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TOM BLACKWELL

Biography

BORN

1938 Chicago, Illinois TEACHING

1985-89 School of Visual Arts, Masters Program, New York, NY

1981 University of Arizona, Tucson, Artist in Residence, March

1980 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Artist in Residence, Fall

1978 Keene State College, Keene, NH, Guest Professor, Summer GRANTS AND AWARDS 1998 New York State Council of the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant

1990 Awards Panel, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

1986 American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, purchase award

1986 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Award SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 “Tom Blackwell: Motorcycles & Mannequins,” The Artist Book Foundation, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, Feb. 8 – June 2

2016 “Tom Blackwell: American Photorealist,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 9 – December 22

2012 “Tom Blackwell: Metamorphical Paintings,” Karl Drerup Art Gallery Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, October 2 – 27

“Tom Blackwell: The 21st Century,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 2

2009 “Tom Blackwell: Image as Metaphor,” New England College, Henniker, NH, October 3 – November 13

2006-07 “Aspects of a Realist,” Brauer Museum of Art, Vapraiso University, Valpraiso, IN, December 8, 2006 – March 25, 2007


Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France, November 29, 2006 – January 6, 2007

2004 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 10 – May 1

2002 “Tom Blackwell,” Eckert Fine Art, Naples, FL, April 1 – April 30

1999 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 2 – 30

“It’s about Time: Tom Blackwell, Paintings for the Millennium,” Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY, Sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts, August 15 – September 26

“Tom Blackwell,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, February 11 – March 6

1995 “Tom Blackwell,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, April 6 – 29

1988 “Tom Blackwell,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1987 “Tom Blackwell: Third Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, May 21 – July 31

1986 “Tom Blackwell: Second Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, June 19 – July 30

“Tom Blackwell,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, April 10 – May 10

1985 “Tom Blackwell: New Paintings,” The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, October 18 – December 1

1982 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 6 – 27

1981 “Tom Blackwell,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1980 “Tom Blackwell: Selected Works 1970-80,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 7 – December 28

“Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 8 – 29

1977 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 8 – 29

1976 “Tom Blackwell,” Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany

1975 “Tom Blackwell,” Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS

1975 Sharp-Focus Paintings by Tom Blackwell, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, February 5 – March 1

1964 Orange Coast College Museum, Santa Ana, CA

1962 Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1961 Roy Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 “High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists,” Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Feb. 14 – May 8

2019-20 “The Seasons,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, Nov.

16, 2019 – March 1, 2020

2019 “Panoramic Views,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 3 – Feb. 24

“Reality Check: Photorealist Watercolors,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 27 – July 28

2018-19 “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Parrish Museum of Art, Watermill, NY, Nov.

11, 2018 – Oct. 3, 2019

2018 “Pavement to Pavement,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan 4 – Feb 24

“Photorealism,” Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Mar. 2 – April 7

“Reflections, Ripples & Shadows,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov 15 – Dec 22

2017-18 “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today,” traveling exhibition: Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY August 6, 2017 – Jan. 21, 2018; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI, April 21 – September 12, 2018

“American Dream,” Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany & Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, Oct 19, 2017 – May 10, 2018

2017 “Photorealism in the Desert”, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, March

10- April 8

2016 “Photorealist Urban Landscapes,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 3 – December 17

2015 “Still Life: 1970s Photorealism,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, January 24 – May 3

“Photorealism,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, September 12 – Nov. 11

2014-15 “Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection,” The New Orleans Museum of Art, November 9, 2014 – January 5, 2015

2013-14 “Celebrating the Publication of Photorealism in the Digital Age,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 2, 2013 – January 30, 2014


“Still Life: 1970’s Photorealism,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, August 30, 2013 – March 9, 2014

“Photorealism Revisited,” traveling exhibition: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, January 24 – April 21, 2013; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, June 1 – September 30, 2013; MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, January 12 – April 18, 2014

2012-17 “Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting,” traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, December 8, 2012 – March 10, 2013; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, arch 21 – June 9, 2013; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 30 – October 13, 2013; Birmingham Museum and Art Galery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, November 30, 2013 – March 30, 2014; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Octobr 7, 2014 – January 19, 2015; Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Talinn, Estonia, March 17 – June 12, 2016; Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, June 29 – September 25, 2016; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, October 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb. 25 – Jun. 4, 2017; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, July 13 – Oct. 22, 2017

2012 “Au-delà du Réel = Beyond Realism.” Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada, September 8 – October 2

2011-12 “Our Own Directions: The Louis K. & Susan P. Meisel Collection,” Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ September 18, 2011 – February 15, 2012

2011 “Signs,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – March 10

“The New York Project: Paintings of the City by Artists from Around the World,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 15 – October 29

2010 “Expansion,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 30 – November 13

2010 “The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, August 18 – December 12

“Summer Sweet,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 6 – September 10

“Real (ists),” Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, January 15 – February 16

2009 “New Photo-Realism Painting in the Digital Age,” Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, November 11 – December 11

“40 Years: Anniversary of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 1 – December 20


“American Dream,” The National Museum in Kraków, Kraków, Poland, July 2 – October 10

“The City: Day & Night,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 4 – July 17

“Photorealism: A Closer Look,” Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, March 31 – May 30

“Picturing America: Photorealism in the 70s,” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, March 7 – May 10

“Small Paintings from Around the World – Part II,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 5 – 28

2008-09 “Shock of the Real – Photorealism Revisited,” Boca Raton Museum of the Art, Boca Raton, FL, December 16, 2008 – March 11, 2009

2008 “Recent Acquisitions,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 27 – October 25

“Recent Acquisitions,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 1 – March 31

2007 “Recent American Watercolors,” Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, June 16 – August 26

Group Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 – December 20; June 5 – 30

2005-06 “Photorealism, Then and Now,” Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, December 8, 2005 – January 9, 2006

2005 Group Show, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, NY, September 7 – October 4 and viewing at le F.I.A.C. October 5 – 10

“Doubletake: Photorealism From The 1960’s and 1970’s,” The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 19 – July 31

“Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, NY, April 2 – June 19

“Vintage Masterpieces of Photorealism,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY March 5 – 26

