1937 1937 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1938 Post Surrealism, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles.
1939 All California Painting And Sculpture Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum.
Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1940 California Creates, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles. Also shown at San Francisco Museum of Art.
1940 Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1944 The Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition: Watercolors and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue published.
The Fourth Biennial Exhibit of Contemporary American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
1945 The First Biennial Exhibition of Drawings by American Artists, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, Fitzsimmons Studio, Los Angeles.
1946 Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, New York. Catalogue published.
1947 Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue published.
Eighteen California Artists, Pasadena Institute of Art, California.
1949 California Centennials Exhibition of Art, Los Angeles County Museum.
Catalogue published.
Ninth Invitational Purchase Prize Art Exhibition, Chaffey Community Art Association, Ontario, California. Catalogue published.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1950 Sixth Annual Exhibition by the Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Municipal Art Commission and the Los Angeles City Council, shown at the Greek Theatre. Catalogue published.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1951 146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in the United States, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Seventh Annual Exhibition by the Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Municipal Art Commission and the Los Angeles City Council, shown at the Greek Theatre. Catalogue published.
Portable Murals, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1952 American Water Colors, Drawings and Prints/ A National Competitive Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1953 Fourteenth Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado. Catalogue published.
1954 Functionists West, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1955 Annual Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
III Bienal de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil. Catalogue published. United States section organized by San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published under the title Pacific Coast Art, United States Representation at the 3rd Biennial of São Paulo. Also shown at Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Colorodo Springs Fine Arts Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1956 California Painting: 40 Painters, The Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, California. A collaboration with San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published.
1956 Annual Exhibition by Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1958 Artists Invite Artists, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles.
Sixty–Eighth Annual Exhibition, University of Nebraska Art Galleries,
Lincoln. Catalogue published.
1959 Four Abstract Classicists,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Queen’s University, Belfast Ireland (catalogue)
1949/1959 A Decade in the Contemporary Galleries, Pasadena Art Museum, California. Catalogue published.
Fifty Paintings by Thirty Seven Painters of Los Angeles Area, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1961 The Nude in American Painting, The Brooklyn Museum, New York. Catalogue published.
Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand,
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. Catalogue published.
1962 The Artist’s Environment: West Coast, The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Forth Worth, Texas. Catalogue published. Also shown at the UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles; Oakland Museum of Art, California.
Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Art with assistance of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Also shown at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa.
Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1963 Arts of Southern California-XIV: Early Moderns, Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1964 California Hard Edge Painting, Pavilion Gallery, Balboa, California. Catalogue published.
1964 Festival of Fine Arts/ Art and Anti-Art, Occidental College, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Of Time and the Image, Ankrum Gallery Artists, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona. Catalogue published.
Southern California Original Hard Edge Painters, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles.
1965 Colorists 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Catalogue published. Also shown at City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Pasadena Art Museum, California; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland.
Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign. Catalogue published.
Eighteenth Annual Creative Arts Exhibition, Henderson Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado.
1966 1966 Invitational, California ’66 Painters and Sculptors, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
New Modes in California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
Contemporary California Art from the Lytton Collection, Lytton Center of The Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
The Search/Ten Leading California Artists in Pursuit of a Personal Vision, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
1967 Artists’ Artists, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA, 1910-1930, sponsored by University of New Mexico Art Museum and Junior League of Albuquerque.
Catalogue published. Also shown at Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
West Coast Invitational, 1967, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
1968 1968 Invitational, West Coast ’68 Painters and Sculptors, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1969 Color in Control, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Catalogue published. Also shown at the Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida.
Microcosm ’69, Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1970 American Contemporary Art, organized under the auspices of the International Council at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Also shown at the American Embassy, Moscow. Catalogue published in Russian and English.
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum, Richmond.
A Century of California Painting 1870-1970, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery,
Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
Looking West, 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1972 Los Angeles Painters of the Nineteen-Twenties, Pomona College Gallery, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park.
West Coast Art from the Permanent Collection, Pasadena Art Museum, California.
Renewal Art of the 1930’s-1940’s: Southern California Artists, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1974 Nine Senior Southern California Painters, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Catalogue published in LAICA Journal, December 1974, pages 45-53.
1975 Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America 1910-1925, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware. Catalogue published.
1976 American Artists ’76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Catalogue published.
Los Angeles: A Continuing Frontier 1940-1961, Occidental College Gallery, Los Angeles.
New Deal Art: California, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, California. Catalogue published.
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Catalogue published.
Also shown at National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Symbolism, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1977 Los Angeles Hard-Edge: The Fifties and Seventies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Catalogue published under the title of “California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History.”
Surrealism and American Art: 1931-1947, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Catalogue published.
1978 Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California. Catalogue published. Also shown at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, New Mexico.
1979 Black and White Are Colors: Paintings of the 1950’s-1970’s, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, California. Catalogue published.
1980 50’s Abstract: A Summary of Los Angeles Painting from 1957-1960, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, California. Catalogue published.
1982 Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists before 1950, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1984 The Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
1985 Colorforms, Security Pacific National Bank, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles. Also shown at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
1986 Aspects of California Modernism 1920-1950, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C., Catalogue published.
1990-92 Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published. Also shown at Laguna Art Museum, California; Oakland Museum of Art, California; McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum, Utah State University, Logan; Palm Springs Desert Museum, California.
1992 California Painting: The Essential Modernist Framework, California State University, Los Angeles. Also shown at California State University, San Bernardino, California.
1994 Independent Visions: California Modernism, Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
1995 Pacific Dreams, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Also shown at Oakland Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1997 On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
1999 Gold Rush to Pop: 200 Years of California Art, Orange County Museum of Art, California.
2000 Four Abstract Classicists Plus One, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
2001 American Surrealism, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago. Catalogue
published.
California Modernism, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles. Four Abstract Classicists, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York.
2002 Post Surrealism, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California. Catalogue published.
2002-03 Post Surrealism, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah.
2003 The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. Catalogue published.
2004 Conversations with the Collection: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
2004-05 The Los Angeles School, Otis College of Art + Design, Los Angeles, California.
2005 Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York. California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2006 Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
Drawings: The Hand of the Artist, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Masters, Mentors and Metamorphosis, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton College, Fullerton, California.
2006-07 Married 2 Art: Exciting Works by Famous Couples in the Arts, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, California.
2007 Burgoyne Diller and Hard Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York.
Optic Nerve – Perceptual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.
2007-09 Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin.
2008 A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California.
2008-09 Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2010 Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.
Kindred Vision: Lorser Feitelson / Helen Lundeberg, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2011-12 Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950- 1970, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963 (a sanctioned Pacific Standard Time exhibition), Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California.
2011 Blast from the Past: 60s and 70s Geometric Abstractions, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.
2013-14 Four Abstract Classicists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2014 Helen Lundeberg / Lorser Feitelson and the Synergy of Geometric Abstraction, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2016 Helen Lundeberg & The Four Abstract Classicists, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2018 1960s California Hard-Edge, Flowers Gallery, London, England.
2021 Le Surréalisme dans l’art Américain/Surrealism in American Art, May 11 – September 26, 2021, Centre de la Vieille Charité – Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France.
2018 -19 Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University.
2019 Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California, SF MOMA, San Francisco, California.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Great Western Savings and Loan Association of Southern California Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI.
Industrial Electronic Engineers, Los Angeles, CA.
James B. Lansing Sound. Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, NE.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT. Oakland Museum of Art, CA.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA.
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE.
Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA.
Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, NY.
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
Xerox Corporation, New York, NY.
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ.