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Peter Saul

Peter Saul is a painter considered to be one of the fathers of the Pop Art movement. Influenced by 1940s comic books, de Kooning, and Mad magazine, Saul began using pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His work also has connections with Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Much of his work is controversial, with titles like Bush at Abu Ghraib (2006) and The Execution of O.J. (1996). His often-satirical subject matter intertwines aspects of the pornographic, the grotesque, and the absurd. 


Peter Saul’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. 


 
Born 1934
Hometown San Francisco, CA
Lives and Works New York and Germantown, NY
Education
Washington University School of Fine Arts, Saint Louis, MO, 1956
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Permanent Collection

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Becht Collection, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

The Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas, Austin, TX

Le Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Representing Galleries

Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY

SHOWS

Petzel Gallery


Jan 07 2017 - Feb 11 2017

WE NEED TO TALK…

Michael Werner Gallery

London
Sep 23 2016 - Nov 05 2016

Some Terrible Problems

Adam Baumgold Gallery

New York
Apr 01 2016 - Jun 11 2016

Comic Inspirations
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