a resource for studying the art and life of Mabel Alvarez
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. 3
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
“Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the West” exhibition:
The California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco, 1 Feb. – 30 Mar.
Gilchrist Museum, Tulsa, Okla, March – May
Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, June – Sept.
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
Mabel Alvarez Estate Collection 