SHIRLEY PETTIBONE
Born Bakersfield, CA 1936. Died in Los Angeles, CA 2011. Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, BA 1957. Otis Institute, Los Angeles, MFA 1962.
SELECTED ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS (1963-2002)
2002 George Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
2001 Galleria Beretich, Claremont, CA
Village Square Gallery, Montrose, CA
1997 Galleria Beretich, Claremont, CA
1994 Galleria Beretich, Claremont, CA
1991 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1986 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1983 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1981 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CAAlbert Contreras Gallery, LA
1978 Albert Contreras Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York
1973 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York
1963 Aura Gallery, Pasadena, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (1966-2000)
2000 Shirley Pettibone/Karen Neubert, Cal Poly Downtown Center, Pomona, CA
A Lasting Legacy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1997 West Coast Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, CA
1996 Maiden California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1994 Too Cool, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1989 Watercolor, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Currents on Realism, Uddoh Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Ten Contemporary Watercolor Painters, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
1985 New Romantic Landscape, Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1984 California Drawings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1982 The Real Thing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
1981 Coastal Currents, California/New York, CCSU, Corpus Christi, TX
1980 Photo-Realist Painting in California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 41st Midyear, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1977 Miniature, California State University at Los Angeles
1977 Realism, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida
1976 Attitudes, California State University at Los Angeles
1976 Five Realists, Mount St.Mary’s college, Los Angeles
1975 UC Irvine 1965-1975, La Jola Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jola, California
1975 Watercolors and Drawings, Meisel Gallery, New York
1975 Sky Show, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1975 Sense of Reference: Explorations in Contemporary Realism, University of California at San Diego
1974 Selections in Contemporary Realism, Akron Art Institute, Ohio
1974 Painting: Color, Form, and Surface, Scripps College, Claremont California
1973 East Coast / West Coast / New Realism, California State University at San Jose
1973 New American Landscapes, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
1972 Three Women Artists, Hundred Acres Gallery, New York
1971 26 Contemporary Women Artists, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefiled, Connecticut
1967 Ten LA Artists, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California
1966 Four, California State University at Los Angeles
Works Held:
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DL; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; ARCO Corporate Collection, Los Angeles, CA; Bank of America (formerly Security Pacific Bank), Los Angeles, CA; Chemical Bank of New York, NY; River Forest Bancorp, Chicago, IL; Grand Hyatt, Wailea, HI.












