Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium. She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to... Read full biography
Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium. She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger. The Celmins family then immigrated... Read full biography
Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium. She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger. The Celmins family then immigrated to the United States in 1948 and made their home in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vija studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, and often made trips to New York City with her friends to see... Read full biography
Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium. She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger. The Celmins family then immigrated to the United States in 1948 and made their home in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vija studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, and often made trips to New York City with her friends to see the artwork of the Abstract Expressionists. She continued to study at the John Herron Art Institute from 1955 to 1962. During the summer of 1961 she attended summer school at Yale University, and it was then that Celmins decided to become a painter.... Read full biography
Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium. She was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger. The Celmins family then immigrated to the United States in 1948 and made their home in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vija studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, and often made trips to New York City with her friends to see the artwork of the Abstract Expressionists. She continued to study at the John Herron Art Institute from 1955 to 1962. During the summer of 1961 she attended summer school at Yale University, and it was then that Celmins decided to become a painter. She moved to California in 1963 to study at the University of California, Los Angeles where she received a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (50)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
The Stars
2006
Celmins, Vija; Eliot Weinberger
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton & Wo
226 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Nasa & The Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection
1998
Launius, Roger D
224 pages (color)
Birth of the Cool From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Curiger, Brice
144 pages (color)
Trompe l'oeil: The Art of Deception (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Dawson, Nancy
6 pages (color)
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
L A Pop in the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Ayres, Anne/Jay Belloli
144 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Stein, Donna
72 pages
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women
1987
Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine
163 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Plous, Phyllis
87 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Walker, Barry
144 pages (color)
Southern California Artists 1940-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Ball, Maudette
66 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis
111 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall
60 pages (color)
1977 Biennial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Whitney Museum
104 pages
30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Baro, Gene
160 pages (color)
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
William Allan Recent Drawings
1975
American Federation of Arts
24 pages
Women Artists in America II
1975
Collins, Jim L.
430 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)