| Charles
Bell (1935-1995)
A Photo-realist still life painter
based in New York City and born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Charles
Bell created work distinguished by the fact that the subject
matter is depicted in a scale as much as ten times life size.
The colors are the clear and vibrant.
In his life time he created almost 200 works and wished to
have his work reproduced and distributed as widely as possible
for as long as possible.
Credit: Louis K. Meisel, owner of all intellectual property
rights to the body of work created by Charles Bell, and "Who's
Who in American Art," Jacques Cattell Press, 1976.
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EDUCATION
1957 B.B.A., University of Oklahoma, Norman
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1972 Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 5-26
1980 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 5-26
1983 Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 12 - Dec. 6
1986 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 6-26
1988 Modernism, San Francisco, CA, October 27 - December 10
1989 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 1-29
1991 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 2-30
1994 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 5-26
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1968 Setay Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1968 "Society of Western Artists Annual Exhibition"
M.H. de Young
Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1969 Greenwich Gallery, New York, NY
1969 Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1973 "East Coast/West Coast/New Realism," San Jose
State University
Art Gallery, CA, April 24 - May 18
1973 "Hyperréalisme américains," Galerie
Arditti, Paris, France,
October 16 - November 30
1973-78 "Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection,"
traveling
exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York; 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, PA; University of
Colorado Art Museum, Boulder; University of Texas at Austin
Art
Museum; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Gallery,
Charleston, SC; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN;
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana;
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
Lawrence; Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin
A.
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, KS; Tampa Bay Art
Center,
FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane
University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
1974 "New/Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
CT,
April 10 - May 19
1974 "Tokyo Biennale, '74," traveling exhibition,
Japan: Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum; Aichi
Prefectural Art Museum, Nagoya
1975 "The New Realism: Rip-Off or Reality?" Edwin
A. Ulrich Museum,
Wichita State University, KS
1975 "Photo-Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New
York
1975 "39th Annual Midyear Show," The Butler Institute
of American
Art, Youngstown, OH, June 29 - August 31
1975 "Watercolors and Drawings-American Realists,"
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York
1975-76 "Photo-Realism, American Painting & Prints,"
traveling exhibition,
New Zealand: Barrington Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall
Art
Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Gallery,
Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton
1976 "New Accessions U.S.A.," Colorado Springs Fine
Arts Center, CO,
October 24 - December 5
1976 "Troisième foire internationale d'art contemporain
(FIAC)," Grand
Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24
1976 "Washington International Art Fair," D.C. Armory,
Washington, DC
1976-78 "Aspects of Realism," traveling exhibition
sponsored by Rothmans
of Pall Mall Canada, Limited: Stratford Art Gallery, Ont.,
6/8-9/5/76; Vancouver Centennial Museum, B.C., 9/16-10/17/76;
Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alta., 10/29-11/28/76;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. 12/10/76-1/9/77; Winnipeg
Art Gallery, Man., 1/20-2/20/77; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alta.,
3/1-4/1/77; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newf.,
4/14-5/14/77; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I,
5/26-6/26/77; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal,
Que., 7/7-
8/7/77; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S., 8/18-
9/18/77; Windsor Art Gallery, Ont., 9/29-10/23/77; London
Art
Gallery and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, London, Ont., 11/3-
11/27/77; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ont., 12/8/77-1/8/78
1977 "New Realism," Jacksonville Art Museum, FL
1977 "Recent Acquisitions," The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York,
February 4-27
1977 "Washington International Art Fair," D.C. Armory,
Washington, DC
1977 "Works on Paper II," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY
1978 "Drawings Since 1960," University Art Gallery,
Creighton
University, Omaha, NE, September 30 - October 28
1978 "Landscape/Cityscape," Brainerd Hall Gallery,
State University
College, Potsdam, NY, September 22 - October 22
1978 "Paintings & Sculpture Today 1978," Indianapolis
Museum of Art,
IN, June 5 - July 30
1978 "Photo-Realism and Abstract Illusionism," Arts
& Crafts Center
of Pittsburgh, PA, October - November
1978 "Photo-Realist Printmaking," Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, NYC
1978 "Illusion and Reality: 10 New York Painters,"
Tolarno Galleries,
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
1978 "Washington International Art Fair," D.C. Armory,
Washington, DC
1979 "Brooklyn '79," Community Gallery, Brooklyn
Museum, NY,
January 28 - March 4
1979 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 "New York Now," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix,
AZ, April 20 - May 27
1979 "Photo-Realism: Some Points of View," Jorgensen
Gallery,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 19 - April 10
1979 "Prospectus: Art in the Seventies," The Aldrich
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1979 "Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings from N.Y.C.
