Eleanor Dickinson

EDUCATION:

Golden Gate University (Art Law) 1984
California College of Arts and Crafts, M.F.A. (Film/Video) 1982
Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris (Drawing) 1971
San Francisco Art Institute (Drawing/Prints) 1961-1963
University of Tennessee, B.A. (Fine Arts) 1952

ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):

*One-Artist Museum Exhibitions

2008 “Black Velvets and Dreams” Retrospective. Ohlone College Gallery, Fremont

2007 “Body of Evidence: Drawn from Life.” COMMA Gallery, Orlando, FL

*2007 “Eleanor Dickinson Retrospective: the Fires Within,” Peninsula Museum of Art

2005 “The Enduring Social Consciousness of Eleanor Dickinson: Retrospective” Downtown Gallery, Univ. of Tenn.

2000 “Revelations: Works by Eleanor Dickinson,” (Retrospective) University of San Francisco

1998, 1993, 1991, 1989, 1988 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento

1996 Council for Creative Projects, New York

*1995 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis

1991 “BiCentennial”, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee

1991 “Sacred and Spiritual in American Art” Graduate Theological Union Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1990 Diverse Works Gallery, Houston

1989 Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.

*1988 Menil Museum/Screen Memories Gallery, Houston

1982, 1974 California College of the Arts, Oakland

*1981 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville

1980 Women’s InterArt Center, New York

*1979 The Oakland Museum

1978 Galeria de Arte y Libros, Monterrey, Mexico

*1977 The Triton Museum, Santa Clara

*1975 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation

1975, 1971, 1970 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco

*1975 Washington State Museum, Pullman, WA

*1975 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane
1975-1981 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES):

• * Monterey Museum of Fine Arts,
• * Huntsville Museum of Art
• * Triton Museum of Art Valparaiso University Art Galleries
• * Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
• * Tennessee State Museum – others

*1974 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

1974, 1972 Poindexter Gallery, New York

*1972 The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

*1970 “Revival!”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

*1970 The Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN

*1969 The De Young Museum, San Francisco

*1968 Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley

*1967 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1967 Temple Gallery, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco

*1966 The Santa Barbara Museum

*1965 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

*1964 The McClung Museum, Knoxville, TN

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2007 “100 Years, CCA.” Oakland Museum, Art Div. CA

2006-07 “Highly Favored.” Gordon College, MA, touring exhibition:

2005 “NCWCA: Survey 2005” Somarts Gallery, San Francisco

2005 “Transformation of a Model,” Lewis Pohl Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii

2005 “Revisioning.” National Exhibition, Maitland Art Center, Florida

2005 “Gender in Motion” Nat’l Video Shorts, Atlanta, Georgia

2004 “Elder Arts Celebration” “Off the Preserve” Di Rosa Foundation, Napa

2004-06 “Violence against women: Women against violence” Nexus Gallery, CIIS Gallery,

2003 “Real Illusions: Art from Nashville Collections,” Frist Center, Nashville

2002 “20th Century Painting in Tennessee,” Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, (touring)

2001 “Art By Women,” Goethe Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal

2001 “Dark Madonna,” Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco

2001 “Like A Prayer,” Tryon Gallery, Charlotte, N. C.

2000 “Artworks 2000: Maestra!” Sun Gallery, Hayward2000 “Truth and Lies,” Triton Museum

1999 “Artists of Western States,” Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles

1999 “Five Women Artists of this Century and Beyond,” SOMAR Cultural Center

1999 “Carried to the Heart,” Millsaps College, Mississippi

1998 “Preserving the Past Securing the Future” Nat’l Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

1998 “Art and the Unnatural,” di Rosa Foundation

1997 “Radiant Object,” Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane

1997 “Carving the Forces of Change”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

1997 “Searching for the Spiritual”, Hope College, Michigan

1995 “Global Focus: Women in Art and Culture” National Museum Women in the Arts; U. N. World

Conference, Beijing, China

1995 “New Perceptions of the Spirit”, G.T.U. Gallery, Berkeley

1995 “Shades”, Tonelli Gallery, Mexico City, Cultural Center, and SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco

