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Jack Mendenhall

Jack Mendenhall (Born 1937) is active/lives in California.  Jack Mendenhall is known for Photo real interiors and genre painting.

Photo-Realist painter Jack Mendenhall was born in 1937. He bases his work on meticulous depictions of magazine photographs to comment ironically on society. Some of his paintings make use of multiple mirror images which, while enhancing the abstract characteristics of his canvases, also seem to question the nature of reality and the world of contemporary societal values.

The artist studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he also taught. He received a purchase award from the Butler Institute of American Art, and has exhibited in the Tokyo Biennial as well as a traveling exhibition, Realism Since 1960. His work is in the collections of the University of California, Berkeley and the Oakland Museum.

Jack Mendenhall lives and works in Oakland, California.

Source:
Les Krantz, American Artists, Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Artists

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20 Book References for Jack Mendenhall
Year Author Title Pages Color
2013 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism in the Digital Age: 320 Yes
2009 Taylor, John Russell Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today 360 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 Meisel, Louis & Chase, L Photorealism at the Millennium 224 Yes
2001 Failing, Patricia Third Annual Realism Invitational
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Meisel, Louis K Photorealism Since 1980 368 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1980 Arthur, John Realism/Photorealism
(Exhibition catalog)
123 Yes
1980 Lindey, Christine Superrealist Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Super Realism: A Critical Anthology 322 Yes
1973 Chase, Linda Les Hyperrrealists Americains 76 Yes
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