Galleries,"
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College,
Loretto, PA, May 12 - July 8
1979 "Washington International Art Fair," D.C Armory,
Washington, DC,
May 2 - 7
1980 "New York Art Fair," 7th Regiment Armory, New
York, NY
1980 "Photo Realism," Kauffman Galleries, Houston,
TX, August 8 -
September 7
1980 "Still Life - A Selection of Contemporary Paintings,"
The Gallery,
School of Art, Kent State University, OH, May 9 - June 1;
Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH,
June 11 - July 11
1980-81 "Assignment Aviation - The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist
Collection," National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC
1981 "Cityscapes," The Graphics Gallery, Arnot Art
Museum, Elmira,
NY, July - August
1981 "New York Gallery Showcase," Oklahoma Art Center,
Oklahoma
City, January 16 - February 22
1981 "A Range of Contemporary Drawing," Sordoni Art
Gallery, Wilkes
College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, August 30 - September 20
1981 "Seven Photorealists - From New York Collections,"
The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, October 6 - November 8
1981 "Toyama Now '81," The Museum of Modern Art,
Toyama, Japan,
July 5 - September 23
1981-83 "American Super Realism: From the Morton G. Neumann
Family
Collection," Genevieve and Donald Gilmore Art Center,
Kalamazoo
Institute of Arts, MI, 9/1-11/1/81; Art Center, South Bend,
IN,
11/22/81-1/3/82; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 1/16-2/28/82;
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 3/19-
5/2/82; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, 5/9-
6/20/82; Des Moines Art Center, IA, 7/6-8/15/82; Terra Museum
of American Art, Evanston, IL, 11/4/83-12/7/83
1982 "An Appreciation of Realism," Museum of Art,
Munson-Williams-
Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, February 13 - April 11
1982 "Contemporary Realism," A Three Gallery Exhibition:
"Still Life,"
The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, January 10 - February
21
1982 "The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art 1880-1980,"
Nassau
County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, April 20 - July 18
1982 "Louis K. Meisel Gallery at Galerie Isy Brachot,
Brussels, Belgium,
April 22 - May 22
1982 "Photo-Réalisme ‘Dix Ans Après’,"
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris,
France, January 13 - March 6
1982 "Photographs by the Photorealists," Fort Wayne
Museum of Art,
IN, January 8-31; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, February 11-28;
Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN, March 7-31
1982 "Still Life/Interiors," Contemporary Art Center,
New Orleans, LA,
October 9 - November 7
1983 "The American Photorealists - An Anthology,"
Fischer Fine Art
Limited, London, England, May 6 - June 3
1983 "Realism Now," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,
Japan,
October 4 - December 4
1983 "10th Anniversary Exhibition, " Louis K. Meisel
Gallery,
New York, October 8-29
1983 "Toys," Greenville County Museum of Art, SC,
November 15 - December 31
1983-85 "American Art: Post-World War II Painting and
Sculpture from
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum," Birmingham Museum
of Art, AL,
October 13 - April 1
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, 7/23-9/4/83; Maryland
Science Center, Baltimore, 9/24-11/6/83; Columbus Museum
of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public
Museum, Green Bay, WI, 1/28-3/11/84; The Dane G. Hansen Memorial
Museum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13/84; Longview Museum & Art
Center,
TX, 6/2-7/15/84; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO,
8/4-9/16/84; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18/84; Fine
Arts
Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical
&
Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26/85; Amarillo Art
Center, TX, 6/15-7/28/85; Santa Fe Community College Art
Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1/85
1984 "America Seen - Contemporary American Artists View
America," Adams-
Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 28 - September 4
1984 "Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary
Art," The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, May 19 -
June 17
1984 "Aspects of Realism," Walter Moos Gallery, Toronto,
Canada,
September 15 - October 15
1984-85 "New Realism," Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham,
MI
December 15 - January 19
1985 "American Realism: The Precise Image," traveling
exhibition,
Japan: The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 7/25-8/19/85;
The Daimaru Museum, Osaka, 10/9-10/28; Yokahama Takashimaya
