ROLAND PETERSEN

1926 Born in Endelave, Denmark Lives and works in , CA

Education

1970 – 1971 Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, Paris, France 1963 Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, Paris, France 1951 – 1952 School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1950 – 1951 Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA 1950 Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, Paris, France M.A. from , Berkeley, CA 1949 B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 : Six Decades of Painting, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA ​ ​ 2016 Roland Petersen: In Perspective, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA ​ ​ 2015 Works On Paper 1959-1969, Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA ​ 2013 A Journey Through Time, Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA ​ 2008 Roland Petersen: A Natural Order, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA ​ 2002 Roland Petersen: Early Paintings 1958-1969, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, ​ ​ CA 2001 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, John Natsoulas Gallery, Sacramento, CA ​ 1998 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, John Natsoulas Gallery, Sacramento, CA ​ 1998 Endelave Museum, Endelave, Demark (traveled throughout Denmark) 1995 Roland Petersen: Recent Works, Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA ​ 1993 Roland Petersen: Works on Paper, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, ​ San Francisco, CA 1992 Retrospective, University of California, Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA 1991 Roland Petersen: Works on Paper, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, ​ San Francisco, CA 1990 Roland Petersen: Bay Area Paintings of the Sixties, Vanderwoude Tananbaum ​ Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Roland Petersen: Works on Paper, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, ​ San Francisco, CA

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1987 Roland Petersen: Bay Area Paintings of the Sixties, Vanderwoude/Tananbaum ​ Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Roland Petersen: Encaustic Paintings, Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also ​ 1984 Roland Petersen: Selected Monotypes & Watercolors, Smith Andersen Gallery, ​ Palo Alto, CA 1981 – 1983 Roland Petersen: Encaustic Paintings, Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, CA ​ 1980 University of Reading, Reading, England 1979 Brubaker Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1978 Roland Petersen Retrospective, University of California, Davis, Memorial Union Art ​ Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA 1977 Aberbach Fine Arts Gallery, London, England Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY University of Reading, Reading, England 1976 20 Year Retrospective of Color Prints by Roland Petersen, Washington State Art ​ Services Program (traveling, organized by the Museum of Art), Pullman, WA 1975 Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1973 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1972 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1970 Adele Bednarz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1968 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1967 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY (also ‘65, ‘62) 1965 , Sacramento, CA 1961 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1961 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1954 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Art Market SF, San Francisco, CA 2016 Out Our Way, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, Ca ​ ​ 2002 Geometry, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Ca ​ ​ 2001 California Printmakers Association: Group Exhibition, Marin Civic Center, San ​ ​ Rafael, Ca 1995 Andre Milan Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1993 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, Ca Pence Gallery, Davis, CA 1992-3 California Painting, The Essential Modernist Framework, California ​ ​ State University, Los Angeles, Ca; Traveled to University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernadino, CA

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1992 Hall of Pictures, Uman, Russia California Dreamin’, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, Ca ​ ​ 1990 Northern California Figuration, Natsoulas, Novelozo, Davis, Ca ​ ​ 1989 Collectors Exhibit, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA 1985 Sacramento/Davis Interface, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, Ca 1984-86 Prints U.S.A., First overseas exhibition by the California Society of ​ ​ Printmakers: World Print Council, San Francisco, CA; Traveled to the National Museum, Singapore; National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico, D.F. 1980 The Collectors Eye, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Traveled to ​ ​ Aberbach Gallery, London, England 1977-78 Atelier 17 Exhibition, Elvejem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, ​ ​ WI; traveled to Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Ny; Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; Aberbach Fine Arts Gallery, London, England; Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY 1972 The American Artist and Water Reclamation, National Gallery of Art, ​ ​ Washington, DC 1971 Four-Person Exhibition, American Cultural Center, Paris, France ​ ​ 1969 The Illinois Biennial, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana- ​ ​ Champaign, Champaign, IL 1968 The Humanist Tradition with in Contemporary American ​ Painting, New York School, New York, NY ​ Four Person Exhibition with David Park, and , Bednarz and Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1966 Contemporary American Artists in the White House, White House, Washington, ​ ​ DC 1964 Painting and Sculpture Today, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN ​ ​ 1962 68th Denver Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1961 National Watercolor Exhibition, Peoria, IL 1960 First Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1956 San Francisco Art Association Invitational, MH. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1955 Second Oil Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1954 San Francisco Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1951 Atelier 17, New York, NY ​ ​ American Painters, Florence, Italy ​ ​ 244 Primrose Rd., Burlingame, CA 94010 | Est. 1915 | studioshopgallery.com

Young Painters, Beaux Gallery, Paris, France ​ ​ 1950 National College Exhibition, Andover, MA

Collections

Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Richard L. Nelson Memorial Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA Clorox Company, Oakland, CA Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Davis Art Center, Davis, CA University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA College of Fine Art, Ohio University, OH Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA University of Nevada, Reno, NV Davis Art Center, Davis, CA Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Illinois Wesleyan University School of Art, Bloomington, IL Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA Musée Municipal, Brest, France Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA M.H. , San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Teaching

1952-56 Lecturer, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1956-92 Professor of Art, University of California, Davis, CA 1992- Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, CA

Selected Bibliography

2017 Roland Petersen: Six Decades of Painting, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA ​ ​ 2016 Roland Petersen: In Perspective, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA ​ ​ 2002 Karlstrom, Paul. Roland Petersen: Early Paintings 1958-1969 ​ Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 Hill, Laura Weir and Scott. Roland Petersen. San Francisco, CA: Maxwell Galleries 1993 Roland Petersen, San Francisco: Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art ​ ​ 1992 Dalkey, Victoria. “Retrospective at UC Davis honors Roland Petersen.” Sacramento Bee, ​ ​ Sacramento, CA, March 8, 1992 1991 Nixon, Bruce. Sunlight and Shadows, The Art of Roland Petersen 1953-1990. San ​ ​ Francisco: Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue) Nixon, Bruce. “Roland Petersen” Art of California, March. ​ ​

1989 Baker, Kenneth. “Figures Swallowed in Space” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7 ​ ​ Roland Petersen, San Francisco: Harcourts Contemporary (exhibition catalogue) ​ ​ 1978 Dalkey, Victoria. “Petersen in Retrospect on Display at UC Davis” Sacramento Bee, September 30. 1968 “Roland Petersen.” Designers West, March. ​ ​ 1966 Howell, Betje. “Perspective on Art.” Evening Outlook, December 17. ​ ​ 1965 Gruen, John. Review. New York Herald Tribune, May. ​ ​ Preston, Stuart. Review. New York Times, May. ​ ​ Review, Pictures on Exhibit. Summer Issue ​ ​ 1963 O’ Doherty, Brian. “Roland Petersen Work at NY Gallery.” New York Times, ​ ​ September 20, 1963 Staempfli, George W. Roland Petersen. New York: Staempfli Gallery (Exhibition ​ ​ Catalogue) Adlow, Dorothy. Christian Science Monitor, July 29. ​ ​ Kozloff, Max. “New York Letter.” Art International, January ​ ​ 1962 Kozloff, Max. Review. Art International, January. ​ ​ 1961 Seldis, Henry J. “In the Galleries.” Los Angeles Times, March 10 ​ ​ 244 Primrose Rd., Burlingame, CA 94010 | Est. 1915 | studioshopgallery.com

Strickler, Carolyn. “Return of the Figure” Los Angeles Examiner, March 12. ​ ​

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