1935 Born: July 24, Sacramento, CA ______________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 1954-55 Sacramento Junior College, CA 1955-56 San Jose State College, CA 1957 Sacramento State College, B.A. 1958 Sacramento State College, M.A. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1958-60 Elk Grove High School 1960-66 Mira Loma High School 1965-66 Sacramento State University 1966 Arizona State University, Tempe 1966 California State University, Hayward SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Franklin House Collection, San Francisco, CA The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Kunsthaus Darmstadt, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Germany The Oakland Museum, CA The Rose Art Museum, Bandeis University, Waltham, MA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Seattle Art Museum, WA The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY AWARDS 1986 National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant 1986 United States/France Exchange Fellowship SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1964 Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY 1965 Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY 1965 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1966 Galerie Ricke, Kassel, West Germany 1967 Galerie Tobies-Silex, Cologne, West Germany 1967 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1968 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1968 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA 1969 Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA 1969 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1969 Gegenverkehr, Aachen, West Germany 1970 Artist Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1971 Galerie Richard Fonchke, Ghent, Belgium 1971 French & Company, New York, NY 1971 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1971 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland 1972 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 1973 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 1973 Madison Art Center, WI 1973 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 1974 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1974 David Stuart Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany 1976 David Stuart Gallery, New York, NY 1976 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1977 The Oakland Museum, CA 1977 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1978 Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 1978 Galeria Plura, Milan, Italy 1979 Galeria Cadaques, Spain 1979 University Gallery, California State University, Chino, CA 1980 "Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, April 13 - May 16 1980 "Mel Ramos 'Upscapes'- A Salute to Morris Louis," Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS, June 20 - July 19 1980 Franz Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1981 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1981 Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1981 Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1982 Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, CA 1982 Route 66, Philadelphia, PA 1985 "The Four Seasons," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 5-26 1986 Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL, February 1986 "Mel Ramos - Early Paintings," Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, West Germany, September 1986 "Paintings 1962-1968," Modernism, San Francisco, CA, November 4 - December 13 1987 Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy 1988 Kunsthandlung Brigitte Haasner, Wiesbaden, West Germany 1988 James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1989 "Beauty And The Beast," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 4-25 1989 "The Artist's Studio," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, November 4-25 1991 "Mel Ramos - The Heroines of 1962-64," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 5-26 1992 "Mel Ramos: Aquarelle und Frühe Grafiken," ARTAX, Kunsträume, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 24 - March 15 1992 "Mel Ramos: Aquarelle und Grafiken," Maximilian Krips Galerie, Cologne, Germany, June 13 - July 31 1993 "Mel Ramos: The Unfinished Painting Series," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 30 - November 20 1994-95 "Mel Ramos - Retrospective," Germany and Austria traveling exhibition: Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen, November 12 - December 18, 1994; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, January 15 - March 5, 1995; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, April 6 - June 5, 1995; To Vienna under title “Mel Ramos: Pop Art Images,” Hochscule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, July 21 - August 26, 1995 1997 “Mel Ramos - Oleos, Acuarelas, Dibujos,” Galeria Levy, Madrid, Spain, April 11 - May 26 1997 “Mel Ramos - Chic Women,” Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 1 - June 30 1999 “Mel Ramos: The Lost Paintings of 1965,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 6-27 1999 -00 “Mel Ramos,” Italy and Germany traveling