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Vija Celmins

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Vija Celmins (Born 1939) is active/lives in California.  Vija Celmins is known for Post real waterscape painting, pop still life, galaxies.

Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium.

She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger.  The Celmins family then immigrated to the United States in 1948 and made their home in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Vija studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, and often made trips to New York City with her friends to see the artwork of the Abstract Expressionists. She continued to study at the John Herron Art Institute from 1955 to 1962.  During the summer of 1961 she attended summer school at Yale University, and it was then that Celmins decided to become a painter.  She moved to California in 1963 to study at the University of California, Los Angeles where she received a Master's Degree in Fine Art.   After graduating she became an instructor of painting and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3947 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Vija Celmins

   Publications  Book References:  50
Magazine References:  13

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13 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Vija Celmins
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Space is the Place May 2006 Greben, Deidre Stein Yes
ARTFORUM My Pop October 2004 Muller, Dave No
Art in America Report from Strasbourg: Reality Sho March 2004 Belasco, Daniel Yes
American Art Review The Not-So-Still Life February 2004 Moure, Nancy Yes
ARTFORUM Locus Focus June 2003 Criqui, Jean Pierre Yes
Art-Talk Auction June 2003 Editor, Art-Talk Yes
ARTnews Simmering Soup, Cool Pools, and Hot June 2003 Greben, Deidre Stein Yes
Art in America Summer Shows II: Sensibility on October 2002 Ratcliff, Carter Yes
ARTFORUM Mild About Larry May 2002 Nicklas, Hainley, Baker &Anton Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Spring 2002 January 2002 Editor, ArtFourm No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions December 2001 Editor, Art in America No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
50 Book References for Vija Celmins
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2006 Celmins, Vija; Eliot Weinberger The Stars 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2003 Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton & Wo The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 226 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Launius, Roger D Nasa & The Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection 224 Yes
1997 Curiger, Brice Birth of the Cool From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1997 Dawson, Nancy Trompe l'oeil: The Art of Deception
(Exhibition catalog)		 6 Yes
1997 Ellis, Robert M. (Director) Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook 48 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1995 Hansen, Trudy (others) Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 248 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Ayres, Anne/Jay Belloli L A Pop in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1989 Stein, Donna Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 300 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women 163 Yes
1987 Stich, Sidra Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Marshall, Richard American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1983 Cathcart, Linda L American Still Life 1945-1983
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1983 Plous, Phyllis A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today
(Exhibition catalog)		 87 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1981 Ball, Maudette Southern California Artists 1940-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1981 Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration) Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California 128 Yes
1980 Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1977 Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1976 Baro, Gene 30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1975 American Federation of Arts William Allan Recent Drawings 24 No
1975 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America II 430 No
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1974 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 No
1973 Los Angeles Mun Art Gallery Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1968 Tampa Bay Art Center 40 Now California Painters
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
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