NATHAN OLIVEIRA
Painter, Teacher 1928-2010

Education and Teaching
Attended Mills College, 1950; California College of Arts and Crafts, BA, 1951, MFA, 1952. Taught California College of Arts and Crafts, 1952-1953, 1955-1956. Professor of Studio Arts, Stanford University, 1964-1996.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1955-1975
Lithographs by Nathan Oliveira, Eric Locke Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1957; The Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1958; Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 1959; Nathan Oliveira: Paintings, The Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1960; Nathan Oliveira: Paintings and Drawings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, 196X; Nathan Oliveira: Watercolor Studies of the Nude, Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 1960; Recent Work of Nathan Oliveira, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1961; The Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1962; Nathan Oliveira, Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1963; Twelve Intimate Fantasies, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1965; Ten Years of Printmaking, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1965; Nathan Oliveira: Lithographs 1963-1966, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1966; Nathan Oliveira: Watercolors and Drawings, Landau-Alan Gallery, New York, NY, 1966; Drawings by Nathan Oliveira, Stanford University Art Galleries, 1967; Galerie Bleue, Stockholm, Sweden, 1968; Paintings and Drawings by Nathan Oliveira, Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1968; Nathan Oliveira: Recent Paintings, Felix Landau Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1968; Nathan Oliveira: Works on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1969; Works on Paper, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, 1969; Monotypes of Masks, Galerie Smith-Anderson, Palo Alto, CA, 1970; Nathan Oliveira: New Paintings and Lithographs, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, 1972; Recent Paintings and Drawings of Women by Nathan Oliveira, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA,1972; A Suite of Lithographs: To Edgar Allen Poe, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, 1972; Nathan Oliveira: Paintings 1959-73, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 1973; Tauromaquia, Galerie Smith-Anderson, Palo Alto, CA, 1973; Nathan Oliveira: Hawk Sequence, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1975.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1950-1965
First Annual Open Exhibition in Painting and Sculpture, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1951; 19th Annual Exhibition: Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings, and Prints, Oakland Art Gallery, 1951; First Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Prints and Decorative Arts, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1952; California State Fair Art Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA, 1952; 72nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953; Third International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithograph, The Cincinnati Art Museum, 1954; Western Painters' Annual Exhibition, Oakland Art Museum, 1955; Ten Years of American Prints, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, 1956; Directions: Bay Area Painting, 1957, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1957; 63rd Annual for Western Artists, The Denver Art Museum, 1957; Northwest Printmaking: 29th International Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, 1957; San Francisco Print Festival: The Printmaker, 1450 - 1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, 1957; Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1957; New Images of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1959; Première Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1959; 63rd American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959; Guggenheim International Award, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 1960; American Art, 1910 - 1960: Selections from the Collection of Mr.and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY, 1960; The Aldrich Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961; Annual Exhibition - Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1961; Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1961; Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1962; Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , NY, 1962; Nieuwe Realisten (New Realism), Haags Germeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands, 1964; Contemporary Painters Sculptors as Printmakers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1964, 1966; Seven California Figurative Artists, The Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 1966; Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1966; Selection 1967: Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1967; Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1969; American Painting, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, 1969; The Drawing Society National Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1970; Looking West, Josylyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 1970; Excellence: Art from the University Community, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1970; A Decade in the West: Painting, Sculpture, and Graphics from the Anderson Collection, Stanford University Museum of Art, 1971; 24th National Exhibition of Prints, The Library of Congress and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1975; The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, 1980; The Painterly Print, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1980; Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980; American Prints: Process & Proofs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1981; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, Oakland Museum, 1985; Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950 - 1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1989; The Unique Print: 70's into 90's, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 198X; A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking, 1890-1960, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1990.

Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Collection of Australia, Melbourne, Australia; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Oakland Museum; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Stanford University Museum of Art; Tate Gallery, London, England; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yale University Art Center, New Haven, CT.