Gallery, Yokohama, 11/7-11/12/85, catalog
1985-87 "American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and
Watercolors from
the Glenn C. Janss Collection," San Francisco Museum
of
Modern Art, CA, 11/7/85-1/12/86; DeCordova & Dana Museum
and
Park, Lincoln, MA, 2/13-4/6/86; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,
University of Texas, Austin, 7/31-9/21/86; Mary & Leigh
Block
Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 10/23-12/14/86;
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1/15-3/8/87;
Akron Art Museum, OH, 4/9-5/31/87; Madison Art Center, WI,
7/26-9/20/87
1986 "Signs of the Times," traveling exhibition sponsored
by Art
Train, Detroit, MI, February 1 - December 20
1987 "Art Against AIDS," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, June
1987 "Collector's Choice," Philbrook Art Center,
Tulsa, OK,
April 27 - May 27
1987 "Directions in American Realism," Fort Wayne
Museum of Art, IN
1987 "Realism: The New Generation," R.H. Love Modern,
Chicago, IL,
June 5 - July 13
1987 "Toys," Gallery Henoch, New York, February 12
- March 15
1987-88 "Abstraction, Non-Objectivity and Realism: Twentieth-Century
Paintings from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum," Picker
Art
Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Mar. 7, 1987-
Mar. 6, 1988
1987-88 "Feasts," The Squibb Gallery, Princeton,
NJ, Nov. 22, 1987 -
Jan. 3, 1988
1988 "Art at the Armory," 69th Regimental Armory,
New York, NY,
January 27-31
1988 "ART/LA 88," Los Angeles Convention Center,
Los Angeles, CA
1988 "20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) - Artists & Movements
From Our First
Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, Nov.
5-26
1989 "Oklahoma Artists: Centennial Exhibition," Charles
B. Goddard
Center For Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, OK,
November 9 - December 31
1990 "Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg,
Sweden,
October 20 - November 25
1990 "Collectors' Annual - Contemporary Art," Boca
Raton Museum of Art,
FL, February 23 - March 25, Catalog
1990 "The 80's: A Post Pop Generation," Southern
Alleghenies Museum
of Art, Loretto, PA, June 30 - September 9
1990 "Objects Observed - Contemporary Still Life,"
Gallery Henoch, New
York, February 13 - March 10
1990 "Quickdraw - American Master Drawings Since 1959,"
Frank
Bernarducci Gallery, New York, November 2 - December 1
1990 "Spotlight on Oklahoma: 11 Oklahoma Artists,"
Oklahoma City Art
Museum, January 12 - March 4
1990-91 "Intaglio Printing in the 1980's," Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art
Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick, December 8 - February 24
1991 "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Nassau County
Museum of Art,
Roslyn, NY, April 15 - July 29
1991-92 "American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952-1990,"
traveling
exhibition, Japan: The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, November
1 -
December 23, 1991; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, January 29
-
February 16, 1992; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima,
February 22 - March 29; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu,
April 4 - May 17; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi,
May 23 - June 17
1991-92 "Photo-Realism: Revisited," Museum of Art,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL,
November 22, 1991 - January 19, 1992
1992 "Photorealism From Nashville Collections," Fine
Arts Center,
Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, June 13-21
1992 "Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma," Southern
Alleghenies Museum of
Art, Loretto, PA, June 14 - September 7
1992 "Fun & Games," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY,
September 12 - October 3
1993 "Really, Real, Realism Show," Jack Wright Gallery,
Palm Beach, FL,
January 8-29
1993 "Contemporary Realist Watercolor," Sewall Art
Gallery, Rice
University, Houston, TX, February 25 - April 10
1993 "Photorealism Since 1980," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY,
April 23 - June 24
1994 “Review of the Season,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY, Summer
1995 “Master American Contempories II,” Museu de
Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,
January 17 - February 28; NYC, Catalog
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
1996 “Since Statehood: Twelve Oklahoma Artists,”
Oklahoma City Art
Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, March 28 - May 17
1997 “Photorealism,” Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca
Raton, FL, Jan. 9-31
1997 “Photorealism’s Greatest Hits,” Louis
K. Meisel Gallery, New York,
NY, March 29 - April 26.