2004-05 “An American Odyssey 1945 – 1980 (Debating Modernism),” traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30; Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2; Also to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY, October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005

“American Photorealism,” traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4; Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of


Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, December 12, 2004 – March 27, 2005

2004 “New American Realism and Photorealism,” Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghampton, NY, November 5 – 27

“Some Photorealism,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 8 – 27

“Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection,” Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, January 23 – March 5

2003-04 “Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY, September 14, 2003 – February 15, 2004

2003 “Hyperréalismes USA 1965-75,” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, June 27 – October 5

“Iperrealisti,” Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, April 5 – June 29

2002 “Photorealism at the Millennium: Vintage Photorealists,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 5 – 26

“Urban Landscapes,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 – 23

“Photorealism: The Liff Collection,” Naples Museum of Art, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, January 25 – June 2

2001 “This is America: American Photorealists,” Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, September 1 – November 25

“Near & Far: Perspective and Structure,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 3 – 31

“Illusion and Reality: Hyper-Realism Painting in Korea and America,” Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea, March 3 – April 29

2000-01 “Icons of the Century: A Retrospective,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, September 29, 2000 – January 21, 2001

2000 “The Photorealists,” Center For the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, July 22 – September 10

1999 “Photorealism – The Next Generation,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 6 – 27

“Summer Exhibition,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 29 – July 23

1998 “From Function to Form,” College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, July 7 – September 20


“25th Anniversary Exhibition: Major Works by the Photorealists,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 4 – May 16

“SVA: Exhibition of Master of Fine Arts Faculty Artists,” The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, April 4 – May 17

“Photorealism,” Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, February 12 – March 7

Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, January – February

1997 “Original Masks by Renowned Artists,” Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, December

“Photorealism,” Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, January 9 – 31

1996 “Gallery Artists,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, January – February

“Icons of the Century,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, October 2 – November 25

“Works on Paper,” Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY, October

“Summer Group Show,” Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY

“In This Time and Place,” College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, July 6 – 27

“Past Curators in the Present,” School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, May – June

“Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms),” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 – 23

“Paper Work,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 3 - 24

“Photorealism: Past and Present,” Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, January – February

1995 “Toys R Art,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, December 7 – 31

1994-95 “Art After Art,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, September 27, 1994 – January 2, 1995

1994 “Review of the Season,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, June 2 – July 13

“Realism In Our Time,” Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, April 22 – May 20

1993-94 “American Realism: The Urban Scene (Selections from the Glenn C. Janss Collection),” Traveling Exhibition: Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA, March 21 – May 2, 1993; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, May 20 – August 29, 1993; Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH,


September 19 – November 7, 1993; Paine Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, January 30 – March 13, 1994; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV, April 3 – May 15, 1994; The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY, May 29 – July 24, 1994; Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, IA, August 14 – September 2, 1994

1993 “Photorealism Since 1980,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 23 – June 24

“The Purloined Image,” The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, March 28 – May 16, catalog

“Really, Real, Realism Show,” Jack Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, January 8 – 29

National Gallery of Greece, Athens, Greece

1992 “Paintings: A New Naturalism,” Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY, October 22 – November 28

“Photorealism from Nashville Collections,” Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN, June 13 – 21

“New York: City By Day/City By Night III,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 11 – March 7

1991-92 “Photo-Realism: Revisited,” Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 22, 1991 – January 19, 1992

1991 “Don Celender’s Art Project,” O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, December

“Photorealism: The Early Years,” Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY, September 3 – December 28, catalog

“Decade of Excellence: NHSCA Fellows,” Liberty Arts Center, Newport, NH, July 20 – August 31

“In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, April 15 – July 29

“Inaugural Exhibition,” Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990 “Amerikansk Fotorealism,” Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 20 – November 25

“Menagerie,” Sponsored by Art Advisory Service, the Museum of Modern Art, General Electric Company, New York, NY, May – September

1989 Philippe Briet, New York, NY

“Grand Slam: Eighth Annual Fine-Arts-Look-At-Baseball,” Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY


“New York: City by Day/City by Night,” Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 2 – March 5

1987 “The Urban Landscape,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 7 – 28

“Realism: The New Generation,” R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL, June 5 – July 13

“New Year, New Work,” Gallery 99, Bay Harbor Islands, FL

“New Art, New Hampshire,” Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH

Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH

“Third Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

1986 “Second Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

“Spring Benefit,” Artists Space, New York, April

“Signs of the Times: Pop Art & Photorealism in America,” Sponsored by Artrain, Inc., Traveling Exhibition: Detroit, MI, March 4–11; Bay City, MI, March 13–22; Charlotte, MI, April 6–10; Benton Harbor, MI, April 14–18; Bangor, MI, April 22–26; Newago, MI, April 30–May 4; Traverse City, MI, May 9–13; Big Rapids/Paris MI, May 16–20; Lowell, MI, May 24–29; Selfridge ANG, MI, June 5–8; Flint, MI, June 12–16; Muskegon, MI, June 26–30; Manistee, MI, July 4–7; Ypsilanti, MI, August 20–24; Lincoln, NE, August 29–September 3; Indianapolis, IN, September 8–13; Union City, IN, September 17–21; Hammond/Gary, IN, September 25–29; Kokomo, IN, October 3–7; Columbus, IN, October 11–15; St. Louis, MO, October 20–26; Jeffersonville, IN, November 1–6

1985-87 “American Realism – 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, November 7, 1985 – January 12, 1986; DeCordova & Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, February 13 – April 6, 1986; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, July 31 – September 21, 1986; Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, October 23 – December 14, 1986; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, January 15 – March 8, 1987; Akron Art Museum, OH, April 9 – May 31, 1987; Madison Art Center, WI, July 26 – September 20, 1987

1985-86 “Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Baker Collection of Contemporary Art,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR

1985 “American Realism – The Precise Image,” Traveling Exhibition, Japan The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 25 – August 19; The Daimura


Museum, Osaka, October 9 – 28; Yokohama Takashimaya, November 7 – 12

“The Artist and The Object,” St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, September 18 – October 1

“Watercolors from the Collection,” The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, June 4 – August 25

1984 “Photographs by Painters,” Vision Gallery, Boston, MA, May 1 – 31

“Contemporary Printmaking,” College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX, March 23 – April 18