exhibition: Galleria Civica di Modena, Palazzina Dei Giardini Corso Canalgrande, Modena, Italy, January 24–April 25; Kunsthaus Hannover, Hannover, Germany, May 9-July 18; Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany, July 30- Sept. 26; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Oct.15-Dec. 5; Kunstforum Fränkisches Seeland, Gunzenhausen, Germany, March 5-May 7 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1959-61 "Winter Invitational," Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1963 "Pop Goes The Easel," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX 1963 "Some New Art in the Bay Area," San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1963 "Pop Art USA," Oakland Art Museum, CA 1963 "Six More," Los Angeles County Museum, CA 1963 "Mixed Media and Pop Art," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1963 "The Popular Image," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1964 "Contemporary Art - USA," Norfolk Museum, VA 1964 "First International Girlie Exhibit," The Pace Gallery, New York, NY 1964 "American Six," Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY 1964 "U.S.A. Nouvelles Peintures," American Embassy, Paris, France 1964 "El Bienal Americana de Arte," Cordoba, Argentina 1964 "Current Painting and Sculpture in the Bay Area," Stanford Museum,CA 1965 "The Arena of Love," Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1965 "Neue Realisten und Pop Art," Akademie Der Kunst, West Berlin 1965 "1¢ Life," Klipstein und Kornfield, Bern, Switzerland 1965 "Pop Art Nouveau Realisme, Etc." Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1965 "Pop Art from U.S.A." Hamberger Kunstkabinett, Hamburg, West Germany 1965 "In-Focus--A Look at Realism," Memorial Museum, Rochester, NY 1965 "Pop and the American Tradition," Milwaukee Art Center, WI 1965 "Master Drawings from Degas to Lichtenstein," Fort Worth Art Center, TX 1966-67 "11 Pop Artists," Traveling Exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; American Federation of Arts Gallery, New York, NY; Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, MI; Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS; Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA; Columbus Museum, OH; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Portland Art Museum, OR; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Also in Kassel, Hamburg, Berlin & Munich 1966-67 "New Banners," Multiples Inc., New York, NY 1966-67 "Some Aspects of California Painting," La Jolla Museum, CA 1966-67 "Critics' Choice," Long Beach Museum, CA 1967 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-man) 1967 "Painters Behind the Painters," Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1967 "Young Artists of the Sixties," The Collection of Mr. Charles Cowles, Stanford Museum, Stanford University, CA 1967 "Pop Art," Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy 1968 "West Coast Now," Portland Art Museum, OR 1968 "Forty Now California Painters," Ringling Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 1968 "Art 1968: Hang Ups and Put Downs," University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 1968 "West Coast `68," Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1969 "Pop Art Revisited," Heyward Gallery, London, England 1969 "Human Concern and Personal Torment," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1969 "Spirit of the Comics," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 1970 "Seventeenth National Print Exhibition," The Brooklyn Museum, NY 1970 "Pop Prints," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1970 "Festival of Contemporary Art," Municipal Art Museum of Yokahama, Japan, November - December 1970 "West Coast '70!," Crocker Art Gallery Biennial Invitational, Sacramento, CA, September 18 - October 25 1970 "Looking West 1970," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE 1970 "Beyond the Actual," Pioneer Museum, Stockton, CA 1971 "Die Puppe-Azpekte zum Bild der Frau," Haus am Waldsee, West Berlin, 1971 "Made in California," UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1971 "Group Show," French & Company, New York, NY 1972 "Querschnitt," Galerie Ricke, Cologne, West Germany 1973 Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA 1973 "Separate Realities," Municipal Art Gallery of Los Angeles, CA 1973 "The Super Realist Vision," DeCordova And Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA 1973-78 "The Stuart M. Speiser Collection of Photo-Realism," United States Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Gallery, Charleston, SC; Brooks Memorial Museum, Memphis, TN; Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 1974 "Pop Art," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1974 "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL 1974 "Contemporary Portraits by American Painters," Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL 1974 "Living American Artists and the Figure," Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA 1974 "New Realism Revisited," State University College at Potsdam, NY 1974 "Aspects of Realism," Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada, September 