1997 “A Tribute to Frederick R. Weisman: Selections from
the New Orleans
Collection,” New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, New
Orleans,
LA, May 18 - August 10.
1997 “Hot Time,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York,
NY, June 7 - July 18
1997 “Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art and
Design, Savannah, GA,
October 2 - November 25.
1998 “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca
Raton, FL, February 12 –
March 7.
1998 “Remembering (Alcosser, Bell, Comtois and Stamos)”,
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY, January 31 - February 28.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1973 Allen, Barbara. "In and Around," Interview Magazine,
Nov. p. 36
1973 Beardsall, Judy. "Stuart M. Speiser Photorealist
Collection,"
Art Gallery Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Oct.), pp. 5, 29-34
1973 Sherman, Jack. "Art Review: Photo-Realism, Johnson
Museum,"
Ithaca Journal, Nov. 13
1973 "Shop Around," Evening Standard, March 30
1973 "The Speiser Collection of Photo Realism 1973,"
Village Voice,
September 20, p. 29
1974 The Art Gallery Scene, October, p. 8
1974 "Collection of Aviation Paintings at Gallery,"
Andover (Mass.)
Townsman, February 28
1974 Frank, Peter. "Charles Bell," ART News, December,
p. 100
1974 Gruen, John. "Eight SoHo Shows," SoHo Weekly
News, Oct. 31,
p. 16 ill.
1974 Marticelli, Joseph. "Our Books and Yours," Case
and Comment,
Vol. 70, No. 4 (July-Aug.), p. 11, cover ill.
1974 Walsh, Sally. "Paintings that Look Like Photos,"
Rochester
Democrat & Chronicle, Jan. 17
1975 Bromhead, Peter. "Photorealism," New Zealand
Star, July 22
1975 Curnow, Wynstan. "The Imagery of Now," New Zealand
Listener,
September 13
1975 "First Exhibition of Photorealist Art In Auckland,"
Auckland
Tourist Times, New Zealand, July 22, p. 6
1975 Frackman, Noel. "Charles Bell," Arts Magazine,
Jan., p. 11
1975 "Local Art Exhibition," South Auckland Carrier,
New Zealand,
July 30
1975 Lucie-Smith, Edward. "Contemporary Art in America,"
The
Illustrated London News, Jan.
1975 McNamara, T.J. "Photo-Realist Exhibition Makes Impact,"
The
Auckland Star, New Zealand, July 21
1975 McNamara, T.J. "Photo-Realist Exhibition Makes Impact,"
New
Zealand Herald, Auckland, July 23
1975 "Photo-Realism Exhibit Is Opening at Paine Sunday,"
Oshkosh
Daily Northwestern, April 17
1975 "Photo-Realism Flies High at Paine," Milwaukee
Journal, May
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 "Photo-Realists at Paine," Post Crescent View
Magazine, Appleton,
WI, April 27, pp. 5-6
1975 "Photorealism," Northern Advocate, Witangare,
New Zealand, Aug. 4
1975 "Photorealism at Best," The Christchurch Star,
New Zealand,
Aug. 27
1975 "Photorealism Tours Our Big Centers," Manawatu
Evening Standard,
New Zealand, July 30
1975 "Unique Art Exhibition," City News (New Zealand),
July 23
1976 Artner, Alan. "Mirroring the Merits of a Showing
of Photo-
Realism," Chicago Tribune, Oct. 24
1976 Better Homes & Gardens, August, p. 35
1976 Brown, Gordon. "Group Show," Arts Magazine,
September
1976 Fox, Mary. "Aspects of Realism," Vancouver Sun,
Sept. 21
1976 Hoffman, Donald. Kansas City Star, May
1976 K.M. "Realism," New Art Examiner, Nov.
1976-77 Greenwood, Mark. "Toward a Definition of Realism:
Reflections
on the Rothmans Exhibition," Arts/Canada, Vol.XXIV,
No. 210-211 (Dec.-Jan.), pp. 62-63
1977 Battcock, Gregory. "Dinner for Eighty," The
SoHo Weekly News,
Nov. 10, pp. 26, 45
1977 Beardsall, Judy. "Charles Bell," Arts Magazine,
Nov., p. 14
1977 Crossley, Mimi. "Review: Photo-Realism," Houston
Post,
Dec. 9, p. 10E ill.
