John Berggruen Gallery
Elmer Bischoff
Biography
Born: Berkeley, CA, 1916Education: University of California, Berkeley, MA
University of California, Berkeley, BA
Positions:
1965-85 Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1963-65 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1956-63 Instructor and Chairman of Graduate Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1953-56 Instructor, Yuba College, Marysville, CA
1946-52 Instructor, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Honors and Awards:
1989 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Art, College of Arts and Crafts,
Oakland, CA
1988 Member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York,
NY
1986 Member of National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1985 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Citation, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1983 College Art Association, Distinguished Teaching Award
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parson's
School of Design, New York, NY
1973 Election of National Academy of Design
1967 Election to Board of Governors, Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1966-67 Appointment to Institute for Creative Arts, University of California, CA
1964 Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize Art, Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
1963 National Institution of Arts and Letters Grant
1959 Ford Foundation Grant
1957 Oakland Art Museum Purchase Prize, Oakland, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1990 "Elmer Bischoff: Paintings from the Figurative Period, 1954 to 1970,"
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986-85 "Elmer Bischoff, 1947-85," a retrospective, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Beach Museum of Art,
CA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., MD; Greenville
County Museum of Art, SC; Hirschl and Adler Modern, New
York, NY
1984 University of Arkansas, AK
1983 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 "Matrix 55: Elmer Bischoff," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1980 "Elmer Bischoff, Recent Paintings," The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
1979 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1975 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Academy of Cincinatti, OH
1974 Boston University Art Gallery (with Richard Diebenkorn), Boston, MA
1971 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1969 Staempli Gallery, New York, NY
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1968 Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1964 E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
1962 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
1961 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1960 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
1956 San Francisco Art Association Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1955 Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1953 King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1947 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1997 "Important Bay Area Paintings, 1954-1960," John Berggruen Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1996 "John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art:
A Collaboration," Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1995 "XXV Years," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 "Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965," San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
1989 "Artists of the California Landscape," Natsoulas/Novdozo Gallery, Davis,
CA
1987 "Elmer Bischoff, Sidney Gordin, Erle Loran; Drawings," Gallery Paule
Anglim, San Francisco, CA
"Peter Selz Select's Show," Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA
1988 "Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area," North Carolina Museum of
Art, Raleigh, NC; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, ME; Lakeview
Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL
"California Light," Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
"Works on Paper," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 "Breakfast Club," College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
"39th Annual Purchase Exhibition," Hassam and Speicher Fund, American
Academy of Institute for Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Ten Abstract Painters," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Triumphs of the Figure in Bay Area Arts, 1950-65," 871 Fine Arts,
San Francisco, CA
1986 "The Golden Land," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1985 "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980," Oakland Museum,
Oakland, CA
1984 "Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists," Institute and
College of Arts, Baltimore, MD
"The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting 1956-66," Grey Art Gallery &
Study Center, New York University, New York, NY; New Harbor Art
Museum, Newport Beach, ME; traveling exhibition
"Twentieth Century Drawings: The Figure in Context," International
Exhibition Foundation, Washington D.C., MD
1981 "California: State of Landscape 1872-1981," Newport Art Museum, Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Paintings: 1940-
1960," Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ; Montgomery
Museum of Fine Art, AL; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
1980 "The Human Force," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., MD
"The Figurative Tradition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY
1979-78 "American Painting of the 1970's," The Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY; touring exhibition
1978 "Bay Area Painters," touring exhibit organized by the Western Association
of Art Museums, Oakland, CA
"Art Faculty Resources Exhibition," Worth Ryder Gallery, University of
California, Berkeley, CA
1977 "The Modern Era: Bay Area Update," touring exhibition organized by the
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"California Figurative Painters," Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1976 "20 Bay Area Painters," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Paintings and Sculptures in California: The Modern Era," touring
exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA; Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
"Drawing Invitational," Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1975 "California Landscape," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Art Faculty Show," Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California,
Berkeley, CA
"Staempfli in LA," Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Hansen-Fuller Pays Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute," Hansen
Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, IL
1973 "Drawing Invitational," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Drawing from Life and Studio Set-ups," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Now Drawings," Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The MacAgy Years 1945-1950," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land," Sheldon Art
