Peter Saul: Prints and Drawings, 1960-1975

During March and April, George Adams Gallery will exhibit drawings and prints from 1960 to 1975 by PETER SAUL. The exhibition, which surveys Saul's artistic progression from Pop Art to politics, fills the gallery's two exhibition spaces with 20 works, several of which have never been shown before.

Born in San Francisco in 1934, Saul attended the California School of Fine Arts before earning a degree from the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Over the next nine years, he gained recognition as a Pop artist while living abroad in Holland, France and Italy. Upon his return to the United States and to the Bay Area in 1965 he became increasingly radical and focused on some of the most scorching issues of the Vietnam Era.

The exhibition begins chronologically with two drawings from 1960. One is a rare "Icebox" drawing, possibly one of only two Saul made to complement his series of paintings of the same subject. The exhibition continues with "Superman" from 1961, "Cash" and "Marfak," from 1965, several drawings from his "Mill Valley" series of 1966-67, and "Gud Art," 1970, an outrageous day-glo rendering of Bobby Kennedy entwined with Pat Nixon.

In the Drawing Gallery is a complete set of Saul's political prints, nine in all.  "White Sex," from 1966, is a small black and white lithograph and his first on the theme of the Vietnam War. Also included are "Commie Girl," and "GI on the Cross," both from 1967, "Angela Davis" from 1972 and the infamous "Veetnam Amboosh" of 1975.

"Peter Saul: Prints and Drawings, 1960 - 1975,"will open on February 26th and continue through April 11th.

CHECKLIST

DRAWINGS

1.
Ice Box (yogurt), 1960
crayon, ink wash, collage on paper
21 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches
PSd 206

2.
Untitled (Bathroom), 1960
pastel crayon on paper
19 7/8 x 17 1/2 inches
PSd 204

3.
Untitled, 1961
crayon on paper
19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
PSd 205

4.
Superman, 1962
watercolor, crayon, pastel on paper
26 x 29 3/4  inches
PSd 115

5.
Marfak, 1965
crayon, ink on museum board
30 x 40 inches
PSd 132

6.
Cash, 1965
crayon, collage,  ink on museum board
30 x 40 inches
PSd 129

7.
Lake Tahoe, c.1966
colored pencil, marker, gouache on museum board
30 x 40 inches
PSd 134

8.
Modern Home (ABCD), 1966
marker, colored pencil, pen on museum board
40 x 51 inches
PSd 138

9.
Modern Home, c. 1966
marker, gouache, colored pencil on museum board
39 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches
PSd 137

10.
Four studies:
Untitled (Superman Punishment Study)
c. 1963
ink on paper
8 1/2 x 9 ½ inches
PSd 113

Untitled (Ha, Ha!)
c1963
ink on paper
6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches
PSd 114

Untitled (Kutty Sark)
c. 1963
ink on paper
10 x 11 1/8 inches
PSd 110

Untitled (Valda Sherman Study)
1961
ink on paper
8 1/2 x 6 ¾ inches
PSd 108

11.
Gud Art, 1970
goauche on museum board
37 x 36 inches
PSd 201

PRINTS

12.
Golden Gate Bridge, 1968
color lithograph on paper
22 1/4 x 29 ¼ inches
ed. 50
PSr 17

13.
GI on the Cross, 1967
color lithograph on paper
24 x 18 inches
ed. 25
PSr 20

14.
World of America #1, 1967
silk screen on paper
30 x 22 1/8
ed. 30
PSr 16

15.
World of America #2, 1967
color lithograph on paper
24 x 18 inches
ed. 25
PSr 19

16.
Hoomin Consurn, Personal Torment, 1969
color lithograph on paper
22 1/2 x 21 inches
ed. 50
PSr 18

17.
Angela Davis, 1972
lithograph
37 1/2 x 30 inches
ed. 100
PSr 01

18.
Commie Girl, 1967
color lithograph on paper
11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
ed. 120
PSr 15

19.
Amboosh, 1975
color lithograph
30 x 40 inches
ed. 50
PSr 02

20.
White Sex, 1966
lithograph on paper
12 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches
ed. 10
PSr 26