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Nathan Oliveira

(American, 1928–2010)

Nathan Oliveira

Blue Nude, 1975

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Nathan Oliveira

Insect, 1956

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Nathan Oliveira

Bull Series II, 1956

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Nathan Oliveira

Acoma Hawk III, 1975

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Nathan Oliveira

Man Under a Pyramid, 1968

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Biography

Timeline

1928: Born: Oakland, CA
1950: Mills College, Oakland, CA
1951: BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1952 - 1953: Teacher, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1952: MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1955 - 1956: Teacher, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1957: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1958: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1964 - 1996: Teacher, Studio Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1974: Artist Grant-National Endowment for the Arts
1988: Endowed Chair-Ann O'Day Maples Prof. in the Arts, Stanford, CA
1994: Elected Fellow-American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA

Exhibitions

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

Literature

2002: 'Nathan Oliveira', by Peter Selz. With an introduction by Susan Landauer and essay by Joann Moser, University of California Press

Nathan Oliveira

(American, 1928–2010)

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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