1974 "Some Realists," Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1975 "Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY (Catalog) 1975 University of North Dakota Art Gallery, Grand Forks, ND, March 17 - April 4 1975 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, West Germany, April 20 - May 25 1975 "The Great American Nude," The New York Cultural Center, NY, June (Catalog) 1975 "Photorealism," Barrington Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, July 1975 University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC, November 16 - December 4 1976 "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, September, (Catalog) 1976 "Three Hundred Years of American Art in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk", VA; 1 March - 4 July 1977 "California Bay Area Art - Update," Huntsville Museum of Art, AL 1977 "Nothing But Nudes," The Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, New York, NY 1977 "Private Images: Photographs by Painters," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA 1977-78 "California Viewpoints," Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 10 - January 11 1978 "Art About Art," Traveling Exhibition: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum, OR (Catalog) 1978 "Photo-Realist Paintings from New York City Galleries," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA 1978 "Aspeckte der 60er Jahre," Nationalgalerie, West Berlin 1978 "Selections From The Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art," The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA, November 20 - December 17, (Catalog) 1978 "20th Century American Nudes," Harold Reed Gallery, New York, February 16 - March 4 (Catalog) 1978 "Graphics Studio U.S.A.: An Experiment in Art Education," The Brooklyn Museum, NY, May 13 - July 16 (Catalog) 1978 "A Century of Master Drawings," Creighton University, Omaha, NE, September 29 - October 29 1978 Arts & Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, PA 1979 "Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 1979 "Degrees of Realism," Gallery One, San Jose State University, CA, March 29 - April 24 1979 C.W. Post College Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY 1980 Indianapolis Museum, IN, June 1980 "American Figure Painting 1950-1980," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; 17 October - 30 November 1980 "Watercolors: 1980," Frumpkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1980-81 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October 27 - November 1 1980-81 "American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980," The Brooklyn Museum, NY, November 22 - January 18 (Catalog) 1980-81 Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY, December 3 - January 3 1981 "Changes 1881-1981," Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 1981 "Selected 20th Century American Nudes," Harold Reed Gallery, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Sept 13 - Oct.4 1982 "Louis K. Meisel Gallery in Brussels," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium, April 22 - May 22 1983 "Contemporary Images, Watercolor: 1983," Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, April 14 - May 6 1983 "Directions in Bay Area Painting," Richard Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA 1983-85 "Assignment: Aviation - The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection," Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition: Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, 1/1-1/31/83; Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, 7/23-9/4; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/24-11/6; Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, 1/28-3/11; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial Museum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13; Longview Museum & Art Center, TX, 6/2-7/15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 8/4-9/16; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18; Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical & Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26; Amarillo Art Center, TX, 6/15-7/28; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1 1983 "Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition," Kansas City Art Institute, MO 1983 "10th Anniversary Show," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1983 "The Comic Art Show," The Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, New York, NY July 13 - August 31 1983 "Perspectives of Landscape," Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July 27 - August 27 1983 "Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980," National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, October 8 - December 4 1983 "American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, November 4 - December 7 1983-84 "Twenty-Five Years of the Artists Contemporary Gallery," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, November 12 - January 1 1984 "San Francisco Bay Area Painting," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, September 8 - October 28 1984 "Twenty-Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context," International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, DC 1984 "Figurative Options: Jack Ogden, Mel Ramos, Wayne Thiebaud," Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA, October 26 - December 7 (Catalog) 1984-85 "Automobile and Culture," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, July 21 - January 6 1985 "S.M.S. Portfolios," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York February 23 - April 14 1985 "Pop Art 1955-70," Australian Traveling Exhibition: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2/27-4/14; Queensland Art Gallery, 5/1-6/2; National Gallery of Victoria, 6/26-8/11 (Catalog) 1985 "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980," The Oakland Museum, CA, June (Catalog) 1985-87 "American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors From The Glenn C. Janss Collection," Traveling Exhibition: San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, CA, 11/7/85 - 1/12/86; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, 2/13/86 - 4/6/86; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University Of Texas, Austin, 7/31/86 - 9/21/86; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, 10/23/86 - 12/14/86; Williams College Museum Of Art Williamstown, MA, 1/15/87 - 3/8/87; Akron Art Museum, OH, 4/9/87 - 5/31/87; Madison Art Center, WI, 7/26/87 - 9/20/87 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov.7 - Jan. 12 (Catalog) 1986 "Portfolios: Artists' Series From the Collection of the University of Maryland," The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, January 29 - March 2 (Catalog) 1986 "Signs of the Times," Michigan Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by Art Train, Detroit, MI, February 1 - December 20 1986 "The De Soto Workshop," Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, March 27 - May 11 1987 "Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art-the 50's & 60's," The University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, April 4-June 21 (Catalog) 1987 "Ten At The Rose," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 2 - June 14 (Catalog) 1987 "His & Hers: Couples in Art," Works, San Jose, CA, April 10-May 9 1987 "Pop Art America Europa dalla Collezione Ludwig", Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, July 4 - October 4 (Catalog) 1987 "Fifty Watercolors: By Fifty Artists Spanning Fifty Years," A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, October 31 - December 12 1987 "Contemporary American Collage 1960-1986," Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA, November 9 - December 11 (Catalog) 1987-88 "The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media," The Oakland Museum, CA, November 14 - January 10 1988 "Art at the Armory," New York, NY, January 27-31 1988 "Selections From The Ellen and Jerome Westheimer Collection," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, April 15 - July 3 (Cat.) 1988 "Tropical Topics," Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, June 25 - September 18 1988 "20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) - Artists & Movements From Our First Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 5-26 1989 "Private Collections/Personal Exchange: Bay Area Artists, 1950 - 1966,” Transamerica Corp., San Francisco, CA, Sept. 11 - Oct. 20 1989 "41st Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, November 13 - December 10 1989-90 "Human Concern/Personal Torment - The Grotesque In American Art Revisited," Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 14 - Nov. 8, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec. 1 - Jan. 6 (Catalog) 1989-90 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, December 2-22, January 3-13 1990 "The Figure - Selections from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, November 16 - February 11 (Catalog) 1990 "Oakland's Artists`90," The Oakland Museum, CA, March 24 - July 1 1990 "Six," Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, February 16 - March 16 1990 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 7-28 1990 "Pop on Paper," James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, May 4 - June 15 1990 "Regarding Art: Artworks About Art," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, June 3 - August 12 1990 "California A To Z And Return," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 24 - August 19 1990 "Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 20 - November 25 1991 "7 Women," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 22 - March 23 1991 "Reprise," Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, April 5 - May 10 1991 "Love, Sex and Romance," Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, July 20 - August 8 1991-93 "Pop Art," traveling exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, Sept. 13 - Dec. 15, 1991; Museum Ludwig At Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany, Jan. 23 - April 19, 1992; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, June 16 - Sept. 14, 1992; The Montréal, Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, Canada, Oct. 23, 1992 – Jan. 24, 1993, catalog (second catalog with additions printed by Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1992.) 