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PETER HOLBROOK 
Email  peter@peterholbrook.com  
Web   PeterHolbrook.com 

Education
1961      BA Degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 
1962-63 Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Teaching Experience
1988      Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
1970-71 California State University, Hayward, CA
1970       Summer Workshop, N. Illinois University, De Kalb, IL
1968-70  University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus, Chicago, IL
1968       North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL
1968       Oxbow Summer School of Painting, Saugatuck, MI
1962-63  Fort Hamilton Army Base Brooklyn, NY

One-Person Shows
2009      "Rock of Ages" Peterson-Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009      "A View from the Edge"  Leslie Levy Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2008      "Marina" Humboldt Baykeeper Eureka,  CA
2008      "Peter Holbrook"  Piante Gallery, Eureka,  CA
2007      "R.A.F.T. Paintings"  Leslie Levy Fine Art, Scottsdale,  AZ
2007       "Canyon Textures" Peterson-Cody Gallery, Santa Fe,  NM                       
2006       "Dry Canyons / Wet Canyons"  Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA
2006       "Overlook" Leslie Levy Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2005       "Harbor", Cody-Pettit Gallery, Eureka, CA
2004       Auraria Library, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
2002       Lanning Gallery, Sedona, AZ
2001       Charlene Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001       Wm. F. Cody Gallery, Eureka, CA
1999       Charlene Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998       Lanning Gallery, Sedona, AZ
1997       Charlene Cody Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996-97 "Peter Holbrook: Paintings" (tour) Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ;  N.I.U. Art Museum, De Kalb, IL  Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1992       Equitable Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992       Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1991       Shaklee Terrace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991       Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991       John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990       Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1990       Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1989       Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1989       Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1988       Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1988       Bell Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1987       Tatistcheff Gallery New York, NY
1987       Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD
1986       Larry Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1985       Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983       Kauffman Gallery, Houston, TX
1982       Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1982       Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980       Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978       ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977       ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976       Nautilus Gallery, Arcata, CA
1976       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975       William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1970       Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1970       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1969       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1968       Unitarian Church, Chicago, IL
1967       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1966       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1964       Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1960       Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Museum Exhibitions (Group)
2008       "Masters of Illusion" Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2006       "The Grand Canyon, From Dream to Icon" Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2005       "Landscape Interpretations" Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA
2004       "West by Southwest" Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
2002       "Magnifying the Mark" (Prints) Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2000       "Images of Water" 14th Annual Photography Competition & Exhibition, Eureka City Hall, Eureka, CA
2000       "Ten Painters" Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
1999       "Contemporary American Realist Drawings (The Davidson Collection)" The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999       "Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950" Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK   
1997       "Canyon Walls!" Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
1994       "Grand Canyon Exhibition", N.A.U. Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
1994       "Fish out of Water", Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ
1994       "Visual Treasures of the Living Gorge", Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN
1990       "The Big Picture" Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1987       "Close Focus", National Museum of Art, Washington, DC
1987       "Mainstream America: The Collection of Philip Desind", Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
1987       "Capturing the Canyon", Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ
1986       "Watercolor USA 1986, The Monumental Image", Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1985       "American Realism, The Janss Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1985       "Recent Paintings" College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
1984       "R.A.F.T. Show" Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1984       "A New Look at American Landscape" Rahr=West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1984       "California Watercolor and Drawing" Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1983       "New Figure Painting" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1983       "Invitational Watercolor Exhibition" Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
1982       "Contemporary American Watercolor" U. of Wisconsin, Illinois State U.
1982       "Watercolor USA" Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1982       "The Davidson Collection" Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Philadelphia, PA
1981-82  "California Watercolor and Drawing" Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1981       "Southern Humboldt Artists" Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1980       "Realism" Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1978       "Fine Art Presses" Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979       "Koffler Foundation Collection" Traveling Exhibition, Illinois Arts Council
1978       "Contemporary American Artist Exhibition" Tokyo Central Museum,  Japan
1971       Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1970       Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
1969       "Figure in the 60s" Beloit College, Beloit, WN
1969       "Musuem Purchase Fund Collection" American Federation of the Arts, Chicago, IL
1969       "Chicago and Vicinity" Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1968       "Chicago 6 Artists" N. Illinois University, De Kalb, IL
1968-69  "The Figure International" The American Federation of Arts
1968       "Artist's Response" The Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1968       "Violence" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
1967-68  "Chicago and Vicinity" Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1967        "Chicago Area Artists" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1966        "Phalanx 4" Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
1966        "Black and White" Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1965        "The Figure" National Institute of Design" University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1965        "Phalanx 3" Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL
1965        "Vegetable Kingdom" Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1965        "Society of Contemporary Art Show" Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1965        "Chicago and Vicinity" Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL     
1965       "Twelve Chicago Painters", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Museum Collections
Indiana State University, Indianapolis, IN
National Collection of Fine Arts, (Smithsonian) Washington, D.C.
Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ                          
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Achenbach Collection, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA.
The Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
Frederick R. Weisman Art Musuem, U. of MN, Minneapolis, MN

