Exhibition History
PAUL DARROW
Born: Pasadena, California
Residence/Studio: Claremont, CA - Laguna Beach, CA
Education: Pasadena Art Center: Colorado Springs Fine Arts: Claremont Graduate School
Teaching Positions: Professor of Art/Scripps College & Claremont Graduate School
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, California
Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, California
Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah
Laguna Beach School of Art - Laguna Beach, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Autumnal Recollections - BC Space Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Insights & Outsights - Claremont Museum of Art - Claremont, California
2010 Claremont Modernism Exhibition - OBJCT Gallery Claremont - Claremont, California
2009 Connections: LA Printmaking 1962 to 1973 - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (LAMAG), Los Angeles, California
2007 Paul Darrow - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California (Dec.)
2006 Paul Darrow - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
2005 Paul Darrow - Collages - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California (June 5-July 3)
Paul Darrow (November 3-24) - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Paul Darrow (February 5-26) - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
2001 Rhapsody Solo Exhibition - Huntington Beach Art Center - Huntington Beach, California
New Collages - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Persona: An Exhibition of Contemporary Portraiture - Cuttress Gallery, Pomona, California
2000 Collage and Mixed Media - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Paul Darrow Paintings-1990’s - Irvine City Hall Civic Center, Irvine, California
Collage and Paintings - Peter Blake - Center Club Gallery - Costa Mesa, California
1999 Collage and Mixed Media - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
The Decade Show: The Pasadena Art Museum 1949-1959 Revisited - Mountain View Memorial Gallery - Pasadena, California
1998 Pikes Peak Legacy: The Later Year - Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1997 Almost All New - Sandstone Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1996 Assemblage and Collage - Tobey C. Moss Gallery - Los Angeles, California
1995 Sandstone Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1994 Recent Works - Sandstone Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
California Crossroads - Koll Center - Newport Beach, California
1993 From the Artist’s Hand: Works on Paper - Stary-Sheets Gallery - Irvine, California
1992 Paul Darrow: A Retrospective Exhibition (1949-1992) - Lang Gallery - Scripps College - Claremont, California
1991 California Perspective - Santa Ana, California
1990 Solo Exhibition - OCCCA Gallery - Costa Mesa, California
New Paintings - LJB Gallery - Newport Beach, California
1982 Collages & Lithographs - Clark Museum - Scripps Collage, Claremont, California
1981 Paul Darrow: Current Work - Galleries - Laguna College of Art - Laguna Beach, California
1975 Galeria Forma, El Salvador
1974 Paintings & Prints - Gallery 8 - Claremont, California
1973 Paul Darrow Retrospective - Florence Rand Gallery - Claremont, California
1972 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1971 Muchkenthaler Cultural Center - Fullerton, California
1970 Caltech - Pasadena, California
1969 Recent Paintings & Drawings - Comara Gallery - Los Angeles, California
Paul Darrow - Mystic Arts Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1968 Hartnell College - Salinas, California
1967 Claremont Galleries - Claremont, California
1966 California State College at Sacramento - Sacramento, California
1963 Higgins Museum - Stockton, California
Laguna Beach Art Association Galleries - Laguna Beach, California
Pasadena Art Museum - Pasadena, California
1963 Long Beach Museum of Art - Long Beach, California
1962 Paul Darrow - Higgins Museum - Stockton, California
1960 Lawrence Drake Gallery - Carmel, California
1959 Sacramento State College - Sacramento, California
1958 Lang Galleries - Scripps Collage - Claremont, California
1955 Pasadena Art Museum - Pasadena, California
1954 Richmond Art Center - Richmond, California
Gumps - San Francisco, California
1953 Mezzanine Gallery - Oakland, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 The House that Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985 -
The Huntington - Pasadena, California
2007 Krueger, Ekstrom, Darrow, Dubin & Renfrow - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
2006 The Good Old Boys & One Grand Gal - East & Peggy Phelps Galleries - Claremont Graduate University - Claremont, California
2006 Chris Gwaltney, Jorg Dubin, Paul Darrow - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