“Important Recent Acquisitions and New Directions,” Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, IL, March 16 – May 20

Photorealism, Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY, January 16 – February 18

1983-85 “Assignment: Aviation – The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection,” Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition: Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, January 1 – 31, 1983; Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, July 23 – September 4, 1983; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, September 24 – November 6, 1983; Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, GA, November 26, 1983 – January 8, 1984; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, January 28 – March 11, 1984; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial Museum, Logan, KS, March 31 – May 13, 1984; Longview Museum & Art Center, CO, August 4 – September 16, 1984; Springfield Art Museum, MO, October 6 – November 18, 1984; Fine Arts at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, December 8, 1984 – March 24, 1985; Historical & Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, April 13 – May, 26, 1985; Amarillo Art Center, TX, June 15 – July 28, 1985; Santa Fe Community Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, October 19 – December 1, 1985

1983 “10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 8 – 29

“Realism Now,” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, October 4 – December 4

“Trajectories 1905 – 1983,” Galerie 1900*2000, Paris, France, September 27 – October 29

“A Self-Portrait of America,” Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, June 18 – September 16

“The American Photorealists,” Fischer Fine Art, London, England, May 6 – June 3

“Free Wheeling,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NH, March 16 – April 24

“Recent Acquisitions,” The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH


1982 “The Rebounding Surface,” Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, August 6 – September 26

“Louis K. Meisel Gallery at Isy Brachot,” Brussels, Belgium, April 22 – May 22

“Photographs by the Photorealists,” Traveling Exhibition: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, January 8 – 31; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, February 11 – 28; Ball State Museum, Muncie, IN, March 7 – 31

“An Appreciation of Realism,” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, February 13 – April 11

“Photo-Réalisme ‘Dix Ans Apres’,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France, January 13 – March 6

1981-83 “American Super Realism: From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection,” Traveling Exhibition: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, September 1 – November 1, 1981; The Art Center, Inc., South Bend, IN, November 22, 1981 – January 3, 1982; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, January 16 – February 28, 1982; Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, NH, March 19 – May 2, 1982; DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, May 9 – June 20, 1982; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, July 6 – August 15, 1982; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, November 4, 1983 – December 7, 1983

“Contemporary American Realism since 1960,” traveling exhibition: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 18–December 13, 1981; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, February 1–March 28, 1982; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, May 6–July 25, 1982; USICA Sponsored Tour, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10–October 24, 1982; Sales de Exposciones, Madrid, Spain, November 17, 1982–January 8, 1983; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, West Germany, February 11–April 10, 1983

1981-82 “Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism,” Traveling Exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, TX, March 1 – April 26, 1981; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, May 19 – June 28, 1981; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, July 19 – August 26, 1981; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 24 – January 3, 1982

1981 “Seven Photorealists From New York Collections,” The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, October 6 – November 8

“Cityscapes,” The Graphics Gallery, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, July – August

“Toyoma Now, ’81,” Museum of Modern Art, Toyoma, Japan, July 5 – September 23


“Photographs by the Photorealists,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

“The Fine Art of Business,” The DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, October 4 – November 29

1980-81 “Assignment Aviation – The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection,” National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1980 – November 1, 1981

1980 “Memorial Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, November 17 – December 21

“New York Art Fair,” New York, NY

“Photorealism,” Richard Kaufmann Gallery, Houston, TX, August 8 – September 4

“Aspects of Photorealism,” Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA, March 11 – April 6

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1979 “Realist Space,” C.W. Post Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, October 18 – December 14

“Photorealism,” Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C., January – February

“Washington International Art Fair,” Washington, D.C., May 2 – 7

“Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ

“Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings from New York City Galleries,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto, PA, May 12 – July 8

“10th Anniversary Exhibit,” Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS, April

1978 “Photo-Realism and Abstract Illusionism,” Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, PA, October 14 – November

“Landscape/Cityscape,” Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY, September 22 – October 22

“Photo-Realist Printmaking,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria, Autralia

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

“Ed Weston Art Fair,” Palm Springs, CA

Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ


“Prospectus: Art in the Seventies,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary, Ridgefield, CT, January 13 – March

“Art and the Automobile,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, January 12 – March 12

1977-78 “Illusions and Reality,” Traveling Exhibition, Australia: Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

1977 “Washington International Art Fair,” Washington, D.C.

“Breaking the Picture Plane,” Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ, October 7 – 29

“Photo-Realists,” Shore Gallery, Boston, MA

“Fliengen-Ein Traum,” Museum der Stadt Rechlinghausen, West Germany

“Works on Paper II,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

“New Realism,” Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1976-80 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1976-78 “Aspects of Realism,” Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd.: The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, June 8 – September 5, 1976; Vancouver Centennial Museum, British Columbia, September 16 – October 17, 1976; Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, October 29 – November 28, 1976; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, December 10, 1976 – January 9, 1977; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, January 20 – February 20, 1977; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, March 1 – April 1, 1977; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, New Foundland, April 14 – May 14, 1977; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, May 26 – June 26, 1977; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, July 7 – August 7, 1977; Dalhousie University Museum and Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 18 – September 18, 1977; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, September 29 – October 23, 1977; London Public Library and Art Museum, McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, November 11 – November 27, 1977; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, December 8, 1977 – January 8, 1978

1976 “Washington International Art Fair,” Washington, D.C.

