John Berggruen Gallery
Richard McLean
Biography
Solo Exhibitions:2005 Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Postcards From Arcadia-Recent Landscapes, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1997 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1994 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1993 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1989 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1986 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1983 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1978 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1976 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1975 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1973 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1971 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1968 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967 University of Omaha, Omaha, NE
1966 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1964 Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1963 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1957 Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2004 Photorealism: Painting and Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2004 American Photorealism, Iwate Museum of Art, Japan; traveling exhibition in Japan
2004 Get Real, Photorealist Prints From The James W. Hyams Collection, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
2003-04 Everything OK at OK Harris, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
2003 Hyperrealismes Americains, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2003 Contemporary American Realism VI, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2003 Birthe og Niels Rokkedal Samlinger: “Passion” Amerikansk og Europaeisk Kunst
1960-2000, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum; Sophienholm, Denmark
2003 Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
2003 real illusions: contemporary art from Nashville collections, Frist Center for the Visual
Arts, Nashville,TN
2002 Vintage Photorealists, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2002 As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum
of Art and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2002 Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
2001 Representing Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2001 Horsetales: American Images and Icons, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2001 This Is America: American Photorealists, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark
2001 Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Illusion and Reality: Hyperrealism Paintings in Korea and New York, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
2000 Go Figure, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2000 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2000 The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
2000 Second Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Constructing Realities, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1998 Animal As Muse, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1998 Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997-98 The Horse In Fine Art, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL; travelling to: Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH; Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK; International Museum Of The Horse, Lexington, KY
1997 National Horse Show, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1996 CCAC: Past, Present And Future (1906-1996) , Oliver Art Center, California Center of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1996 A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1996 Paper Work, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
1995-96 The Landscape of American Culture, 1967-1975, John Berggruen. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1992 Photorealism From Nashville Collections, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN
1992 In Search of Sunsets: The Persistence of Imagery in American Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1992 How Green Is My Valley, Louis Stern Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1991-92 Photo-Realism: Revisited, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1991 The Heart Of America: The O.K. Harris Collection, Dada Building, Fukuoka City, Japan
1991 Amerikansk Kunst Efter 1960, GL. Holtegaard, Denmark
1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1991 Photorealism: The Early Years, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY
1990 California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1990 Styles, Strands & Sequences: American Realist Paintings & Drawings, 1912-1990 From the Philip Desind Collection, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1990 The New West, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Oakland’s Artists ‘90, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1990 California A to Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1988 Spanish Watercolors: Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1988 Works On Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors The Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1988 Selections from The Ellen and Jerome Westheimer Collection, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1987 The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
1987 Fifty-First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1987 Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1987 Realism: The New Generation, R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL
1986-87 The Sturman Collection: Twentieth-Century Works On Paper, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1986 Art Treasures of Oklahoma, organized by the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1985 Realism: Contemporary Americans, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
1985 Animals: Contemporary Visions, Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, MI
1985-87 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1985 American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; travelling exhibition in Japan
1985 Photorealist Watercolors: Robert Bechtle, Ralph Goings, Richard McLean, Acme Art, San Francisco,CA
1985 Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; travelling to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
1985 Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1984 San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
1984 Animals! Animals! Animals!, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1984 America Seen: Contemporary American Artists View America, Adams Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Galerie Jean-Pierre Lavignes, Paris, France
1983-85 West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; travelling exhibition
1983 American Superrealism From the Morton G. Neumann Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL
1983 The American Photorealists, Fischer Fine Art, London, England
1983 Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades: 1940’s - 1960’s, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1983 On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1983 Drawings by Fifty California Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1983 Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1983 Watercolor in America, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1983 Thanking the Muse, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1983 American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL
1983 Contemporary Images: Watercolor 1983, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
1983 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1983 The Horse Show, Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Self-Portraits, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum,University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
1982 Northern California Realist Painters, Redding Museum, Redding, CA
1982 The West As Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1982 Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1981-83 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
1981 Animals in American Art: 1880’s - 1980’s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
1981 The Image in American Painting and Sculpture: 1950-1980, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
