John Altoon
1925–1969
Biography

Born
1925   Los Angeles, CA

Education
1950                     Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1949-50               Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
1947-49               Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA | 2007
John Altoon, Jeremy Anderson, Ann Carter, Nell Sinton | Revisited March 5 - 30, 2002

Solo Exhibitions

2009     Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
2008     The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
2005    John Altoon: Painting and Drawings 1961-1967, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
1 998    A Critical Survey, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA                             
1997    John Altoon, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA                  
1994    Abstract Works: 1960-66, Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco, CA            
1992    Female Nudes: 1962-66, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991    Poured Paintings, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988    Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987    Prints, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986    Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
              12 Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY. Traveled to Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;
                             Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984    John Altoon: 25 Paintings, 1957-1969, Baxter Art Gallery,       California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
              John Altoon, Works on Paper, The Arts Club of Chicago, IL. Traveled to Nelson Fine Arts Center at
                             Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL;
                             Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Krannert Art Museum, University of
                             Illinois, Champaign, IL
1983    Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
              Drawings 1964-66, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
1982    John Altoon, The Faith & Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, ID
              John Altoon: Paintings and Drawings, 1962-1968, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA               
              Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
              Riverside Art Center & Museum, Riverside, CA
              Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1981    Santa Barbara University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
              John Altoon: Advertising Satire Series, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA            
              Altoon, California State University at Fullerton, CA
1980    Drawings, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
              De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
1979    John Altoon: Drawings, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
              John Altoon: Drawings, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
              John Altoon: Drawings and Temperas, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
1978    Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976-78    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
              Seder/Creigh Gallery, Coronado, CA
1974    John Altoon: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, E.B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA                 
1973    John Altoon (1925-1969), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Felicity
                             Samuels Gallery, London, England
              San Jose State College Gallery, San Jose, CA                                
1972    John Altoon: Drawings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
              Galerie Hans R. Neuendorf, Cologne, West Germany
              Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
              John Altoon-Drawings and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
                             Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
              Cowboys and Indians, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
              John Altoon-Drawings and Prints, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969    John Altoon-Memorial Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA
1968    Drawings, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              The Princess and the Frog Series and Cowboys and Indians Series, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967    John Altoon: Recent Watercolors, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA            
              David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              John Altoon, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA.Traveled to Pasadena Art Museum, CA and
                             Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego in 1968.
1966    Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
              Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              John Altoon: Drawings, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1965    Hack-Light Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
              David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1964    David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1963    M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1962    John Altoon: Ocean Park Series, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961    Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1960    The Art Center in La Jolla, CA
1958    John Altoon: Paintings 1958, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA            
1954    Ganso Gallery, New York, NY
1953    Artists’ Gallery, New York, NY
              Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008    Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
              California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007     Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006    California Art from the Permanent Collection - Part II, 1930s to 1950s, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
              California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
              La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San
                             Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
2005    Semina Culture—Wallace Berman and his Circle¸ Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004    Mark Making, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2002    Revisited, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                                    Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
1997-99    Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte
                             Contemporanea, Italy; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center,
                             Los Angeles Ca, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
                             Germany, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy; UCLA at the Armand
                             Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca. 
              Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California Art, 1950s-1990s, Contemporary Artists
                             Collective/Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV and Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
              Braunstein/Quay Gallery Artists, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA     
1993    Cypress College Airbrush Invitational, CA
1990    Abstract Painting on the West Coast, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan. Traveled to the Museum of
                             Modern Art, Shiga, Japan and The Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1985    New Acquisitions, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1983-84    The First Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1981    20th Anniversary Exhibition, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
              The Artist and the Airbrush, Art Department, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1979    Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1978    Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1977    California Painting & Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
                             Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
              A Collection Without Walls, California State University, Northridge, CA     
              The Last Time I Saw Ferus 1957-1966, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1975    A Drawing Show, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA                        
              Images of Women, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
              Four Santa Monica Artists: John Altoon, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Stanton MacDonald-Wright,
                             Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
1974    Drawings, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA                                               
              Eight from California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
1973    Quay Gallery Group, Claremont College, Claremont, CA
              American Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971    Eleven Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London, England
              Spray, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
              John Altoon, Mel Ramos: Lithographs, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum,
                             University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL
1968    Tamarind Lithographs, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              Late Fifties at Ferus, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1967-68    Fourth International Young Artists’ Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
              Drawings by Americans, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
              NY-LA Drawings of the Sixties, University of Colorado, Boulder. Traveled to Art Museum,
                             University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1966    Drawings & , University of Texas, Austin, TX
              David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1965    Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964    San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
              Fourth Annual of California Painting and Sculpture, The Art Center, La Jolla, CA
              American Drawing, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
              Quay Gallery, Tiburon, CA
              David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY.
                             Traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
                             Des Moines Art Center, IA. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art with the
                             Assistance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
              Pacific Coast Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum, CA.
                             Traveled to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
                             San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Portland Art Museum, OR
              Annual Exhibition of Artists of Los Angeles County and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum, CA          
              Drawings and Gouaches by John Altoon and Richards Reuben, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1960    Annual Exhibition of Artists of Los Angeles County and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
              Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1959    Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
              Annual Exhibition of Artists of Los Angeles County and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum, CA
              John Altoon, Gouaches, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958    Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
              Annual Exhibition of Artists of Los Angeles County and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1957    Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fine Arts Museum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Levi-Strauss Collection, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  
Museum of Contemporary Art—Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art—The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA                  
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Stanford University Art Galleries, Palo Alto, CA
Tate Britain, London, England
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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