1992 "Photorealism From Nashville Collections," Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN, June 13-21 1993 "I Am The Enunciator," Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, January 9 - February 20 1993 "Drawing On The Figure," Edna Carlsten Gallery, University Of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, March 28 - April 25 1993 "Slittamenti," Venice Biennale, Italy, June 9 - October 10 1994 "The Face of America: Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor," The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, NY, Aug. 26 - Sept. 25 1995 “Duck,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 28 - March 11 1995-96 “The Popular Image - Pop Art in America,” Joint Exhibition - Marisa Del Re Gallery and O’Hara Gallery; New York, NY, Oct. 26 - Dec. 9; Palm Beach, FL, Dec. 12 - Feb. 3 1996 “Paper Work,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 3 - 24 1996 “Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms),” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 - 23 1997 “Feminine Image,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, March 2 - May 25, catalog 1998-99 “American Pop Art,” Palazzo Ex Ospedale San Bartolomeo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Dec. 18 – Mar. 21; The Pomotrice, Torino, Italy, June 4-30 1999 “7 Women 7 Years Later,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, June 1 – August 6 1999 “Contemporary American Masters: 1960s,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, June 13 – Sept. 12 1999 “Pop Art,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, May 28 – June 3 2000-01 "The Figure: Another Side of Modernism," The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, June 4 - January 15 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1963 Coplans, John. "Notes From San Francisco," Art International, Zurich, Vol.7, No.26, p.84 1963 Coplans, John. "Pop Art--U.S.A.," Art in America, New York, Vol.51, No.5, October 1963 Factor, Donald. "Six Painters and the Object and Six More," Artforum, San Francisco, Vol.2, No.3, September, pp.13-14 1963 "Pop Pop," Time Magazine, August,30 1963 Rose, Barbara. "Dada Then and Now," Art International, Zurich Vol.7, No.1, January 25, p.24 1963 Rosenthal, Nan. "This Month-Art," Show Magazine, New York, August, p.29 1964 Coates, Robert. "The Art Galleries--The Passage of Time," The New Yorker, New York, January 18, p.108 1964 Stevens, Elizabeth. "Reviews and Previews," Art News, New York, November, p.20 1965 Coplans, John. "Art News From San Francisco," Art News, New York, January, p.63 1965 Rose, Barbara. "Filthy Pictures," Artforum, Los Angeles, pp.20-25 1965 Snyder, Susan. "Los Angeles Reviews," Artforum, December, p.15 1965 "Superfans and Batmaniacs," Newsweek, New York, February 16, p.89 1966 Benedikt, Michael. "Reviews," Art International, Zurich, January, p.96 1966 "For Women Only," Look Magazine, New York, March
22, p.M19 1966 "Reviews amd Previews," Art News, New York, November, p.13 1967 Alloway, Lawrence. "Art As Likeness," Arts Magazine, New York, May, pp.34-39 1967 Ashton, Dore. "The Distance From 1926 to 1966," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.41, No.3, January, pp.28-33 1967 Livingston, Jane. "Review," Artforum, New York, December, pp.62-64 1967 Restany, Pierre. "Le Nu Moderne," Plexus, Paris, France, April/May, pp.105-112 1968 Alloway, Lawrence. "Pop Art: The Words," Auction, New York, Vol.1, No.5, February, p.9 1968 Davis, Douglas M. "The New Eroticism," Evergreen Review, New York, Vol.12, No.58, September p.48 1968 Skelton, Robin. "The Art of Mel Ramos," Malahat Review, Victoria, B.C. No.8, October, pp.60-72 1969 Plagens, Peter. "Los Angeles," Artforum, New York, December, pp.74-75 1969 Restany, Pierre. "L'Art Contemporian est le Language de la Revolution Sexuelle," Plexus, Paris, December, pp.89-105 1969 Shirey, David. "Horror Show," Newsweek, New York, November 3, p.107 1969 Tillim, Sidney. "The Reception of Figurative Art," Artforum, New York, February, pp.30-33 1969 Supplement: "Lithographs and Prints," Studio International, London, Vol.178, No.917, December, p.260 1970 Gorsen, Peter. "Erotic Art," Magazin Kunst, Mainz, West Germany, No.37, April, pp.16-20 1970 Knorr, Peter. "Kunst ist Lust," Pardon, Frankfurt, West Germany, No.3, March, pp.47-53 1970 Suzuki, Shiroyasu. "Mel Ramos 1935-," Mizue, Tokyo, Japan, No.783/4, pp.64-79 1970 Richardsen, Brenda. "California Art," Arts Magazine, New York, Summer 1972 Babb, Laura. "Pop's Girls," Playboy, Chicago, IL, Vol.19, No.4, April, pp.111-115 1973 Beardsall, Judy. "The Stuart M. Speiser Photorealist Collection," Art Gallery Magazine, Vol.17, No.1, October, pp.29-34 1973 Tooker, Dan. "Interview with Mel Ramos," Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, December 20, Vol.17, No.9 1974 Claridge, Elizabeth. "Mel Ramos Returns to the Nude," The Image, London, England, June/July, pp.30-35 and Cover 1974 Hughes, Robert. "The Instant Nostalgia of Pop," Time, New York, April 15, pp.80-83 1974 Moore, Alan. "Arts Reviews," Artforum, New