“Herbert Distel’s Museum of Drawers,” Museum der Stadt Solothurn, Switzerland


“Realism (Paintings and Drawings),” Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“3e foire international d’art contemporain (FIAC),” Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16 – 24

Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany

1976 “Eight Realists,” Palomar College, San Marco, CA

1976 “Fotorealismus,” DP Gallery, Heidelberg, West Germany

1975-76 “Photo-Realism, American Painting & Prints,” New Zealand Traveling Exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland, Robert McDougal Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, Dunedin; Covett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton

1975-76 “Super Realism,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

1975 “Watercolors and Drawings – American Realists,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

“39th Annual Midyear Show,” The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 29 – August 31

“Photo-Realists,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

“Realismus & Realitat,” Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany

“The New Realism: Rip-Off or Reality?” Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

1974 “Corporations Collect,” DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA

“11th Tokyo Biennale, ’74,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Perfectual Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

“New Photo-Realism,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

“25 Years of Janis, Part II,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

“Ars 5 ’74,” Basel, Switzerland

“Ars ’74 Atheneum,” Fien Arts Academy of Finland, Helsinki

“Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek,” Traveling Exhibitions: Hedendaagse Kunst, Ultrecht, Holland; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

“Institute of Contemporary Art,” Unviersity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1973-78 “Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection,” Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery,


University of Rochester, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1973-74 “Hyperrealisme,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

1973 “The Super Realist Vision,” DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA

“Richard Brown Baker Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

“Realism Now,” Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

“American Realism, Post-Pop,” Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Detroit, MI

1972-73 “Amerikanischer Fotorealismum,” Traveling Exhibition, West Germany: Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, West Germany

1972 “L’Hyperrealistes americains,” Galerie Des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

“Phases of the New Realism,” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

“Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

“Realism Now,” New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

“Sharp Focus Realism,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

“Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1971 “Projected Artists/Artists at Work,” Finch College Museum, New York, NY

“New Realism/Old Realism,” Bernard Dannenburg Gallery, New York, NY

“200th Annual Spring Invitational,” O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, June 5 – 26

“All California Show,” Laguna Beach Art Association Museum, Laguna Beach, CA


1970 Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1969 “Human Concern/Personal Torment,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

1968 “The Visionaries,” East Hampton Gallery, NY

1966 “Psychedelic Art,” Riverside Museum, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University Of Texas, Austin, TX

Arkansas State University Museum, AR

Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN

Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, AR

Binghamton University Art Museum, SUNY Binghamton, NY

Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN

Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, IL

Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

Dwight Frederic Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, MD

East Gallery, College of Eastern Utah

Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Erie Art Museum, PA

Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

Grand Rapids Museum of Art, MI

James Madison University, School of Art and Art History, Harrisonburg, VA

Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY

New England College, Henniker, NH

Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY

Pieper Power, Milwaukee, WI

Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Queens, NY

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Sentra Museum, Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX

State University of New York, New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

State University of New York Plattsburgh, Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY

The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

The Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

The Virlane Foundation and The K&B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA


University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2018 Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle; “A Pioneer of Photorealism Visits North Adams”, April 2018

2013 Nospal, Ana. “Rendering Reality: Pushing The Boundaries Of Art.” KGOU – NPR, Oklahoma, March 21, 2013, Radio and Web

2013 Brandenburg, John. “Art Inspired by Photography Focus of New Museum Exhibit.” NewsOK.com. N.p., 30 Jan. 2013. Web

2012 Meisel, Louis K., “Photorealism In The Digital Age”, rh+artmagazine, No: 91, June, July, August, Page: 46-51, Instanbul. 2012. Print.

2011 Weiss, Marion. “Art Commentary: Hans Van De Bovenkamp and Photorealism at Meisel Gallery”, Dan’s Papers, July 1.

2010 “Photorealism XX.” American Art Collector Oct. 2010: 214-17. Print.

Gibson Stoodley, Sheila. “Picture This.” Art & Antiques May 2010: 66-75.

2009 Czubinska, Magdalena, ed. American Photorealism from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Family Collection. Kraków: National Museum of Kraków, Poland

2009 “Picturing America – Opening and Talks,” Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Spring/Summer 2009: 24

2009 “Photorealism in the 1970s: An Album,” Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Spring 2009: 6-7

2009 Lubin, David, comp. “They Were Really Nice Guys,” Deutsche

Guggenheim Magazine, Spring 2009: 14-19

2009 Gisbourne, Mark. “In the Republic of Realism,” Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Spring 2008: 8-13

2008 Charest, Bob. “There’s more to love about the Currier,” Union Leader, Manchester, NH, March 30.

2007 Serrano, Hannah. Different Strokes, Port Folio Weekly, Newport News, Virginia, Jul. 21, pg. 43

2005 Egebjerg, Kirsten, Erenreich, Clara and Mogens Frolund, eds. “Texting: 1st Year Fiction”, Narayana Press, Denmark, front cover.


2005 Blackwell, Tom. “Lèche-vitrines”, Numero Magazine, Paris, France, March issue, illustrations.

2001 Grubach, Carsten B. “Det er Altså Osgå Amerika,” Jydske Vestkysten, Haderslev, Denmark, September 22, illustration

2001 Sandbye, Mette. “Spejlverdener,” Weekend Avisen, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28, illustration

2001 “Amerikanske Ikoner,” Samvirke, Albertslund, Denmark, August 28, illustration

2000 Gladstone, Valerie. “Tom Blackwell,” ARTnews, NY, Volume 90, No. 2, February, pg. 165.

2000 Gisbourne, Mark. “Oculus Imaginationis: Taking the Real out of Photorealism,” Contemporary Visual Arts, London, England, Issue 31, pg. 46-47

1999 “Tom Blackwell, Odalisque Express,” The Miami Herald, February 26, illustration

1998 Miller, Donald. “’Masters’ show rich in variety” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 2

1998 Singer, Clyde. “Exhibits offer blend of new with traditional,” The Vindicator, Youngstown, PA, April 5

1997 Smart, Paul. “Tom Blackwell: Thriving on the Natural, On the Urban,” The Mountain Eagle, August 6, Page 1, illustration

1997 “The Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art and Design – The Magazine, Fall/Winter, pg. 33-34

1996 “Toys ‘R’ Art,” ARTnews, March 1996, illustration

1996 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1995-1996 Annual Report, pg. 24, illustration

1996 Bumiller, Elizabeth. “It’s a Summer Thing,” The New York Times, May 26

1992 “Cooperstown Show Displays Tom Blackwell’s Photorealism,” Catskill Mountain News, October 28, pg. 9, illustration

1991 “West Coast Art at the End of This Century,” Bijuto Techo, Tokyo, Japan, Volume 43, No. 640, July, pg. 80. Illustration, pg. 94

1991 Parks, Steve. “The Grand Museum Tour,” Newsday, (Nassau Edition – Part II), May 3, pg. 84-85,100

1991 Lipson, Karin. “It’s not real, It’s Super-Realism!” Newsday, Nassau Edition, April 26


1991 Harrison, Helen A. “Focusing In On Super-Realism,” The New York Times, April 1991, Section 28, pg. 11 – L.I.

1991 Hulburt, Roger. “Is it photo or painting? Take a guess at Photorealism exhibit,” Sun Sentinel, November 27, pg. 3E, illustration

