Robert Brawley
ROBERT BRAWLEY | |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| 1993-present: | University of Kansas, School of Fine Arts, Lawrence, KS; Professor,
Art Department |
| 1988-93 | University of Kansas, School of Fine Arts, Lawrence, KS; Art
Department Chair, Professor, Art Department |
| 1987-88 | St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA; Professor, Art Department |
| 1976-78 | Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA; Art Department Chair,
Director of Graduate Art Studies, Associate Professor |
| 1969-71 | San Francisco Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA; Director, Faculty member, Department of Drawing and Painting |
| 1967-69 | Ferris State College, Big Rapids, MI; Assistant Professor, Art
Department |
EDUCATION | |
| 1965-66 | Fulbright Grant, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, Post Graduate |
| 1963-65 | M. F. A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; studied
with Elmer Bischoff and Frank Lobdell |
| 1961-63 | B. F. A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA / Studied with
Richard Diebenkorn and James Weeks |
| 1960 | El Camino College, Torrance, CA |
| 1960-61 | Los Angeles County Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1958-60 | Frye Art Museum School of Art, Seattle, WA |
| 1957-58 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 1955-56 | Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | Butler Institute, Cleveland, OH |
| 2001 | “Different Realities”, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS |
| 2000 | “Alternate Realities”, OK Harris Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 1999 | “New Work”, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1998 | “Parallel Universes: Visionary Still-Lifes and Other Work”, van de Griff
Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1996 | “Robert Brawley, Realist”, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL |
| 1991 | “Drawings, Paintings and Prints”, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries,
Chicago, IL |
| 1989 | “International Art Exposition: Robert Brawley”, Navy Pier,
Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | International Art Expo, Navy Pier, Mongerson-Wunderlich, Galleries,
Chicago, IL |
| 1985 | “Robert Julius Brawley: Solo Exhibition”, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries,
Chicago, IL |
| 1984 | Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2003 | 10th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff|Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Papier: drawings and works on paper, van de Griff|Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2002 | 9th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff|Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2001 | Beyond the Millenium, Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science,
Evansville, IN |
| 2001 | 8th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff|Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2000 | “Realism Knows No Bounds”, 7th Annual Invitational, van de Griff Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM |
| 1999 | “Realism Knows No Bounds”, 6th Annual Invitational, van de Griff Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM |
| 1998 | “Realism Knows No Bounds”, 5th Annual Invitational, van de Griff Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM “Kansas Prints”, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS |
| 1997 | “Windows”, An Invitational Realist Theme Exhibition, van de Griff Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM “Diversity: Six Kansas Artists”, Municipal Art Gallery, Merriam, KS “Realism Knows No Bounds”, 4th Annual Invitational, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “Summer Invitational”, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO “Summer Show”, Bryant Galleries, New Orleans, LA “Contemporary Figures-Drawings and Paintings”, MB Modern Galleries, New York, NY “By Ourselves-Artist’s Self-Portraits”, Amundson Gallery of Art, The Erman B. White Gallery of Art, Butler College, El Dorado, KS “Separate Visions, Shared Space”, Columbia Gallery, Wamego, KS |
| 1996 | “Opening Exhibition of Bryant Galleries”, Bryant Galleries, New Orleans, LA
“Realism ’96: Realists Inviting Realists”, 3rd Annual Invitational, Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, NM “National Drawing Invitational Exhibition”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR “The Human Form: A Kansas Survey”, The Erman B. White Gallery of Art, Butler College, El Dorado, KS |
| 1995 | “Brawley, Dishinger and McCrea-Figure Drawings”, Art and Design Gallery,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS “Getting Real: 20th Century American Realism from the Philip Desind Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts, Fitchburg, MA |
| 1994 | “Getting Real: 20th Century American Realism from the Philip Desind
Collection”, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN “Purchase Exhibition”, American Academy of Arts and Letters”, American Academy Art Galleries, New York, NY “Kansas Realists”, Exhibition curated by and including Robert Brawley, New Pier Show, City Front Center, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL “Contemporary American Realist Drawings”, Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD “Knickerbocker Annual”, National Realist Exhibition, Perry Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1992 | “Silver Point Etcetera, Contemporary American Metal Point Drawings”, Color
Catalog. Venues: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 1992 | Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME |
| 1993 | Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL |
| 1994 | Haine Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL |
| 1993 | “New Aqusitions”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
“James Goode Collection”, Smithsonian Museum/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1992-93 | “The Besser Collection”, American Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Color