Bibliography
2009   "Rock of ages", American Art Collector magazine, Sept. 2009
2009   "Canyons of permanence", American Art Collector magazine, Feb. 2009
2008   "Close to the Land" Mary Anderson, Times Standard, Eureka, CA Sept. 16, 2008
2007   Canyon Paintings (catalog) Peter Holbrook,  Bug Press, Arcata, CA
2007   "Canyon Textures", American Art Collector magazine, June, 2007
2006   "Aclaimed Artists, sweeping careers" Times Standard, Eureka, CA
2006   "Peter Holbrook", American Art Collector magazine, April 2006
2004   "Peter Holbrook" Dale Walton, Art Life-Arizona, Volumn 17, 2004
2004   "Peter Holbrook, Ever Changing Landscapes" Vista magazine, Fountain Hills, AZ Fall 2004
2003   "Interview: Q&A with Peter Holbrook", John Jarvis, Art-Talk newspaper, Scottsdale, AZ  May 2003
2003   "Nocturne" Scott McMillion This Week magazine, Big Sky Publishing (MT) Nov, 14 2003
2002   "Elemental Forces", Helene Bourne, Focus/Santa Fe magazine, Oct./Nov./Dec. 2002
2000   "Painting the American West", Donald Hagerty, Southwest Art magazine, February, 2000
1999   Contemporary American Realist Drawings (Davidson Collection), Fine, Hernandez-Duran and Pascale, The Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson Hills Press, New York, NY
1999   "Searching for the Abstract in Nature", Gussie Fauntleroy, Focus/Santa Fe, Aug./Sept.
1999   Green Woods and Crystal Waters; The American Landscape Tradition, John Arthur, The Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
1999   The Artist's Illustrated Encyclopedia: Terms, Techniques, and Materials, Phil Metzger, North Light Books, Cincinnatti, OH
1999    "The Aesthetics of Presence: The Landscape Paintings of Peter Holbrook”, Katharine Tehranian,  PROSPECTS: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA
1998    The Artist and the American Landscape, Driscoll and Skolnick, First Glance Books Cobb, CA       
1998    Majesty of the Grand Canyon: 150 Years in Art, Kinsey and Skolnick, First Glance Books, Cobb, CA
1997    An American Landscape Collection, Wm. Struve, Zurick Zurick Distributors Inc. Chicago, IL
1997    Leading the West: One Hundred Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Donald Hagerty, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ
1996    "Nature's art unadorned", Bill Jones, Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, August 8, 1996
1996    Peter Holbrook: Paintings  A Catalog of the Touring Exhibition 1996-1997,  Platypus Press, Garberville, CA
1996    Canyon de Chelly, 100 Years of Painting and Photography, Donald Hagerty, Gibbs-Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City, UT
1993    Enliven Your Paintings With Light, Phil Metzger, North Light Books        
1992    "Peter Holbrook, The Living Landscape", The World and I  magazine, June 1992       
1990    "The Lure of The Golden State", Kathy Neal, U.S. ART  Magazine, October 1990
1989    The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Menorial Art Gallery, Geske and Jahovy, U. of Nebraska Press
1989    Spirit of Place, John Arthur, Bullfinch Press, 1989
1987    Capturing the Canyon, Artists and The Grand Canyon,by Holly Mitchem and Marvin Schenck, The Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, AZ
1986    American Realism  20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (Janss Collection) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harry Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York 1986
1984    "Peter Holbrook", American Artist, March 1984
1983    "Ten Contemporary Painters", American Artist, Feb. 1983

 Gallery Representation

Scottsdale Fine Art
7116 East Main Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

Phone (480) 990-3100
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