1989 Kover, Jonas. “Art Makes its Pitch,” Sunday Observer-Dispatch, Cooperstown, NY, July 23

1987 Ligocki, Gordon. “Photorealism Holds on to 1980’s Audiences,” The Times, Hammond, IN, July 3, pg. B-7

1986 De Kay, Ormonde. “Blackwell at Lamagna,” Art/World, May

1986 Klien, Ellen Lee. “Tom Blackwell,” Arts Magazine, May

1986 Raynor, Vivien. “Tom Blackwell,” The New York Times, May 2

1985 Arthur, John. “Contemporary Realism,” Art New England, September

1983 Mullaly, Terence. “Icy Reflections of Life,” London Daily Telegraph

1982 Aceti, Diana. “The Fine Art of Photo Realism,” Dodge National Forum, Vol. 5, No. 1, pg. 6-9, Cover illustration

1982 “The Illusion of Reality, The Reality of Illusion,” Boston After Dark, The Boston Phoenix, June 22, illustration

1982 Marera, Daniella. “Fotorealismo,” Italian Vogue, October, pg. 634-639, 700, illustration

1982 Gillemon, Daniele. “Une galerie Bruxelloise a’ l’heure New Yorkaise,” Le Soir, Brussels, Belgium, May 12

1982 Ray, Stephanie. “La Galerie Brachot et la Galerie Louis K. Meisel,” Echo de la Bauru, Brussels, Belgium, May 9

1982 “New York a Bruxelles et vice-versa,” Libre Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, May 7

1982 Russel, John. “Painters from Brussels,” The New York Times, May 21

1981 “Photo-Realist Aviation Art,” Air Force Magazine, September, pg. 61, illustration

1981 Portfolio, November/December, pg. 77, illustration

1981 Perrault, John. “Photorealing in the Years,” Soho Weekly News, October 20, pg. 64

1981 “Cityscapes,” The Column, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, July/August

1981 Forgey, Benjamin. “Aviation Art at Home in Its New Hangar,” The Washington Star, May 21, illustration


1981 Karmel, Pepe. “Photographs by the Photorealists,” Art in America, May, pg. 140

1981 Yoskowitz, Robert. “Review,” Arts Magazine, January, pg. 31

1980 “Thomas Blackwell at Hopkins Center,” Manchester Union Leader, illustration

1980 Chase, Linda. “Tom Blackwell, 1970-1980,” Arts Magazine, January, pg. 31

1980 Meisel, Louis K. “Fifteen Years of Photorealism,” Horizon, November, pg. 52, illustration

1980 “Contemporary and Modern Art to be Offered June 10 at Christie’s East,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly, June 6, pg. 38

1979 Reif, Rita. “Auctions: Orientalia Leads the Way,” The New York Times, November 16

1979 Loge, Oystein. “Et Nytt Salongmaleri er pa vei,” Bergens Tidende, Norway, August 10, pg. 4

1979 Ratcliff, Carter. “Contemporary American Painting,” Decade, January, pg. 46-47, illustration

1978 Perreault, John. “Art Picks: Photo-Realist Prints,” Soho Weekly News, December 14, pg. 54, illustration

1978 “Photo Journalism and Photo Realism,” Miluakee Journal, December 10

1978 Mackie, Alwynne. “New Realism and the Photographic Look,” American Art Review, November, pg. 72-79, 132-134, illustration

1978 Harris, Helen. “Art and Antiques: The New Realists,” Town and Country, October, pg. 242, 244, 246-247

1978 “New Acquisitions,” Elvehjem Museum of Art Calendar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September – November

1978 “For the Record,” Art Gallery Magazine, Vol. XXI, #6, August – September, pg. 16

1978 Bongard, Willie. Ark Aktuell, Cologne, West Germany, April

1978 Zimmer, William. “Tom Blackwell,” Arts Magazine, January, pg. 24-25

1978 Akroyd, Dan. “Heavy Metal Silence,” Crawdaddy, January, pg. 50-53, illustration

1978 “Acquisitions,” 1978 Annual Report, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1977 “A Gallery of Aviation,” Pilot Magazine, December, pg. 66


1977 “Fleigen-Ein Traum,” Ruhrfestspiele, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany

1977 Battcock, Gregory. “Dinner for Eighty,” Soho Weekly News, November 10

1977 Phillips, Ralph. “Just Like the Real Thing,” Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Australia, September 11

1977 R.S. “The Museum of Modern Art,” Art in America, September 10, pg. 93-96

1977 McGrath, Sandra. “I Am Almost a Camera,” The Australian, Brisbane, Australia, July 27

1977 Borlase, Nancy. “In Selecting a Common Domestic Object,” Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, July 30

1977 Zimmer, William. “Works on Paper,” Arts Magazine, March, pg. 38

1977 Ratcliff, Carter. “Remarks on the Nude,” Art International, Vol. XXI, No. 2, March 4, pg. 60-65

1977 Edelson, Elihu. “New Realism at Museum Arouses Mixed Feelings,” Jacksonville Journal, FL, February

1976-7 Greenwood, Mark. “Toward a Definition of Realism: Reflections on the Rothman’s Exhibition,” Arts/Canada, Vol, XXIV, No. 210-211, December/January, pg. 6-23

1976 Schultze, Sabine. “Fleisch, Fassaden and Feuerstuble,” December

1976 Freeser, Sigrid. “Fotorealismus eine neuw salonkunst?” Mannheimer Morgan, West Germany, December

1976 “Das Ende is Uberall,” Frankfurter Rundschau, December

1976 Schneider, Helmut. “Heidelberg: Photo Realismus,” Die Zeit, Heidelberg, December 17, pg. 38

1976 Owen, Barbara. “For The First Time…I Like What I Am Doing,” Stars and Stripes, Heidelberg, West Germany, December 17

1976 Lamagna, Carlo. “Tom Blackwell’s New Paintings,” Art International, Vol. XX, No. 10, December, pg. 22-26, illustration

