EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1924
A Group of Modern Painters, The Daniel Gallery, New York. Catalogue published.
1926
Neumann Galleries, New York.
Dudensing Galleries, New York, 1926-27.
1925
The Daniel Gallery, New York.
1928
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Los Angeles County Museum, California.
Wilshire Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1931
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California.
1933
Ebell Salon, Los Angeles, California.
Laguna Beach Art Association, California.
1932
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Ilsley Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1935
Stanley Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1944
Los Angeles County Museum, California.
San Francisco Museum of Art, California.
1949
Art Center School Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1947
Hartwell Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1952
Pasadena Art Institute, California.
1958
Scripps College Art Galleries, Florence Rand Lang Art Building, Claremont, California.
1955
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas.
1959
Anna Mahler/Lorser Feitelson, Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1960
Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1964
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1961
Paul Rivas Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1967
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
1962
Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1968
Feitelson, The Years of Vision: 1920-1950, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries, California.
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1963
Chapman College Purcell Art Association, Orange, California.
MOMA, New York, Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture, April 5- June 12, 1966.
1972
Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
Lundeberg, Feitelson, First Showing: A Series of New Color Prints, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries, California.
1978
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) A Memorial Tribute, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1977
Lorser Feitelson, Selection of Small Paintings, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
1980-
1981
Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Catalogue published. Also shown at The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of Los Angeles, California.
1987
Lorser Feitelson: Magical Space Forms, Boulder Series, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1982
Lorser Feitelson Paintings 1964-1971, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1988
Lorser Feitelson 1895-1978, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Catalogue published.
1983
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978): Early Drawings and Late Paintings, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1989
Lorser Feitelson: Artist / Teacher, Long Beach City College, Fine Arts Gallery, California.
The Kinetic Line, Lorser Feitelson, University of California, Riverside, University Art Gallery.
1990
Lorser Feitelson: Exploration of the Figure, 1919-1929, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, California.
Lorser Feitelson: The Organic Line:1916-1977, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1996
Lorser Feitelson: The Romantic Years 1919-1949, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1992
Lorser Feitelson: Motion as Line, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1998
Lorser Feitelson: Magical Forms to Hard Edge, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1995
Lorser Feitelson / John McLaughlin: Abstract Classicists, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2001
Lorser Feitelson, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Catalogue published.
2006
Lorser Feitelson: 10 Paintings, Los Angeles, The 1960’s. Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, New York. Catalogue published.
2003
Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting 1945-1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2009
Lorser Feitelson – The Late Paintings, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2005
Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series—Works from 1916-1923, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Catalogue published.
2018
Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
Lorser Feitelson: Curvilinear, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1924
A Group of Modern Painters, The Daniel Gallery, New York. Catalogue published.
1928
Ninth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles Museum. Catalogue published.
1927
Whitney Studio Club Exhibition, New York.
1929
Conrad Buff, Lorser Feitelson, Nathalie Newking, Hanson Puthuff, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Tenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles Museum. Catalogue published.
1930
Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1936
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalogue published.
Oil Painting and Water Colors by California Artists, also known as “The Post Surrealist Show,” Brooklyn Museum, New York.
1932
Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1937
1937 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1933
Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California. Catalogue published.
1938
Post Surrealism, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles.
1934
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Paintings by California Modernists, Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Progressive Painters of Southern California, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Public Works of Art Project, 14th Region Southern California, Los Angeles County Museum.
Group Exhibition, El Capitan College of the Theatre, Los Angeles.
Surrealism & Post-Surrealism (New Classicism), Centaur Gallery, Los Angeles.
1939
All California Painting And Sculpture Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum.
Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1935
Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published under title “Opening Exhibition.”
Post Surrealist Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Also shown at The Brooklyn Museum, New York under title “Postsurrealism.”
Post-Surrealists and Other Moderns, Stanley Rose Gallery, Los Angeles.
Group Exhibition, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, Los Angeles.
1940
California Creates, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles. Also shown at San Francisco Museum of Art.
1940 Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1946
Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, New York. Catalogue published.
1944
The Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition: Watercolors and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue published.
The Fourth Biennial Exhibit of Contemporary American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
1947
Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue published.
Eighteen California Artists, Pasadena Institute of Art, California.
1945
The First Biennial Exhibition of Drawings by American Artists, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, Fitzsimmons Studio, Los Angeles.
1949
California Centennials Exhibition of Art, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Ninth Invitational Purchase Prize Art Exhibition, Chaffey Community Art Association, Ontario, California. Catalogue published.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1950
Sixth Annual Exhibition by the Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Municipal Art Commission and the Los Angeles City Council, shown at the Greek Theatre. Catalogue published.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1955
Annual Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
III Bienal de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil. Catalogue published. United States section organized by San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published under the title Pacific Coast Art, United States Representation at the 3rd Biennial of São Paulo. Also shown at Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Colorodo Springs Fine Arts Center; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1951
146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in the United States, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
Seventh Annual Exhibition by the Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Municipal Art Commission and the Los Angeles City Council, shown at the Greek Theatre. Catalogue published.
Portable Murals, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art, Urbana. Catalogue published.
1956
California Painting: 40 Painters, The Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, California. A collaboration with San Francisco Museum of Art. Catalogue published.
1956 Annual Exhibition by Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum. Catalogue published.
1952
American Water Colors, Drawings and Prints/ A National Competitive Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1958
Artists Invite Artists, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles.
Sixty–Eighth Annual Exhibition, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln. Catalogue published.
1953
Fourteenth Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado. Catalogue published.
1959
Four Abstract Classicists (renamed to West Coast Hard-Edge in the UK)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue);
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England;
Queen’s University, Belfast Ireland (catalogue).
1949/1959 A Decade in the Contemporary Galleries, Pasadena Art Museum, California. Catalogue published.
