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LORSER FEITELSON (1898 - 1978)
Chronology and Selected One-Person (**) and Group Exhibitions
1898 | Born, Savannah, Georgia |
1913 | Armory Show influenced decision for art as career |
1919-26 | Shuttled between New York and Paris studios, Corsica |
1924 | **The Daniel Gallery, New York |
1926 | **Neumann Gallery, New York |
1927 | Moved to Los Angeles; Whitney Studio Club Exhibition, New York |
1928 | **'Lorser Feitelson', California Palace Legion of Honor, San Francisco |
1929 | Lorser Feitelson', Los Angeles County Museum
Taught at Chouinard Art Institute |
1930-33 | Taught at Stickney Memorial Art School, Pasadena; Met student Helen Lundeberg |
1931 | **Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California |
1934 | With Helen Lundeberg, founded Subjective Classicism / Post-Surrealism; Los Angeles County Museum |
1935 | 'Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of The San
Francisco Art Association', San Francisco Museum of Art;
**Stanley Rose Gallery, Los Angeles Opened his Gallery of Modern Art, Hollywood |
1936 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism', The Museum of Modern Art, New York; 'Post Surrealists,' The Brooklyn Museum, New York |
1937 | Whitney Museum, New York |
1937-41 | Supervisor of Murals, Paintings and Sculpture for Southern California FAP/WPA |
1938 | Stendhal Galleries, Los Angeles |
1940 | Whitney Museum, New York;
Stendhal Galleries, Los Angeles |
1944 | Art Institute of Chicago;
**Los Angeles County Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art |
1944-78 | Joined faculty of the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles/Pasadena |
1946 | National Academy of Design, New York |
1947 | 'Abstract and Surrealist American Art,' The Art Institute of Chicago |
1948 | Earliest hard-edged 'Magical Space Forms' |
1949 | **The Art Center School Gallery, Los Angeles |
1949-51 | Krannert Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois |
1951 | Carnegie Visiting Professor at University of Illinois |
1952 | ** The Pasadena Art Institute, California |
1952-53 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
1955 | III Bienal de Sao Paulo', Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Whitney Museum of Art, New York |
1956 | **Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas |
1956-63 | Began 'Dichotomic Organization' paintings; The Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, California |
1958 | **'Feitelson on Art', N.B.C. television series |
1959 | 'Art of Southern California II: Painting', Long Beach Museum of Art; Claremont Colleges Art Galleries |
1959 | 'Four Abstract Classicists', shown at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Belfast, Ireland, and London, England |
1960 | **Anna Mahler/Lorser Feitelson Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles |
1960-61 | San Francisco Museum of Art |
1961 | **Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles
Began 'Boulder' series of Magical Space Forms; The Brooklyn Museum, New York |
1962 | 'Geometric Abstraction in America', Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort
Worth, Texas;
**Long Beach Museum of Art; **Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles |
1963 | Began 'Line' paintings / Magical Space Forms |
1963 | 'Arts of Southern California XIV: Early Moderns', Long Beach Museum of Art; Chapman College Gallery, California |
1964 | **Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles |
1965 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
1967 | **Occidental College, Los Angeles |
1968 | **'Feitelson, The Years of Vision 1920-1950, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries |
1969 | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Art Center College, Los Angeles: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree |
1970 | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska |
1972 | **Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park |
1974 | Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art |
1975 | University of Delaware and Delaware Art Museum |
1976 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
1977 | 'California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History', Los Angeles County Museum of Art; **David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles |
1978 | Died, Los Angeles |
1978 | **'Lorser Feitelson, A Memorial Tribute', Whitney Museum of American Art |
1978 | 'The Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art', California State University, Long Beach; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Albuquerque Museum of Art |
1980-81 | **'Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California, Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery |
1983 | **Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles |
1984 | **Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles |
1985 | 'The Frederick Weisman Collection', Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles |
1986 | 'Colorforms', Security Pacific Gallery, Los
Angeles; Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
1990-92 | Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956', Laguna Art Museum; Oakland Museum; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio; Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum, Utah State University, Logan; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Palm Springs Desert Museum |
1992 | 'California Painting: The Essential Modernist Framework', CSU, Los Angeles; CSU, San Bernardino |
1994 | 'Independent Visions: California Modernism',
Long Beach Museum of Art
**'Lorser Feitelson/John McLaughlin:Abstract Classicists' Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles |
1995 | 'Pacific Dreams' UCLA/Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Oakland Art Museum; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah |
1996 | **'Lorser Feitelson-The Romantic Years 1919-1949'
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
Group: 'On the Edge of America-California Modernist Art' Jack Rutberg Gallery |
1997 | **'Hard-Edge Painting' Architectural Digest Magazine, April 1997 |
1998 | **'Lorser Feitelson-Magical Forms to Hard-Edge' Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles |
1999 | ‘Gold Rush to Pop: 200 Years of California Art' Orange County Museum of Art |
2000 | 'Four Abstract Classicists Plus One' Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles |
2001 | ‘American Surrealism' Thomas McCormick Gallery,
Chicago
‘California Modernism' Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles ‘Four Abstract Classicists' Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York **"Lorser Feitelson' Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; Catalogue essay by Michael Duncan |
2002 | 'Post-Surrealism', Pasadena Museum of California Art; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art |