Artworks by Peter Saul at George Adams Gallery on artnet

Peter Saul

(American, born 1934)

Peter Saul

Picasso's Girl in a Mirror I, 1978

Peter Saul

Death of Venus, 1999

Peter Saul

Jeffrey Dahmer, 1993

Peter Saul

Your Brain Says No, 1999

Peter Saul

Mad Pilot, 1961

Peter Saul

Superman's Punishment, 1963

Peter Saul

Superman, 1962

Peter Saul

Comic Strip, 1960

Peter Saul

Valda Sherman, 1961

Peter Saul

Oedipus Jr., 1983

Peter Saul

Upper Class, Lower Class, 1966

Peter Saul

Suburban Houses II, 1969

Timeline

1934: Born in San Francisco, CA
1950 - 1952: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1952 - 1956: BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1956 - 1964: Lived in Holland, Paris, and Rome
1964 - 1974: Returned to United States and settled in Mill Valley, CA
1964: Copley Foundation Award
: New Talent Award, Art in America
1975 - 1981: Lived in Chappaqua, NY
1981 - 2000: Lived in Austin, TX; Taught at the University of Texas
1993: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2000: Moved to New York, NY
2001: Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2010: American Academy of Arts and Letters Inductee
2013: Francis J. Greenburger Award
: Currently lives and works in New York State
: National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1979, 1985

Exhibitions

2013: VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin (solo)
: Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
: "Peter Saul: Radical Figure, Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s" George Adams Gallery, New York (solo)
: “Peter Saul/Jim Shaw: Drawings,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - 2013: “Sinister Pop,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: “Abstract Drawings,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: “Under the Influence: The Comics,” Edith Alstchul Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY
: Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex, France (solo)
2012: “RAW,” Homespace Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011: Stupid Arguments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (solo)
: “Pretty on the Inside,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
: “Masters of Reality,” Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
: “Anxiety’s Edge,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
: “MAKE Skateboards,” I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
: “Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2010 - 2011: Peter Saul, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY (solo)
: Desire, Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Nature, Once Removed, Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
: “Ordinary Madness,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2010: Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Consider the Lobster, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Husdon, New York, NY
: The New Yorkers, Curated by Todd James, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Until the End of the World, Curated by Max Henry, AMP, Athens, Greece
: N’importe Quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
: Exile on Main Street: Humor, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism in American Art, Bonnefatenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
: New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Peter Saul: Drawings and Prints 1960-1975, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008 - 2009: Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art, Art and Counterculture in San Francisco 1955-68, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
2008: Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Peter Saul, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2007: Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, NY
: Humor’s Lines, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA
: Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2006: Peter Saul, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Peter Saul, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY (solo)
: Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
: Twice Drawn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
2005 - 2006: Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Peintures, 1985 – 2005, Musée Paul Valèry, Sète, France (solo)
2005: Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
: Post War Draughtswomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 - 2005: Disparities and Deformities: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe, NM
2004: Suburbia: Paintings and Drawings, 1965-69, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003: As time goes by, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
: Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002: The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Jokes, Musée d`Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
: Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2001: Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie du Centre, Paris, France (solo)
2000: Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999: Peter Sual: Ptgs, 1987-1999, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Musée de l`Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d`Olonne, France
: Artists for Mumia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1998: Peter Saul, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: Alliance for Contemp. Art:Auction '98, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Face à l`histoire, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1996 - 1997: Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Old & New: On Canvas & on Paper, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
: Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1995: Grotesque, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991: Galerie Thomas R. Monahan Chicago, IL
: Un Touch Suisse, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
1990: Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1989: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1988: Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1987: Repulsion: Aesthetics of Grotesque, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985: Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1981: Retrospective Exhibition, Kilcawley Center Youngstown State University, OH
1980: Figurative Tradition&Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1977: Images of Horror and Fanstasy, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
1973: Galerie Klang, Cologne, Germany
1969: Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemp. Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Paris Biennale International, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1963 - 1964: Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963: New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

: Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
: Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
: Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
: Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
: Becht Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL
: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
: Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, VT
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, SC
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
: Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
: FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France
: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

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George Adams Gallery

Peter Saul

(American, born 1934)

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Peter Saul

(American, born 1934)

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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