Exhibitions

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