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The work in this exhibition evolves, 1916 through 1977, from the conservative roots Krasnow developed at the Art Institute School. . . to the LIGHT of California in his palette . . . followed by the elements of art deco . . . through an incredible period of abstract carved sculptures (his 'demountables' among them) . . . to non-objective abstractions that, eventually, reveal narratives and his latent Jewish heritage.
--Tobey Moss
For the 1996 exhibition, Peter Krasnow: A Retrospective Exhibition, Contrasts: 1916 to 1977
| 1887 | Born in the Ukraine |
| 1907 | Emigrated to United States, initially living in Boston |
| 1908 | Moved to Chicago; enrolled at Art Institute while working on security staff |
| 1915 | Graduated from the Art Institute; married 'his' Rose Bloom |
| 1919 | Moved to New York |
| 1922 | Drove across country to California |
| 1923 | Built redwood cabin/studio near Glendale, on a lot bought from friend Edward Weston |
| 1923 | Exhibited with `The Group of Independent Artists' of MacDowell Club, Los Angeles with Stanton Macdonald Wright, Boris Deutsch, Nick Brigante, Ben Berlin, etc. |
| 1920s | Accepted commissions for paintings and carvings from Temple Emmanu-El, San Francisco; Sinai Temple, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, Bullock's Wilshire, private collectors and architects |
| 1927/28 | Created series of lithographs |
| 1931 | Received Guggenheim grant, Peter and Rose went to the Dordogne region in France |
| 1932/34 | Exchanged letters with Edward Weston concerning political conditions in United States and Europe |
| 1934 | After Galerie Pierre exhibit in Paris, sailed for the United States and California |
| 1935/40 | Focus upon carved wood sculptures |
| 1944 | Returns to the easel with new techniques of the geometric/narrative |
| 1977 | Receives fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1979 | Dies in Los Angeles |
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
| 1922 |
Whitney Studio Club, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1923 | MacDowell Club, Los Angeles |
| 1928 |
Oakland Municipal Art Gallery Seattle Society of Fine Arts Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles Zeitlin Book Store, Los Angeles |
| 1929 | Scripps College, Claremont, California |
| 1930 | Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles |
| 1931 | California Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco |
| 1934 | Galerie Pierre, Paris |
| 1935 |
U.C.L.A. The Print Rooms, Los Angeles |
| 1939 | Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego |
| 1940 |
Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles U.C.L.A. |
| 1954 | Pasadena Art Institute |
| 1964 | Scripps College, Claremont, California |
| 1975 | L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park |
| 1977 | Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California |
| 1978 | Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles |
| 1986,`89,`91,`93 | Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1994 | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan,Utah |
| 1922 | 6th Annual Exhibition:Society of Independent Artists, TheWaldorf Astoria, New York |
| 1923 | Group of Independent Artists, Taos Building, Los Angeles |
| 1925 | Whitney Studio Club Annual, New York |
| 1926 | Whitney Studio Club Annual, New York |
| 1927 | 49th Annual Exhibition: San Francisco Art Association, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco |
| 1935 | 16th Annual Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1950 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1955 | III Bienal, Museu de Art Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 1965 | Art Now: Los Angeles Art Association Gallery |
| 1974 | Nine Senior Southern California Painters, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art |
| 1976 | Painting and Sculpture in California:The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum/Modern Art |
| 1977 |
Whitney Museum, New York National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1981 | Los Angeles 1920s-1960s - Tobey C. Moss Gallery |
| 1984 | Between The Olympics - Los Angeles 1932-1984, Tobey C. Moss Gallery |
| 1985 | California 1920-1945 - Tobey C. Moss Gallery |
| 1986 | Aspects of California Modernism, Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC |
| 1989 | Forty Years of California Assemblage - U.C.L.A., San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum/Omaha |
| 1989-90 | Blueprints for Modern Living - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| 1990-92 | Turning the Tide - U.C. Santa Barbara, Oakland Art Museum, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art/Utah, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum/Texas, Laguna Art Museum, Palm Springs Desert Museum of Art |
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona
DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
Galka E. Scheyer Collection-Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
Laguna Art Museum, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, California
Oakland Art Museum, California
Palm Springs Desert Museum of Art, California
Pasadena Art Museum, California
Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California
San Jose Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Spertus Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
Sheldon Memorial Art Galleries, University of Nebraska
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
National Museum of American Art, Washington,D.C.
University of Judaism, Los Angeles
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