Bibliography

 

 

Recently published: The first comprehensive monograph on Hassel Smith.

 

Hassel Smith. Paintings 1937-1997

Ed. by Petra Giloy-Hirtz

Prestel Publishing, Munich/London/New York 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition Catalogues

 

Hassel Smith. Text by Hassel Smith. California School of Fine Arts. San Francisco, 1957.

 

Hassel Smith. Dilexi Gallery. San Francisco, 1958.

 

Hassel Smith: Paintings. Text by Lawrence Alloway. Gimpel Fils. London, 1960.

 

Hassel Smith. Text by Douglas MacAgy. André Emmerich Gallery. New York, 1961.

 

Hassel Smith: A Selection of Paintings, 1948-1961. Text by Walter Hopps. Pasadena Art Museum. Pasadena, 1961.

 

Hassel Smith: Paintings. Gimpel Fils. London, 1963.

 

Hassel Smith. Dilexi Gallery. San Francisco, 1964.

 

Hassel Smith in Houston. Text by Toni Beauchamp. Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Houston. Houston, 1974.

 

Hassel Smith: Paintings, 1954-1975. Text by Allan Temko. San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco, 1975.

 

Hassel Smith: Recent Paintings. Arco Center for Visual Art. Los Angeles, 1978.

 

Hassel Smith: Selected Works, 1945-1981. Texts by Hassel Smith and Terry St. John. Oakland Museum. Oakland, 1981.

 

Hassel Smith: Recent Paintings, 1986-1987, Selected Works, 1948-1963. Text by Charles Shere. Introduction by Charles Strong. Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame. Belmont, Calif., 1988.

 

An Art of Wondering: King Ubu Gallery, 1952-1953. Exh. cat. Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery. Davis, Calif., 1989.

 

Hassel Smith. Text by Bruce Nixon. Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery. Davis, Calif., 1997.

 

Hassel Smith: Drawings and Poems. Introduction by Mag Dimond. San Francisco 1997.

 

Hassel Smith: 55 Years of Painting. Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif., 2002

 

West Coast Painting. Text by Petra Giloy-Hirtz. Galerie Biedermann. Munich, 2005.

 

Hassel Smith. Essays by Bruce Nixon and Walter Hopps. 2nd edition. Davis, Cal. 2006.

 

Hassel Smith in the West Country. Text by Mark Harrington. Silk Mill Studios. Frome, England, 2011.

 

 

 

Selected Books

 

Thomas Albright. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1985.

 

Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr., ed. Directions in Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades, 1940s-1960s. Vol. 3: The Development of Modern Art in Northern California. Davis, Calif., 1983.

 

The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum. Ed. Christina Orr-Cahall. Exh. cat. The Oakland Museum. San Francisco, 1984.

 

Aspects of Abstract: Recent West Coast Abstract Painting and Sculpture. Text by Roger D. Clisby. Exh. cat. Crocker Art Museum. Sacramento, 1979.

 

Gregory Bateson. Mind and Nature. London, 1979.

 

David Beasley. Understanding Modern Art: The Boundless Spirit of Clay Edgar Spohn. Buffalo, N.Y., 1999.

 

Beat Generation and Beyond: A Visual History, vol. 1. Essays by John Natsoulas and Vanessa Bolden. Davis, Calif., 2004.

 

The Beat Generation Galleries and Beyond. Texts by Seymour Howard, John Natsoulas, Rebecca Solnit, Michael McClure, Bruce Nixon, John Allen Ryan, and Jack Foley. Davis, Cal., 1996.

 

The California Connection: Sixteen Paintings from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection. Text by Anne Carnegie Edgerton. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, 1983.

 

Edward Corbett. Text by Gerald Nordland. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco, 1969.

 

The Dilexi Years: 1958-1970. Texts by Terry St. John, Christina Orr-Cahall, Knute Stiles, Jim Newman et al. The Oakland Museum. Oakland, 1984.

 

Ferus. Irving Blum interviewed by Robert Bernstein. Text by Kirk Varnedoe. Exh. cat. Gagosian Gallery. New York, 2002.

