Lance Richbourg

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2004 Drawings, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2002 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1999 Lance Richbourg: Baseball Portraits, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull County Branch, Howland, OH
1997 Drawings for the book “She Loves You”, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1995 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1991 Webb & Parsons, Burlington, VT
1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1989 Webb & Parsons, Burlington, VT
1988 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1987 O.K. South, South Miami, FL
1986 O.K. Harris works of Art, New York, NY
1985 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Carol Hooberman Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1983 Middendorf -Lane Gallery, Washington, DC
1982 McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, VT
1982 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1981 Image Coop Gallery, Montpelier, VT
1981 ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1980 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1976 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1970 Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
1969 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1968 Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1958 Dwight Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1966 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1955 California State University, Northridge, CA
1965 Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions:

2005-06 Sports Illustrated, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2004 National Landscape Show, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2003-04 Everything OK at OK Harris, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
2002-05 United States Ambassador’s Residence, Caracas,Venezuela, Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State, Washington, DC
1996 Turnstile Celebrates the Fine Art of Baseball, Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY
1995 Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art. A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
1996 Play Ball!, Transamerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA
1995 The American Pastime in Paint: Baseball on Canvas, Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1994 Sportshow, Roger Smith Hotel/Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Art At The Millhouse: 1992, Webb & Parsons North, Bedford Pills, NY
1993 Fielders’ Choice, Marquerite Oestreicher Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1992 What’s New, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1992 The Articulated Thumbprint, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1992 The Artist At Ringside: 100 Years Of Boxing As Theme, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; travelling to: The National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, IN
1991 Playbill, Sports & Entertainment Gallery, Venice, CA
1990 Legends of Baseball, Sports & Entertainment Gallery, Venice, CA
1990 California A to Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1990 Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Centre College, Norton Center, Centre College, Danville, KY
1989 Collectors’ Choice 1989, Center For the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1989 Baseball and Contemporary Art, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1989 Lester I. Donnell Gallery of American Sport Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1988 Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 The Art of Sport, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Satellite Gallery at Krasdale Foods, Inc., Bronx, NY
1988 Figure It Out: Visual Body Language, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1988 Sporting Events, Eitharong Gallery, Orlando, FL
1987 The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
1987-92 Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY; travelling exhibition
1987 Play Ball: The Art of Baseball, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1987 The 51st Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1987 The Grand Game of Baseball...,Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1986 Fireworks: American Artists Celebrate The Eighth Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1986 National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1986 The Artists of O.K. Harris, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1985 Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
1985 First Contemporary Art Expo Tokyo, Isetan Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1984 Contemporary Artists in Vermont, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
1984 Carol Hooberman Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 Wilton Gallery, Wilton, CT
1984 Olympiad: Summer 1984, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 America Seen: Contemporary American Artists View America, Adams Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Ceejee Revisited, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Summer Remembered, E.R. Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ
1982 Time Out: Sport & Leisure in America Today, Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL
1983 O.K. Harris at Eva Cohen, Eva Cohen Gallery, Highland Park, IL
1983 Premier Exhibition, O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
1981 Combinations, Empire Safe Company, New York, NY
1981 Conceptions, Old Venice Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 The Plastic Show, A’s, New York, NY
1981 West 81/Art and the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1981 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1980 Tampa Collects, Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL
1980 Drawing Invitational, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
1979 National Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1978 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1978 Wilson Art Center, Rochester, NY
1978 Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Play Ball! A Century of Sports in Art, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
1978 The American Game, The Harley School, Rochester, NY
1978 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Spectrum Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY
1976 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1976 A History of Baseball, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1975 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1974 “The Cowboy Who Ate The World”, Film, Ironic Los Angeles Artist Series, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1973 State Department Film Exposition In Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian and Sao Paolo
1973 New American Landscapes, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1973 Twelve Painters and the Human Figure, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1972 California Representation, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1971 American Portraits, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1970 Contemporary California Realist Painting, Pioneer Museum, Stockton, CA
1970 New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1968 Six Painters from Los Angeles, Dwight Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1968 The Beach Show, San Fernando Valley State College, CA
1968 Patrons of Newport Harbor Collectors Show, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1966 New Directions, Westside Jewish Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Ceejee Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Especially for Children, Pavillion Gallery, Newport, CA
1965 Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1965 The Real and the Surreal, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
1965 Third Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1955 Small Formats, California State College, Heyward, CA
1955 Annual Painting Invitational, Whittier College, Whittier, CA; Purchase Award
1964 Six Painters of the Rear Guard, Ceejee Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Sterling Holloway Collection, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Three Man Drawing Show, Ceejee Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Drawing Invitational, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1953 Landgrant Centennial Drawing Show, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC


Bibliography: Books

Baseball: The National Pastime in Art and Literature, Edited by David Colbert; Foreword: W.P. Kinsella, Time/Life Books, 2001.
She Loves You, by Elaine Segal, drawings by Lance Richbourg, Simon & Schuster Editions, New York, 1997.
Baseball: A Treasury Of Art And Literature, Michael Ruscoe, Editor; Hugh Lauter Levin, Ltd., Publishers, New York, 1993.
American Art Now, Edward Lucie-Smith, William Morrow & Company, New York, 1985.


Bibliography: Catalogues

Sports Illustrated, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2005.
The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; John Fitz Gibbon, 2002.
Lance Richbourg: Baseball, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Essay: Barry Neuman, 1999.
The Artist At Ringside, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Introduction: Louis A. Zona, 1992.
Advent 1990, Text: W.H.H. Rees; Illustrations: Lance Richbourg, Published by W.H.N. Rees, New Haven, CT, 1991.
California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Introduction: Louis Zona, 1990.
The Grand Game of Baseball, Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY; Text: Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer, 1987.
Fireworks: American Artists Celebrate the Eighth Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Preface: Louis A. Zona, 1986.
50th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Foreword: David L. Shirey, 1986.
America Seen: Contemporary American Artists View America, Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX; Introduction: Alvin Martin, 1984.
Time Out: Sport & Leisure in America Today Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL; 1983.
Play Ball! A Century of Sports in Art, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Foreword: George Plimpton, 1978.


Bibliography: Periodicals

The National Pastime: A Review Of Baseball History,(Vol. 22) “My Father, Lance Richbourg”, Lance Richbourg, Jr., p.3-8, front and back covers.
Mirabella, “Trust Us: Rants and Raves”, Judith Stone, September/October 1997, p.174.
Sports Illustrated, “Design: Art You Can Really Get Into”, Jim Kaplan, October 21, 1991.
Vanguard Press, “Zen and the Art Of Baseball”, Dwight Garner, November 2-9, 1989.
Butler Institute Biennial Report: 1987-1989, Photograph, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1989.
Dialogue, “Fireworks: American Artists Celebrate the Eighth Art”, Louis A. Zona, September/October 1986, p.65.
Giants Magazine, “Gallery”, Vol.1, No.2, 1986, p.62-66.
Collectors Mart, “Will the Real Lance Richbourg Please Stand Up?”, Lori Byrd, July/August 1984.
Palm, (Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Magazine) “Crowd Roars Approval for Baseball Works by
Power-Hitting ATO Painter”, Spring 1983, p.23-25.
Images and Issues, “The Cowboy Who Swallowed Yankee Stadium’, Walter Gabrielson, Summer 1981.
Art New England, “Alternative Space: Lance Richbourg”, Lois Tarlow, May 1981.
Arts Magazine, “Lance Richbourg”, Emmie Donadio, November 1980.
Art New England, “Mad Dog Murals”, Deborah S. McCoy, April 1980.
Artforum, “Lance Richbourg: Ceeje Gallery”, January 1965.

Bibliography: Newspapers

USA Today Baseball Weekly, “Baseball Art: Lush parks, drama offer feast for the eyes”, Jeanie Chung, March 11- 17, 1992, p.21.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, “Need for self-analysis exhibited in Ohio show”, Donald Miller, November 4, 1986.
The Vindicator, (Youngstown, OH), “Paintings done by ‘hot’ artists can help cool Butler visitors”, (photograph), Clyde Singer, July 27, 1986, p.A-B.
Rutland Daily Herald, “Lance Richbourg’s Baseball Art”, B.K. Marquard, August 23, 1984.
Los Angeles Times, “Calendar: Taking a fresh look at L.A.’s ‘Ragged Edge’ Artists”, William Wilson, April 29, 1984.
The Post, (West Palm Beach, FL) , “Is What You See All You Get Prom Illusionist Art?”, Gary Schwan, February 26, 1984.
Washington Post, “Home Palette”, Benjamin Forgey, April 7, 1983.
Los Angeles Times, “Baseball Pictures By Richbourg”, William Wilson, March 8, 1981.
SoHo Weekly News, “Take Me Out To The Museum”, William Zimmer, August 14, 1978.
Los Angeles Times, “‘Directly Seen’ at Newport”, William Wilson, March 16, 1978.
Los Angeles Times, “Richbourg Portraits in Long Beach”, William Wilson, September 1, 1969.
Los Angeles Times, “Portraits by Richbourg”, Henry Seldis, March 11, 1968.
Los Angeles Magazine, “Curioser and Curioser”, November 1965.
Los Angeles Times, “In the Galleries” Henry Seldis, October 25, 1965.


Performances:

1984 “Mad Dog Meets the Real Donald Duck”, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1982 “Personal History Fricassee”, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1982 “Art Is Not A Mirror”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1981 “Jugular Moments”, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
1981 “The Shooting Gallery”, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1981 “The Broken Heart Piece”, The Old Mill, Winooski, VT
1981 “Dynamite Art”, Image Coop, Montpelier, VT
1981 “Seven Years Bad Luck”, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1980 “The Russian Art Tapes”, Sneekers, Winooski, VT
1980 “The Russian Art Show”, Church Street, Burlington, VT
1980 “The Exalted Hammer of Art”, Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1980 “Dynamite Dog”, Black Rose, Winooski, VT
1980 “Mad Dog Returns”, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, VT
1980 “The Mad Dog”, A’s, New York, NY
1979 “The Found Bum”, A’s, New York, NY

Grants/Fellowships:

1983 Vermont Council on the Arts Grant

Selected Collections:

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Equitable Life Assurance, New York, NY
Union Community College, Cranford, NJ
Norton Center, Centre College, Danville, KY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX

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