BORN:

1921 Kansas City, MO

EDUCATION:

1950-51		L'Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris
1947-50		California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1939-40		St. Paul School of Fine Arts, St. Paul, MN

TEACHING:

1966-91		Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Professor of art; appointed Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art, 1989
1957-65		California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute)

VISITING ARTIST/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:

1993		Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1993		Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
1992		Visiting Artist, Yale University School of Art (with David Kelso)
1986		Artist-in-Residence, New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting, New York
1985		Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1983		Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME
1966		Fellow, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles
1964		Artist-in-Residence, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1948-49		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Painting instructor
1948		College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. Instructor, summer session

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

1998		Elected to National Academy of Design
1994		Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1992		Academy Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1988		Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Painting, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1986		Pew Foundation Grant, awarded through Stanford University
1960		Nealie Sullivan Annual Award for a California Artist, San Francisco Art Association
1950		San Francisco Bank Prize, 69th Annual Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association
1950		Purchase Prize, 14th Annual Drawing and Paint Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association
1948		Artists' Council Prize, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association
1947		First Prize (oil painting), Minnesota State Fair

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2002		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
2002		Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Three Phases, 1947-2001*
2000		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Paintings and Drawings
2000		The Art Exchange, San Francisco, A Decade of Etchings
1998		Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Etchings
1998		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
1998		Shorenstein Building, 425 Market Street, San Francisco
1998		Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA, Frank Lobdell: Master Artist V*
1998		Printworks, Chicago, Recent Prints
1995		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
1995		Printworks, Chicago, Aquatint Etchings
1993		Stanford University Museum of Art, Works, 1947-1992*
1992		M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Viewpoints XVIII: Frank Lobdell
1992		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, New Work*
1991		Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Recent Monotypes
1991		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
1990		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Paintings, Drawings, Prints
1988		Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, Figure Drawings 1964-1974*
1988		Stanford University Museum of Art, Recent Etchings and Aquatints
1987		John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1985		Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Paintings and Gouaches, 1958-1972
1985		Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia
1985		Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia
1983		San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Paintings and Monotypes*
1983		Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings and Monotypes
1982		Smith Andersen Gallery at 2140 Bush Street, San Francisco
1982		Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York
1981		Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, Summer Mural and Preparatory Drawings. Traveled to: Pepperdine University Art Gallery, Malibu, CA; Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, OR*
1981		Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Drawings and Prints
1978		Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1977		Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Monotypes
1975		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1974		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Paintings and Drawings, 1955-1973
1972		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Paintings, 1969-1971
1971		Cheney Cowles Museum, Eastern Washington University, Spokane
1971		St. Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA, Paintings and Drawings
1969		San Francisco Museum of Art, Twenty-Seven Lithographs and A Large Painting
1967		Marylhurst College, Portland, OR, Lithographs by Frank Lobdell
1966		Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Paintings and Graphics from 1948 to 1965 (organized by Walter Hopps). Traveled to Stanford Art Museum, Stanford, CA
1966		Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1966		San Jose City College, San Jose, CA
1965		Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris*
1964		Galerie D. Benador, Geneva, Switzerland, Peintures, Gouaches, Dessins
1963		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Paintings and Drawings
1962		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1960		M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, An Exhibition of Paintings
1960		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Catalogue of Paintings 1953-1959*
1958		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1948		College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002		Escape from the Vault: The Contemporary Museum's Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2001		Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA, made in California
2001		Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco Abstract Expressionism: Selected Works, 1948-1982*
2001		Worcester At Museum, Worcester, MA, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints*
2000		Spokane Falls Community College Fine Arts Department, Spokane, WA, made in California: Limited Edition Intaglio Prints
2000		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Twenty-Five Treasures*
1999		Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Prints from made in California
1997		Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco
1997		Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, International Print Exhibition
1997		Smith Andersen Editions at The Drawing Center, New York, The 1997 New Editions Fair
1996		Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art*
1996		Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
1996		San Francisco Art Institute, Illustrious History 1871-1996. Traveled to: Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, New York; Montgomery Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco*
1995		Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, made in California Intaglio Editions-A Fifteen-Year Survey
1995		Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, California Abstractions
1995		Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, 1954-1984*
1995		Fresno Art Museum, CA, 15 Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists*
1994		American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Purchase Exhibition
1993		Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA, Paper Trails: Abstract Expressionist Prints*
1993		Office of the Mayor, City Hall, San Francisco, Exhibition of Bay Area Fine Art Presses*
1992		Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: Three Decades*
1992		IPA Gallery, Boston
1991		Faculty Club, Stanford University, made in California
1991		Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Etchings from made in California*
1990		Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA, made in California: A Ten-Year Survey
1990		Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, Intaglio Printing in the 1980s*
1989		Faculty Club, Stanford University, made in California
1989		Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, The Abstract Expressionist Years & After: Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, Alvin Light*
1987		The Allport Gallery, San Francisco, Recent Etchings from made in California
1986		Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Process/Prints
1985		Richard Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, CA, Art of the Bay Area
1985		ECHO Gallery, Austin, TX
1984		The Grolier Club, New York, NY, Selections from the Rutgers Archives
1983		Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco
