CLAYTON PINKERTON
Painter, Teacher, 1931-1993

Education and Teaching
Studied at Carmel Art Institute, California; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, B.A., 1952; M.F.A., 1953; University of New Mexico (Harwood Foundation, Taos), 1955; University of Paris, 1958. Taught at Richmond Art Center, California, 1951-1958.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, 1952; Everett Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1958; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1963; Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, 1965.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1975
71st-73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association (from 1961, San Francisco Art Institute) at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1952-1954; 75th Annual, 1956; 78th- 79th Annual, 1959-1960; Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil, III Beinal, 1955; First Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1955; California Painters: 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, 1956; First-Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960-1963; The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958-1960, 1962-1964, 1966; Recent Painting USA: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961; Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1966; Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969.