PAUL WONNER
Born 1920 Tucson, AZ
Died 2008 San Francisco, CA
Education
1952 University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
1953 University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
1955 University of California, Berkeley, M.L.S.
1941 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, B.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 A Memorial Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Forty Years of Painting on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Elder Artist of the Year, Di Rosa Preserve, Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
2003 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paul Wonner: Still Lifes, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1996 Paul Wonner: Small Format Paintings and Watercolors, 1958-1965, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1985 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1981 The Art Museum Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paul Wonner: Abstract Realist, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(traveled)
1979 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 The Art Museum Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1974 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Fresno State University, California (with William Theophilus Brown)
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1968 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967 Landau-Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Waddington Galleries, London, England
1964 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1963 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1960 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1959 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1956 San Francisco Art Association Gallery, California School of Fine Arts, CA
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 Views from the Bay Area: The Shift Towards Figuration, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993 Still Life: 1963–1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 American Realism and Figurative Art, 1952–1990, Miyagi Museum, Sendai, Japan
1982 Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American painting, 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1981-82 Contemporary American Realism since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1976-77 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1962-63 Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1957-58 Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1955 III Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil
1954 Younger American Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Capitol Records, Los Angeles, CA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Minneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Pacific Bell Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, AZ
Philip Morris Corporation, New York, NY
Reader's Digest Association, New York, NY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawence, KS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