1976 Chase, Linda. “How Much is a Painting Worth?” The New Englander, Vol. 23, No. 8, December, pg. 54-62, illustration

1976 K. M. “Realism,” New Art Examiner, November

1976 Artner, Alan. “Mirroring the Merits of a Showing of Photo-Realism,” Chicago Tribune, October 24, Arts & Fun

1976 “Exhibition Displays Aspects of Realism,” New Westminster Columbian, British Columbia, October 9


1976 Parker, William. “Perspectives,”Monadnock Ledger, NH, July, pg. 5, illustration

1976 Glasser, Penelope. “Aspects of Realism at Stratford,” Art Magazine, Toronto, Canada, Summer, Vol. 7, No. 28, pg. 22-29, illustration

1976 Yankee Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 5, May, pg. 104-105, illustration

1976 Hoffman, Donald. Kansas City Star, May

1976 Chase, Linda. “Photo-Realism: Post Modernist Illusionism,” Art International, Vol. XX, No. 3-4, March/April, pg. 14-27, illustration

1975 Richard, Paul. “Whatever You Call It, Super Realism Comes On With a Flash,” Washington Post, November 25, pg. B1

1975 Curnow, Wynston. “The Imagery of Now,” New Zealand Listener, September 13

1975 “Photorealism at Best,” The Christchurch Star, New Zealand, July 30

1975 “Photorealism,” Northern Advocate, Witangare, New Zealand, August 4

1975 “Photorealism Tours Our Big Centers,” Manawatu Evening Standard, New Zealand, July 30

1975 “Local Art Exhibition,” South Auckland Courier, New Zealand, July 30

1975 “Unique Art Exhibition,” City News, New Zealand, July 23

1975 McNamara, T.J. “Photo-Realist Exhibition Makes Impact,” New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, July 23

1975 “First Exhibition of Photo-Realist Art in Auckland,” Auckland Tourist Times, New Zealand, July 22, pg. 6

1975 Bromhead, Peter. “Going Back in Time,” Auckland Star, Auckland, New Zealand

1975 Bromhead, Peter. “When is Copying Not Cheating?” Auckland Star, Auckland, New Zealand, July 22

1975 McNamara, T.J. “Photorealist Exhibition Makes Impact,” Auckland Star, New Zealand, July 21

1975 “Photo Realism on the Way,” Western Leader, Auckland Suborian, New Zealand, July 21

1975 “Photo Realist Art to be Shown in Dunedin,” The Evening Star, Auckland, New Zealand, July 18

1975 The Auckland Star, Auckland, New Zealand, June 25, pg. 1, illustration


1975 Battcock, Gregory. “Art in New York,” Domus, Auckland, June, pg. 54-55, illustration

1975 Ray, Steve. “Photo/Art: Real or Reel?” Oshkosh Advance-Titan, May 1, pg. 19

1975 “Photo-Realism Flies High at Paine,” Milwaukee Journal, May

1975 “Photo-Realists at Paine,” Post Crescent View Magazine, Appleton, WI, April 27, pg. 5-6

1975 Ratcliff, Carter. “Tom Blackwell at Sidney Janis,” Art International, Vol. XIX, No. 14, April 20, pg. 56-57, illustration

1975 “Photo-Realism Exhibit Is Opening At Paine Sunday,” Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, April 17, illustration

1975 Ellenzweig, Allen. “Tom Blackwell,” Arts Magazine, April, pg. 14

1975 “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker Magazine, February 24, pg. 8

1975 Russel, John. “Tom Blackwell,” The New York Times, February 8, pg. 21

1974-5 University of Kansas Museum of Art Calendar, December – January

1974 Spector, Stephen. “The Super Realists,” Architectural Digest, November – December, pg. 85

1974 Hughes, Robert. “An Omnivorous and Literal Dependence,” Arts Magazine, June, pg. 25-29

1974 Hartford Magazine, April, pg. 14, illustration

1974 “Tom Blackwell,” Goya, No. 119, March – April

1974 Chase, Linda. “The Connotation of Denotation,” Arts Magazine, February, pg. 38-41, illustration

1974 Bell, Jane. “Stuart M. Speiser Collection,” Arts Magazine, December, pg. 57

1973 Levin, Kim. “The New Realism: A Synthetic Slice of Life,” Opus International, Vol. 44-45, pg. 28-37, illustration

1973 Derfner, Phyllis. “New York Letter,” Art International/The Lugano Review, illustration

1973 Chase, Linda; and McBurnett, Ted. “Fiches – Tom Blackwell,” interview translated from “The Photorealists-12 Interviews,” Art in America, pg. 39-53, illustration

1973 Borgeaud, Bernard. “Hyperrealisme Americain,” Pariscope, October, pg. 73

1973 Art Gallery Guide, September, pg. 1-3


1973 Chase, Linda. “Recycling Reality,” Art Gallery Magazine, October, pg. 75-82, illustration

1972 Chase, Linda; Foote, Nancy; and McBurnett, Ted. “Interviews with Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Richard Estes and John Salt,” Opus International, No. 44-45, June, pg. 38-50

1972 “L’hyperrealisme Americain,” Le Monde des Grandes Musiques, No. 2, March – April, pg. 4, 56-57, illustration

1972 Tall, Bill. “The World of Post-Pop: Scintillating NewWave,” Detroit News, February, illustration

1972 Snyder, Louise. The East Oakland Voice, February, illustration

1972 Hakanson, Joy. “Post-Pop Realists Break Rules-Beautifully,” Detroit Sunday News, February, illustration

1972 Piradel, Jean-Louis. “Paris I: hyperrealists americains,” Opus International, October, No. 39, pg. 51-52

1972 Moulin, Raoul-Jean. “Hyperrealistes americains,” L’Humanite, January 16

1972 Lista, Giovanni. “Iperrealisti americani,” NAC, Milan, Italy, No. 12, December, pg. 24-25

1972 Seitz, William C. “The Real and the Artificial: Painting of the New Environment,” Art In America, November – December, Vol. 60, No. 6, pg. 58-72

1972 Chase, Linda; Foote, Nancy; and McBurnett, Ted. “The Photo-Realists – 12 Interviews,” Art in America, November – December, Vol. 60, No. 6, pg. 734-89