1977 Edelson, Elihu. "New Realism at Museum Arouses Mixed
Feelings,"
Jacksonville Journal, Florida, Feb.
1977 Perreault, John. "Pin Ball Wizard," The SoHo
Weekly News,
Nov. 24, p. 26 ill.
1978 Bongard, Willie. Art Aktuell (Cologne), West Germany,
April
1978 Harris, Helen. "Art and Antiques: The New Realists,"
Town and Country, Oct., pp. 242, 244, 246-247
1978 Mackie, Alwynne. "New Realism and the Photographic
Look,"
American Art Review, Nov. 6, pp. 72-79, 132-134 ills.,
p. 76, 78
1978 Miller, Donald. "`Center' Gets Lift From Exhibition,"
Post-
Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct.
1978 Richard, Paul. "New Smithsonian Art: From`the Sublime'
to
Photorealism," Washington Post, Nov. 30, p. G 21
1978 The SoHo Weekly News, April, centerfold.
1978 Veehoff, Cary. "Show Capsulizes Two Decades of Art,"
Creightonian, Omaha, NE, vol. LVI, no. 7, Oct. 6
1978 Zimmer, William. "Review: Charles Bell," Arts
Magazine, Jan.,
pp. 24, ill. p. 25
1979 "Brooklyn Museum Showcases Borough Artists,"
New York Daily News,
Jan. 31, p. WK 3 ill.
1979 Louie, Elaine. "For Passionate Collectors,"
House Beautiful,
Feb., pp. 56-57
1978 Garfield, Alan. "Introduction to Drawing Since 1960,"
University Art Gallery, Creighton University, Omaha, NE,
Sept. 30 - Oct. 28
1979 "As The World Turns," CBS Television, Mar. 21
1980 Bishop Pete. "Gentlemen of the Jury," The Pittsburgh
Press Roto,
Feb. 10, ill. p. 18, pp. 19-20 ill.
1980 "Contemporary & Modern Art to be Offered June
10th at Christie's
East," Antiques & The Arts Weekly, June 6, p. 38
1980 "Here Comes (sic) the Judges," Oklahoma Art
Gallery, Summer,
p. 38 ill., p. 41
1980 Mackenzie, David C. "Artist Charles Bell 'High Fashion'
Now,"
Tulsa World, June 6, p. B1
1981 Forgey, Benjamin. "Aviation Art at Home in Its New
Hangar,"
The Washington Star, May 21, pp. C-1 ill., C-4
1981 Karmel, Pepe. Review: "Photographs by the Photorealists,"
Art in
America, May, pp. 140 -141
1981 "New York Gallery Showcase," Artscape, Oklahoma
Art Center,
Oklahoma City, Jan. - Feb., p. 2 ill.
1981 Perreault, John. "Photorealing in the Years,"
The Soho Weekly
News, Oct. 20, p. 64
1981 Yoskowitz, Robert. "Review," Arts Magazine,
Jan., p. 31
1982 Morera, Daniela. "Fotorealismo," Vogue Italia,
Oct.,
pp. 634-39, 700, illustration
1982 Vogue (Italia) Bambini, April/May, p. 154
1983 Omni, Dec., ill. pp. 130-31,
1984 Colby, Joy Hakanson. "New Realism Wins With Its Eye
Appeal,"
The Detroit News, Dec. 23, p. 4E
1984 Jensen, Dean. "Collection by Pieper: Art for Business
Sake,"
Milwaukee Sentinel, Mar. 13, part 4, pp. 1, 7 ill.
1984 Omni, May, ill. pp. 56-57
1984 Perreault, John. "Charles Bell," Antique Toy
World, Chicago, IL,
vol. 14, no. 1, Jan., ill. front cover, pp. 8-12 ill.
1985 Hoffmann, Deborah. "Collecting Marbles Isn't Just
Child's Play,"
The New York Times, June 20
1985 Reif, Rita. "Abstracts to be Offered," The New
York Times, April 26
1985 Reif, Rita. "52 Modern Artworks Auctioned at Christie's,"
The New
York Times, Nov. 7
1985 Reif, Rita. "Franz Kline's `Untitled' Sold for $880,000
at
Christie's," The New York Times, May 1
1987 Burdick, Marion. "A Feast for the Eyes Set at Squibb
Gallery,"
Time Off, Princeton, NJ, Dec. 2
1987 Ligocki, Gordon. "Photorealism Holds on to 1980's
Audiences,"
The Times, Hammond, IN, July 3, p. B-7
1988 Baily, Patricia Black. "ART/LA 88 - The Business
of Going
International," Art Today, Wichita, KS, Winter 1988-89,
pp. 38-41, p. 40 ill.