2005 Sattleback College Contemporaries Reconnected Paul Darrow and Douglas Mclellan - Sattleback College - Mission Viejo, California
2000 Darrow, Kaplan, Wing - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Wes Dahlberg, Paul Darrow, Mel Rubin (April 7-28) - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1999 Juxtaposing Reality: The Art of Collage - Paul Darrow, Diana Fritch, Ray Jacob, Roger Jones - Shelton, Darrow: Sculpture, Drawing - Laguna Playhouse Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Juxtaposition - Irvine Valley College - Irvine, California
Focus VII-Constructure - Orange County Assemblage Artists - John Wayne Airport Arts Commission - Santa Ana, California
1998 Group Show - Peter Blake Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1996 Print Conspiracy - Lankershim Art Center - North Hollywood, California
Spiritual Connections - F.A.C.T. Contemporary - South Laguna Beach, California
The Cup and the Teapot: The Extraordinary Diversity of a Simple Form - Humanities Museum - Scripps College - Claremont, California
1995 Trilogy, 3 Approaches to Collage-Woelffer, Darrow, Evets - Claremont Graduate University Gallery - Claremont, California
Fourteenth Annual Art Auction - Laguna Art Museum - Laguna Beach, California
Sueo Serisawa, Paul Darrow, Eric Darrow, Steve Davis - Sandstone Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1994 Collage and Clay-Jon Stokesbary and Paul Darrow - Irvine Valley College - Irvine, California
California Crossroads - Koll Center - Newport Beach, California
CCAA 12th Annual Fine Art Juried Exhibition - Museum of History and Art - Ontario, California
Six Artists Tackle ‘The Machine’ - Making Art with the Laser Printer - Carnegie Art Museum - Oxnard, California
1993 Facing West, Art in Laguna Beach after 1945 - Laguna Art Museum - Laguna Beach, California
Third Annual Erotica Exhibition - Rita Dean Gallery - San Diego, California
Summer Arts Festival - University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Alaska
Winter Solstice - BC Space Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1992 Something Red - DA Gallery - Pomona, California
Seriously Sexual - BC Space Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Messages in Mixed Media - Organized by Paul Darrow, 19 Artists from the Claremont Colleges - DA Gallery - Pomona, California
1991 5D - Jacobson Building - Claremont, California
Paul Darrow & Eric Darrow - Sandstone Gallery - Laguna Beach, California (Nov./Dec)
California Perspective - Modern Museum of Art - Santa Ana, California
Selections: Inaugural Exhibition - Lang Galleries - Scripps College - Claremont, California
Just War, Anti-War Exhibition - BC Space Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1990 Perspectives IV - Laguna Art Museum - Laguna Beach, California
California Crossroads - The Koll Center - Newport Beach, California
Selections: Inaugural Exhibition - Lang Gallery - Scripps College - Claremont, California
Claremont Colleges Art Faculty - DA Gallery - Pomona, California
Ellen Schreibman Salk & Paul Darrow - LJB Gallery - Newport Beach, California
1989 Scripps College Faculty Exhibition - Lang Gallery (August 27-October 15) - Scripps College - Claremont, California
Paul, Eric, Chris Darrow - Museum of Art and History - Ontario, California (May 30-July 2)
Paul Darrow, Abbie Baron: Art-Estes - DA Gallery - Pomona, California (May 7-13)
1988 Festival of Arts - Laguna Beach, California
1987 Drawing Exhibition - Long Beach Art Association Museum - Long Beach, California
Scripps Faculty Show - Lang Art Gallery - Scripps College - Claremont, California
Claremont Artists Centennial Exhibition - Claremont Graduate School Gallery - Claremont, California
Claremont Artists Centennial Exhibition - Ontario Art Museum - Ontario, California
1986 Contemporary Self Portraits - West Gallery - Claremont Graduate School - Claremont, CA
1985 Academic Bestiary - Richard Armour and Paul Darrow - Illustrations and text of book - Scripps College - Claremont, California
1984 Darrow, Jacobs and Toy, 3 Person Exhibit - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Images and Icons, Rites and Rituals - Clark Museum - Claremont, California
Multicultural Gallery - San Diego, California
On Campus: Television Program - 20 Minute segment on Paul Darrow’s class in Mixed Media - interview, PBS
1983 Carnal Images - Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Master Printmakers - Fine Arts Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
1982 Our Own Artists - Newport Art Museum - Newport Beach, California
Art Rental Gallery - Newport Art Museum -Newport Beach, California
For the California Collector - Fine Arts Gallery - Laguna Beach, California
Faculty Exhibitions - Lang Gallery - Scripps College - Claremont, California
1979 New Work - Claremont Colleges Faculty - Claremont Galleries - Claremont, California
