LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY CHARLES BELL Biography Last Updated: 1/20/20 BORN 1935 – 1995 Tulsa, Oklahoma Died in New York, NY EDUCATION 1957 B.B.A., University of Oklahoma, Norman SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Mar. 4-25 1994 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 5-26 1991 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 2-30 1989 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Apr. 1-29 1988 Modernism, San Francisco, CA – Oct. 27 – Dec. 10 1986 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Apr. 6-26 1983 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Mar. 5-26 Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL – Nov. 12 – Dec. 6 1980 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 5-26 1976 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1974 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1972 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Reality Check: Photorealist Watercolors, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – April 27 – July 28, 2019 141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 | T: 212 677 1340 | F: 212 533 7340 | E: [email protected] LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY 2018-19 Every Picture Tells a Story, Parrish Museum of Art, Watermill, NY – Nov. 11, 2018 – Oct. 3, 2019 2017-18 From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today, traveling exhibition: Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY – August 6, 2017 – Jan. 21, 2018; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI – April 21 – Sept. 12, 2018 2017-18 American Dream, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany & Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, Oct 19, 2017 – May 10, 2018 2014-15 Photorealism: The Sydney & Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA – Nov. 8, 2014 – Jan. 25, 2015 2013-14 Photorealism Revisited, traveling exhibition: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK – Jan. 24 – Apr. 21; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH – Jun. 1 – Sept. 30; Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, NJ – Jan. 12 – Apr. 18, 2014 2012-17 Photorealism: 50 Years oF Hyperrealistic Painting, traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany – Dec. 8, 2012 – Mar. 10, 2013; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain – Mar. 21 – Jun. 9, 2013; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany – Jun. 30 – Oct. 13, 2013; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK – Nov. 30, 2013 – Mar. 30, 2014; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Oct. 7, 2014 – Jan. 19, 2015; Kumu Art Museum of Estonia Tallinn, Estonia – Mar. 17 – Jun. 12, 2016; Musée d’lxelles Brüssel, Belgium, Jun. 29 – Sep. 25, 2016; Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany – Oct. 15, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017. Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb. 25 – Jun. 4, 2017; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, July 13 – Oct. 22, 2017 2011 Signs, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Feb. 10 – Mar. 10 2011-12 Our Own Directions: The Louis K. & Susan P. Meisel Collection, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ – Sept. 18, 2011 – Jan. 2012 2010 Expansion, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Sept. 30 – Nov. 13 Real: Realism and Diverse Media, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Nov. 27 – Jan. 8 2009-10 Realism – The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany & Kunsthl Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands – Jan. 23, 2009 – May. 24, 2010; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kultur Stiftung, Munich, Germany – Jun. 11 – Sept. 2010 2009 Picturing America: Photorealism in the 70’s, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany – Mar. 7 – May 10 American Dream, National Museum in Krakow, Poland – Jul. 2 – Oct. 4 141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 | T: 212 677 1340 | F: 212 533 7340 | E: [email protected] LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY New Photo-Realism Painting in the Digital Age, Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY – Nov. 11 – Dec. 11 40 Years: Anniversary of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 1 – Dec. 20 2008 Recent Acquisitions, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Feb. 1 – Mar. 31 Art and Illusion: Selections From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA – Fec. 2 – May. 3 ReFlections From the Artist’s Eye: Contemporary Art From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA – May. 17 – Aug. 3 Art and Illusion: Selections From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA – Oct. 1 – Apr. 19 2007 Photorealism Today, Plus One Gallery, London, England Apr. 25 – Jun. 2 Group Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – May. 5 – Jun. 30 The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion – Selections From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO – Aug. 4 – Oct. 28 2005-06 Photorealism, Then and Now, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton – Dec. 8, 2005 – Jan. 9, 2006 2005 Vintage Masterpieces oF Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Mar. 5-26 Doubletake: Photorealism From the 1960’s & 1970’s, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – May. 19 – Jul. 31 2004-05 American Photorealism, traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art – Apr. 4 – May. 16, 2004; Iwaki City Art Museum – May. 23 – Jul. 4; Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art – Jul. 16 – Sept. 5; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido – Sept. 12 – Nov. 7; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ – Dec. 12, 2004 – Mar. 27, 2005 2004 Get Real: Photorealist Prints From the James W. Hyams Collection, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA – Jan. 23 – Mar. 5 Photorealism: Painting and Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY – Jan. 25 – Apr. 25 2003 Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy – Apr. 5 – Jun. 29 141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 | T: 212 677 1340 | F: 212 533 7340 | E: [email protected] LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY 2002 Photorealism at the Millennium: Vintage Photorealists, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Oct. 5-26 2001 Interiors Observed, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Jan. 11 – Feb. 17 This is America: American Photorealists, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark – Sept. 1 – Nov. 25 2000 The Photorealists, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Jul. 22 – Sept. 10 1999 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – June 1998 Remembering (Alcosser, Bell, Comtois and Stamos), Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Jan. 31 – Feb. 28 Photorealism, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL – Feb. 12 – Mar. 7 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Major Works by the Photorealists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Apr. 4 – May. 16 1997 Photorealism, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL – Jan. 9-31 Photorealism’s Greatest Hits, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Mar. 29 – Apr. 26 A Tribute to Frederick R. Weisman: Selections From the New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA – May. 18 – Aug. 10 Hot Time, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Jun. 7 – Jul. 18 Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA – Oct. 2 – Nov. 25 1996 Paper Work, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Feb. 3-24 Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms), Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Mar. 2-23 Since Statehood: Twelve Oklahoma Artists, Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK – Mar. 28 – May. 17 1995 Master American Contemporaries II, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil – Jan. 17 – Feb. 28, Catalog 1994 Review oF the Season, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Summer 1993 Really, Real, Realism Show, Jack Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL – Jan. 8-29 141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 | T: 212 677 1340 | F: 212 533 7340 | E: [email protected] LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX – Feb. 25 – Apr. 10 Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Apr. 23 – Jun. 24 1992 Photorealism From Nashville Collection, Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN – Jun. 13-21 Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA – Jun. 14 – Sept. 7 Fun & Games, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Sept. 12 – Oct. 3 1991-92 American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952-1990, traveling exhibition, Japan: The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai – Nov. 1 – Dec. 23, 1991; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama – Jan. 29 – Feb. 16, 1992; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima – Feb. 22 – Mar. 29, 1992; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu – Apr. 4 – May. 17, 1992; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi – May. 23 – Jun. 17, 1992 Photo-Realism: Revisited, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Nov. 22, 1991 – Jan. 19, 1992 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY – Apr. 15 – Jul. 29 1990 Spotlight on Oklahoma: 11 Oklahoma Artists, Oklahoma City Art Museum – Jan. 12 – Mar. 4 Objects Observed – Contemporary Still LiFe, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY – Feb. 13 – Mar. 10 Collectors’ Annual – Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL – Feb. 23 – Mar. 25, Catalogue The 80’s: A Post Pop Generation, Southern Alleghensies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA – Jun. 30 – Sept. 9 Amerikansk Fotorealism, Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden – Oct. 20 – Nov. 25 Quickdraw – American Master Drawing Since 1959, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 2 – Dec. 1 1989 Oklahoma Artists: Centennial Exhibition, Charles B. Goddard Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, OK – Nov. 9 – Dec. 31 1988 Art at the Armory, 69th Regimental Armory, New York, NY – Jan. 27-31 ART/LA 88, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA 141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 | T: 212 677 1340 | F: 212 533 7340 | E: [email protected] LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY 20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) – Artists & Movements From Our First Two Decades, Louis K.