James Francis Gill

1934: born in Tahoka, Texas
1959: Studied at the University of Texas
1962: Felix Landau, one of the most influential gallerists in the US accepts Gill for 10 years under contract and organizes numerous exhibitions.
1965: Visiting Professor (University of Idaho)
1967: "Sao Paulo 9 - Environment USA" The "Who's Who" of Pop Art 
1969: Visiting Professor (University of Irvine, California) 
1970: Visiting Professor (University of Oregon) 
1972: "exile" in artists' community, California
1979: James Gill moved to Northern California
1997: Start of a new creative phase
2005: retrospective at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts 


Today, James Gill is in a late creative phase. He is one of the last surviving American pop art artist of the first generation. His artistic signature runs through a more than five decades of process and results in the fusion of realism and abstraction to a mature expression of modern art. 


Extract from his exhibitions: March 2013 art Karlsruhe - Oct 2012 Art International Zurich - JULY 2012 Exhibition Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills / CA - April 2012 Exhibition "L.A. Raw "Pasadena Museum of California Art / CA - 2005 Exhibition 45-year retrospective" Uncommon Places "in San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts / Texas

James Gill at the Museum (Temporary and permanent presences):
- Museum of Modern Art, NY 
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 
- Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley 
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 
- Stanford University Center for Visual Arts
- San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
- Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art, Santa Barbara, CA 
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

 

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