1980		Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Bay Area Art: Then and Now*
1977		Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., New American Monotypes. Traveled*
1977		San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collectors Collecting: American Abstract Art Since 1945*
1975		Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Selections from the Martha Jackson Collection*
1975		San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. Traveled to The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.*
1975		Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957-1966*
1974		Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture*
1973		The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950*
1973		Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection*
1973		University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson. Traveled to: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Finch College Museum of Art, New York*
1973		Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (with Keith Boyle and Nathan Oliveira)
1972		Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 32nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting*
1972		Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, West Coast-72 Painters and Sculptors*
1972		Michener Galleries, University of Texas, Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century
1971		The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting*
1971		Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA
1971		Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, The Sixties, from the Michener Collection, University of Texas at Austin
1969		Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, artists from Martha Jackson Gallery
1969		Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, West Coast 1945-1969*
1969		Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Kompas 4: West Coast USA*
1968		Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Late Fifties at Ferus
1968		Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Painting as Painting*
1967		The White House, Washington D.C., group exhibition from the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
1965		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, Figuration
1965		M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, The San Francisco Collector
1965		Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA, Non-Objective Paintings from the Michener Foundation
1965		Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA, American Painting Since 1950, from the Michener Collection
1964		Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Drawings. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Seattle Art Museum; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Grand Rapids; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois*
1964		Berkeley Gallery, CA, 100 Artists for Free Speech
1963		Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, The James A. Michener Foundation Collection*
1963		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1963		San Francisco Museum of Art, 82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association*
1963		Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Drawings by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Lobdell
1963		International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy
1963		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1963		Art Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA, Fourth Art Center Annual of California Painting and Sculpture*
1963		Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, The Michener Foundation Collection
1962		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1962		San Francisco Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fifty California Artists*
1962		Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Fifty California Artists. Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA*
1962		Stanford University Art Gallery, Some Points of View-'62: San Francisco Bay Area Painting and Sculpture*
1962		Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, The Artist's Environment: West Coast. Traveled to UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, and the Oakland Museum, CA*
1962		Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, San Francisco 9*
1961		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1961		San Francisco Art Institute
1961		Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, A Selection of Drawings
1961		Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell
1960		Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 60 American Painters: Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties*
1960		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1960		Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, with Richard Diebenkorn
1959		Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, First Anniversary Group Show
1959		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1958		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1958		Osaka International Festival, Japan, International Art of a New Era
1958		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1958		Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1957		San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Now: 76th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the SF Art Association*
1957		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (Inaugural exhibition)
1957		Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1956		Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, California Artists
1956		Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, CA, in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Art, California Painting: 40 Painters*
1956		Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, California School, Yes or No?
1956		San Francisco Museum of Art, Pacific Coast Art: United States' Representation at the Third Biennial of São Paulo. Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis*
1955		United States Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil, Third Biennial of São Paulo-Pacific Coast Art*
1954		Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, Drawings and the Like
1953		Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, Six San Francisco Painters
1952		San Francisco Museum of Art, Bay Region Painting and Sculpture
1951		Petit Palais, Paris, 6ème Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
1950		San Francisco Museum of Art, 69th Annual Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association*
1950		San Francisco Museum of Art, 14th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association*
1950		San Francisco Museum of Art, New Bay Region Artists
1950		San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery
1949		Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1949		Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell and George Stillman
1949		Alta Mira Hotel, Sausalito, CA
1949		San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery
1949		California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Museum of Unknown and Little Known Objects
1948		San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition: Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture of the San Francisco Art Association*
1948		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Young Artists of the Bay Area
1948		San Francisco Museum of Art, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association*
1948		Reed College, Portland, OR (exhibition organized by Kenneth Sawyer)
1948		California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, Current Trends in Bay Region Art
1948		Seashore Gallery of Modern Art, Sausalito, CA, Five Young Moderns
1948		Contemporary Gallery, Sausalito, CA
1948		North Beach Studio Gallery, San Francisco
1948		Schillerhaus, Sausalito, CA
1948		Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, Group Show, Sixteen Lithographs
1948		Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture*
1948		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Third Annual Exhibition of Painting
1947		San Francisco Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition*
1947		Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis
1947		Rex Art Theatre, San Francisco, Frank Lobdell and John Hultberg
1947		California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Second Annual Exhibition of Painting*
		* = catalogue

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX
The Anderson Collection, Palo Alto, CA
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Mari and James A. Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin
The Menil Collection, Houston
National Academy of Design, New York
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.