York, September, Vol.13, No.1, p.85 1974 Perreault, John. "Classic Pop Revisited," Art in America, New York, Vol.62, No.2, March/April, pp.64-68 1974 Reis, Martin. "Review," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.49, No.1, September, p.65 1974 Truewoman, Honey. "Realism in Drag," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.48, No.5, February, pp.44-45 1974 Walsh, S. "In Review," Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, p.1 1974 "Gallery Notes," Memorial Art Gallery Guide, Vol.39, No.5, p.1 1974 Art International Lugano Review, Vol.XVII, No.9, pp.24-25,33 1974 Battcock, Gregory. "Prurient Primer of Erotic Art: Up Your Arthole," Screw, New York, May 13, pp.4-7 1974 Perreault, John. "Celebrations Knotted and Dotted," Village Voice, New York, May 16, pp.44-46 1974 Frank, Peter. "Reviews," Soho Weekly News, New York, May 16, pp.22-23 1974 "Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, New York, May 13 1974 Kuhn, Annette. "Culture Shock," Village Voice, New York, June 6, p.42 1974 Battcock, Gregory. "New York," Art and Artists 1975 "Photorealist Exhibit Is Opening At Paine," Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, WI 1975 MacNamara, T.J. "Photorealist Exhibition Makes Impact," New Zealand Herald 1975 Tono, Yoshiaki. "American Pop Art and After," Mizue, Tokyo, Japan, February, No.839, pp.5-29 1975 Frese, Hans Martin. "Madchen des Mel Ramos," Krefelder Kurier, West Germany, April 18, p.90, 1975 Hecht, Axel. "Kunst mit prallen Puppen," Stern Magazin, Hamburg, West Germany, May 15, pp.96-102 1975 Wilp, Charles. "Sammlers' Auswahl," Musik Und Medizin, Frankfurt, West Germany, April, p.4, 84-87 1975 Streubel, Rolf. "Werke von Mel Ramos," WZ, Samstag, West Germany, April 19 1975 Frese, Hans-Martin. "Hochglanz fur nackte Damen alter Meister," Krefelder Kurier, West Germany, April 21, p.92 1975 Heff, Ernst. "Im Jahr der Frau: Die Venus von Las Vegas," Rheinische Post, West Germany 1975 "Charles Wilp, Mel Ramos und die Nachten Damen," Krefelder Stadtpost, West Germany 1975 Ernenplitsch, Ulrich. "Supershow und Ramos und Wilp," Unter Jupiterlampen, West Germany 1976 Davis, Douglas. "Two Faces of California," Newsweek, New York, September 6, pp.52-54 1976 "Mel Ramos," Game Magazine, Book Review, Vol.3, No.1, January 1977 Regazzoni, Enrico. "La carne, la merce e il Diavolo in Mel Ramos," Mado, Milano, Italy, June, pp.61-65 1977 Lubalin, Herb. "Mel Ramos: New Master," Extra!, New York, June, pp.14-17 1977 Zimmer, William. "Reviews," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.52, No.1, September, p.33 1977 "Manhattan Weekend," Channel J, Manhattan Cable Television 1977 Albright, Thomas. "Pop's Masters of Cheesecake," Art News, November, pp.208-210 1978 "The Ideal Woman," Chic Magazine, Los Angeles, Vol.3, No.1, November, pp.14-15 1978 Harris, Helen. "Art and Antiques: The New Realists," Town & Country, October, pp.242,244,246-247 1978 "Show's Drawings Reveal Souls of Artists," Creightonian, Omaha, NE, Vol. LVI 1979 Moure, Gloria. "Mel Ramos: Una Sintesis Instrumental de Fotografia y Pintura," Papel Especial, Barcelona, Spain 1979 Radice, Barbara. "Micromusei in Serie," Casa Vogue, Milan, Italy, September, pp.135-138 1979 Leisegang, Joachim. "Tatort San Francisco," Die Wage, pp.114-120 1979 Sager, Peter. "Play Manet oder: Mal's noch einmal Meister," Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, West Germany, June 8, p.34 1979 Weinshenker, Betty Anne. "ART: Modern Artists Imitate Old Masters, U.S.A. Today, July 1979 Shirey, David. "Looking Back at the Future," The New York Times, November 11 1980 Foncke, Richard. "Mel Ramos," Snoeck's `80, Ghent, Belgium, January, pp.182-199 1981 Yoskowitz, Robert. Arts Magazine, September, p.29 1981 "Presenting a Special Olympic Poster of Eric Heiden by Artist Mel Ramos," The Southland Family, The Southland Corp., Dallas, TX, Winter 1984 Pandora, Katherine. "Swap your Arneson for my Wiley," California Magazine, Los Angeles, Vol.9, No.9, September, p.35 1984 Kultermann, Udo. "Manet et la Modernite," Artistes, France, October, p.167 1986 "Amerikas Traumfrau zu Besuch in Koln-Tanja Grunert zeigt Bilder von Pop-Kunstler Mel Ramos," The Köln Express, August 30, p.7K Illustration 1986 Baker, Kenneth. "Mel Ramos Fizz at the New Modernism," San Francisco Chronicle, November 15 1987 Schwartz, Sophie. "`Mel Ramos' Tanja Grunert, Cologne, West Germany," Flash Art, February - March, pp.111-112 1988 "Japan Kauft Ein-Zwei Versteigerungen in New York," Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung, West Germany, March 9, No.58, p.30 1989 "`Pop Star' Mel Ramos Still Shaking Up The Establishment," SunStorm, Ronkonkoma, NY, Vol.XIV, No.4, pp.9,50-51, April/May 1990 "New York in Review - Mel Ramos," Arts Magazine, February, p.94 1991 Hilton, Tim. "Why Pop Went Bang," The Guardian, London, September 13 1991 Larson, Kay. "Top of The Pop," New York Magazine, September 30 pp. 72-73 1991 Hughes, Robert. "Wallowing in the Mass Media Sea," Time, October 28, pp. 102-103 1992 "Pop to Neo Pop, 1956-1992," Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, Japan, Vol.44, No 651, March 1993 Klein, Alan M. "Of Muscles and Men" The