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Biography - Fred Dalkey

Born

1943 Sacramento, CA

Education

1969 M.A., California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA. Emphasis: Printmaking
1966 B.A., California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA. Emphasis: Fine Art
1960-62 Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA

Professional Experience

1969-1997 Professor, Art Department, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
1972-1973 Instructor, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, CA
1969-1971 Lecturer, Honors Department, California State University, Sacramento, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 “Fred Dalkey: Life Drawings”, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Recent Still Life Paintings,” Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
2002 “Fred Dalkey: Retrospective,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
LeBaron’s Fine Art, Sacramento, CA
1998 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1997 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Thomas Babeor Fine Art, La Jolla, CA
1994 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1992 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1986 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
1985 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1984 Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
1983 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1980 Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Weinstock’s, Sacramento, CA
1978 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1977 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1976 Open Ring Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1974 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1973 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1972 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1971 The Art Company, Sacramento, CA
1970 The Art Company, Sacramento, CA
1969 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1966 California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

1997 “Art as Religion: Religion as Art,” Encina Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“25 Treasures,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“CSUS/50: CSUS Alumni,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“The Quality of Light,” Great Atlantic Map Co., St. Ives International, Cornwall, England (Sponsored by the Tate Gallery Extension)
“Self-Expression,” Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Valentine Invitational,” R.L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
“Hats,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1996 “Made in Sacramento,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Group Show, Mongerson Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Black and White Show,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“25 Treasures,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 “The Figure,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“25 Treasures,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Figures and Places: Recent Drawings, Prints, and Watercolors from the Crocker Collection,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“The Frank LaPena Collection,” La Raza/Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA
“Central Vallery Drawings,” Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
1994 “9 Sacramento Valley Painters,” Thomas Babeor, La Jolla, CA
“Art as Healer,” Weintraub Hunter Galery, Sacramento, CA
“Conflict,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“The Sacramento Valley School,” John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
“Persistence of the Human Image,” Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
1993 “35th Anniversary Show,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1992 “Selected Recent Acquisitions,” Richard Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis
“Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors & Awards,” American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1991 “In Lak ‘Esh: A Collaboration of Vision and Voice,” Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and Sacramento Poetry Center, Southern Pacific Warehouse, Sacramento, CA
“A Tribute Expression: Works on Paper and Sculpture by Selected Crocker-Kingsley Artists,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“Works on Paper,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Prints and Ceramics from the Collection of the CSUS Art Department,”
Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
1990 “32nd Anniversary Show,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Grand Opening Show,”Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Four Sacramento Artists,” Sutter Club, Sacramento, CA
1989 “The Figure,” Sierra College, Rocklin
“Self-Portraits,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Small Works from the Northern California Since 1945 Collection,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1988 “The Thinking Hand: 15th to 20th Century Drawings from the Crocker Collection,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“Letters to Chicago,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Group Show,” Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Group Show, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 “Sacramento City College Faculty,” American River College, Sacramento, CA
1985 “Cowtown,” Chan-Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1984 “Artists on Artists,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1983 “25 Years of ACG,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1982 “A to Z: Impossible Sculpture for Sacramento,” Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
1981 “The Nude,” Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1980 “The Smaller Image,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1979 “Valley Landscapes,” R.L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1978 “Selected Works from the California State Fair Collection,” Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA
1977 “A Fanfare For Our 20th,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“CSUS Alumni,” California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
1975 “Interstices: Northern California Artists,” San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA and Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield
“Palm Trees and Flamingoes,” Open Ring Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“California State Fair Exhibition,” Sacramento, CA
“50 Years of Crocker-Kingsley,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1971 “The Ladder Show,” Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1969 “Kingsley Annual,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1968 “Kingsley Annual,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1967 “Young Printmakers,” Lytton Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1966 “American Institute of Architects Invitational,” Belmonte Gallery, Sacramento,
1965 “California State Fair Exhibition,” Sacramento, CA
1963 “California State Fair Exhibition,” Sacramento, CA
1962 Group Show, Barrios Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Awards

1992 Academy-Institute Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1975 California State Fair, Honorable Mention, Oils (juror: Wayne Thiebaud)
1966 Sacramento County Fair, First Place, Graphics (juror: Gregory Kondos)
1965 California State Fair, Second Place, Oils (juror: Mel Ramos)
1963 California State Fair, First Place, Watercolors (juror: Gary Pruner)
1961 Art League Scholarship, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
1960 Art League Scholarship, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA

Biographies

Who’s Who in America
Dictionary of International Biography

Public and Corporate Collections

American Justice Institute, Sacramento, CA
California State Fair
California State University, Sacramento, CA
City of Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
El Dorado Hills Development Co., El Dorado Hills, CA
Huntington Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Hyatt Regency, Sacramento, CA
Kronick, Moskowitz, Tiedemann and Girard, Sacramento, CA
Lytton Industries, Los Angeles, CA
Sacramento City College
Scottish Rite Temple
Sutter Hospital, Sacramento, CA (Sutter Hospice limited edition poster)
University of California, Davis, CA
University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Weinstock’s, Sacramento, CA

Commissions

Commemorative Lithograph, “Crocker Art Museum from 3rd and O Streets,” Magnolia Press, Oakland, CA
Ten Landscapes: Parks and Waterways of Sacramento, Hyatt Regency, Sacramento, CA
Portrait of Leland Stanford, Huntington Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Portrait of Richard McGee, American Justice Institute, Sacramento, CA
Portrait of Councilman Robbie Robertson, Robertson Community Center, Sacramento, CA
Portrait of Raymond Ebbage, Scottish Rite Temple, Sacramento, CA

Selected Publications

1997 Baker, Kenneth “Fredric Dalkey,” Review, Art News, Sept., page 139.
Illus. “Model with Table Edge, 1985,” Art News, page 82, August 20,1997.
Baker, Kenneth “Fred Dalkey: Life Drawings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle (“Review: In the Galleries”), illus. page E4, col.I, May 6, 1997.
Wolheim, Richard “The Drawings of Fredric Dalkey,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1994 Pincus, Robert L. “Trendiness Isn’t in Nature of Sacramento Valley School,” San Diego Union, August.
Seville, Johnathan “Are Oil Tanks Filled with Oil or with Beauty?,” San Diego Reader, August 4.
Gordon, Allan “Flatlanders: Sacramento Valley School,” Art Week, Feb.3.
Hale, David “Variety of Figurative Art Worth Another Look,” Fresno Bee, December.
Belt, Debra “Artists Contemporary Gallery Shows the Cream of the Crop,” Sacramento Bee, Dec. 29, Interiors page 5.
1993 Sylva, Bob “Flicker of Recognition,” Sacramento Bee, Nov. 17, Scene page 1.
Johnson, Holly “Celebrating a Tradition in Contemporary Art,” Sacramento Bee, April 18, Encore page 6.
Williamson, Marcia “A Capital Collection of Public Art,” Sunset Magazine, March, page 21.
Howard, Julie “Corporate Boosters Boost Sacramento’s Art, Museum Collections,” Sacramento Bee, April 17, page C7.
1992 Clifton, Leigh Ann “American Academy Awards,” Art Week, August 6, page 14.
Robinson, Walter and Anastasia Wilkes “Art World,” Art in America, July, page 126.
Sacharow, Anya “Spectrum,” Art News, Vol. 91, No.6, Summer, page 27.
Snow, Shauna “Art Notes,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, page 84.
1988 Kay, Alfred “Genius Flickers in Unfinished Sketches,” Sacramento Bee, Dec. 23.
Blue, Jane “Art Checks In,” Horizon: Valley Arts, June.
1986 Kay, Alfred “Tiny Prints Carry a Big Impact,” Sacramento Bee, Nov. 23.
1985 Kay, Alfred “How Green is the Grass,” Sacramento Bee, Oct. 27.
Simon, Richard, Interview, Sacramento Union, Jan. 12.
1984 Schlesinger, Ellen “Painting the Town,” Sacramento Bee, July 28.
Schlesinger, Ellen, Review, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 3.
Simon, Richard, Review, Sacramento Union, Jan. 12.
1983 Glackin, William “Dalkey’s Art: Compelling, Symbolic, Powerful,” Sacramento Bee, Nov. 30.
1981 McColm, Del “Fine Drawings in Pence Show of Nudes,” Davis Enterprise, Jan. 23.
Simon, Richard “Dalkey: An Imagination Fired by Ancient Gods,” Sacramento Union, Nov. 8.
1980 Kay, Alfred, Review, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 16.
Simon, Richard “Brilliance from Modest Beginnings,” Sacramento Union, Feb. 9.
1978 Ball, Fred “Art Has Passion, Classics Touch,” Sacramento Bee, May 22.
Kay, Alfred, Review, Sacramento Bee, May 22.
Workmann, Andree Marichal, Review, West Art, Oct. 13.
1977 Simon, Richard “Sacramento Artist Employs Light Touch,” Sacramento Union, Feb. 12.
Johnson, Charles “Mysterious Shows,” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 20.
1976 Johnson, Charles “Public Murals, Private Portraits,” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 15.
Ball, Fred “Dalkey on Dalkey,” Art Week, Feb. 28.
1975 Ghilardo, Diane, Review, San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 24.
Bruner, Louise, Review, The Blade: Toledo, Ohio, March 2.
1974 Ball, Fred “Drawings of Wit and Nuance,” Art Week, July.
1973 Johnson, Charles “Sly Bits of Artful Humor,” Sacramento Bee, September.