HELEN LUNDEBERG (1908-1999) SELECTED CHRONOLOGY 1908 Born Chicago, June 24th 1912 Moves with her family to Pasadena CA 1921 Enters Pasadena High School Enrolled in Stanford University “Gifted Children Study” 1927 Attends Pasadena Junior College 1930-33 Stickney Memorial School of Art, Pasadena. Teacher:Lorser Feitelson. 1931 Moves to Los Angeles; joins Federal Public Works Art Project(PWAP) Formulates Post-Surrealism/Subjective Classicism with Lorser Feitelson 1933 Begins attempting to reconcile subjective, introspective material with the logical and rational conscious mind in her artwork 1933-41 Becomes easel painter and muralist for the southern California Federal Art Project 1934 Writes manifesto 'New Classicism' (Post-Surrealism) Association of Post-Surrealist Artists formed: Lorser Feitelson, Lundeberg, Lucian Labaudt, Ben Berlin, Knud Merrild, Grace Clements, Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish. 1936 Paints two murals at Los Angeles County Hall of Records for WPA/FAP 1937 For the FAP, assists Feitelson on murals for Thomas A. Edison High School, L.A. Four lithographs at FAP/WPA Print Division: Enigma, The Planets, Arabesque and Ruins. 1938-1942 Designs and paints murals for WAP/FAP at Los Angeles Patriotic Hall, Venice High School, Gge Washington School, Fullerton Civic Center, and petrachrome mural walls at Canoga Park High School, “History of Transportation” in Centinela Park, Inglewood, CA 1940s Works in Post-surrealist explorations 1946 New York to visit Dorothy Miller and Holger Cahill; invited to a party by Peggy Guggenheim. 1948 Creates Moonrise at Lynton Kistler's Lithography Studio Workshop. 1950s Work shifted toward “mindscapes” 1950 $1000 First Purchase Award 1957 $400 prize for Selma. 1987 Helen Lundeberg-American Painter Video: 56 minutes, Atmosphere Productions 1990 Honorary Doctorate Degree: Otis-Parsons College of Art, Los Angeles Receives grant from the Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund 1999 Died, April 19, in Los Angeles 2001 California Register of Historical Resources elects ‘History of Transportation’ petrachrome mural SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1933 Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood CA 1953 Retrospective, The Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena CA 1959 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA 1963 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA 1971 Retrospective, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA 1979 Helen Lundeberg/Retrospective Exhibition, Los Angles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1983 Helen Lundeberg Since 1970, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs CA Helen Lundeberg: Paintings, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1985 Helen Lundeberg: Still Lifes, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1987 California Contemporary Artist: Helen Lundeberg, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA Helen Lundeberg: By Land and By Sea, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1988 Helen Lundeberg Retrospective, Senson Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz CA 1988-89 An 80th Birthday Salute to Helen Lundeberg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA 1989 Helen Lundeberg: An American Visionary, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA Helen Lundeberg: Paintings 1960-1963, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1992 Helen Lundeberg: The Sunset Years: 1980-1990, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles 1995 Helen Lundeberg: Then and Now-A Retrospective, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles 1997 Helen Lundeberg: Still Life Through Five Decades, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles 1998 Helen Lundeberg: Post-Surrealism to HardEdge, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1999 Memorial Exhibition, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2000-01 Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA 2001 Helen Lundeberg: Inner Visions of Outer Spaces, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles 2004 Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1931 Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA 1933 Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Progressive Painters of Southern California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA 1934 Eighth Annual Southern California Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Fine Arts Gallery of San Deigo, CA 1935 Post-Surrealists and Other Moderns, Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood CA Post-Surrealism, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA 1936 Post-Surrealism, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY 1942 Americans 1942/18 Artists from 9 States, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY 1947 Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 1950 1950 Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles CA 1952 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA 1957 1957 Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles CA 1958 Shared Retrospective, Scripps College, Claremont CA 1962 Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1964 California Hard-Edge Painting, Pavillion Gallery, Balboa CA 1974 Nine Senior Southern California Painters, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1977 Surrealism and American Art: 1931-1947, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick 1980-81 Shared Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA UCLA/Wight Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1983 Ceci N’est Pas Le Surrealisme: California: Idioms of Surrealism, Fisher Gallery, USC, Los Angeles CA 1985 Between the Olympics, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1986 California 1920-1945, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA Kindred Spirits, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA Aspects of California Modernism 1920-1950, Federal Reserve System 1986-87 Elders of the Tribe, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York NY 1987 The Artist’s Mother, Heckscher Museum, New York National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC 1987-88 Two Views: 1970-1987/Helen Lundeberg and Martha Alf, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes CA 1989 Inauguration Exhibition, Security Pacific Gallery, South Coast Metro Center, CA 1990 Functionists High, The American Gallery, Los Angeles CA Heros, Heroines, Idols and Icons, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton CA 1990-92 Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs CA; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio TX; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UT 1991 Greater Years: Greater Visions, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine CA 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art 1934-1957, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA; Oakland Art Museum, Oakland CA; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art UT 1995-97 Independent Spirits: Women Artists of the American West 1890-1945 2002 Creative Transitions, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2004 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2005 California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2006 Masters, Mentors and Metamorphosis, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton CA 2006-07 Married 2 Art: Exciting Works by Famous Couples in the Arts, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 2007-09 Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena CA Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA.