Ira Yeager

BORN

Bellingham, Washington, 1938

EDUCATION

California College of Arts and Crafts 1957-1958
San Francisco Art Institute 1959
Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy 1959-1960

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Galleria Numero, Florence Italy, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963

El Cosario Gallery, Ibiza, 1960

Galleria Annunciata, Milan, Italy, 1961

Galerie du Siecle, Paris, 1961

Pantechnicon Gallery, San Francisco, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973

Zachary Waller Gallery, Los Angeles, 1972

Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, 1974

The Pavilion Scottsdale, Arizona, 1973

Corfu Palace, Corfu, Greece, 1975

Western Washington Museum of Art Bellingham, 1976

Greystone Gallery, San Francisco, California,
“Toward Abstraction”, Paintings 1971-1984, 1984

Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
“Jubilee of the Arts, Arts of the Year Exhibit”, 1984

Mondavi Vineyards, Oakville, California
“Ira Yeager in the Country”, 1985

Vanderbilt and Company, St. Helena, California
“Country Landscapes”, 1986

Vanderbilt and Company, St. Helena, California
“Neo Veneto”, 1987

The LEF Foundation, Napa Valley , California
“The Indians: A Retrospective” 1991

Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco
“Self-Portraits in Black and White”, 1993

The Great Camp Collection, Carbondale, Colorado
“Indians: Paintings and Sculpture”, 1993

Mondavi Vineyards, Napa Valley, California
“The Wappo “, 1997

Academy of Art College Gallery, 410 Bush Street, San Francisco
“Landscapes: A New Vision of Abstraction”, 1998

Napa National Bank, Napa, California
“Les Amis de La Valle”, 1998

Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, California
“A Retropsective Exhibition”, Nov. 1999- March 2000

The Sea Ranch Lodge, The Sea Ranch, California
“Ira Yeager-Indian Paintings”, 2000

Mondavi Vineyards, Oakville, California
“Aqva et Caelvm (Water and Sky)”, 2001

Mondavi Center for Wine Food and the Arts, Costa Mesa, California
“Recent Paintings”, 2002

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“San Francisco Art Annual”, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959

“Gruppo Numero”, Galleria Kasper, Lausanne, Traghetto, Venice,
1959-1963

“Oakland Art Annual”, Oakland Museum of Art, 1960

“Mostra di Numero a Genova”, Societa di Cultura, Genoa, 1960

“Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoletto, Italy, 1960

“Group Exhibition”, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, 1971

“San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition”, San Francisco Art Institute, 1973

“Selected Works for the Museum Collections”, Phoenix Museum of Art, 1973

“Testimonianze di varie tendenze a numero dal 1951 al 1963” Galleria Fiamma Vigo, Rome, 1973

“Crocker-Kingsley Annual”, Crocker-Kingsley Museum of Art, Sacramento, 1976

“Portraits”, Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, 1976, 1977

“Group Exhibition”, Hill Gallery, Santa Fe, 1977

“Three New York Painters”, Galerie Geilsdorfer, Koln, Germany, 1982

“Animal Life - Contemporary Representation, Ericson Gallery, New York, 1982

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Drewes, Caroline. “Portraits of the Artists”, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, March 5, 1967.

Seldis, Henry J. and William Wilson. “Art Walk”, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1972.

Howell, Betje, “Indian Art Enjoying New Wave of Popularity”, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 1972.

“Yeager at The Pavilion”, Arizona Living, November 3, 1972

“Marquee: Art”, Phoenix Gazette, November, 1972

Mc Donald, Robert, “Portraits”, Artweek, December 25, 1976, January 1, 1977

Warnecke, Grace, “Ira Yeager”, Scene Magazine, April/May 1982.

“New Yorker Art Market”, Kolner Stadtanzeige, Kolon, Germany, June 7, 1982

Rowlands, Penelope, “Filled with Light”, Appellation, Nov./ Dec. 1998

Younger,Carolyn, “Ira: Chronicler of the 18th Century”, St.Helena Star, September,1999

Napa Valley Museum, “Ira Yeager: A Retrospective Exhibition” Retrospective Catalogue , Published October 1999

Costello, Ann,“Quenching a Thirst for Art”, Los Angeles Times , December 31, 2000

Brady-Herndon, Gary, “Of sea and sky”, The Napa Valley Register , August 22, 2001

Younger, Carolyn, “The World of Ira Yeager”, California Home and Design , September/October 2001

Brady-Herndon, Gary, “A-mused by nature”, San Francisco Chronicle ,December 28,2002