Catalog. Venues: Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 1992 | “Recent Acquisitions”, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
“16th Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Catalog, Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS |
| 1991-92 | “Styles, Strands, and Sequences: American Realist Drawings and Paintings”, curated by John Ward. Catalog and essay by John Ward, Deland Museum of
Art, Deland, FL “Styles, Strands, and Sequences”; Venues: Art Galleries, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL |
| 1991 | “Recent Acquisitions”, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
“Contemporaries”, Two - Person Exhibition, catalog and essay; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS |
| 1990 | “Caritas”, National Realist Theme Exhibition; Noyes Museum,
Oceanville, NJ. Traveling exhibit curated by Sherry French Galleries, New York, NY. Other venues: State University of New York Museum, Cortland, NY; State University of New York Museum, Potsdam, NY; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA |
| 1989 | “Caritas” Gallery Exhibit, Sherry French Galleries, New York, NY
“The Collection of Philip Desind”, Pennsylvania State University at Kutztown, PA |
| 1988 | “Bay Area Drawing”, Bluxome Galleries, San Francisco, CA |
| 1987 | “Contemporary American Realist Drawing”, Capricorn Galleries,
Bethesda, MD “International Art Exposition”, Gallery Presentation, Navy Pier, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL “Mainstream America”, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1986 | “International Art Exposition”, Gallery Presentation, Navy Pier,
Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL |
| 1985 | “American Realists”, Survey Exhibition of Contemporary Realist Painting,
Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD |
| 1984 | “Graphite!”, Collection of Ronald Abramson, Art Gallery, Rockville
College, MD “Mid-Year National Painting Exhibition”, (Grand Award, Painting), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1982 | “The New Realists”, National Realist Survey Show,
Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, IL “Hoyt National Painting Show”, (Juror: Allen Frumkin, Painting Prize and Purchase Award), Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA “Small Works”, (Juror: Nancy Hoffman, Painting Award), New York University, New York, NY “Mid-Year National Drawing Exhibition”, (Juror: Brian O’Dougherty, First Award, Painting), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1976 | “Small Painting Show”, Hearts Art Galleries, Moraga, CA |
| 1974 | “Bad Drawing Show”, Hearts Art Galleries, Moraga, CA |
| 1971 | “New Realism / Through the Photography to Painting” Four Emerging
California Realists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA “New California Realism”, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA |
| 1969-71 | Kenmore Galleries (various group exhibitions), Philadelphia, PA |
| 1968 | “American Drawing”, (Purchase Award) Moore College of Art, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1967 | “New York and Long Island Painting Annual”, (Purchase Award) New
York, NY |
| 1966 | “Five Americans”, Galleria Il Carpine, Rome, Italy |
| 1964 | “Bay Area Annual”, (Painting Award), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“National Orange Show Annual, 1961”, Anaheim Art Center, Anaheim, CA |
| 1960 | “Southern California Drawing”, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
“Greater Los Angeles Annual”, L. A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| The National Museum of American Art, a Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC | |
| The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO | |
| The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR | |
| Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Lancaster, PA | |
| Mulvane Museum of Art, Topeka, KS | |
| Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS | |
| San Francisco Art Institute, Art Bank, San Francisco, CA | |
ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS | |
| “Who’s Who in American Art”, current edition and each edition 1978. | |
| “Who’s Who in America”, Current edition and each edition since 1989. | |
| “Fine Arts”, Kyle Van Vliet. Color reproductions of painting: “Self-Portrait in a State of | |
| Arcadian Bliss” and short article, Kansas Alumni Magazine, December 1994. | |
| “Bottom Line”, Margaret Brown. Color reproduction of painting: “Metaphoric Still - Life, the | |
| Realm of Iron” and review, Southwest Art Magazine, August 1994. | |
| “Getting Real, 20th Century American Realism from the Desind Collection”, Leisa Rundquist, | |
| Curator, Exhibition catalog, Color photo and critical discussion. South Bend Regional | |
| Museum of Art, July 1994. | |
| “Painters of Light”, Philip Metzger, Northlight Books, published Spring 1993, Five | |
| reproductions and text by Robert Brawley included. | |
| “The Nelson Atkins Museum, May 1993”, Article on newly acquired work by Robert | |
| Brawley. Monthly museum publication. | |
| “Art is Visual Music and Magic Rolled Into One, The Work and Ideas of Robert Brawley”, | |
| Linda Laird, Topeka Capital Journal, Sunday Art Section, October 11, 1992 | |
| “ In the Secret Room: Portrait of an Artist’s Research, Robert Brawley”, Viewpoints, | |
| Summer 1991, University of Kansas publication. | |
| “Contemporaries-Brawley and Dishinger”, Review published by The Wichita Center for the | |
| Arts, Wichita, KS, March 1991. | |
| “Post - Modernism, What Is It?”, Lawrence Journal-World, Sunday Art Section, January | |
| 16, 1991. Discussion of reproduced work by Robert Brawley. | |
| “Northside Gallery Features Artists Maury and Brawley”, review by Mark Hawkins, | |
| Chicago Sun Times, May 22, 1987 | |
| “Art of the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980”, Thomas Albright, brief biography and | |
| discussion of work, University of California press, 1986. | |
| “Realism’s Many Faces”, a review with reproduction by Joann Lewis, Washington Post, | |
| November 8, 1984 | |
| “Robert Julius Brawley”, Biographical article, color reproductions, and discussion of work, | |
| American Artist Magazine, August 1983 | |