Bruno Civitico
Bruno CiviticoBorn: 1942 Dignano D’Istria, ItalySelected Solo Exhibitions1994Contemporary Realists, The Gallery, Hall Crown Center, Kansas City, MO1992Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CAThe Works of Bruno Civitico, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SCGibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC1988Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CAA Retrospective of Fifteen Years, 1972–87, The Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Manchester, N1983Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1982Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA1980Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1979The Gallery & George Yong Gallery, Portsmouth, NH1978Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1976Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1973Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NYSelected Group Exhibitions1998Artists Who Look Back: Spirituality in Contemporary Art, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA199710th Anniversary Exhibition, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA1995Flower Paintings, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA1994Vividly Told- Contemporary Southern Narrative Painting, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GAParallax Views, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA1993Contemporary Realists, The Gallery, Halls Crown Center, Kansas City, MODrawings by American Artists, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA1992New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA1991Paintings from the Contemporary Realist Gallery, New York Academy of Art, New York, NYContemporary Charleston, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SCFigure, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CAThe Italian Tradition in Contemporary American Landscape Painting 1960–90, Gibbes Museum of Art,Charleston, SC1989US ART, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA1988The Vanitas Theme, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NYPainting From Life, Bayly Museum, Charlottesville, VAPiccolo Spoleto Invitational, City Gallery, Charleston, SC1987Modern Myths: Classical Renewal, Boise Museum, Boise, IDStorytellers, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA1986Two still-life Painters, Varley/Stevens Gallery, Portsmouth, NH1985still-life Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1984Still-life Painting, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1983Cleveland Museum Annual, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH1981Narrative Painting, Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY1986Two still-life Painters, Varley/Stevens Gallery, Portsmouth, NH1985still-life Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1984Still-life Painting, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY1983Cleveland Museum Annual, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH1981Narrative Painting, Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY1980Realism and Metaphor, USF Art Galleries and Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL1978Toward a Renewal of Classicism, Bayly Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA1977Brooklyn College Faculty Past and Present, Davis & Long Gallery, New York, NY1976Patron’s Choice, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MAAmerican Figure Drawing, Adelaide & Melbourne, Australia1974C. Hassam Purchase Prize Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY1973Narrative Painting, Kansas City Art Inswtitute, Kansas City , MO1972Contemporary Landscape, MOMA Penthouse, New York, NYRealist Revival, Amer. Feder. of Arts, New York, NY1971New American Realists, Il Fante di Spade, Rome, Italy1969Direct Representation, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NYCollectionsBoston Public Library, Boston, MABayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VAClaude Bernard Galleries, Nerw York, NYChemical Bank of New York, New York, NYUniversity of Indiana, Bloomington, INManchester Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, NHBank of New Hampshire, New Hampshire, NHEdmund Pillsbury, Fort Worth, TXHelen and Milet Andrejevich, New York, NYDonald and Allison Innes, Charlottesville, VAVarley Stevens Gallery, NHMichael Krassner , San Francisco, CARobert B. Gutterman, MD, San Francisco, CAGraftan P. Tanquary, Los Angeles, CABoyd Blackburn, San Francisco, CAThomas Jackson, MD, San Francisco, CARichard Levy, MD, San Francisco, CASelected Bibliography1998Whyte, Robert, Artists Who Look Back: Spirituality in Contemporary Art, Museo Italo Americano.1997Hackett Freedman Gallery, 1987–1997, Hackett Freedman Gallery.1995Lucie-Smith, Edward, Art Today, Phaidon Press, p. 232.Mann, james, “The Master of Bruno Civitico,” American Arts Quarterly, Winter, p. 13.1993Cooper, James F., “Henri Matisse to Bruno Civitico,” American Arts Quarterly, James F. Cooper, New York,NY, Winter, pp. 3-8.1992Bolt, Thomas, New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery.Drake, Nicholas, The Post and Courier.page 3 of 12Lucie-Smith, Edward, Art Today, Phaidon Press, p. 232.Mann, james, “The Master of Bruno Civitico,” American Arts Quarterly, Winter, p. 13.1993Cooper, James F., “Henri Matisse to Bruno Civitico,” American Arts Quarterly, James F. 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