Russell Chatham was born in San Francisco on October 27, 1939. He is the grandson of the great landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni.
He began exhibiting formally in 1958, and since then has had something on
the order of four hundred one man shows at museums, art centers, private
galleries, schools, colleges and universities not only throughout the west
in places like Sun Valley, Aspen, Santa Fe and Denver, but also in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, San
Francisco and Los Angeles. His work has also been exhibited in Europe and
the Orient. Chatham began printmaking in 1981, and is today regarded as one
of the world's foremost lithographers.
Publications about Chatham include a catalogue called One Hundred Paintings,
and another about his original lithographs called The Missouri Headwaters.
Five new books are in production, scheduled for release in 2003. One is
called Selected Lithographs, another is The Seasons, a survey of the large
format canvasses, another is called The Intimate View, a review of the small
acrylics and watercolors, another is strictly portraits, and finally, a book
of the Marin County paintings done in 1999, 2000, and 2001. Chatham has been
profiled in Esquire, Southwest Art, People, U.S. Art, Antiques and Fine Art,
Architectural Digest, Smart, The Denver Post, The San Francisco Chronicle,
The San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The
Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Associated Press, National Public
Radio's Morning Edition, and Fresh Air, PBS, and CBS Sunday Morning.
Among Chatham's private collectors are authors Peter Matthiessen, David Halberstam, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Carl Hiaasen, and the late Richard Brautigan; media correspondents Tom Brokaw, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Van Gordon Sauter, and the late Charles Kuralt;
entertainment personalities Michael Keaton, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley,
Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, the late Sam Peckinpah, the late Slim Pickens, Margot Kidder, Jeff Bridges, Peter and Jane Fonda, Sydney Pollack, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Sean Connery, Harry Dean Stanton, Angelica Huston, Jimmy Buffet, Dave Grusin, Don Henley, Glenn Frye, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Meg Ryan, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Ali MacGraw, Warren
Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and Harrison Ford.
Russell Chatham lives in Livingston, Montana. |