Gallery, University of Nebraska, NB
"Art on Paper 1973," Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1972 "California Works on Paper: 1950-1971," University Art Museum,
Berkeley, CA; Gallery Smith Andersen, Palo Alto, CA; New York Studio
School, New York, NY (benefit)
1971 "Drawings, USA 1971," Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1970 "Expo'70," Osaka, Japan
"American Painting 1970," Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
"Looking West 1970," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
"Faculty Show," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
"Second National Invitational Exhibition of Drawings," University of
Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
1969 "American Drawings of the Sixties," New School Art Center, New York,
NY
"Art on Paper," Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture exhibition
at Lee Nordness Gallery, New York, NY
1968 "Figurative Four," Bernharz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Selection of Paintings from James A. Michener Foundation Collection,"
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
"An American Collection (Neuberger Collection)," Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI; Brown University, Providence, RI; and
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, MD
"1961-Growth-1965," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
"On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962," Bolles Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
"Skowhegan School Fourth Annual Exhibition and Sale," National
Academy of Design, New York, NY
"Humanist Tradition in Contemporary American Painting," New School
Art Center, New York, NY
1967 "Faculty Show," University of California, Berkeley, CA
"International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,"
Pittsburgh, PA
Annual Exhibition and Sale, Lenox Hill Hospital and Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
1966 "American Art Masters," Collector's Gallery, Miami, FL
"American Painting, 1966," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
VA
"Drawing Exhibition," for Benefit of the Foundation of Contemporary Performance Arts, New York, NY
"Contemporary Urban Visions," New School Art Center, New York, NY
"Seventh Annual Exhibition of Drawings," California State College, Long Beach, CA
"1966 Midyear Exhibition," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965 "Drawing Exhibition," Laguna Beach Art Association Gallery, Laguna, CA
"The Faculty, University of California Art Department," Hollis Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
"Contemporary Studies of the Nude," Davis Gallery, New York, NY
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
"Pittsburgh International," Pittsburgh, PA
"29th Biennial Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
MD
"Three California Painters," Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
"Selections from the Work of California Artists," San Antonio Art League,
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
"Annual Art Exhibition and Sale, Lenox Hospital and Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture," New York, NY
"American Exhibition of American Painting," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1964 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Art Gallery '64," Hall of Education, World's Fair, New York, NY
"'54-'64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade," Tate Gallery, London,
England
"Seven California Painters," Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
"Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1936-64," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Friends Collect," Loan exhibition of recent acquisitions by Friends
of the Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Contemporary Bay Area Painting and Sculpture," Stanford Art Museum,
Stanford University, CA
"Second Biennial of American Art," Cordoba, Argentina
"Four California Painters," The Obelisk Gallery, New York, NY
"A Decade of New Talent," American Federation of the Art, Washington
D.C., MD
1963 "28th Biennial Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
MD; National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Landscapes in Recent American Painting," The Art Center, New School
for Social Research, New York, NY; Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake
City, UT; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, CA; Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
"Art of the Landscape, New York, NY
"Art: USA," Touring exhibition of the Johnson and Son, Inc. Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1962 "Fifty California Artists," touring exhibition organized by the San
Francisco Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
"The Artist's Environment: The West Coast," Touring exhibition presented
by Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX
"Ford Foundation Grant Winners' Exhibition," Silvermine Guild of Artists,
CT; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1961 "Faculty Exhibition," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Painting from the Pacific," Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1960 "Bischoff, Diebenkorn, Park," Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY; Denver
Art Museum, Denver, CO; Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"9th Annual Mid-Year Show," Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
"Winter Invitational," California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San
Francisco, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," University of Illinois,
Chicago, IL
1958 American Federation of the Arts touring exhibition
"Biennial," University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"New Directions in Painting," Florida State University, Miami, FL
1957 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Art: USA," New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1956 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, CA
1955 Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, CA
1952 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1951 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1948 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1947 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
1946 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1944 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1942 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
New School, New York, NY
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
J. P. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Artist Works
Untitled #2, 1974
acrylic on canvas
84 1/2" x 79 1/2"
Untitled #61
1981
acrylic on canvas
96 x 80 inches
Model in Chair
n.d.
charcoal on paper
17 x 14 inches
Seated Model with Lingerie (#45)
1966
pen and ink wash on paper
14 x 17 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Elmer Bischoff
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