John Berggruen Gallery
Paul Wonner
Biography
Born: 1920 Tucson, ArizonaEducation:
1952 University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
1953 University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
1955 University of California, Berkeley, M.L.S.
1941 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, B.A.
Solo Exhibitions:
2004 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2000 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1999 DC Moore Gallery, New York
1998 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“Paul Wonner: Still Lifes”, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach
1996 “Paul Wonner: Small Format Paintings and Watercolors, 1958-1965”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1992 Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1988 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1985 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1983 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1981 The Art Museum Galleries, California State University, Long Beach
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“Paul Wonner: Abstract Realist”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; traveled to Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1979 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1978 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1975 The Art Museum Galleries, California State University, Long Beach
1974 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco
1973 Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles
1972 Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Fresno State University, California (with William Theophilus Brown)
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco
1971 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
Poindexter Gallery, New York
1968 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
1967 Landau-Alan Gallery, New York
1965 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio
Waddington Galleries, London
1964 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
Poindexter Gallery, New York
Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara
1963 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
1962 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Poindexter Gallery, New York
1960 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1959 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
1956 San Francisco Art Association Gallery, California School of Fine Arts
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2004 “The Not-So-Still Life”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1998 “Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World” John Berggruen Gallery, California
1997 “Important Bay Area Paintings, 1954-1960” John Berggruen Gallery, California
“Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection” The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
1996 “John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art: A Collaboration” Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1995 “XXV Years” John Berggruen Gallery, California
“Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area” The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
“Flora: Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Nausau, Wisconsin; Art Museum of Southwest Texas, Beaumont; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque; Gibbes Museum of Art; Charleston, South Carolina; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis
“Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists” Fresno Art Museum, California
1993 “Still Life, 1963-1993” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 “Large Scale Works on Paper” John Berggruen Gallery, California
“American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980s” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
“Contemporary Still Life Painting” Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
1990 “Realist Watercolors” Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University
1989 “Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1988 “Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area” Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
1986 “American Realism from the Glenn C. Januss Collection” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
“Contemporary Realism” Palo Alto Cultural Center, California
“Objects Observed” Summit Art Center, New Jersey
1985 “American Realism: The Precise Image” Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Osaka; Yokohama Takashimaya, Yokohama
1984 “New Narrative Painting” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
“The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956-1966” Grey Art Gallery, New York University
“San Francisco Bay Area Painting” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Art of the States” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
1983 “American Still Life, 1945-1983” Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
1982 “Realism & Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960” Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1981 “Contemporary American Realism since 1960” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Oakland Museum; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Salas de Exposiciones de Belles Artes, Madrid; Kunsthalle, Nuremburg
1978 “The Big Still Life” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1976 “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1974 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1974” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1972
1973 “Surrealism is Alive and Well in the West” Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
“Realism” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
“California Painting” Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1971 “Continuing Surrealism” La Jolla Museum of Art, California
“The 73rd Western Annual” The Denver Art Museum
1970 “Looking West 1970” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1968 “East Coast – West Coast Paintings” Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
1967 “1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”
1965 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
“Selections from the Work of California Artists” Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1964 “The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture” The Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania
“67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture” The Art Institute of Chicago
“Seven California Painters” Staempfli Gallery, New York
1963 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
“Artists West of the Mississippi: The Realistic Image” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
1962 “American Painting, 1962” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
“The Artist’s Environment: West Coast” Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
“Recent Painting USA: The Figure” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Treasures from East Bay Collections” Oakland Art Museum, California
1961 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
“1961 Northern California Painters’ Annual” Oakland Art Museum, California
“24th Annual Drawing, Print, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
“Third Winter Invitational” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1960 “Winter Invitational Exhibition” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
“79th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
“Third Pacific Coast Biennieal” Santa Barbara Museum of Art; The Fine Arts Museum of San Diego; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
“Second Winter Invitational” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
“East – West” Zabriskie Gallery, New York (with Theophilus Brown and John Paul Jones)
1959 “1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Winter Invitational” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
“78th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
“Art U.S.A.” New York Coliseum, New York
1958 “The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture” Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Spoleto Art Festival” Italy
“77nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
“Artist Members’ Exhibition” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1957 “Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting” Oakland Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
1956 “Pacific Coast Art: United States’ Representation at the Third Biennial of Sao Paulo” San Francisco Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1955 “III Bienal” Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Vanguard 1955” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Art in the 20th Century” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
“Fifth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition” Richmond Art Center, California
1954 “Younger American Painters” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
“Western Painters’ Annual Exhibition” Oakland Art Museum, California
“Fourth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition” Richmond Art Center, California
1953 “72nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
1952 “16th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
1950 “69th Annual Oil, Tempura, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association” San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Selected Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach
Capitol Records, Los Angeles
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Oakland Museum
Pacific Bell Collection, Los Angeles
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Philip Morris Corporation, New York
Reader's Digest Association, New York
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Artist Works
Two Plastic Spoons c. 1958-1960
oil on board
6 3/4" x 10 1/4"
Striped Cloth with Fruit and Cheese, 1999
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
In the Park VII, 2003
acrylic and pencil on paper
13 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches
Onion, 1992
acrylic on paper
6 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches
Studio: Blue Cloth and Navajo Rug, 2000
acrylic on canvas
66 x 60 inches
Untitled (Dutch Still Life with Cushions)
1979
oil on canvas
72 x 84 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Paul Wonner
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