Fifty Paintings by Thirty Seven Painters of Los Angeles Area, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1954
Functionists West, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1961
The Nude in American Painting, The Brooklyn Museum, New York. Catalogue published.
Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. Catalogue published.
1966
1966 Invitational, California ’66 Painters and Sculptors, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
New Modes in California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
Contemporary California Art from the Lytton Collection, Lytton Center of The Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
The Search/Ten Leading California Artists in Pursuit of a Personal Vision, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
1962
The Artist’s Environment: West Coast, The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Forth Worth, Texas. Catalogue published. Also shown at the UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles; Oakland Museum of Art, California.
Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Art with assistance of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Also shown at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa.
Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
1967
Artists’ Artists, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA, 1910-1930, sponsored by University of New Mexico Art Museum and Junior League of Albuquerque. Catalogue published.
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas;
San Francisco Museum of Art, California;
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
West Coast Invitational, 1967, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
1963
Arts of Southern California-XIV: Early Moderns, Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1968
1968 Invitational, West Coast ’68 Painters and Sculptors, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1964
California Hard Edge Painting, Pavilion Gallery, Balboa, California. Catalogue published.
1964 Festival of Fine Arts/ Art and Anti-Art, Occidental College, Los Angeles. Catalogue published.
Of Time and the Image, Ankrum Gallery Artists, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona. Catalogue published.
Southern California Original Hard Edge Painters, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles.
1969
Color in Control, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. Catalogue published.
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida.
Microcosm ’69, Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1965
Colorists 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue published.
The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalogue published.
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri;
Seattle Art Museum, Washington;
Pasadena Art Museum, California;
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland.
Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign. Catalogue published.
Eighteenth Annual Creative Arts Exhibition, Henderson Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado.
1970
American Contemporary Art, organized under the auspices of the International Council at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Also shown at the American Embassy, Moscow. Catalogue published in Russian and English.
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum, Richmond.
A Century of California Painting 1870-1970, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Catalogue published.
Looking West, 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1976
American Artists ’76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Catalogue published.
Los Angeles: A Continuing Frontier 1940-1961, Occidental College Gallery, Los Angeles.
New Deal Art: California, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, California. Catalogue published.
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. Catalogue published.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Symbolism, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1972
Los Angeles Painters of the Nineteen-Twenties, Pomona College Gallery, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California. Catalogue published.
Group Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park.
West Coast Art from the Permanent Collection, Pasadena Art Museum, California.
Renewal Art of the 1930’s-1940’s: Southern California Artists, Los Angeles Art Association Galleries.
1977
Los Angeles Hard-Edge: The Fifties and Seventies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Catalogue published under the title of “California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History.”
Surrealism and American Art: 1931-1947, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Catalogue published.
1974
Nine Senior Southern California Painters, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Catalogue published in LAICA Journal, December 1974, pages 45-53.
1978
Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California. Catalogue published. Also shown at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, New Mexico.
1975
Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America 1910-1925, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware. Catalogue published.
1979
Black and White Are Colors: Paintings of the 1950’s-1970’s, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, California. Catalogue published.
1980
50’s Abstract: A Summary of Los Angeles Painting from 1957-1960, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, California. Catalogue published.
1985
Colorforms, Security Pacific National Bank, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles. Also shown at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
1982
Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists before 1950, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1986
Aspects of California Modernism 1920-1950, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C., Catalogue published.
1984
The Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
1990-
1992
Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
Laguna Art Museum, California; Oakland Museum of Art, California;
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas;
Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum, Utah State University, Logan;
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California.
1995
Pacific Dreams, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Also shown at Oakland Museum of Art, California. Catalogue published.
1992
California Painting: The Essential Modernist Framework, California State University, Los Angeles. Also shown at California State University, San Bernardino, California.
1997
On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
1994
Independent Visions: California Modernism, Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
1999
Gold Rush to Pop: 200 Years of California Art, Orange County Museum of Art, California.
2000
Four Abstract Classicists Plus One, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
2005
Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York.
California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2001
American Surrealism, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago. Catalogue published.
California Modernism, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
Four Abstract Classicists, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York.
2006
Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
Drawings: The Hand of the Artist, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Masters, Mentors and Metamorphosis, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton College, Fullerton, California.
2002
Post Surrealism, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California. Catalogue published.
2006-
2007
Married 2 Art: Exciting Works by Famous Couples in the Arts, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, California.
2002-
2003
Post Surrealism, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah.
2007
Burgoyne Diller and Hard Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York.
Optic Nerve – Perceptual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.
2003
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. Catalogue published.
2007-
2009
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California. Catalogue published.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts;
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California;
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin.
2004
Conversations with the Collection: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, California.
2008-
2009
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2004-
2005
The Los Angeles School, Otis College of Art + Design, Los Angeles, California.
2009
A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California.
2010
Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.
2016
Helen Lundeberg & The Four Abstract Classicists, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2011
Blast from the Past: 60s and 70s Geometric Abstractions, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.
Kindred Vision: Lorser Feitelson / Helen Lundeberg, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2016-
2018
Montgomery Meets Modernism: Two Americas, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.
2011-
2012
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963 (a sanctioned Pacific Standard Time exhibition), Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California.
2018
Hard Edges: Lorser Feitelson, Elise Ferguson, and Alois Kronschlaeger, Cristin Tierney Gallery , New York, New York.
Time and Space: Abstractions from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
2013-
2014
Four Abstract Classicists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2018-
2019
Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University.
2014
Helen Lundeberg / Lorser Feitelson and the Synergy of Geometric Abstraction, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.
2019
Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California, SF MOMA, San Francisco, California.
Bold Abstractions: Paintings from the Thoma Collection, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois.