William Paul Morehouse San Francisco CA, USA 1929 - Bodega, CA, USA 1993 American Icon - Neon Pencil drawing 1969 hand-signed, dated and titled Edition: unique Sheet browned, slightly foxed, remains of glue at the edge Sheet size: 52.5 x 65.0 cm Motif size: 25.0 x 56.0 cm William Paul Morehouse 1929 - 1993 Biography Education: 1947-50 California School of Fine Arts 1953 California College of Arts and Crafts 1953-54 San Francisco Art Institute BFA 1954-56 San Francisco State University MA Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1996 William Morehouse: The Chinois Paintings, King/Heller Gallery, Bodega, Ca 1995 William Morehouse, A Memorial Exhibition, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca 1994 The Coffee Ground Series, King/Heller Gallery, Freestone 1994 Landscape Envisioned, Paintings "En Plein Air" Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, CA 1993 Landscape Paintings, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco 1991 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, Ca 1987 SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco 1986 Gannon Gallery, Bismark, North Dakota 1984 South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco 1983 Oberon Gallery, Napa 1982 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco 1980 John Bolles Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca 1979 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Ca 1978 Kingswood Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1977 William Morehouse: The Subway Series ( An Evolution of an Idea), San Jose Museum of Art 1973 St Mary's College, Moraga, Ca 1969 Galeriea Carl Van der Voort, Ibiza, Spain 1967 Richmond Art Gallery, Ca 1965 Harbor Gallery, Oakland 1961 Realities Gallery, Taos, New Mexico 1960 Atherton Gallery, Menlo Park, Ca 1958 The 6 Gallery, San Francisco John Bolles Gallery, New York City 1954 Telegraph Gallery, San Francisco Selected Group Exhibitions: 2009 The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC 2008 Mysteries, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco 2006 Of the Land, Quicksilver Mine Co, Forestville 2005 Bakers Dozen, Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, Ca 2004 Absurd, Silly and Surreal, 14th Rotation, Next Level Communications, A Motorola Company, Rohnert Park 2003 12th ROTATION, Honoring the Art of Ruth Dicker, Next Level Communications, A Motorola Company, Rohnert Park 2002 Bred in the Bone, William and Jack Morehouse, The A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca 2001 Passing the Gift, The Legacy of 9 Sonoma County Artists, SoFo Gallery, "A" Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca 2001 Retro, Next Level Communications, A Motorola Company, Rohnert Park 1997 Bradford Gallery, San Francisco 1993 Cross Country - Plein Air Painting, Sonoma Four Plein Air Painting Tour, The Century Club, NYC 1992 En Plein Air, The Sonoma Four, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 1991 Plein Air Painting-Sonoma Four, Dominican College, San Rafael, Ca 1990 Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery, 1954-1956, Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, Davis, Ca 1989 Plein Air Painting- The Sonoma Four, J. Noblett Gallery, Sonoma, Ca San Francisco 1950, Natsoulos Novelozo Gallery, Davis, Ca 1986 Works on Paper, Traveling Brazilliam University Art Gallery 1985 American Abstraction, Four Currents, Louis Meisel Gallery, New York City 1983 Art Colab, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City 1982 Group Show, Women's Cultural Center, Palo Alto, Ca 1981 Sculpture Conference Show, University Art Museum, Berkeley 1976 The Hieronymous Bosch Project, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas 1975 Artist Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1973 A Period of Exploration, 1945-50, Oakland Museum of Art 1970 National Drawing Exhibition, SFMOMA 1966 Funk, University Art Museum, Berkeley 1960 Recent Trends in San Francisco Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA 1959 1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 1958 The Painted Flower Exhibition, Oakland 1957 1959 1961 Phelan Awards, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1955 San Francisco Art Association Painting and Sculpture Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art 1954 Younger American Painters, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York City 1953 Richmond Art Center Annual Exhibition, Richmond, Ca 1950 New Directions, California School of Fine Art, San Francisco 1949 Northern California Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Publications: Younger American Painters, James Johnson Sweeney, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 1956, illus.,cat. Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Ca, 1967, illust.,cat. Funk, Peter Selz, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Ca, 1967, illus.,cat An Age of Exploration, Mary Fuller McChesney, Oakland Art Museum, 1973, text and illus. Art of the Future, D.M.Davis, Praeger, NY The Sunshine Muse, Peter Plagens, Praeger, NY Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, 1984, illus.,index Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, Thomas Albright, University of California Press, 1985, text and index The Six Gallery, San Francisco, Novelozo Natsoulas, Cat.,text&illus., Davis, Ca, 1960 Plein Air Painting, cat.,text & illus., 1991 Cross Country, Essay by Phil Linhares, Curator of Art, Oakland Museum, cat., text, illus., 1993 En Plein Air, John Berggruen Gallery, Essay by Phil Linares, Chief Curator of Art, Oakland Museum, cat.,text, illus.,1992 William Morehouse A Memorial Exhibition, Essay by John Fitzgibbon, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, 1995, text, cat. illus.1995 Visions, Art Quarterly Magazine, Spring 1992, text,illus. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, 50 Works for 50 States illus of "Untitled" page 61 A Gift to Florida's Miami Art Museum 2009 Public Collections: Yale University Graphics Collection, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oakland Museum of Art University Art Museum, Berkeley Museo de Arte Moderno, Spain Archives of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC San Francisco Art commission Sarah Lawrence College, NY Smith college Museum of Art, MA Lytton collection of California Art First International Bank, Houston, TX Amax Corporation, San Jose United Gas and Pipeline Corporation, Houston, TX Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA Sheraton Sonoma County - Petaluma Hotel Miami Art Museum, Miami Florida Gifted by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel 2009 Personal papers collected by the Archives of America Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.