Fred Martin (b. 1927)

Post War California artist Fred Thomas Martin studied at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. in 1949 and his M.F.A. in 1954. He also studied at the California School of Fine Arts, from 1949-1950, with David Park, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still.

Martin was the San Francisco Art Institute director between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, and he resumed that post in 1983 as Dean of Academic Affairs.

Museums:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, Palo Alto, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA), San Francisco, California
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York

Literature:
2005  AskART.com.  The Artists Bluebook
2005  Davenport, Ray.  Davenport’s Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2004  McGowan, Alison.  Who’s Who in American Art, 2004   2003 – 2004 (25th Edition)
2004  Landauer, Susan, et al.  San Francisco, and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
1999  Falk, Peter Hastings.  Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975
1993  Eitner, Lorenz. The Drawing Collection; Stanford University Museum of Art
1993  Bowker R R.  Who’s Who in American Art; 1993-1994; 20th Edition
1987  Cummings, Paul.  Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists; (5th Edition)
1986  Jaques Cattell Press.  Who’s Who in American Art; 1986-1986
1985  DuPont, Diana.  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture
1985  Albright, Thomas.  Art in the San Francisco Bay Area; 1945-1980
1984  Orr-Cahill, Christina.  The Art of California Selected Works; Oakland Museum
1976  SF MOMA.  Painting & Sculpture in California
1976  Jaques Cattell Press.  Who’s Who in American Art, 1976; 12th Edition
1974  Baur, John I H.  Whitney Museum of American Art; Catalogue of the Collection
1970  Fondation Maeght.  L’art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
1967  Howe, Thomas C.  Painters Behind Painters; Exhibition of Central California Artists
1965  Drawing Society.  Drawing Society National Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions:
2011  DeNovo Gallery, Sun Valley, IA.  Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2009  Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2007  DeNovo Gallery, Sun Valley, IA.
2005  Knorr Gallery, San Mateo, CA.
2004  Paul Sonderholm Gallery, San Francisco.  Collector’s Gallery, Oakland Museum
2003  A Retrospective, Oakland Museum of California.  Fred Martin, a 55 Year Survey
2001  Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
2000  Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
1999  Han Art Contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
1998  Ebert Gallery, San Francisco; and Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA.
1997  Ebert Gallery, San Francisco; and John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness
1996  Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
1995  College of Art, Shanghai University, Peoples Republic of China
1994  Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco
1990  Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California
1991  Pier 23, San Francisco
1988  China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China
1984  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1982  Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto
1981  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1980  San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; and Art Corridor, Menlo Park, California
1979  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; and Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
1977  University of California at Davis; and California State University at San Jose
1976  California State University, Sacramento
1975  Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
1973  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1970  Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco; and Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1967  Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, and Royal Marks Gallery, New York City
1966  Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1965  M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; and Royal Marks Gallery, New York
1962  The Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1961  Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1959  Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco
1958  Six Gallery, San Francisco
1957  Six Gallery, San Francisco
1956  Six Gallery, San Francisco
1951  Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco
1949  The Contemporary Gallery, Sausalito, Ca

Group Exhibitions:
2008  183^rd Annual, National Academy, New York.
2000  Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley
1998  Art Making Book Making Art, artist’s books by artists from the San Francisco Art Institute
1994  “Faculty Exhibition” at the San Francisco Art Institute
1993  Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1990  “Lines of Force” at the Bayfront Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco;
1990  “Artists Books” at the Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California
1983  “The Book as Art” and “Monoprints” at the Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco
1982  “Northern California Art of the Sixties” De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara
1982  “Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades” UC Davis
1982  “Faculty Exhibition” at the San Francisco Art Institute
1981  “A View from 1959: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art” Paule Anglim Gallery
1979  “Bay Area Painting Invitational” at the Richmond Art Center
1978  Alverthorpe Gallery, Alverthorpe, PA
1977  “Western Books Exhibition,” Award of Merit, at the Rounce & Coffin Club, Los Angeles
1977  “Archetypal Images” at the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1977  “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era” SF MOMA
1975  “Brooklyn Museum Print Biennial,” Brooklyn, NY
1974  Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
1973  “Extraordinary Realities” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1970  “Symbol and Vision” at the Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco
1969  “Just Yesterday” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1969  Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art
1968  “On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1967  “Painters Behind Painters” at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1964  “The Arts of San Francisco: Part II” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1964  “Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area” at the Stanford University Art Gallery
1963  “Fourth Selection,” Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art SF MOMA
1963  “Invitational” at the Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1963  “Corridor, Fred Martin, Roy De Forest, Tony Delap, Nell Sinton” SF MOMA
1962  “The Construction as Object of Illusion” at the San Francisco Art Institute
1962  11th Annual Exhibition of Watercolor and Graphics; Richmond Art Center, Richmond
1962  “The Arts of San Francisco: Painting and Sculpture” at the SF MOMA
1962  “Some Points of View – 62” at the Stanford University Art Gallery
1962  “Places: A Collaboration of Four Artists, Fred Martin, John Coplans,Wally Hedrick, and Daniel Shapiro” SF MOMA
1959  “Painting by Fred Martin, Wally Hedrick, and Sam Francis, with Sculpture by Wally Hedrick and Manuel Neri” SF MOMA
1958  San Francisco Art Association 77th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture; SF MOMA
1958  “Fresh Paint, a Selective Survey of Recent Western Painting” at the Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, California
1955  19th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition; The San Francisco Art Association SF MOMA
1954  Four Artists of the San Francisco Art Association at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
1954  Western Painters Annual Exhibition at the Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California
1954  San Francisco Art Association 73rd Annual Exhibition Painting and Sculpture; SF MOMA
1951  San Francisco Art Association 70th Annual Exhibition Painting and Sculpture; SF MOMA
1949  San Francisco Art Association 68th Annual Exhibition Painting and Sculpture; SF MOMA

Teaching Experience:
1978 to present and 1958-75 San Francisco Art Institute
1995 to present–Arts and Consciousness Department, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California:
1995  China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, Peoples Republic of China,
1982-81  California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland,
1981-77  California State University at San Jose,
1980-76  Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA,
1976-75  University of California, Berkeley,
1958-54  Oakland Art Museum, Oakland,
1954-51  Maxwell Union High School and Grammar School, Maxwell, CA.

Administrative Experience:
1993-      Dean of Academic Affairs Emeritus, San Francisco Art Institute
1983-92  Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute
1965-75  Director of the College, San Francisco Art Institute
1958-65  Director of Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute
1954-58  Registrar, Oakland Art Museum

Sources:
FredMartin.net
David Carlson, Carlson Gallery
askART.com

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