Fred Thomas Martin
Fred Thomas Martin studied at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. in 1949 and his M.F.A. in 1954. Studied at the California School of Fine Arts, from 1949-1950, with David Park, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. Martin was the director of the San Francisco Art Institute between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, and he resumed that post in 1983.
Solo Exhibitions: The Contemporary Gallery, Sausalito, 1949; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1951; Six Gallery, San Francisco, 1956, 57, 58; Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, 1961; The Minami Gallery, Tokyo, 1962; M H de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1965; Royal Marks Gallery, NYC, 1965; Dilexi Gallery, 1967; Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, 1970; Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. 1970; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Selected Exhibitions: Action 1 , Merry-Go-Round Building, Santa Monica Pier, 1955; 68th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949; 69th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; 70th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1951; 73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954; 75th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1956; 77th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958 (Award); Fresh Paint, A selective survey of Recent Western Painting, Stanford University Art Gallery, 1958; Paintings by Fred Martin, Wally Hedrick and Sam Francis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1959; Some Points of View - 62, Stanford University Art Gallery, 1962; Third Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; Current Painting and Sculpture in the Bay Area, Stanford University Art Museum, 1964; On Looking Back, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1969; Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era 1976.
Public Collections: The Oakland Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Crocker Art
Museum; Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Richmond
Art Center; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
Source: Carlson Research Library, Carmel, CA
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