Frank Lobdell Biography

FRANK LOBDELL​ August 21, 1921, Kansas City, MO — December 14, 2013, Palo Alto, CA EDUCATION ​ ​

1939-40​ ​1947-50​ 1950-51​

St. Paul School of Fine Arts, St. Paul, MN California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (now San Francisco Art Institute) L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris

TEACHING ​

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California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute) Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Professor of Art; appointed Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art, 1989

VISITING ARTIST/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Instructor, summer session California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Painting instructor Artist-in-Residence, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Fellow, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Artist-in-Residence, New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting, New York, NY, June 9–August 1 Visiting Artist (with David Kelso), Yale University School of Art, February Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson

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First Prize (oil painting), Minnesota State Fair Artists’ Council Prize, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association 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

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​ Nealie Sullivan Annual Award for a California Artist, San Francisco Art Association Pew Foundation Grant, awarded through Stanford University Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Painting, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY Elected to National Academy of Design

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College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA ​ Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, June ​ 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 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, April 16–May 5 ​ Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Drawings, April 30–May 21 Galerie D. Benador, Geneva, Switzerland, Frank Lobdell: Peintures, Gouaches, Dessins, November–December.

Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris, April 7–May. Catalogue Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Graphics from 1948 to 1965 (organized by Walter Hopps), March 15–April 10. Travel: 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 Marylhurst College, Portland, OR, Lithographs by Frank Lobdell, October– December San Francisco Museum of Art, Frank Lobdell: Twenty-Seven Lithographs and A Large Painting, January 21–February 16. Brochure Cheney Cowles Museum, Eastern Washington University, Spokane St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA, Frank Lobdell: Paintings–Drawings, May 1–28. ​ Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell: Paintings, 1969–1971, March 1–25. Brochure ​ Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Frank Lobdell, Paintings and Drawings, 1955–1973, October 17–November 16. Brochure ​ Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​

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Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Monotypes Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA. Frank Lobdell: Summer Mural and Preparatory Drawings. Travel: 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 Smith Andersen Gallery, 2140 Bush Street, San Francisco, February 27–March 27 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, December 1982–January 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 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 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, March 10–April 4 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 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: Recent Paintings, Drawings, Prints, September 4–October 13 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Frank Lobdell: Recent Monotypes, November 22, 1991–January 4, 1992 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco 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 Stanford University Museum of Art, Frank Lobdell: Works, 1947–1992, January 12–April 25. Catalogue Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco Printworks, Chicago, Frank Lobdell, Aquatint Etchings 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

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​

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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 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 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 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, October 14–November 27. Catalogue Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning, November 16, 2004–January 16, 2005 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Frank Lobdell, July 31–August 30 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell: The Dance Series 1969–1972, September 12–November 1. Catalogue Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Frank Lobdell: Works from 1980 to 2008, September 27–October 26. Catalogue Arion Press, San Francisco, CA, Frank Lobdell: Color Etchings, exhibition in conjunction with the publication of Robert Duncan’s The Structure of Rime, with etchings by Frank Lobdell, November 19, 2008–April 11, 2009 Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Frank Lobdell: Figure Drawings, November 11, 2009–February 14, 2010.

Catalogue Christian Petersen Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Thursday Night Sessions: Figure Drawings by Frank Lobdell, August 23-December 10.

Catalogue Hackett | Mill, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell 1948-1949, January 7–April 1 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Frank Lobdell: Wonderland, March 10– August 5 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Frank Lobdell 1921-2013, January 24–March 16, and April 10–June 15 Hackett | Mill, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell, September-December Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Frank Lobdell: Tamarind Prints, September 14-November 16​

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​

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Findlay Galleries - New York, Frank Lobdell: Beyond Words, April 2019

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Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis. Award San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 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 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, CA North 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 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 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) ​ ​ ​ FRANK LOBDELL–6

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 1950​ 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: 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

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 1961​ Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell, December 5, 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: 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: 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: 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

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 1965​ 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 ​ 1970​ Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Kompass: American Art of the West Coast ​ 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 ​ 1973​ University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson. Travel: 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: 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

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 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, September 20, 1992–January 3, 1993. 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.

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 1996 ​ Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, January 27–April 21. Travel: 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: 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, February ​ 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 Abstract Expressionists: Prints from the Charles R. Dean Collection, September 11–October 25.

Brochure ​ ​ Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, December 7, 2003–March 21, 2004 ​ 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, January 14–May 2

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 2004​ 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, August 5–October 2 ​ ​ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, October 2, 2004–February 13, 2005. Catalogue ​ ​ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Intaglio Editions from made in California Press, December 2, 2004–January 22, 2005 ​ 2005​ Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, Looking Back and Seeing Forward: ​ ​ ​ A 90th Anniversary Exhibition, January 11–February 19 ​ ​ Sacramento State University Library Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Bay Area Figuration, March 7–May 21 ​ ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, NextNew, July 22–September 17 ​ ​ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Inaugural Exhibition, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art ​ ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Pairings II: Discovered Dialogues in Postwar Abstraction, November 3–December 31. Catalogue ​ ​ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, November 20, 2005-March 5, 2006. Travel: Katzen Museum at American University, Washington, DC, April 19-July 30, 2006. Catalogue ​ 2006​ Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Abstract Expressionist Prints from the Charles Randall Dean Collection, May 4–July 30. Brochure ​ ​ Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Works by Abstract Expressionists, May 19-July 22 ​ 2007​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, A Culture in the Making, January 11–March 3. Catalogue ​ ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery at ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, February 14–19 ​ ​ Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, 70th Anniversary Exhibition, March 16-August 12 ​ ​ Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Abstract Expressionism, May 19–July 22. Travel: Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, September 8–December 2; Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, January 19–March 29, 2008; Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY, May 3–June 4, 2008; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, June 28–August 24, 2008; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, September 19–October 26, 2008 ​ ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, The Passionate Gesture, July 12– August 31