Sciences, Vol.33, No 6 November/December, ill. p.34 1998 Advertisement for Ketterer Kunst (Munich Auction House), Art News, New York, March, p.48, illustration of "Peek-a-Boo Blond" 1998 Kennedy, William. ”Masters of Deception” George, New York, February, p. 94-95, ill. "Miss Liberty-Frontier Heroine” (double page spread) SELECTED CATALOGS 1976 "Three Hundred Years of American Art in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," VA; March 1 - July 4 1977 Jones, Harvey L. "Mel Ramos: Paintings 1959-1977," The Oakland Museum, CA, Art Special Gallery, September 20 - November 13 1978 Distel, Herbert. "The Museum of Drawers," Kunsthaus, Zurich 1980 Belz, Carl. "Mel Ramos - A Twenty-Year Survey," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1980 Styron, Thomas W. "American Figure Painting 1950-1980," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; October 17 - November 30 1980 "`Upscapes' A Salute to Morris Louis," Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1981 "Selected 20th Century American Nudes," Harold Reed Gallery, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1981 "Super Realism From The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, September 1, 1981 - August 15, 1982 1982 "The Chrysler Museum, Selections From The Permanent Collection," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1983 "American Super Realism - From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL, Nov. 4 - Dec. 7, p.36 1983 Olhn, Carlin & Sheena Wagstaff. "The Comic Art Show," The Whitney Museum of American Art-Downtown Branch, New York July - August 1989 Doty, Robert. "Human Concern/Personal Torment - The Grotesque In American Art Revisited," Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, October 1989 Meisel, Louis K. "Mel Ramos - The Artist's Studio 1986-1989," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 1990 Wolf, Townsend. "The Figure - Selections form the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, November 16 - February 11, p.23 1991 "Mel Ramos - The Heroines of 1962-1964," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 5-26 1991 Livingstone, Marco. Introduction to "Pop Art," Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, pp. 14,37,38,53,90,128,279,287 illus. 1993 Grand, Stanley I. "Drawing on the Figure," Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, March 28 - April 25 1997 Kuspit Donald (essay). “Feminine Image,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, March 2 - May 25, p.42, p.62 illus. 1999 “Contemporary American Masters: 1960s,” show catalogue by Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY June 13 – Sept. 12, p.83 illus. 1999 Guadagnini, Walter (essay). "Mel Ramos," Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy, January 24 - April 25
SELECTED BOOKS 1965 Rublowsky, John. Pop Art, Basic Books, New York 1966 Crispolti, Enroco. La Pop Art, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, Italy, pp.83-84 1966 Linderman, Earl. Invitation to Vision, Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa 1966 Pellegrini, Aldo. New Tendencies in Art, Crown Publishing, New York 1966 Sedgwick, John. Understanding Modern Art, Random House, New York 1966 Lippard, Lucy. Pop Art, Praeger-Random House, New York 1969 Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art, Prentice Hall-Abrams, New York, pp.567,601,1064 1969 Compton, Michael. Pop Art, Hamlyn House, Middlesex, England 1969 Kulterman, Udo. Neue Formen des Bildes, Wasmuth Tubingen, West Berlin, pp.43,87 1969 Lavin, Edward. Discovery in Art, Paulist-Newman Press, New York 1969 Ohff, Heinz. Pop und die Folgen, Droste verlag, Düsseldorf, West Germany, p.167 1969 Russell, John. Pop Art Redefined, Thames & Hudson, London, England 1970 Forbes, Colin. Creativity and Communications, Studio Vista Ltd., London, England 1970 Kronhausen, Phyllis and Eberhard. Erotic Art 2, Grove Press, New York, p.142 1971 Kahman, Volker. Erotic Art Today, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, Plates 149-152 1971 Linderman, Earl W. Teaching Secondary School Art, Wm. C. Brown Company, Dubuque, Iowa, pp.221-225 1971 Shupe, Deena. The High Art of Cooking, Synergisms, Inc., San Francisco, CA, p.71 1971 Tono, Yoshiaki. Art Now/New Age: The Pop Image of Man, Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, Vol.4 1972 Feldman, Edmund B. Art as Image and Idea, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York 1972 Haryu, Ichiro. Art Now/New Age: Sign and Image, Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, Vol.10, p.89 1972 Heller, Jules. Printmaking Today, Holt Rheinhart, Winston, Inc. New York 1972 Hess, Thomas and Linda Nochlin. Woman as Sex Object, Art News Annual, XXXVIII, New York, p.234 1972 Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, p.291 1972 Sternberg, Jacques. Kitsch, Academy Editions, London, England 1972 Thomas, Karin. Bis Heute, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, West Germany 1973 Sager, Peter. Neue Formen des Realismus, Verlag M. Dumont Shauberb, Cologne, West Germany 1973 Salvat, Manuel. Los Movimientos Pop, Salvat Editores, S.A., Barcelona, Spain 1974 Gerdts, William. The Great American