1981 Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary Realism, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1981 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1981 Changes: Art in America 1881-1981, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1980 Photo-Realist Painting in California: A Survey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1980 The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1980 The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1979-80 Reflections of Realism, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
1979 America in the 70’s as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1978-79 American Drawing, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1977 Masters of Watercolor, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1977-78 Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; traveling to: Western Australia
Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart
1977 New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1977 A Comparative Study of Nineteenth Century California, Paintings and Contemporary California Realism, California State University, Chico, CA
1977 American Paintings and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 30 Years of American Art: 1945-1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1976-78 Realist’s Prints, traveling exhibition organized by the Australian Council, North Sydney; touring Australian museums
1976-78 Aspects of Realism, Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Stratford, Ontario; traveling to:
Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vancouver; Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario; London Art Gallery and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, London, Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1976 Cows, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
1976 Photo-Realist Watercolors, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1976 Amerikanske Realister, Galerie Arnesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1976 Works on Paper, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1975-76 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
1975 American Realism, Reed College, Portland, OR
1975 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1975 The New Realism: Rip-off or Reality?, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1975 New Realist Painting in California, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Watercolors and Drawings -American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Living American Artists and The Figure, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA
1974 Aspects of the Figure, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1974 Tokyo Biennale ‘74, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1974 New/Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1974 The Horse in Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1974 California Climate, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
1974 Hyperrealistes Americains, Realistes Europeens, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1973-78 The Stuart M. Speiser Collection of Photo-Realism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; traveling to: Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Brooks Memorial Museum, Memphis, TN; Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL; University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A.Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Rice University, Sewall Art Gallery, Houston, TX; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1973-74 Hyperrealisme: Maitres Americains et Europeens, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
1973 Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Decade, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1973 Photo Realism 1973, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Kunst Nach Wirklichkeit em Neuer Realismus in Amerika und in Europe, Kunstverein, Hannover, West Germany
1973 The Super-Realist Vision, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1973 Amerikansk Realism, Lunds Konsthall, Lunds, Sweden
1973 Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1973 Hyperrealisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
1973 Mit Kamera, Pinsel und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, West Germany
1973 Photo-Realisme, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1973 Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France
1973 Ekstrem Realisme, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, West Germany
1973 Iperrealisti Americani, Galeria Medusa, Rome, Italy
1972-73 Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein; Frankfurt Kunstverein; Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, West Germany
1972 California Representation: Eight Painters in Documenta 5, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1972 Working in California, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1972 32 Realists, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1972 The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1972 The Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1972 Realism Now, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
1972 L’Hyperrealisme Americains, Galerie de 4 Mouvements, Paris, France
1972 Documenta and No-Documenta Realists, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1972 Documenta 5, Neue Galerie and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
1972 Sharp-Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1971 New Realism, State University College, Potsdam, NY
1971 Neue Amerikanische Realisten, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
1971-73 36 California Painters, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition to New Zealand and Australia
1971 Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1970 The Highway, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1970 Beyond the Actual - Contemporary California Painting, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Gallery, Stockton, CA
1970 The Cool Realists, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
1970 Directly Seen - New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA
1970 West Coast ‘70, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1970 Twenty-Two Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970 People Painters, University of California, Davis, CA
1970 Expo ‘70, Osaka, Japan
1969 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1969 A Decade of Accomplishment: American Drawings and Prints of the 1960’s, Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL
1969 Views of Sacramento, Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento,CA
1969 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1969 California Painters, Northern University of Illinois, DeKalb, IL
1969 Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1969 University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1967 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1967 80 Contemporaries in the West, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
1967 Four Painters, California State College, Hayward, CA
1966-68 East Bay Realists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1966 Kingsley Annual, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1965 Mills College, Oakland, CA
1964 13th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1964 Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1964 Max 24, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
1963 12th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1963 Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1962 San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
1962 SFAA Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1962 Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
1961 SFAA Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1960 Watercolor/Graphics Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1957 California Sculptors Annual, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1957 Northern California Painters Annual, Oakland Art Museum,Oakland, CA
Artist Works
Letter to Constable, 2004
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
North Livermore Clipper, 2004
oil on canvas
22 x 48 inches
Twin Falls Sidecar, 2004
oil on canvas
10 x 26 inches
View from Marsh Road (North), 2005
oil on canvas
19 x 32 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Richard McLean
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