Nancy Lawton

Education

1971 BA, Fine Art, California State University at San Jose, CA

1978–80 MFA, Printmaking, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions

2005 Nancy Lawton: Drawings in Sterling Silver, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY

1997 25 Drawings, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

1993 Recent Drawings by Nancy Lawton, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Drawings by Nancy Lawton, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

1978 Redding Museum, CA

1976 Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

Richard Sumner Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1973 Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

Group Exhibitions

2004 Realism Now: Traditions and Departures, Mentors and Protégés, Vose Galleries, Boston, MA

2002 The Eloquent Line: Master Drawings by Christopher Gallego, Nancy Lawton, and Graydon Parrish, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY

2001–02 Re-presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

10th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Representation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2001 About Face: Collection of Jackye & Curtis Finch, The Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock, AR

1996 Atlanta 1996, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1995 Fantastic Imagery, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1993 The Art of Drawing, Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock, AR

1992 The Art of Drawing, Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock, AR

Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Butler Institute of Art, PA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

The Art of Drawing, Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock, AR

Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1984 The Art of Drawing III, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

The Art of Drawing, Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock, AR

Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Gene Baro Collects, The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1980 American Drawings in Black & White: 1970–80, The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1973 Art For Giving, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Career

1990 Instructor of drawing, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, MA

1980–88 Artist and freelance illustrator, New York, NY

1981 Instructor of drawing and intaglio printmaking, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1976–80 Artist and freelance illustrator, Boston, MA

1972–76 Artist and freelance illustrator, Palo Alto, CA

Awards

1990 Artist-in-Residence, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, MA

1989 New York State Arts Development Fund Grant

1983 Grant Recipient, New York State Creative Artists (CAP)

1982 Mellon Foundation Scholarship, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1971 Residency, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Los Gatos, CA

Public and Corporate Collections

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Art Institute of Chicago, IL

The Boston Company, Boston, MA

Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

California State University at San Jose, CA

H. J. Heinz Company, L.P., Pittsburgh, PA

Hunt Institute for Botanical Representation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Scholastic Corporation, New York, NY

Bibliography

M. Stephen Doherty, “Four Approaches to Drawing: Drawings Exhibited by Four Artists Demonstrate a Range of Subjects, Materials, and Techniques,” American Artist (June 2002)

James J. White and Lugene B. Bruno, 10th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Representation at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2001)

John D. O’Hearn, Re-Representing Representation V, Arnot Art museum, Elmira, NY (2001)

Who's Who's of American Women (1997–)

Who's Who in America (1994–)

Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing (1993)

Townsend Wolfe, About Face, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (1988)

Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, (National Academy of Design, NY (1988)

The Tomato: Why We Love It So, annual report, H.J. Heinz Company, L.P., Pittsburgh, PA (1984)

Society of Illustrators Annual, New York: Society of Illustrators (1983–85)