Nude, Praeger Publishers, New York, NY 1974 Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse. Praeger Publishers, New York 1974 Smith, Bradley. Erotic Art of the Masters: 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries, Lyle Stuart Publishers, Inc., New Jersey 1974 Wilson, Simon. Pop, Thames & Hudson, Ltd., London, England 1974 Zimiles, Murray and Michael Knigin. The Contemporary Lithographic Workshop Around the World, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, pp.84-85 1974 Measham, Terry. The Moderns, 1945-1975, Phaidon Press, Ltd., Oxford, England 1975 Art Since Mid-Century Figurative Art, Vol.2, New York Graphic Society, New York 1975 Battcock, Gregory. Super Realism, E.P. Dutton Co., New York 1975 Claridge, Elizabeth. The Girls of Mel Ramos, Playboy Press, Chicago, IL 1975 Lesser, Robert. A Celebration of Comic Art and Memorabilia, Hawthorne Books, Inc., New York, pp.12,45,48 1976 Lipman, Jean and Richard Marshall. Art About Art, E.P. Dutton Co., New York, NY 1977 Pierre, Jose. An Illustrated Dictionary of Pop Art, Eyre Methuen, London, England, pp.37,126 1977 Battcock, Gregory. Why Art, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, pp.109-110 1978 Lipman, Jean & Richard Marshall. Art About Art, E.P Dutton Co., New York, pp.10,55,86,90,98,99,142,149 1978 Wilp, Charles. Dazzeldorf von Charles Wilp, Melzer Verlag, Darmstadt, West Germany 1978 Krantz, Les. The New York Review of Art, The Krantz Company, NY 1978 Adams, Hugh. Art of the Sixties, Phaidon Press, Ltd., Oxford, England, pp.72-73 1980 Ramos, Mel. Mel Ramos: Watercolors, Lancaster-Miller Publishers, Berkeley, CA 1980 Smith, Bradley. 20th Century Masters of Erotic Art, Crown Publishers, New York, pp.132-133,152-153 1980 Tharrats, Joan Josep. Cent Años de Pintura a Cadaques, Ediciones del Cotal, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, p.286 1980 Didinger, Ray. The Professionals, NFL Books, New York, pp.181,190 1981 Field, D.M. The Nude In Art, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London, England, pp.122-126 1983 Benedict, Brad. The Blue Book, Indigo Books, New York, pp.28-29 1984 Orr-Cahall, Christina. The Art of California, Selected works from the collection of the Oakland Museum, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, pp.166 1985 Krantz, Les. American Artists - An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans, Facts on File Publications, New York, NY, pp.262-263 Illustration 1985 Krantz, Les. American Art Galleries, Facts on File Publications, New York, NY, p.211 1985 Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 1985 Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody, Methuen Inc., New York pp.31,47,48 Illustration, 1985 Vestergaard, Torben & Kim Schroder. The Language of Advertising, Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd., Oxford, England, Cover Illus. 1986 Martin, Alvin. American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (From the Glenn C. Janss Collection), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, pp.109 Illustration, 149,222 1986 Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art, (third edition), Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, pp.448,471 1987 Stich, Sidra. Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the 50's & 60's, University of California Press, Berkeley, L.A., London, pp.151,152 1988 Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, American References Inc., Chicago, IL, p.130,127-"Val Veeta" Illustrated,1052 1989 Ward, John L. American Realist Paintings 1945-1980, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, p.149,277,278 1990 Cirlot, Lourdes. Las Ultimas Tendencias Pictoricas, Ediciones Vicens-Vives, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, pp.17-18, "Miss Corn Flakes," 1964, illustrated p.97 1992 Betti, Claudia, Sale, Teel. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, 3rd ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, pp. 245-246. 1992 Deitmer, Sabine. Mordgeschichten, Fisher Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany, "Señorita Rio" cover ill. 1992 Davidson, Lytle and Stoff. American Journey: The Quest For Liberty Since 1865, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ill. p.664 1992 Bro, Lu. Figure & Form - Volume 1: Skills and Expressions, Wm. C. Brown Communications, Inc., Dubuque, IA, pp.160, 161 ill., color plate 6 1993 Binion, Rudolph. Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts, New York University Press, New York, p.110 ill. 1994 Mel Ramos - Pop Art Images, with text by Robert Rosenblum, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, Germany 1994 McGrath, Robert L. The Face of America: Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor, Arts Center Galleries, Old Forge, NY, p.19, p.38 ill. 1994 Messerli, Douglas, ed. The Sun & Moon Guide to Eating Through Literature and Art, Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, CA, p.85 ill. 1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today, Phaidon Press, London, England, p. 23 ill. 1999 Rosenblum, Robert. On Modern American Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, pp. 238-246 |