1988 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington,
DC, Christmas card
1988 Papadopoulou, Bia. "Intellectual & Artistic Movements:
American
Photorealism," Politea ("State") Magazine,
Athens, Greece, June,
pp. 73 ill.-75
1989 Nob Hill Gazette, San Francisco, CA, Jan., Cover ill.
1989 "Oklahoma Artwork on Display," The Daily Ardmoreite,
Ardmore, OK,
Dec. 5, p. 7
1989-90 "Oklahoma Artists," The Outlook, Charles
B. Goddard Center for
Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, OK, Dec. 1989 - Jan.
1990
1991 Soutif, Daniel. "Pictures And An Exhibition,"
Artforum
International, Mar., ill. p. 88
1991 Lipson, Karin. Review. "It's Not Real, It's Super-Realism!"
Newsday, (Nassau Edition - Part II), 26 April, p. 85.
1991 Harrison, Helen A. "Focusing In on Super-Realism,"
The New York
Times, April 28, p. 11 (Long Island) ill.
1991 Parks, Steve. "The Grand Museum Tour," Newsday
(Nassau Edition-
Part II), 3 May, 1991, pp. 84-85, 100.
1991 "Art Book Reviews," Art Times, Oct., p. 13.
1991 "Book Review," Publishers Weekly, Oct. 4, p.
76.
1992 Air & Space (Smithsonian), June/July, p. 17 ill.
1992 Reif, Rita. "Toys Transformed by Wit and Whimsy,"
The New York
Times, August 23, p. 20-H, ill.
1992 "Pinball and the Art World," Chicagoland Gazette,
Rockville, MD,
Issue #13, p. 1 ill., p. 12
1993 Cooper, James F. "Who's Afraid of Photorealism?",
(Book Review),
American Arts Quarterly, Summer/Autumn, pp. 31-33, ill.
1993 Review of Charles Bell: The Complete Works 1970-1990,
Classic
Amusements, Clifton, VA, March/April, cover ill., pp.30-31
ill.
1995 Dunbar, Leila. “Collectibles Take Gigantic Proportions
on Charles
Bell’s Palettes”, Collectors’ Showcase,
June/July, Vol. 15, No.3,
pp. 10-13, 56-57, illustrations.
1995 Lears, Jackson. “America’s Gambling Fever:
Playing With Money”, The
Wilson Quarterly, Washington, DC, Autumn, Vol. XIX, No. 4,
illustration., p. 6.
1996 “Museum Salutes Oklahoma Artists,” Museum
Views, Oklahoma City Art
Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, Spring, p. 1, “Marble”
illustrated
1996 Dornbusch, Rudiger. “The Ridiculous G7”, The
International
Economy, Washington D.C., September/October, Vol. X, No. 5,
“Troupe”, illustrated p. 40-41.
1997 “The Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art
and Design-The Magazine,
Fall/Winter, pp. 33-34.
1998 Tully, Judd. “Buoyant Market for Charles Bell’s
‘Fewer than 200’
Works”, Art Newsletter, 13 January, Vol. XXIII, No.
10, p. 5.
SELECTED CATALOGS
1973 Hogan, Carroll Edwards. Introduction to Hypérrealistes
américains.
Galerie Arditti, Paris, Oct. 16-Nov. 30.
1973 Meisel, Louis K. Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser
Collection. Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York.
1973 Radde, Bruce. East Coast/West Coast/New Realism. University
Art Gallery, San Jose State University, CA, April 24-May 18.
1974 Chase, Linda. "Photo-Realism." in Tokyo Biennale
1974. Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1974 Cowart, Jack. New Photo-Realism. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
CT,
April 10 - May 19.
1975 Meisel, Susan Pear. Watercolors and Drawings - American
Realists.
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York.
1975 39th Annual Midyear Show. The Butler Institute of American
Art,
Youngstown, OH, June 29 - August 31.
1976 Felluss, Elias A. Forward to Washington International
Art Fair.
Washington, DC.
