ABOUT BROOK TEMPLE

Brook Temple is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied fine art, and also trained at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Throughout his life he has worked and collaborated with many other artists, including Joseph Albers, Bernard Chaet, James Brooks, Richo LaBrun and Lorser Feitelson, to name a few. His drawings and paintings have been shown in more than 50 exhibitions and are now in over 100 public and private collections including those of Chase Manhattan Bank, CBS, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, the High Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, the prestigious Achenbach Collection of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California and the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Now, semi retired, Brook lives and works in Carmel, California, with his wife Jeanne.  His two daughters, who grew up with Art History 101 as dinner conversation, live close by and work as a team to create their own works of art.

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BROOK TEMPLE

EXHIBITIONS

2012
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, Bakersfield, CA.

2009
Los Gatos Museum, Painterly Paintings: The Next Level, Los Gatos, CA.

2007
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Solo exhibition.

2004
Tré Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2003
Tre´Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2000 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

1998
Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

1996
Gallery 30, “Figures”, Palo Alto, CA.

1991
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA.

1990
Joanne Chappell Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Solo

1988
LaSorda/Iri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1984
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Solo exhibition.

1982
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gallery, Solo, San Francisco, CA.

1983
Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.

1981
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

1978
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA.
Rose/Bernardi Gallery, Solo, Sausalito, CA.

1977
E.A.A. Air Museum, Franklin, WI.
University of Wisconsin, Marinette, WI.
31st Annual San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA.
United States Air Force Museum, Fairborn, OH.

1976
Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA.

1974
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA.
Talisman Print Show, 9 Northern California Artists, Laguna Beach, CA.
Source Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1973
Society of Art Center Alumni Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.
American Contemporary Arts and Crafts Slide Library National Competition, Palm Beach, FL

1971 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY.
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor,San Francisco, CA.
Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Solo

1970
Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Solo
Hawaii First National Print Show, Honolulu, Hawaii.

1969
Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA.
1969
Dulin Gallery, Knoxville, TN.

1968
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

1968
Newport Beach Museum, Newport, CA.

1968
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1967
American Artist, New York, NY.
1966
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.