Mural - Crocker Bank - South Coast Center - Irvine, California
1978 California Photographers - Claremont Galleries - Claremont, California
1978 Who’s Who in American Art - Garden Grove Gallery - Garden Grove, California
1977 Southern California 100 - Laguna Beach Museum of Art - Laguna Beach, California
1975 A Drawing Show - Newport Harbor Art Museum - Newport Beach, California
1974 Prints by 24 Southern California Printmakers - Valley State College - Los Angeles
Lyric Show - Los Angeles Arts Council - Los Angeles, California
1973 Prints: An Invitational - University of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, Arizona
1972 20th Century Painting - Fullerton Junior College - Fullerton, California
Surrealism - Caltech - Pasadena, California
1967 4th Annual California Printmakers Exhibition - Lytton Center for Visual Arts - Los Angeles
Group Show - Greystone Galleries - Cambria, California
California Drawing Bag - Gallery Cache - New York, NY
1966 2nd Biennial Drawing Invitation - Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, California
3rd Annual All California Printmaking Exhibition - Barnsdall Park - Los Angeles, California
Drawings USA - St. Paul Art Center - St. Paul, Minnesota
Claremont Artists - Lang Gallery - Scripps College - Claremont, California
California Painting Annual - St. Alban’s - Beverly Hills, California
Marine Paintings: Arts of Southern California XV - Long Beach Museum of Art -
Long Beach, CA
1965 Exhibition of Artist Correspondents Art done in Vietnam - Barnsdall Municipal Gallery - Los Angeles, California
5 Painters - Santa Ana College - Santa Ana, California
The Human View - Fullerton Jr. College - Fullerton, CA
1964 3 Painters, 3 Points of View - Newport Harbor Art Museum - Newport Beach, California
Monoprints - L.A. Printmaking Society
Drawings - Mt. San Antonio Collage - Walnut, California
1st Biennial Invitational Drawing Exhibition - Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, California
1963 Bird, Art, and Symbol - Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, California
1962 Drawing and Painting Annual - Denver Art Museum - Denver, Colorado
1961 Religious Art - Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah
Los Angeles Museum - Los Angeles, California
Annual California Watercolor Society Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum - Pasadena
Graphics Art - Esther Robles Gallery - Los Angeles, California
1960 Drawing and Painting Annual - Denver Art Museum - Denver, Colorado
Drawing - Long Beach Museum of Art - Long Beach, California
Religious Art - Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, California
A Decade of Painting - Pasadena Art Museum - Pasadena, California
1st Annual Painting and Sculpture - La Jolla Art Museum - La Jolla, California
18th Sarasota Art Annual - Ringling Museum - Sarasota, Florida
1959 South Western Artist Biennial - Museum of New Mexico - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Barbara Museum Biennial - Santa Barbara, California
1957 Pacific Coast Art - Los Angeles County Museum - Los Angeles, California
60th Annual - Denver Art Museum - Denver, Colorado
Group Show - University of Vienna - Vienna, Austria
1956 Art in Architecture - Municipal Art Gallery - Los Angeles, California
Painters of Los Angeles - Downtown Gallery - New York, NY
40 California Painters - Long Beach and San Francisco Museum of Art
Six Painters - University of Southern California - Upstairs Gallery - Los Angeles, California
Kaleidoscope - The Stables Gallery - Taos, New Mexico
18th Annual - San Francisco Museum of Art - San Francisco, California
199th Annual - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1955 3rd Biennial - Museum de Arte Modern - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Southern California Painters - San Francisco Museum of Art - San Francisco, California
1953 Painting the USA - Los Angeles County Fair - Pomona, California
1950 Artists You Should Know - Los Angeles Art Association - Los Angeles, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Paul Darrow’s Creative Journey. Laguna Beach Magazine.
Darrow Retrospective. Laguna Beach Independent.
2012 Darrow Honored For Lifetime Achievement. The Claremont Courier.
A Lifetime’s Pursuit Recognized. Laguna Beach Independent.
1999 Paul Darrow at Peter Blake. ArtScene.
1992 Catalog, “Paul Darrow: A Retrospective”. Lang Galleries, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1989 Krantz, Les. California Art Review. Chicago, IL: American Reference Publication Corp., pp.382, Ilus. 395, 405.
Freeman, Dan. An Interview With Paul Darrow, Newsprint Magazine. Los Angeles Printmaking Society Journal, May, 1989.
California Art Review 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: American Reference Publication Corp/ two illustrations, statement, and biography.
