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Irving Norman (1906-1989)


Irving Norman: War & Peace

Published by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (2014), this fully illustrated, 96 page exhibition catalogue contains 8 color plates and 37 painting detail images. Featuring an introduction by Scott A. Shields, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and a personal recollection of Irving Norman by musician Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), a long-time admirer of Norman’s work. Softcover. 

 

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Artist Information

1940 
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
(studied with William Gaw and Spencer Macky) 

1942 
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 

1946 
The Art Students League, New York, NY
(studied with Reginald Marsh and R.B. Hale)

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Chicago, IL
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Collection, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Art Commission, City of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

1942 
Irving Norman Drawings, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1945 
Selected Drawings and Paintings by Irving Norman, Tom Mooney Gallery, California Labor School, San Francisco, CA

1951 
Paintings by Irving Norman, Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1956 
Irving Norman, Oils – Watercolors, and Drawings, Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1959 
Irving Norman: An Exhibition of Early and Recent Paintings and Drawings, Designer’s Gallery, San  Francisco, CA

1970 
The Wrathful World of Irving Norman, Long Island University, the Library of the Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn, NY

1973 
Irving Norman: Paintings and Drawings. San Francisco Art Commission, Capricorn Asunder Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1974 
Irving Norman: Paintings and Drawings, Union Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1975 
Irving Norman, Paintings, Drawing, and Watercolors, Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1976 
Irving Norman: Recent Paintings, Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1978 
Irving Norman, Recent Paintings, Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980 
Irving Norman: Award of Honor Exhibition, San Francisco Art Commission, Capricorn Asunder     Gallery,  San Francisco, CA

1981 
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1982 
Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

1986 
Irving Norman: The Human Condition – Paintings 1965-1985, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1988  
Irving Norman, Jan Holloway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Irving Norman: The Human Condition, Collins Gallery, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA

1990 
Irving Norman (1906-1989), Union Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1996 
Irving Norman: Social Surrealist, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
The Measure of All Things: Paintings by Irving Norman, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Irving Norman: Selected Early Drawings, 1941-1955, Jan Holloway Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2002 
On Being Human: The Social Surrealist Paintings of Irving Norman, Pete and Susan Barrett Art     Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Madison Campus, Santa Monica, CA

2006 
Dark Metropolis, Irving Norman’s Social Surrealism, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA;     Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; The Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC

2008 
Irving Norman, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

2014
Irving Norman: War & Peace, Monumental Paintings, 1969-1986, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

1945 
Ninth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1948
Thirteenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1950 
San Francisco Art Association Annual Exhibition, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

1952 
American Water Colors, Drawings, and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1956 
San Francisco Art Association Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1957 
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art, Urbana, IL

1959 
San Francisco Art Association Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1960 
Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Art Association, Catalogue of the Art Bank of the SFAA, San Francisco, CA
Survey of Watercolors & Drawings, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1964 
Drawings from San Francisco, Art Bank, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1965 
San Francisco Art Association Exhibition of Drawings, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1967 
Paintings from the San Francisco Bay Area, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

1976   
Borders, The Academy, Battleship and Interrelationships, Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983 
Social Statements: our time in painting and sculpture, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1984 
The Human Condition: The Third Biennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San    Francisco, CA
Ceci N’est Pas Le Surrealisme: California Idioms of Surrealism, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern   California, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Surrealism: Classical, Visionary and Social, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College,     Cupertino, CA
Religion: 1984, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

1985 
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Signing of the United Nations Charter, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
100 Vows of the Sun, Surrealist Sculpture, Painting and Poetry, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project    Artaud, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art: Contemporary Issues, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA

1986
South Africa State of Emergency: A Mixed Media Exhibition, Galleria de la Raza/Studio 24, San  Francisco, CA
Bay Area Collects, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1987 
The Surreal Ecstasy of Woman, Colorbox, San Francisco, CA
Hell of a Time (1954), exhibited at the Art Department’s Gallery, Permanent Gallery, Oakland Museum    of California, Oakland, CA

1989 
Masters of Surrealism, Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA

1990 
Art & the Law, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN

1994 
Rene di Rosa: Works from a California Collection, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate     Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

1995 
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,  M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

1998 
Works on Display from the Permanent Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,     Lawrence, KS

2001 
The Art of War and Peace, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

2003 
At Work: The Art of California Labor, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2004 
Selections, The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2005 
Local Legend: 6 Eminent San Mateo County Artists, Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood     Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Art of Engagement, Visual Politics in California and Beyond, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,    CA
Ghosts of Little Boy, Artists for Peace, Part II, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

2007 
Prophecy: Healing Time, Artists & Communities Confront Current Global Crisis, SomArts, San Francisco, CA
Works on Display from the Permanent Collection, 20/21 Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2008
Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907-2008, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hand & Eye: Drawing from the Permanent Collections, Des Moines Art Center, Print Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Recent Acquisitions, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2010
Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

2011
Otherworldliness, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2012
INsite/INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2013
Classless Society, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2014
Solitary Soul, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2017
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Figuratively Speaking, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2018
Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Artists, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

1945 
Purchase Award: Laissez Faire Industrialism, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA

1945-46 
Grant awarded from Albert Bender Memorial Fund, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA

1980 
Award of Merit, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA