Mabel Alvarez
About the Artist Artwork Artwork Submission and Authentication
WORKS HELD (Partial)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
MONTEREY (CA) MUSEUM OF ART
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ART
BERNICE P. BISHOP MUSEUM, HONOLULU
THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, HONOLULU
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA
THE IRVINE MUSEUM, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
CARNEGIE MUSEUM, OXNARD, CALIFORNIA
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT COLLECTION
LYON CORPORATE COLLECTION, KOBE, JAPAN
THE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION, CANADIAN, TEXAS
FIELDSTONE FOUNDATION, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TCW CORPORATE COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK
RUSSAK COLLECTION, SEATTLE
JOAN IRVINE SMITH, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
MR. & MRS. SAMUEL GOLDWYN, HOLLYWOOD
MR. & MRS. IRVING BERLIN, NEW YORK
MR. & MRS. WILLIAM SHALLERT, PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA
MR. & MRS. MILTON BERLE, BEVERLY HILLS
MRS. HENRY FONDA, BEVERLY HILLS
MISS JANET GAYNOR, HOLLYWOOD
MISS CELESTE HOLM, HOLLYWOOD
MISS GEORGIA BULLOCK, HOLLYWOOD
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN, JAPAN, ITALY, AND THROUGHOUT THE USA

EXHIBITIONS (Partial)
1913 -  Los Angeles Architectural Club, Feb.
1915-16 -  Pan-California Exposition, San Diego
1918 -  Kanst Gallery, Los Angeles, Jan.
1920 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nov. 16 - Dec. 7
  Painting "Carmen" featured in the Los Angeles Times, (? date)
1921 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Apr. 4-May 15
1923 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, May 4 - Jun. 14 and Nov. 8 - Dec. 1
  Art Institute of Chicago
1924 -  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1926 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art (Modern Art Show)
1927 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Apr. & May, Jul. 30 - Aug. 18, Nov. 17 - Jan. 1
  Oakland Museum, July
1928 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Apr. 6 - May 17, Nov. 8 - Dec. 16
  Southwest Exposition, Long Beach, Aug.
1929 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Apr. 15 -May 30
      (Mabel Alvarez, Henri de Kruif, Bessie Ellen Hazen, & John Hubbard Rich),
      -- Nov. 8 - Dec. 29 (solo show)
  Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Jun. 7 - Jul. 31
  Santa Barbara Museum
1930 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nov. 7 - Dec. 31,Nov. 30 - ?, 1931
1931 -  University of Washington, Seattle, Feb.
  San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor, Apr.- May
  San Diego Museum, June
1933 -  Museum of Modern Art, New York (Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities)
  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nov. 3 - Dec. 31
1934 -  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nov. 15 - Dec. 31
  W. S. Budworth & Son Gallery, 424 W. 52nd St., New York
  San Diego Museum, Aug.- Sept.
1935 -  Rockefeller Center, New York
1937 -  W. S. Budworth & Son Gallery, New York
  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1939 -  Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco
1940 -  Honolulu Academy of Art (solo show)
1941 -  Long Beach Museum of Art (solo show)
  Raymond & Raymond Gallery, Los Angeles, Feb. 7 - 28 (Hawaiian pictures)
  Los Angeles Museum of Art, Aug. 1 - Sep. 31 (solo show)
  Crocker Gallery, Sacramento
1942 -  San Diego Museum (solo show)
1948 -  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Jan.
1949 -  Oakland Museum (solo show)
  Pioneer Museum (now the Haggin Museum), Stockton, Calif. (solo show)
1957 -  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1959 -  Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1962 -  Los Angeles Art Institute
  Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1966 -  Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1973 -  The 1925 painting "Dream of Youth" appeared in the Warner Bros. film "Mame"
      (starring Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur).
1981 -  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1983 -  Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, Nov. 30 - Jan. 31, 1984
1984 -  Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Aug. 17 - Sept. 23 (Two-artist show: Mabel Alvarez and Elanor Colburn)
1988 -  Poulsen Gallery, Pasadena, Calif.
1989 -  The painting "Dream of Youth" appeared in the film "Harlem Nights."
  Adamson-Duvannes Gallery, Beverly Hills
1990 -  Maureen Murphy Fine Arts, Montecito, Calif., Sept.- Oct.
  U. S. Department of State Art in Embassies selection committee named Mabel Alvarez one of the
      artists important enough to represent the finest of America's art in our embassies around the world.
1992 -  Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jan. - Mar., Exhibit: "Encounters With Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941"
     Book of the same title by David W. Forbes (Honolulu Academy of Arts publication).
1995 -  Autry Museum of Western Heritage , Los Angeles, Oct. 13 - Jan. 28, 1996, Exhibition: "Independent Spirits,
     Women Painters of the West"
     Book of the same title by Dr. Patricia Trenton (Autry Museum/University of California Press publication)
     is the nationwide best-selling art book of the 1995 and the 1996 holiday seasons. Mabel Alvarez's
     "Self Portrait, 1923" forms the cover of the book..
  George Stern Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, Oct. - Dec.
  Adamson-Duvannes Gallery, Beverly Hills, Oct. - Dec.1996
1996 -  The California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco, 1 Feb.- 30 Mar.
  "Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the West" exhibition continued: 
      Gilchrist Museum, Tulsa, Okla, March - May
  "Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the West" exhibition continued: 
      Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, June - Sept.
  "Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the West" exhibition continued: 
      Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Nov. - Jan. 97
  Featured in PBS film, "Impressions of California, 1850 -1930." Prem. 8 Sept.
  Orange County (Calif.) Museum of Art, 26 October - 12 January 1997
      Exhibition: California Progressives, 1910-1930,
1997 -  Robyn Buntin of Honolulu gallery (Hawaiian portraits), December 1 - 31.1997
  The American Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua (3-years from January).
  The American Embassy, Belize City, Belize (3-years from December).
1998 -  Weber House (official residence of the American Ambassador to OCED), Paris, France
      (Exhibition: "Breaking Boundaries, American Women Artists in France, ca. 1880 - 1930" - from July through 1999.
  Pasadena (CA) Showcase House of Design (main drawing room) - April 19 - May 17
  Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (Exhibition: "Gold Rush to Pop")
      - October 17 - January 24, 1999
  Monterey (CA) Museum of Art (Solo Exhibition: "Face to Face: the Paintings of Mabel Alvarez")
      - November 6 - February 28, 1999
1999 -  Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho, February 12 - March 22
      (Uncovered and Recovered: Women Artists in the Modernist Tradition)
  Leband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (Mabel Alvarez 1891 - 1985, a Retrospective)
      - March 11 - April 11
  Continued to Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA - May 1 - July 18
  Adamson-Duvannes Gallery, Beverly Hills, (Solo exhibition: "A Radiant Thread, Paintings by Mabel Alvarez)
      - 12 June - 14 August. 2000
  Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, "Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California"
      - 3 Jun. - 3 Sept.
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000"
      - October to February, 2001
  Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA, Solo Show, 18 Nov - 4 Jan, 2001
2001 -  Santa Barbara (CA) Museum of Art, "Focus on the Figure: Southern
     California Artists (1850-1950) - 11 August to 11 November
2005 -  Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, - May - September

REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS (Partial)

ART IN AMERICA: MODERN TIMES, 1934, edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

MANTLE FIELDING'S DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN PAINTERS, SCULPTORS & ENGRAVERS(Apollo Book)

DICTIONARY OF WOMEN ARTISTS, an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900 by
      Chris Petteys (G. K. Hall & Co., Boston)

ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA 1786-1940 by Edan Milton Hughes (Hughes Publishing Co.,
      San Francisco)

AMERICAN ARTISTS: SIGNATURES & MONOGRAMS 1800 TO 1989 by John Castagno,
      Philadelphia (Scarecrow Press div. of Grolier)

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTISTS by Nancy Dustin Wall Mouré (Dustin Publications,
      Los Angeles)

PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF CALIFORNIA, THE SOUTHLAND by Ruth Westphal
      (Westphal Publishing)

CALIFORNIA ARTISTS, 1935 TO 1956 by Dewitt Clinton McCall III
      (Jones & McCall Enterprises)

CALIFORNIA ART - 450 Years of Painting & Other Media, issued 1998,
      by Nancy Dustin Wall Mouré (Dustin Publications, Los Angeles)

ENCOUNTERS WITH PARADISE - Views of Hawaii and Its People, 1778 - 1940,
      by David W. Forbes

CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE - Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California, 1910 / 1930, by Sarah Vure

WHO'S WHO IN ART (annually for more than 50 years)

WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN

WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART - 1564-1975, by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999

READING CALIFORNIA - ART, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY, 1900 - 2000 (LACMA-University of California Press)

Newspapers and Magazines (Partial)

-Graphic, February 1, 1918
-Los Angeles Times, Many between February 7, 1913, and December 3, 1995 - March 22, 1985 (Obituary)
-Hollywood Citizen News, March 21, 1934
      ** Numerous mentions and several paintings reproduced in the Los Angeles newspapers
      throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the clippings are to be found in her files in the
      Archive of American Art (Smithsonian).
-Antiques & Fine Arts magazine, May/June, 1990 (Feature article: A Quest for Excellence, Chronicling the Life of
      Mabel Alvarez, by Nancy Dustin Wall Mouré)
-Honolulu Star Bulletin & Advertiser, Sunday edition, January 19, 1992
-Antiques West Newspaper, September, 1992
-American Art Review, December/January, 1996 (Article: Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the American West,
     1890-1945, by Patricia Trenton)
-American Art Review, February/March, 1996 (Article)
-American Art Review, April, 1999 (Article: Mabel Alvarez, a Personal Memory
      by Glenn Bassett)
-Orange County Register, Newport Beach, CA, Sunday edition, full-page review, May 16, 1999
-Los Angeles Times, 30 November 2000, illustrated "Blue Madonna"
-American Art Review, August, 2000 (Cover)
-American Art Review, August, 2001

ARCHIVES

Alvarez family archives are in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Mabel Alvarez' archives are at the Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and the Mabel Alvarez estate (Glenn Bassett, Los Angeles).