1995 “The Eye of the Beholder”, Foster-Freeman, San Antonio, TX

1994 “MOCRA”, St. Meinrad College, Indiana

1994 “Michael Himovitz Gallery”, Crocker Art Museum

1993 “The Shock Show”, Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento

1993 “New Acquisitions”, Mills College

1992-93 “Threshold To The Holy,” Museum Contemporary Religious Art

1992 “California Narrative”, Galerie Etmars, Brussels

1992 “16th Annual Nat’l Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University, Kansas

1992 “The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye”, St. Mary’s College, Moraga

1992 “500 Years Since Columbus”, Triton Museum, Santa Clara

1991 “Recent Acquisitions”, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

1991 “A Salute To Women”, National Museum of Women in the Arts

1990-91 “American Religions”, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution

1990 “20th Century Women Artists”, Queensboro Comm. College, N.Y.

1989 “Here’s Looking At Us: Figurative Works – Di Rosa Foundation” Pacific Union College, Angwin

1989 “20th Century Women Artists”, Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

1988 “Letters To Chicago”, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago

1987 “The Human Vessel”, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA (4 artists)

1986 “Sacred Arts,” Graham Center Museum, Illinois

1986 “Northern California Printmakers”, Palo Alto

1986 “Autour de Jean Raine”, Paris

1986 “In the Advent of Change: 1945-1969,” Fresno Arts Museum

1985-1987 ”Women’s Invitational #1”, touring Southern galleries

1985 “An American Album”, Focus Internat’l, American Women in Art, U. N. World

Conference, Kenya

1984 “The Naked Nude”, San Francisco Art Institute

1981 “All In Line,” Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York

1980 “West Coast Drawing,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA

1977 “Invitational American Drawing Exhibition,” Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego

1977, 1982 Gallery Rebecca Cooper, Washington, D.C. and N.Y.

1976 “A Nation of Nations,” Smithsonian Institution

1971-1975 Obelisk Gallery, London

1972 “Realism: 1972,” Contemporary Gallery, Dallas

1971 – 1983 Elinor Poindexter Gallery, New York

1966 – 1970 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles

1960 “Twenty-Fifth Annual,” Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED)

2003 “Lifetime Achievement Award” Nat’l Women’s Caucus for Art, CAA

2000 Artist in Residence, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

1995 “President’s Award”, National Women’s Caucus for Art

1993 Artist in Residence, Arkansas State University

1992 “Certificate of Recognition: El Consejo Mundial de Artistas Plasticos”, International Conference,

1991 Grant, Skaggs Foundation for G.T.U. Exhibition, Berkeley

1991 Artist-in-Residence University of Alaska

1991 Commissions, Library, University of San Francisco

1989 “Distinguished Service Citation for Arts, Social Activism”, Nat’l League of American Pen Women,

1988 Grant, PAS Graphics, Pasadena

1987 World Record continuous drawing (Guinness), four artists

1985 Grant, West Virginia Comm. for the Humanities (N.E.H)

1985 Grant, Thomas F. Stanley Foundation

1983 “Distinguished Alumni Award,” San Francisco Art Institute

1983 “Master Drawing Award”, National Society of Arts and Letters

1982 Grant, Tennessee Commission for the Humanities (N.E.H.)

1980 Grant, Tennessee Commission for the Humanities (N.E.H.)

1978 “Distinguished Alumni Citation”, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.

1977 Grant, Nevada Commission for the Humanities (N.E.H.)

1975 Grant, Zellerbach Family Fund

1973 “Purchase Award,” San Francisco Art Commission

1971 “Purchase Award,” City of San Francisco

1969 Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee

1968 “Award of Merit,” City of San Francisco

1968, 1973, “Graphics Award”, San Francisco Art Commission

1960 “Purchase Prize” and “First Hon. Mention,” The Butler Institute of American Art, “25th Annual”, Ohio

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

The National Museum of American Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Library of Congress

The Oakland Museum

The Smithsonian Institution

Tennessee State Museum

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane

Mills College, Oakland

The Knoxville Museum of Art

Fresno Arts Center Museum

Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis

TEACHING (SELECTED)

California College of the Arts, (CCAC) 1971 to 2001

Professor of Art, Painting/Drawing Dept.

Director of C.C.A.C. Galleries 1975-1985

Viacom CH29 TV Producer “The ‘Art of the Matter” 1986 to present

BORN: 1931

© Eleanor Dickinson 1970-2009