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Biography - William Brice

Born

1921 Born April 23, 1921 in New York. Currently living in Los Angeles, CA.

Education

1937-39 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1939-40 Art Students League, NY
1940-42 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1998 “William Brice,” LA Louver Gallery, CA
1994 The Fabric Workshop Museum Philadelphia, PA
1993 “William Brice: Works on Paper, 1982-1992” Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Wight Art Gallery&Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts Los Angeles, CA
1990 “William Brice/Watercolor Paintings”, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA
“William Brice Notations 1982”, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1989 “Drawings”, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“William Brice-Drawings”, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
1984 Robert Miller Gallery, Venice, CA
1983 Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1981 California State University Art Gallery, Dominguez Hills, CA
1980 Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1978 University of Redlands, CA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Hancock College, CA
Orange Coast College, Orange, CA
1968 Landau‑Alan Gallery, NY
1967 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1963 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Dallas Art Museum, TX
Colorado Springs Art Center, CO
University of California at San Diego, CA
1966 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 The Alan Gallery, NY
1962 Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961 The Alan Gallery, NY
Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1960 Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1956 The Alan Gallery, NY
Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1955 The Alan Gallery, NY
Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1950 Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1948 The Downtown Gallery, NY
1947 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002 “Drawings” Hunsaker/ Sclesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 “Chouinard: A Living Legacy” Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA; Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College; Boehm Gallery, Palomar College
1994 The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Group Show, Wight Art Gallery and Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
“Drawings III” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1992 Group Show, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“Painters on Press: Recent Abstract Prints”, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
“Drawings II” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1991 “Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson
Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FLA
“Drawings I” Koplin Gallery Santa Monica CA
1990 Bank of America Concourse Gallery, NY
1988 “Crown Point Press at Frito‑Lay”, Plano, Texas
1987 “Crown Point Press” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985 “Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California”, U.C.L.A, Los Angeles, CA
“Tamarind 25th Anniversary”, Associated American Artists, NY
1984 “20th Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context”, organized by the International Exhibition Foundation, Washington, DC. Traveled to: Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Elvejhem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and The National Academy of Design, NY
1983 “Drawings by Painters”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Twentieth Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context”, traveling exhibition terminating at the National Academy of Design, NY in 1985
“American/European Painting and Sculpture”, L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
“The Figurative Mode: Recent Drawings from New York City Galleries”, State University of New York at Cortland, NY
“Surreal”, The Robert Miller Gallery, NY
1982 “Drawings by Painters”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan
“Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists Before 1950”, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA
“Domestic Relations”, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 “Decade: Los Angeles Paintings of the Seventies”, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
“Contemporary Artists”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
“California: a Sense of Individualism”, L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
“Southern California Artists: 1940‑1980”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Los Angeles Prints: 1883‑1980”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Fellowships and Grants

1976 UCLA Research Grant, “Studies for the Human Figure, Drawing and Painting”
1974 UCLA Research Grant, “The Human Figure as a Source of Imagery”
1964 University of California Institute of Creative Research
1961 Tamarind Fellowship, Ford Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
1957 Painting Award, Santa Barbara Museum Biennial
1956 Painting Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Purchase Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Drawing Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Permanent Collections

American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bezalel National Museum, Israel
California State University Art Collection, Long Beach CA
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA
Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Los Olivos CA
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, LA, CA
Hirshhorn Collection, Washington, DC
Laguna Art Museum, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Munson‑Williams‑Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey
Oakland Museum of California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NB
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Tamarind Collection, University of New Mexico Art Museum
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita KS
World Heritage Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign