Post War California artist, David Simpson studied at the California School of Fine Art, 1949-1951, 1955-1956, receiving his BFA in 1956. He also studied at the San Francisco State College receiving his MFA in 1958. Simpson was an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in the 1960's.

Solo Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Institute, 1958; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1960; de Young Museum, 1961; Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, 1961, 1963, 1964; David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, 1963, 1966, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967; Mills College Art Gallery, 1973; St. Mary's Art Gallery, 1973; The Oakland Museum, 1978; Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, 1980; Modernism, 1982, 1984.

Selected Group Exhibitions: 73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954; 75th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1956; 78th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959; 79th Annual Painting Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1960; Pacific Coast Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962; Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of Art 1962; 82nd Annual Painting
Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963; The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960, 61, 62, 63; The Artist's Environment: West Coast, Amon Carter Museum, UCLA Art Galleries & The Oakland Museum, 1962-63; San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era 1976

Public Collections: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Oakland Museum

Literature:
Thomas Albright, "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980"; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Painting and Sculpture Collection
Henry Hopkins, "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era"; and The Art of California, Selected Works from the Oakland Museum Collection;
Nancy Moure, "California Art, 450 Years of Painting"

Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.