1976 Gervais, Daniel. Introduction to Troisième Foire
Internationale
d'Art Contemporain. Grand Palais, Paris, October 16-24
1976-78 Chase, Linda. "U.S.A.", In Aspects of Realism.
Rothmans of Pall
Mall Canada, Ltd., June 1976 - January 1978.
1977 Dempsey, Bruce. introduction to New Realism. Jacksonville
Art
Museum, FL.
1977 Felluss, Elias A. Forward to Washington International
Art Fair.
Washington, DC.
1977 Meisel, Louis K. Charles Bell. Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New
York, November 5-26.
1978 Garfield, Alan. Introduction to Drawing Since 1960. University
Art
Gallery, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, Sept. 30-Oct. 28.
1978 Meisel, Louis K. Introduction to Landscape/Cityscape.
Brainerd Hall
Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY, Sept.
22-
Oct. 22.
1978 Meisel, Susan Pear. Introduction to The Complete Guide
to Photo-
Realist Printmaking," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York,
Dec.
1978 Yassin, Robert. Introduction to Painting and Sculpture
Today, 1978.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, June 15-July 30.
1979 Felluss, Elias A. Introduction to Washington International
Art Fair.
Washington, DC, May 2-7.
1979 Frankel, Robert. Introduction to New York Now. Phoenix
Art Museum,
AZ, April 20 - May 27.
1979 Gerling, Steve. Introduction to Photo-Realism: Some Points
of View.
Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, March
19 -
April 10.
1979 Streuber, Michael. Introduction to Selections of Photo-Realist
Paintings from N.Y.C. Galleries. Southern Alleghenies Museum
of
Art, Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA, May 12 - July 8.
1981 Adams, Lowell. Introduction to New York Gallery Showcase.
Oklahoma
Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, Jan. 16 - Feb. 22, pp. 30-33.
1981 Cityscapes. The Column, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY,
July.
1981 Messer, Thomas M. "Photorealism." in New Concepts
for a New Art
(Toyama Now '81). The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan,
July 5 - Sept. 23, ill. p. 25, pp. 107-10 ill.
1981 A Range of Contemporary Drawing. Sordoni Art Gallery,
Wilkes
College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Aug. 31 - Sept. 20.
1981-83 Kayser, Thomas A., and Linda Chase. Super Realism From
the Morton G.
Neumann Family Collection. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI,
Sept. 1-Nov. 1, 1981; The Art Center, Inc. South Bend, IN,
Nov. 22, 1981-Jan. 3, 1982; Springfield Art Museum, MO, Jan.
16-
Feb. 28, 1982; Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover,
NH, Mar. 19-May 2, 1982; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park,
Lincoln, MA, May 9-June 20, 1982; Des Moines Art Center, IA,
July 6-Aug. 15, 1982; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston,
IL,
Nov. 4-Dec. 7, 1983, ill. p. 11.
1982 Photo-Réalisme Dix Ans Après, Galerie Isy
Brachot, Paris,
Jan. 13 - Mar. 6, ill. p 20.
1983 The American Photorealists - An Anthology. Fischer Fine
Art Limited,
London, May-June.
1983 Chase, Linda. and Ronald McKnight Melvin. American Super
Realism
From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Terra Museum
of
American Art, Evanston, IL, Nov. 4 - Dec. 7, ill. p. 11.
1983 Perreault, John. Charles Bell - Marbles & Toys. Louis
K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, Mar.
1983 Realism Now. The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan,
Oct. 4 -
Dec. 4, p. 16, ill.
1984 Martin, Alvin. America Seen - Contemporary American Artists
View
America. Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX, June - Sept.
1985 Arthur, John. American Realism: The Precise Image. The
Isetan
Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 25 - Aug. 19; The Daimaru Museum,
Osaka, Oct. 9-28; Yokohama Takashimaya Gallery, Nov. 7-12,
ill. p. 42.
1990 Binai, Paul. Foreword to The 80's: A Post Pop Generation.
Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, June 30 - Sept. 9,
p. 6 ill.
1990 Selby, Roger L. Introduction to Collectors' Annual - Contemporary
Art. Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, pp. 6, 7, ill. p. 13.
1990 New Art In An Old City. The Virlane Foundation and the
K & B
Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA, pl. 26.
1990 Hansen, Trudy V. and Phillip Dennis Cate. Intaglio Printing
in
the 1980's. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers,
The
State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Dec. 9, 1990
-
Feb. 24, 1991.
1991 Arthur, John. “American Realism & Figurative
Art: 1952-1990,"
Japan Traveling Exhibition: The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai,
Miyagi; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; The Tokushima Modern
Art
Museum, Tokushima; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu;
Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi
1991 Schwartz, Constance. introduction to In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, April 15 - July 29.
1992 Binai, Paul. foreword to Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma.
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA.
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, LA, pp.47-48.
1995 “Master American Contemporaries II”, with
essay by Michael
McKenzie. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil,
pp.2-5
1997 “Photorealists” with essays by Dr. Judith
Van Baron &, Dr. Margaret
Betz. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
SELECTED BOOKS
1975 Battcock, Gregory, ed. Super Realism, A Critical Anthology.
New York: E.P. Dutton.
1975 Kultermann, Udo. Neue Formen des Bildes. Tübingen,
West Germany:
Verlag Ernst Wasmuth.
1976 Who's Who in American Art. New York: R.R. Bowker.
1978 Krantz, Les, ed. The New York Art Review. New York: The
Krantz
Company Publishers, Inc.
1979 Seeman, Helene Zucker, and Alanna Siegfried. SoHo. New
York:
Neal-Schuman.
1980 Lindey, Christine. Superrealist Painting and Sculpture.
New York:
William Morrow & Co., Inc.
1980 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc.
1982 Krantz, Les, ed. The New York Art Review. New York: The
Krantz
Company Publishers, Inc.
1985 Krantz, Les. American Art Galleries. New York and Oxford:
Facts
on File Publications.
1985 Krantz, Les. American Artists-An Illustrated Survey of
Leading
Contemporary Americans. New York: Facts on File Publications.
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Art Now. New York: William
Morrow
& Co., Inc.
1985 Xuriguera, Gerard. Les Figurations, (de 1960 à
nos jours).
Paris: Editions Mayer.
1986 Zanger, Virginia Vogel. Face to Face. Glenview, IL: Scott,
Foresman and Company.
1986 Martin, Alvin. American Realism - Twentieth Century Drawings
and
Watercolors. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association
with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
1988 Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review. Chicago: American
References, Inc.
1989 Farrell, Edmund, Ovida Clapp, and Karen Kuehner. Patterns
in
Literature: America Reads-Classic Edition. Glenview, IL: Scott,
Foresman and Company.
1989 Ward, John L. American Realist Painting 1945-1980. Ann
Arbor:
University of Michigan Press.
1989 Gould, Eric, Robert DiYanni, and William Smith. The Act
of
Writing. New York: Random House, Inc., ill. p. 110.
1991 Levin, Richard I., and David S. Rubin. Statistics for
Management.
5th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
1991 Geldzahler, Henry. Charles Bell - The Complete Works 1970-1990.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1993 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism Since 1980. New York: Harry
N.
Abrams, Inc., pp. 43-76.
1994 Lord, M. G. Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography
of a Real
Doll. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., pp.255,
262, 270
1994 The Fine Art Index, Volume I. Chicago: International Art
Reference,
p. 45.
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Realism. London: Thames
and Hudson,
pp. 193 ill., 194.
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today. London: Phaidon Press,
p. 207 ill.
1997 Spiazzi, Marina, and Marina Tavella. Only Connect…
Maps Through
Literature with a Study Guide. Bolgna, Italy: Zanichelli
Editore, cover illustration.
1997 Toole, John Kennedy. Ignaz oder Die Verschwörung der
Idioten.
Munich: Deutscher Taschnbuch Verlag, cover illustration
1998 Polsky, Richard. Art Market Guide. San Francisco: The Marlit
Press,
p. 181.
1998 Carson, Michael. Das Glück der Süße (Sucking
Sherbet Lemons).
Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, cover illustration
1998 Tesich, Steve. Karoo, London: Chatto & Windus Limited,
cover
illustration.
1999 Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation, Understanding
New Media. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, p. 123-125
ill. Fig. 6.6 and Plate 5.
2000 Flowers, Arthur and Anthony Curtis. The Art of Gambling
Through
the Ages. Las Vegas: Huntington Press, pp. 100-101.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
The Prudential Collection, Newark, NJ
Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC
The Virlane Foundation and The K&B Corporation Collections,
New Orleans, LA
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
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