1972 “Hyperrealistes americains,” Argus de la Presse, November 16

1972 Marmori, Giancarlo di. “Piu vero del vero,” L’Espresso, No. 29, June 16, pg. 4-15

1972 Hickey, David. “Sharp Focus Realism,” Art in America, March/April, pg. 116-118

1972 Lerman, Leo. “Sharp Focus Realism,” Mademoiselle Magazine, March 19, pg. 170-173, illustration

1972 Rosenberg, Harold. “The Art World, Reality Again,” The New Yorker, February 5, pg. 88-93

1972 Hughes, Robert. “The Realists as Corn God,” Time Magazine, January 31, pg. 50-55

1972 Marvel, Bill. “Saggy Nudes? Giant Heads? Make way for ‘Superrealism’,” National Observer, January 29, pg. 22


1972 Kramer, Hilton. “And Now, Pop Art: Phase II,” The New York Times, January 16, pg. 14

1972 Thornton, Gene. “These Must Have Been a Labor of Love,” The New York Times, January 23

1970 “Living Big in a Loft,” Life Magazine, pg. 61-65, illustration

1967 Glueck, Grace. “Reviews,” The New York Times, April 1, pg. 26

1965 Cantrell, Don. “He Paused in Laguna, Came Back and ‘Started a Storm’,” The Register, August 1

1964 “Reviews,” Artforum, April 16, pg. 18

SELECTED BOOKS

2016 Chase, Linda. Tom Blackwell: The Complete Paintings: 1970-2014, The Artist Book Foundation.

2014 Lash, Miranda and Meisel, Louis. Photorealism: Beginnings to Today, Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

2013 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism in the Digital Age, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2013, pg. 59-68, print

2009 Hillings, Valerie L., comp. Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s/Picturing America: Fotorealismum der 70er Jahre, Ed. Helena Winston, Translated, Bernhard Geyer and Nazire Ergun, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2009

2007 Chalumeau, Jean-Luc. Peinture Et Photographie: Pop-art, Figuration Narrative, Hyperréalisme, Nouveaux Pop, Paris, France, Chêne, 2007, print, pg. 98, 102, 103, illustration

2006 Cuzin, Jean-Pierre and Salmon, Dmitri. Ingres regards croisés, Mengés Publications, Paris, France, pg. 232, print

2004 Cempellin, Leda. L’Iperrealismo “Fotografico” Americano in Pittura, Padua, Italy, Coop. Libraria Editrice Unversità di Padova, pg. 218

2002 Foster, Stephen C. An American Odyssey 1945-1980: Debating Modernism, New York, Queensborough Community College, pg. 285

2002 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism at the Millennium, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2013, pg. 57-64, cover illustration

2001 Sima Suárez, Carmen De, and Ana Vásquez de la Cueva. Aeronáutica y Pintura – Aeronautics and Painting, Madrid, Aena, pg. 209


1996 Huber, Tobias. Autokauf, Germany, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag & Carl Heymanns Verlag, cover illustration

1995 Keating, Helane and Levy, Walter, Eds. Lives Through Literature: A Thematic Anthology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, cover illustration

1994 The Fine Art Index, Volume I, Chicago, International Art Reference, pg. 49

1993 Betti, Claudia and Sale, Teel. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, 3rd ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, pg. 62-63

1989 Ward, John L. American Realist Painting 1945-1980, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pg. 268, 270, 316-319 (illustrated), 272, 276, 289, 313, 321, 338

1988 Kantz, Les. The New York Art Review, American References, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, pg. 130, 761

1986 Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors, Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, pg. 291, 293, illustration

1985 Krantz, Les. American Art Galleries, Facts on File Publications, New York, pg. 211

1982 Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, The Krantz Company, New York, illustration

1980 Lindy, Christine. Superrealist Painting and Sculpture, William Morrow Company, Inc., New York

1980 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2013, pg. 11, 14-16, 18, 23-25, 55, 83-108

1979 Beginning Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, New York, illustration

1979 Seeman, Helene Zucker and Siegfried, Alanna. SoHo, Neal-Schuman, New York,

1979 Lucie-Smith, Edward. Super Realism, Phaidon, Oxford, England, illustration

1978 Tubbs, D.B. Art and the Automobile, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, pg. 132, 136

1978 Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, The Krantz Company, New York

1977 Battcock, Greogry. Why Art, E.P. Dutton, New York, illustration

1976 Who’s Who in American Art, R. R. Bowker, New York

1975 Kultermann, Udo. Neue Formen des Bildes, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tubingen, West Germany

1975 Rose, Barbara. Readings in American Art, 1900-1975, Praeger, New York,


1975 Battcock, Gregory. Super Realism, A Critical Anthology, E. P. Dutton, New York, illustration

1975 Chase, Linda. Hyperrealisme, Rizzoli, New York, illustration

1974 Calamandrei, Mauro, and Gorgoni, Gianfranco. Art U.S.A., Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, Italy

1973 Who’s Who in American Art, R. R. Bowker, New York

1973 Sager, Peter. Neue Formen des Realismus, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, West Germany

1973 Brachot, Isy. Hyperrealisme, Imprimeries F. Van Buggenhoudt, Brussels, Belgium

1968 Houston, Jean and Masters, Robert. Psychedelic Art, Grove Press, New York, illustration

SELECTED CATALOGS

2016 Photorealist Urban Landscapes, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Still Life: 1970s Photorealism, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2013 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Chase, Linda (Author), Knoll, Nina (Author), Letze, Otto (Editor), Schreiber, Daniel (Foreword)

2013 Letze, Otto, ed. Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, German, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013, print

2012 Meisel, Louis K. Au-delà Du Réel = Beyond Realism, Montreal, Galerie de Bellefeuille, 2012, print

2010 Dean, Kevin. Real(ists), Sarasota, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, 2010

2009 Hillings, Valerie and Chase, Linda. Picturing America: Photorealism of the 1970s, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Berlin, Germany, March 7 – May 10

2009 Czubinska, Magdelena, ed. American Photorealism from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Family Collection, Krakow, Muzeum Narodowe W Krakowie, 2009

