Nathan Oliveira: Emanations

Nathan Oliveira

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Nathan Oliveira Emanations January 21 - February 19, 2022

Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com cover: Standing Figure (Ed. of 35), 2007, Color sugar lift aquatint with hard-ground etching, 45" x 36"

Nathan Oliveira | Emanations In a career that spanned 60 years, Nathan Oliveira was renowned for his introspective, haunting figurative works done in oil painting, bronze sculpture, and printmaking. Oliveira was a luminary in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, which included such peers as Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park, even though his work moved far beyond its boundaries to reflect more purely on the expressive potential of his figural subjects.

Throughout his lifetime, Oliveira was known for exploring the elemental relationship between figure and ground, suggesting questions of identity and consciousness through painterly brushwork and a highly tactile surface. Depicting his figures with hidden or otherwise obscured features—sometimes as little more than outlined shapes—Oliveira often suspended his forms within open, atmospheric space. In addition to several major oil paintings, this exhibition includes bronze sculptures and works on paper from various periods, as well as selected images of birds, which were a major recurring subject in his art.

Oliveira’s art gained significant notice in 1959, when he was the youngest painter included in the groundbreaking exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York entitled New Images of Man. The exhibition, which also included such established artists as Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, and Alberto Giacometti, aimed to capture the energy of a new thread of figurative art that its curator, Peter Selz, referred to as “effigies of the disquiet man.”

Oliveira was elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994 and has received various other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is held in the collections of many distinguished institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

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Han Stele with Wheels, 1997 Oil & alkyd on canvas, 84" x 70"

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Acoma Hawk I (AP, Ed. of 20), 1975 Seven-color lithograph on paper, 30.13" x 22.13"

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Acoma Hawk III (AP, Ed. of 20), 1975 Two-color lithograph on paper, 30.13" x 22.13"

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Hawk #11, 1990 Oil on canvas, 11.75" x 8.75"

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Bird (AP, Ed. of 35), Drypoint, aquatint with hard-ground etching, 45" x 36"

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Head #6, 2010 Oil on panel, 8" x 6" Head #8, 2010 Oil on panel, 14" x 11" Head #5, 2010 Oil on panel, 8" x 6"

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Twin Runner (AP, Ed. of 40), 2005 Color sugar lift aquatint with soft-ground etching, 45" x 36"

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Standing Figure (Ed. of 35), 2007 Color sugar lift aquatint with soft-ground etching, 45" x 36"

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Couple with Red, 2003 Oil on canvas, 50" x 42"

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Gray Head in Grays and Blue, 1991 Oil on canvas board, 20" x 16"

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Homage to Giacommetti, 1961 Watercolor on paper, 11.88" x 9.75"

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Revisited I (10/80), 1994 intaglio on paper, 6.5" x 5.5"

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Revisited II (10/80), 1994 intaglio on paper, 11.5" x 10.5"

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Revisited III (10/80), 1994 intaglio on paper, 10.75" x 9.75"

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Revisited IV (10/80), 1994 intaglio on paper, 10.5" x 9.5"

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Figure, Arm Stand, 1973 Monotype, 17.5" x 15.25"

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Nude I, 1973 Monotype, 20.38" x 14.63"

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Mask I (Ed. 3/9), 2007 Bronze, 10" x 12" x 12" Mask II (Ed. 3/9), 2007 Bronze, 10" x 12" x 12""

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Mask III (Ed. 6/9), 2007 Bronze, 10" x 12" x 12" Mask IV (Ed. 5/9), 2007 Bronze, 10" x 12" x 12" Mask VI (Ed. 7/9), 2007 Bronze, 10" x 12" x 12"

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Alternate View

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Runner (Ochre) (Ed. 1/9), 2007 Bronze, 17" x 16" x 23.5"

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Standing Figure #1 (Ed. 2/9), 2007 Bronze, 33" x 15.5" x 23.5"

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Standing Figure #2 (Ed. 4/9), 2007 Bronze, 27" x 16" x 23.5"

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Figure #4 (Ed. of 7), 1983 Bronze, 60" x 22.5" x 30.5" 28

Charcoal Head 14, 1979 Watercolor on paper, 24" x 19"

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Standing Figure #4, 1990 Oil & alkyd on canvas, 66" x 54"

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Nathan Oliveira (1928-2010) Born: Oakland, CA, 1928 Died: Palo Alto, CA, 2010

EDUCATION 1950 1951 1952

Mills College, Oakland, CA BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 2018

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Nathan Oliveira: Emanations, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Nathan Oliveira: The Kestrel, and Windhover Related Works, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Mamur University, Belmont, CA Paintings and Sculpture, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Contemporary Prints,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY Oil Paintings and recent monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC Solitary Shape Figure Watercolors, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Acqua: Water Media Works on Paper, 19581989, Weigand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA The Windhover; Recent Wing Paintings and Related Works, Stanford University Museum of Art, CA Works on Paper by Nathan Oliveira - Gifts from the John Young Collection, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 19571983, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA; Madison Art Center, WI; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman Nathan Oliveira: Swiss Site Series, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Nathan Oliveira: A Survey of Monotypes 1973-78, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; University Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Arlington; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Nathan Oliveira: To Edgar Allan Poe/A Suite of Lithographs and Related States, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS Paintings by Nathan Oliveira, Jorgensen Auditorium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs Nathan Oliveira: Paintings 1959-73, The Oakland Museum; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR Nathan Oliveira: Drawings and Prints,

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Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA Oliveira '69, Allen Priebe Art Gallery, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh Nathan Oliveira Works on Paper 1960-69, San Francisco Museum of Art Paintings and Drawings by Nathan Oliveira, Gump's Gallery, San Francisco Drawings by Nathan Oliveira, Stanford University Art Galleries, Stanford, CA Major Comprehensive Exhibition of Five Years of Work, Nathan Oliveira, Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Art Nathan Oliveira: Paintings and Drawings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Recent Work by Nathan Oliveira, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana; University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis The Alan Gallery, New York

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The Figure – A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press, Berkeley, CA Nathan Oliveira, February 8 - May 12, 2002, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Contemporary American Prints and Drawings 1940-80, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA Six California Artists, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Drawings by Americans: Recent Work by Thirteen Contemporary Artists, The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York New Work by Hune, Oshashi, Oliveira, The Alan Gallery, New York Contemporary American Painting and

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Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL The Art of San Francisco: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture since 1871 by Artists Associated with the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art New Work IV, The Alan Gallery, New York New Image of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Sacramento State College, Sacramento, CA Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Tate Gallery, London, England UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA University of Houston, Houston, TX University of Illinois, Champaign, IL University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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