 

Petra Giloy-Hirtz (Ed.), Paul J. Karlstrom, Susan Landauer (Co-authors): Hassel Smith: Tiptoe Down to Art; Paintings, 1937-1997. With contributions from Petra Giloy-Hirtz., Robert C. Morgan, Peter Selz, Allan Temko. Munich, 2012.

 

Sonia Gechtoff. The Ferus Years. Exh. cat. Nyehaus. New York, 2011.

 

Caroline A. Jones. Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art et al. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990.

 

Kristine McKenna. The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin. Göttingen, 2009.

 

Lyn Kienholz. L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980. Los Angeles, 2010.

 

Georgianna M. Lagoria. Northern California in the Sixties. Text by Fred Martin. Exh. cat. de Saisset Museum. Santa Clara, Calif., 1982.

 

Susan Landauer. Paper Trails: San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors.  Exh. cat.  Art Museum of Santa Cruz County.  Santa Cruz, Calif., 1993.

 

Susan Landauer. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. Introduction by Dore Ashton. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1996.

 

Susan Landauer, Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2001.

 

Susan C. Larsen. "Los Angeles Painting in the Sixties: A Tradition in Transition." In Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1981.

 

Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Monotypes. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 1983.

 

Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery, 1954-1957. Ed. John Natsoulas, Bruce Nixon, and Steven Rosenzweig. Davis, Calif., 1991.

 

The Making of a Modern Museum: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Essays by John R. Lane, Richard Barnes, Teresa Tauchi, Janet C. Bishop, Gary Garrels, Douglas R. Nickel, Sandra S. Phillips, Paolo Polledri, Robert R. Riley, J. William Shank, and John S. Weber. San Francisco, 1995.

 

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

 

Mediating Abstraction and Figuration: The Paintings of James Kelly, 1952-1990. Text by Stacey Moss. Exh. cat. The Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame. Belmont, Calif., 1990.

 

Bruce Nixon. Hassel Smith. Davis, Calif., 1997.

 

Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963. Exh. cat. Nyehaus, David Nolan Gallery, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, and Leslie Feely Fine Art. New York, 2011.

 

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Ed. Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh. Published by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2011.

 

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 1976.

 

Lisa Phillips. Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1995.

 

The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Crocker Art Museum. Sacramento, 2002.

 

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

 

Rolling Renaissance: San Francisco Underground Art in Celebration, 1945-1968. Texts by Thomas Albright, Mary Fuller McChesney, Knute Stiles et al. Exh. cat. Intersection and the Glide Urban Center. San Francisco, 1968.

 

Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties. Text by John Natsoulas. Exh. cat. Muckenthaler Cultural Center. Fullerton, Calif., 1991.

 

Peter Selz. Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2006.

 

Richard Cándida Smith. Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1995.

 

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

 

The Spatsa Gallery. Ed. John Natsoulas, Tony Novelozo, Bruce Nixon, and Leslie Stahlhut. Exh. cat. Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery. Davis, Calif., 1991.

 

The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Impressionist Prints. Ed. David Acton, Exh. cat. Worcester Art Museum et al. Manchester, Vt., 2001.

 

Maurice Tuchman. "Diebenkorn's Early Years." In Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976. Exh. cat. Albright-Knox Gallery. Buffalo, N.Y., 1976.

 

 

 

Reviews and Articles

 

Thomas Albright. "Looking Back at Bay Area Art." San Francisco Chronicle, This World, August 18, 1968, pp. 25-26.

 

Thomas Albright. "A Rare Showing of Hassel Smith." San Francisco Chronicle. December 1, 1970, p. 41.

 

Thomas Albright. "Period of Exploration’ at Oakland Museum." San Francisco Chronicle, This World. September 9, 1973, pp. 49-50.

 

Thomas Albright. "Journeys Into Geometric Abstraction." San Francisco Chronicle. 1977. Review of exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.

 

Thomas Albright. "Outspoken Man with a Brush." San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 1978, pp. 59-60.

 

Thomas Albright. "Hassel Smith." ArtNews 82, no. 2 (February 1983), pp. 128-29.

 

Lawrence Alloway. "London Letter: Hassel Smith and Alan Davie." Art International 4, no. 4 (May 1, 1960), pp. 51-52.

 

Dore Ashton. "Eastern View of the San Francisco School." Evergreen Review 1, no. 2 (1957), pp. 148-59.

 

Debra D. Bass. “Exhibition Shows Artist’s Contrasting Styles: Sonoma County Museum Showcases Hassel Smith’s 55-Year Body of Artwork.” The Press Democrat, no. 17 (2002), p. Q10.

 

Carlyle Burrows. "Varieties of Savagery." New York Herald Tribune, February 19, 1961. Review of the Hassel Smith exhibition at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1961.

 

Jan Butterfield. "An Interview with Hassel Smith." San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Association Newsletter 1, no. 2 (August 1978), pp. 1, 5.

 

John Coplans. "Re-Discovering Hassel Smith." Artforum 11, no. 11 (May 1964), pp. 28-31.

 

John Coplans. "Circle of Styles on the West Coast." Art in America 52, no. 3 (June 1964), pp. 24-41.

 

"Coplans, DuCasse, Gordin, Hedrick, Ippolito, Smith, Zogbaum." Artforum 1, no. 2 (July 1962), pp. 29-35. Transcript of public panel discussion by the artists at the San Francisco Art Institute.

 

Victoria Dalkey. "Emotion, Hue, Form and Line." Sacramento Bee, August 18, 1996.

 

Fidel A. Danelli. "Los Angeles." Artforum 2, no. 9 (March 1964), p. 11.

 

Ana Davis. "Exhibition Salutes Hassel Smith and His Exuberance for Art, Life." San Francisco Chronicle, March 5, 2008.

 

Michael Duncan. "Hassel Smith at the Sonoma County Museum." Art in America 91, no. 7 (2002), p. 103.

 

Ray Duncan. "Wildness Under Control.2 Scene Independent. March 19, 1961. Review of Hassel Smith exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum, 1961.

 

Pele Edises. "Hassel Smith: Vitality and Humor." Daily People’s World. May 10, 1947.

 

Alfred Frankenstein. San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 1947. Review of Hassel Smith exhibition at the California Palace of Legion of Honor.

 

Alfred Frankenstein. "Josef Albers Shows What Thinking and Planning Will Do For Art." San Francisco Chronicle, This World. November 22, 1953, p. 29.

 

Alfred Frankenstein. "New Exhibition of the Works of Recent Prize-Winning Artists." San Francisco Chronicle, This World. October 11, 1953, pp. 21- 22.

 

Alfred Frankenstein. "The World of Music." San Francisco Chronicle, 1958. Review of Hassel Smith exhibition at Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "Coast-to-Coast: San Francisco." Art Digest 28, no. 2 (October 15, 1953), p. 13.

 

Christopher French. "Two Widely Separate Views." Artweek 15, no. 5 (June 9, 1984), p. 4.

 

Mary Fuller. "Was There a San Francisco School?" Artforum 9, no. 5 (January 1971), pp. 46-53.

 

John Gruen. "Richard Diebenkorn: The Idea is to Get Everything Right." ArtNews 85, no. 9 (November 1986), pp. 80-87.

 

Jesse Hamlin. "Hassel Smith: Influential Bay Area Artist and Teacher." San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2007.

 

"Hassel Smith's New Paintings." The Times (London). Thursday, April 4, 1963.

 

"Hassel Smith: Four Drawings." Artforum 1, no. 8 (February 1963), pp. 36-37.

 

Robin Houston. "Hassel Smith: Exuberant Abstract Expressionist." The Independent (London), April 19, 2007.

 

Barbara Isenberg. "An L.A. Art Story." Los Angeles Times. September 22, 2002. Review of the exhibition Ferus at Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2002.

 

Weldon Kees. "San Francisco Artists Set A Pace." New York Times. December 31, 1950, Sec. II, p. 9.

 

Anthony W. Lee. "Review Shorts.2 Artweek 20, no. 41 (December 7, 1989), p. 24.

 

Henri Zola Lenoir. "Skylight Sketch." The Montgomery Street Skylight 2, no. 24 (July 1, 1946), p. 1, 3n.

 

Erle Loran. "San Francisco.2 ArtNews 48, no. 5 (September 1949), p. 45.

 

Douglas MacAgy. "A Symposium: the State of American Art." Magazine of Art 42, no. 3 (March 1949), pp. 94-95. Sixteen contributors, including Lionel Trilling, H. W. Janson, Clement Greenberg, Lloyd Goodrich, John Baur, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. et al.