2009 Hillings, Valerie L, comp. Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s/Picturing America: Fotorealismus der 70er Jahre, Ed. Helena Winston, Trans. Bernhard Geyer and Nazire Ergun, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2009


2008 Kervandjian, Melina V., Ed. Shock of the Real – Photorealism Revisited, Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, 2008

2007 Chase, Linda. Photorealist Watercolors from the Pieper Power Collection, cover illustration, traveling exhibit

2006 Tom Blackwell, 2006-7 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France, November 29 – January 10

2006 Morgan, David. “Signs of the Times: The Paintings of Tom Blackwell,” Tom Blackwell: Aspects of a Realist, Brauer Museum of Art, Indiana, December 8, 2006 – March 25, 2007

2005 Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, April 2 – June 19

2004 Chase, Linda. American Photorealism: The Ardent Neutrality of the Photorealist Eye, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey

2004-5 American Photorealism, traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4; Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7; Also to Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, December 12, 2004 – March 27, 2005, pg. 46-47

2004 Seeing Photographically: Photorealist Paintings (The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection), with essay by Hanneke Grootenboer, New Orleans, Louisiana, plates 29 and 40

2003 Hyperréalismes USA 1965-1975, Musée d’Art modern et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, June 27 – October 5

2002 Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, January 25 – June 2

2001 Jensen, Mona. This is America: American Photorealists, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, pg. 75, print

2001 Illusion and Reality: Hyperrealism Painting in Korea and America, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea, March 3 – April 29, pg. 56-59

1996 Photorealists, with essays by Dr. Judith Van Baron and Dr. Margaret Betz, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

1994-5 Art after Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, September 27 – January 2, 1995, pg. 12-13

1994 New Art in an Old City/2, with essay by Edward Lucie-Smith, The Virlane Foundation and The K & B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, Louisiana, pg. 33-34


1993 Young, Christopher R. The Purloined Image, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, pg. 30-31

1991 Schwartz, Constance. In Sharp Focus: Super Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, April 15 – July 29, pg. 26-28, illustration

1983 Trajectories 1905-1983, Galerie 1900*2000, Paris, France, Septembmer 27 – October 29

1983 Realism Now, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, October 4 – December 4, pg. 9, illustration

1981-2 Trajectories 1905-1983, Galerie 1900*2000, Paris, France, Septembmer 27 – October 29

1981 American Super Realism: from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois

1981 Toyama Now, ‘81, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan, July 5 – September 23

1981 Hornyak, Mika. The Fine Art of Business, The DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, March 16 – May 1

1980 Chase, Linda. Tom Blackwell: Selected Works 1970-1980, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 7 – December 28

1980 Photorealism, Kauffman Gallery, Houston, Texas

1979 Miller, Wayne. Realist Space, C. W. Post Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, October 19 – December 14

1979 Baker, Richard Brown. Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, October 4 – November 4

1979 Felluss, Elias A. Washington International Art Fair ‘79, Washington, D.C., May

1979 Steuber, Michael. Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings From New York City Galleries, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto, Pennsylvania, May 12 – July 8

1978 Meisel, Susan Pear. The Complete Guide to Photo-Realist Print-Making, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, December

1978 Meisel, Louis K. Landscape/Cityscape, Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, New York, September 22 – October 22

1978 Hodge, G. Stuart. Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, January 12 – March 12


1977-8 Stringer, John. Illusion & Reality, Australian Gallery Director’s Council, North Sydney, New South Wales

1977 Meisel, Louis K. Tom Blackwell, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, October 8 – 29, illustration

1977 Fleigen-ein Traum, Rurhfestpiele, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany

1977 Felluss, Elias A. Washington International Art Fair, Washington, D.C.

1977 Dempsey, Bruce. New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida

1976-8 Chase, Linda. U.S.A. Aspects of Realism, Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd., June 1976 – January 1978, illustration

1976 Chase, Linda. Eight Realists, Palomar College, San Marco, California

1976 Gervais, Daniel. 3e foire international d’art contemporain (FIAC), Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24

1976 Felluss, Elias A. Washington International Art Fair, Washington, D.C.

1975-6 Richardson, Brenda. Super Realism, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, November 18 – January 11

1975 39th Annual Midyear Show, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, June 29 – August 31

1975 Krimmel, Bernd. Realismum and Realitat, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany, May 24 – July 6

1975 Meisel, Susan Pear. Watercolors and Drawings – American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, January, illustration

1975 Tom Blackwell, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, February 5 – March 1

1974 Hyperrealisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium, December 14 – February 9, illustration

1974 Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek, Hedendaagse Kunst, Ultrecht, Holland, August; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, September – October

1974 Walthard, Dr. Frederic P. Ars 5’74, Basel, Switzerland, June 19 – 24

1974 Cowart, Jack. New Photo-Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, April 10 – May 19

1974 25 Years of Janis: Part II from Pollack to Pop, Op and Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, March 13 – April 13, illustration


1974 Sarajas-Korte, Salme. Ars ’74 Ateneum, Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, February 15 – March 31

1974 Chase, Linda. Photo-Realism, Tokyo Biennale 1974, traveling exhibition, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Prefectual Art Museum, Nagoya, illustration

1973 Meisel, Louis K. Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, New York, illustration

1973 Lamagna, Carlo. The Super Realist Vision, DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 7 – December 9, illustration

1973 Radde, Bruce. East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, University Art Gallery, San Jose University, California, April 24 – May 18

1973 Richard Brown Baker Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, illustration

1972-3 Amaya, Mario. Realism Now, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York, December 6 – January 7

1972-3 Schneede, Uwe, and Hoffman, Heinz. Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, November 16 – December 26; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, January 6 – February 18; Kunst und Museumverein, Wuppertal, West Germany, February 25 – April 8

1972 Warrum, Richard L. Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, April 26 – June 4

1972 Janis, Sidney. Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, January 6 – February 4, illustration

1972 Baur, I.H. 1972 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, January 25 – March 19

1972 Baratte, John J., and Thompson, Paul E. Phases of the New Realism, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 20 – February 20

1972 Abadie, Daniel. Hyperrealistes americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France, October 25 – November 25, illustration

1969 Doty, Robert. Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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