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 2007 ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery at Art20, New York, November 9–12 ​ ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery at Art Miami, Miami, FL, December 5–9​ ​ 2008​ De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Contemporary American Monotypes: Selections from the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, January 26–April 20. Brochure ​ ​ Arion Press at Oak Knoll Fest, New Castle, DE, October 4–5 ​ Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France, 1945-1949: Repartir à Zéro, comme si la ​ ​ peinture n'avait jamais existé, October 24, 2008–February 2, 2009 ​ ​ Arion Press at Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, October 30–November 2 ​ ​ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco ​ Abstract Expressionism from the Permanent Collection, November 8, 2008–​ July 5, 2009 ​ Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Every Thursday Evening: The Drawings of ​ ​ Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Paul ​ ​ Wonner and Theophilus Brown, November 21, 2008–February 1, 2009 ​ George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA, A Modern Day Drawings Cabinet, ​ ​ December 4, 2008–January 29, 2009 ​ 2009​ Arion Press at the International Fine Print Dealers Association Los Angeles Fine ​ ​ ​ Print Fair, January 22–25 ​ ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Synchronies, January 8–February 28 ​ ​ Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Pop to Present: Passion for Collecting, March 18–August 16 ​ ​ Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, September 26, 2009–March 15, 2010. Catalogue ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery at Art Miami, Miami, FL, December 3–7 ​ 2010​ Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Extreme Makeover: A Fresh Look at the Cantor Arts Center's Contemporary Collection, December 15, 2010–August 5, 2012 ​ 2011​ Shasta County Arts Council at Old City Hall, Redding, CA, Selections from Collector’s Press Lithographs, January 7–February 5 ​ ​ Leslie Feely Fine Art and Nyehaus, New York, NY, Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963: A Symphony in Four Parts (Second & Third Movements; Ecole du Pacifique or a Feeling of Strength in Reserve), January 21-March 12 ​ CODEX Book Fair, Berkeley, CA, February 6-11 ​ Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN, Ten West Coast Artists, June 16-August 13 ​ David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Bay Area Abstraction: 1945–1965, November 11–December 31

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 2012 ​ ​ Hackett|Mill, San Francisco, Momentum of a Movement, January 6–March 30 ​ ​ Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Frank Lobdell, Charles Strong and Jack Jefferson, January 26–March 10 ​ 2013​ Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, The Bay Area School: Paintings, May 14– ​ ​ ​ June 20. Catalogue ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art at Art Market, San Francisco, May 16–19 ​ ​ Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, The Bay Area School: Drawings, June 25– ​ ​ ​ July 6 Hackett|Mill, San Francisco at Expo Chicago, September 19–23 ​ ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Connect & Collect, September 28–October 26 ​ ​ Accession Gallery, San Francisco, Lasting Impressions: Thirty Years of Printmaking by made in California, November 7–December ​ 2014​ ​ Hackett|Mill, San Francisco, Brown, Diebenkorn, De Niro Sr., Lobdell, Neri, Oliveira, Park, Weeks, June 17–August 29 ​ ​ ​ Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Bay Area and Beyond: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, August 13–October 26 ​ ​ Gallery North, Carmel, CA, West Coast Abstract, September ​ ​ Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Closely Considered: Diebenkorn in Berkeley, September 14–November 16 ​ ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Connect & Collect, September 27–October 25 ​ 2015​ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Body Language: New Acquisitions of Figurative Work, January 18–May 3 ​ ​ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Defining the Body: Contemporary Figuration on Paper, August 1–November 1 ​ ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Connect & Collect, September 26–October 24 ​ ​ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, September 29, 2015–January 4, 2016 ​ ​ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection, October 3, 2015–February 7, 2016 ​ ​ Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Back to Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawings, October 11, 2015–May 1, 2016 ​ 2016​ Hackett|Mill at New York Studio School, New York, NY, As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco, February 4–March 13 ​ ​ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, California Dreamin’: Mark Adams and Frank Lobdell, February 21–June 5 ​ ​ Hackett|Mill, San Francisco, As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco, April 7–May 27

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FRANK LOBDELL–14

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continued ​ ​ ​ 2016​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Connect & Collect, September 24–October 22 ​ 2017​ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Wustum Generations, January 22–April 30 ​ ​ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, 75 at 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection, September 17–December 30 ​ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Connect & Collect, September 23–October 21 ​ ​ Hackett Mill, San Francisco, CA, Decades in the Making, October 21, 2017–2018 ​ 2018​ Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs Ca. Eighty @ Eighty: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection. June 16 - September 16, 2018. ​ ​ Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, California North and South, June 16 - September 30, 2018 ​ ​ Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Salon Style II: Collected Marks on Paper, September 20, 2018 - February 18, 2019. ​ 2019 ​ The Landing Gallery, Dilexi Gallery: Disparate Ontologies, June 22 – August 22, 2019 ​ 2021 ​ Lyrical Abstraction. A group exhibition. Findlay Galleries New York. ​ 2022 ​ Alternative Realities: Alton, Diebenkorn, Lobdell, Wolfer. May 2022, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA ​ 2023-2025 ​ Findlay Galleries 6 Group Exhibitions. ​ 3-5/2025​ Inherited Forms. Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA. ​ 5/22-6/25 ​ Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.