Paul Beattie

1924 – 1988

Resumé

Art show announcements, New York and San Francisco

Education

1945-47
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
1947
Brooklyn Museum, NY, Rufino Tamayo, John Ferren
1950
New School, New York City, Adja Yunkers
1973
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, BA
1976
University of California, Berkeley, MA Studio Art

Teaching

1974-78
Art Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

Select Solo Exhibitions

1954
“Paintings: Paul Beattie”, Hansa Gallery, New York, NY
1955
“Paul Beattie Paintings, 1950-1954”, The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967-68
55 Mill Street Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
1972
“Collages”, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
1974
“Paul Beattie, Paintings and Drawings 1974”,City Council Chambers, City Hall, Santa Rosa, CA
1975
“Dimensions in Space”, Annex East Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1976
“Paul Beattie: the Earth’s Early Atmosphere: Paintings and Drawings”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1978
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery/Capricorn Asunder
1980
“Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Objects”, The Glenys Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1980
“Paul Beattie: Paintings and Drawings”, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalog)
1981
“Cosmic Drawings”, North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982
“Paul Beattie: Planet Series and Other Recent Paintings”, John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982-83
“Planetary-Astronomical-Abstract”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1983
Newport Harbor Museum of Art
1984
“Paul Beattie: Paintings”, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984
Tiffany & Co. (window displays), San Francisco, CA
1986
“Space Explorations”, The California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1987
“Black and White: Paul Beattie”, Bookstore Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
1987
“Singularities: Multimedia Works”, Quicksilver Mine Co., Guerneville, CA
1989
“Paul Beattie: Retrospective”, The California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2005
“Paul Beattie: Abstract Realist”, Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA
2011
“Ephemera Show”, Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

1947
“Lower East Side Artists”, Norlyst Gallery, New York, NY
1947-48
Philip Rosenthal-Brooklyn Museum Art School International Competition, Roko Gallery, New York, NY
1947-48
Carl Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1949
“Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists”, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (catalog)
1949
“25 and Under”, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York, NY (catalog)
1950
“Fourteen Under Thirty-Six”, Studio 35, New York, NY
1952
“Four Painters”, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1952
Hansa Gallery, New York, NY
1954
“The Christmas show”, The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1955
“2nd Annual Group Show”, The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1955
East and West Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1960
Semina Gallery, Larkspur, CA
1962
“Christmas Show”, New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1963
Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1963
“Arthur Richer Benefit”, San Francisco, CA
1964
“Trinity Forms by M.C. Press”, Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965
Los Angeles County Museum, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968-75
Sonoma County Art Council Chambers, Santa Rosa, CA
1968-72
Artrium Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1973
“Beattie, Hagens, Hazlitt, Mesinke”, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1975
“Collage and Assemblage in Southern California”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
1975
“The Sky Show”, Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
“Group Invitational Show”, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1976
“Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1977
“California Bay Area Art”, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, Organized by Braunstein/Guay Gallery, San Francisco (catalog)
1978
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979
Group Show, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1979
“Gregor Weiss, Paul Beattie, Lynn Ross”, Lincoln Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1980
“A Drawing Show”, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1982
“Collage”, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1982
“California Art”, North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983
“Mark Making”, Sonoma State and San Luis Obispo State Universities, CA
1984
“Personal Statements”, Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, Santa Rosa, CA
1984-85
“50th Anniversary”, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
1985
“Paintings”, Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, Santa Rosa, CA
1985
“Book Arts II”, Hand in Hand Gallery, New York, NY
1988
“Constructed Surfaces”, Santa Rosa City Council Chambers, Santa Rosa, CA
1990
“Lyrical Vision: The Six Gallery”, Natsoulas Noveloso Gallery, Davis, CA (catalog)
2001
“Passing the Gift”, SoFo2 and A Street Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA
2004
“San Francisco and the Second Wave”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2005
“Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and his Circle”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA, (traveling)
2012-13
“Renaissance on Fillmore 1955-65”, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2016
“Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris, The Exhibition”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Select Public Collections

SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA,

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Doyle Collection, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

Musée D’art Moderne Et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland

Publications

Beattie, Paul, “Art, Aesthetics and Astrophysics”, (Unpublished manuscript), presented at the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, 1979