Raimonds Staprans paintings

Born:           1926, Riga, Latvia Education:                     1954 MA, Graduate School of the University of California, Berkeley, CA                     1952 BA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA                     1947 School of Art, Esslingen, Stuttgart, Germany Raimonds Staprans Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2001 Hackett/Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Mendenhall Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 1998 Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1997 Kunstmesse, Cologne, Germany          Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany 1994 Marburg Art Center, Marburg, Germany          Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany          Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1991 State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia          Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany 1989 Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, Idaho 1988 Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany 1986 European Art Expo, Cologne, Germany          Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland 1985 Galerie Elephas, Friedenberg, Germany          Hanson-Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 1984 Maxwell Galleries,San Francisco, CA Brubaker Gallery, Sarasota, FLorida 1982 Topoi Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1979 De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA 1978 Maxwell Galleries, San francisco, CA 1973 Soviet Latvian Cultural Committee          Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, Canada          Art Gallery, Northern Arizona University, Arizona 1962-72 Maxwell Galleries, Bi-Annual Exhibition, SanFrancisco, CA                           1961 Galerie St. Etienne, New York                                                                                                                                                                          O Hana Gallery, London                                                                                                                                                                             "Wine Goblet and Table" 1963          Galerie Andre Weil, Paris                                                                                                                                                                                     60"x26"  sold 1959 Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA          Ross Veden Art Colony, Cleveland, Ohio 1956 Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, France          Edgargo Acosta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1955 Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA          Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1953 Gleason Gallery, Salem, Oregon 1951 Lincoln Art Center, Oregon         Art Gallery, Oregon State University, Oregon 1950 Elfstrom Gallery, Salem, Oregon  Raimonds Staprans Selected Group Exhibitions: 2000 "The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration" , The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City and the San Jose Museum of Art 1993 "California Dreaming", Fresno Museum of Modern Art, Fresno, CA 1990 State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia 1983 "Western Artists", Hamilton-Lawler Gallery, Denver, CO 1982 "Western Artists", Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Invitational, San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA 1976 Invitational, Bicentennial Exhibition of American Landscape 1967 Invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 1962 Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1959 "The Painted Flower", Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1957 Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1956 Oregon Artists, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1954 Bay Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1953 Redding Art Center, Redding, CA 1946 Esslingen Expo, Stuttgart-Esslingen, Germany Raimonds Staprans Selected Collections: Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Portland Art Museum, Portland OR John F. Kennedy University Museum of Art, Orinda, CA M. H. de Young Art Museum, San Francisco, CA State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia   Raimonds Staprans Selected Bibliography: 2000 Landauer, Susan, The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO 1997 Karlstrom, Paul J., "West Coast," Archives of American Art Journal, 37, pp. 49-54          Karlstrom, Paul J. & Peter Mendenhall, Raimonds Staprans, Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA (exhibition catalogue) 1967 Raymonds Straprans, Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco, CA (exhibition catalogue)