 

Joanna Magloff. "Reviews: San Francisco." ArtNews 63, no. 3 (May 1964), p. 20.

 

Fred Martin. "San Francisco Letter." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 1975), p. 55.

 

James Monte. "San Francisco: Hassel Smith." Artforum 111, no. 5 (February 1965), p. 9.

 

Bruce Nixon. "Hassel Smith." Art of California 2, no. 5 (October-November 1989), pp. 32-37.

 

Gerald Nordland. "Nationwide: Los Angeles from Dirge to Jeer." Arts Magazine 36, no. 5 (February 1962), p. 52.

 

Gerald Nordland. "Richard Diebenkorn: A Fifteen-Year Retrospective Is Organized by the Washington Gallery of Modern Art." Artforum 111, no. 4 (January 1965), pp. 21-25.

 

Kevin Power. "A Conversation with Hassel Smith." Arts Review (1981), pp. 313-14.

 

Irving Sandler. "Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month." ArtNews 60, no. 3 (May 1961), p. 20.

 

John Seed. "Hassel Smith: The Painter of Persistent Challenges (1915-2007)." The Huffington Post, January 20, 2011.

 

Henry J. Seldis. "In the Galleries." Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1961, p. A7.

 

Henry J. Seldis. "In the Galleries: Art Scene in Summer Mood." Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1965, p. C13.

 

Charles Shere. "Hassel Smith Show Recalls Golden Age." The Tribune (Oakland), November 9, 1975.

 

Charles Shere. "A Portrait of an Artist as a Grand Old Man." The Tribune (Oakland) "Today," March 29, 1981, pp. 28-29.

 

Charles Shere. "Bay Area State of Mind Lives in New Abstracts." The Tribune (Oakland), June 23, 1987, p. 33.

 

Hassel Smith and Mary Fuller McChesney, "Sulla scuola di San Francisco." Evento delle arti 2 (1958).

 

Roberta Smith. "Art in Review: Ferus." New York Times, September 20, 2002. Review of the exhibition Ferus at Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2002.

 

Knute Stiles. "San Francisco: Hassel Smith at Paule Anglim." Art in America 65 (May-June 1977).

 

Allan Temko. "A Lesson in History." San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 1979, p. 50. Review of Hassel Smith exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.

 

Allan Temko. "Still Without a Safe Harbor." San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1981, p. 13.

 

Allan Temko. "The Mysterious Transformation of Hassel Smith." San Francisco Chronicle, November 27, 1982.

 

Meredith Tromble. "... we were making it up from day to day ... : A conversation with Hassel Smith." Artweek 23 (December 17, 1992), p. 30.

 

William Wilson. "Hassel Smith Artistry." 1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

 

William Wilson. "The Art Galleries: Santa Monica." Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1987.

 

 

 

Lectures, Interviews, and Statements

 

Hassel Smith. "Art in Action." "The Appeal to Reason." "Early Verse." "Recent Pronouncements."  "Aphorisms." In The Artist's View, no. 1 (San Francisco, July 1952). Self-published monograph, limited edition, privately printed broadsheet published by Claire Mahl.

 

Hassel Smith. Interview by Jan Butterfield, ca. 1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Hassel Smith. Extended statement included in gallery exhibition announcement. Gallery Paule Anglim. San Francisco, 1977.

 

Hassel Smith. Oral history interview by Paul J. Karlstrom. September 5, 1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Hassel Smith. Studio critique, San Francisco Art Institute MFA class. February 14, 1980. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Studio critique, San Francisco Art Institute MFA class. February 28, 1980. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Studio critique, San Francisco Art Institute MFA class. March 13, 1980. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Studio critique, San Francisco Art Institute MFA class. March 28, 1980. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Lecture at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California, February 1988. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Lecture at Gallery 44, Oakland, California, February 1988. Tape recording. Collection of Joseph Smith, San Rafael, California.

 

Hassel Smith. Lecture at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, in conjunction with the exhibition On Painting: The Work of Elmer Bishoff and Joan Brown, October 18, 1992. Tape recording. University Art Museum, Berkeley.

 

Hassel Smith. Lecture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, August 1996.