1988 Catalog, “Art Forum”, Santa Ana College, October, 1988
1987 Catalog, “Claremont Artists: Claremont Centennial, 1887-1987”. Galleries, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California.
Art Directory, The California Art Review.
1986 Tamaya, Steve. “Arts Potential Is in Everyone, Professor Says”, San Gabriel Tribune. (with photo).
1983 “Darrow, Jacobs,Toy”, Artweek review.
1982 Rubin, David S. “Concerning the Spiritual, Three Views At Space”, Images and Issues.
1981 “Paul Darrow Creates a Few Observtions About Contemporary Art”, Claremont Courier. April 17. (Illustrations with photos).
Glasband-Sterling, Amy. “Elegant Abstractions”, Collage. April 16.
1980 Droney, Mary. “Art and Environment”, One and Garden, Vol.1, N.3 June/July, 1980
1975 Pomona Today, cover illustration, 1975
Kaleidoscope, Island Records, cover illustration, 1975
1974 “The Peacable Kingdom”, Air California.
“California Artists, Paul Darrow”, Air California.
1973 Catalog, “Paul Darrow Retrospective Exhibition”. Scripps College, Claremont, California
1972 Catalog, “Surrealism”, Caltech, Pasadena, California
“Paul Darrow: A Retrospective”, Claremont Courier.
Edmondson, Reinhold-Van Nostrand. “Etching”
1971 Kappa Pi International Art Fraternity, 1911-1971
1970 Catalog, “Darrow-Csentery”. California Institute of Technology.
Brochure, “Southland Impressions, Artist, Paul Darrow”. Croocker National Bank, Costa Mesa, California, includes bibliography and critique of mural.
Article, Kappa Pi magazine. bibliography with artists photo
New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Paris Review, Craft Horizon, Saturday Review
Creative Crafts, Parade Magazine, UNESCO Courier, Orange County Sun, Orange Coast Illustrated, Pomona College Magazine, Claremont Courier
A Guide for the Married Man, Tarloff, Price/Stern/Sloan
A Concrete Wilderness, Couffer, Meredith Press
Academic Bestiary, Armour, William Morrow and Company
1966 Mugniani-Lovoos, Reinhold. “Drawing: A Search For Form”.
Catalog, “Marine Paintings, Arts of Southern California XV”. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
1964 Catalog, “3 Painters, 3 Points of View”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1960 Catalog, “A Decade of painting”. Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California.
Barlow, Jarvis. “Drawings, Realistic to Esoteric”, Los Angeles Times. Art Digest.
Art News. Art International. Who’s Who In Art. Who’s Who In The West.
1955 “Archives of Contemporary Art”. Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONED WORK
Arco; Security First National Bank; Times-Mirror, Los Angeles, CA; Lytton Savings, Los Angeles, CA; Home Savings; Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; NewportNational Bank, Newport Beach, CA; Claremont Community Church, Claremont, CA; Pitzer College, Claremont, CA; California Federal Savings and Loan, Los Angeles, CA; University of Massachusetts; Hunter Engineering, Riverside, CA; Bestile Manufacturing, Ontario, CA; Air France, Beverly Hills, CA; U.S. Navy Collections, Washington DC; Ai France, International Airport, Los Angeles, CA; Balboa Yacht Club, Corona del Mar, CA; Broadway Hale Stores; Convair Aircraft, San Diego, CA; Home Insurance Company, Los Angeles, CA; Kaiser Aluminum, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA; Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; Pacific and Orient Steamsip Lines, Los Angeles, CA; Palos Verdes Art Association, Palos verdes, CA; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA; Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Ann Arbor, Mi; Scripps College, Claremont, CA; Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, Newport Beach, CA.
Paul Darrow Retrospective Exhibition, Scripps College, 1993
Surrealism, Caltech, 1972
California Graphics, 1973
Etching, Edmondson, Reinhold-Van Nostrand, 1973
1911-1971, Kappa Pi International Art Fraternity, 1971
Darrow-Csentery, California Institute of Technology, 1970
Drawing: A Search for Form, Mugniani-Lovoos, Reinhold, 1966
Marine Paintings, Arts of Southern California XV, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1966
3 Painters, 3 Points of View, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1964
A Decade of Painting, Pasadena Art Museum 1960
PAUL DARROW AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS
2014 Laguna Art Museum Auction How Many Fingers 1984
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Claremont Museum of Art
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts