BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compiled by Bruce Nixon with additions by Donna Smith

 

Acton, David, The Stamp of Impulse, Abstract Impressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum 2001.

 

Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco  Bay Area, 1945-1980, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.

 

Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. ed., Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades, 1940s-1960s,  Vol. III, The Development of Modern Art in Northern California, Davis, CA: The Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection, Department of Art, University of California, Davis, 1983.

 

The Dilexi Years: 1958-1970, Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1984. (Exhibition Catalog, texts by Terry St. John, Christina Orr-Cahall, Knute Stiles, Jim Newman and others.)

 

Edward Corbett, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969. (Exhibition catalog, text by Gerald Nordland.)

 

Edward Corbett: A Retrospective, Richmond, CA: Richmond Art Center, 1990. (Exhibition catalog, text by Susan Landaur.)

 

Ferus, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002, (Exhibition catalog with texts by Roberta Bernstein and Kirk Varnedoe.)

 

Hassel Smith, San Francisco: California School of Fine Arts [now San Francisco Art Institute], March 1957. (Exhibition catalog, text by Hassel Smith.)

 

Hassel Smith, New York: AndrĂˆ Emmerich Gallery, 1961. (Exhibition catalog, text by Douglas MacAgy.)

 

Hassel Smith, Davis CA: Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, 1989. (Exhibition catalog, text by Bruce Nixon.)

 

Hassel Smith: Paintings. London: Gimpel Fils, April 1960. (Exhibition catalog, text by Lawrence Alloway.)

 

Hassel Smith: Paintings, 1954-1975. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1975. (Exhibition catalog, text by Allan Temko.)

 

Hassel Smith: Recent Paintings, 1986-1987, and Selected Works, 1948-1963, Belmont, CA: Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, 1988. (Exhibition catalog, text by Charles Shere; introduction by Charles Strong.)

 

Hassel Smith: Selected Works 1945-1981. Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1981. (Exhibition catalog, texts by Hassel Smith and Terry St. John.)

 

Hassel Smith: A Selection of Paintings, 1948-1961. Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1961. (Exhibition catalog, text by Walter Hopps.)

 

Hassel Smith: 55 Years of Painting. Santa Rosa, CA: Sonoma County Museum, 2002. (Exhibition catalog, text by Peter Selz.)

 

Jones, Caroline A. Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1990.

 

Lagoria, Georgianna M. Northern California in the Sixties. Santa Clara, CA: de Saisset Museum, 1982. (Exhibition catalog. Additional essay by Fred Martin.)

 

Landauer, Susan,  The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism,  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press/Laguna Art Museum, 1996.

 

McChesney, Mary Fuller. A Period of Exploration, San Francisco 1945-1950. Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1973.

 

Mediating Abstraction and Figuration: The Paintings of James Kelly, 1952-1990. Belmont, CA: The Weigand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, 1990. (Exhibition catalog, text by Stacey Moss.)

 

Nixon, Bruce. Hassel Smith, Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 1997.

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976. (Exhibition catalog.)

 

Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1974.

 

Solnit, Rebecca. Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990.

 

John Natsoulas Gallery, Beat Generation and Beyond. Davis, CA:Essays by John Natsoulas and Vanessa

Bolden, John Natsoulas Press, 2004.