Craig Kauffman
Born 1932, Los Angeles, California
Education
1956 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
1955 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
1952 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, School of Architecture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Wall Relief Sculpture From the Sixties, Nyehaus, New York, New York
2008 New Wall Relief Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2007 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004 Craig Kauffman: Works from the 1960s, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
2001 Sandra Gering Gallery, NY
2000 Studio la Città Verona, Italy
1999 Bubbles, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Painted Drawings, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 New Work, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA
1990 The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA
1988 Craig Kauffman: Wall Reliefs, 1967-1969, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Craig Kauffman: a Comprehensive Exhibition, 1957-1980, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Craig Kauffman: Wall Reliefs, 1967-1969, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Blum Helman, New York, NY
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Craig Kauffman: A Comprehensive Exhibition, 1957-1980, organized by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary
Art; traveled to the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI; the Anderson Gallery at Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; and the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1982 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Janus Gallery, Venice, CA
Blum Helman, New York, NY
1977 Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Dorthea Speyer, Paris, France
1975 Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Galerie Dorthea Speyer, Paris, France
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1970 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1969 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Ferus/Pace, Los Angeles, CA
1965 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1952 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Primary Atmospheres, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles: 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Ed Moses: Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003 LA's Finish Fetish, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Sunshine and Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaekm, Denmark;
Travels to Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy
(Spring, 1998); UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
(Fall, 1998)
Sensuality in the Abstract, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 16 Artists, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
View, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1995 Made in LA: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine
University, Malibu, CA
Shade: Forming the L.A. Look, California State University, Fullerton, CA
From Behind the Orange Curtain, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
Selections from Robert A. Rowan Trust Collection, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1994 Showcase, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1993 Facing West: Art in Laguna Beach After 1945, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Tamarind Impressions, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan
1992 The Presence of Absence: Minimal, Conceptual and Contemplative, The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa,
CA
The Spirit of Matter, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Changing Group Exhibition, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Not On Canvas, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. When It Began, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Pop Art and Minimalism 1960-1975, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Finish Fetish: Painting and Sculpture of 1960s Los Angeles, U.S.C. Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Minimal, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1990 The Captured Shadow, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Daylight Savings, Galleria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Abstractions, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan;
Hara Museum of Art, Hara, Japan; Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
The Captured Shadow, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1989 Daylight Savings, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1988 First Summer Show, Lu Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1987 Diverse Directions, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Artist/Work Two, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
California: A Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Capital Group, UC Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
1986 Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Objects, Baskerville Watson Gallery, New York, NY
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
UCI Faculty Show, UC Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
The Art of Our Time, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1985 Tamarind: 25 Years 1960-1985, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Spectrum Los Angeles, Hartje Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA
1984 The Dilexi Years 1958-1970, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
New Work Painting 1984, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tamarind Retrospective, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Some of Our Best Connections 1984, Orange County Art Alliance, Santa Ana, CA
Early Works, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of the States: American Work After the Sixties, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Cirrus Celebrates Los Angeles Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The First Show: Paintings and Sculptures from Eight Collections, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA
1983 Cirrus Editions Ltd: A Retrospective View, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Publications of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 The Carolyn and Jack Farris Collection: Selected Contemporary Works, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary
Art, La Jolla, CA
L.A. Art: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. On Paper, DBR Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition of Contemporary Los Angeles Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Japan
Recent Acquisitions: Selections From Robert Towan Collection, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Drawings By Painters, Long Beach Museum of Art; traveled to Manderville Art Gallery, University of California
San Diego; and the Oakland Museum (1983)
Artist Quilts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1981 33rd Annual Hassam & Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York, NY
Art in Los Angeles-Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Artist: 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the 70s, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1980 Southern California Drawings, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
1979 California Perceptions: Light and Space, Selections from the Wortz Collection, California State University,
Fullerton, CA
Aspects of Abstract: Recent West Coast Abstract Paining and Sculpture, Croaker Art Museum, Sacramento,
CA
Los Angeles Abstract Painting University of New Mexico Art Museum and Fine Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM
California Hybrids, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
A Survey of the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The First Western States Biennial Exhibition, Denver Art Museum; traveled to the National Collection of Fine
Arts, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle, WA (1980)
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1978 Change West, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Three Generations: Studies in Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Tony DeLap, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses: Works on Paper, Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Two Decades of American Sculpture from Northwest Collections, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Southern California 100, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Biennale de Paris: Une Anthologie 1957-67, Salles de la Fondation Nationale des Arts Plastiques et
Graphiques, Paris, France
Faculty 77, University of California, Irvine, CA
Materials of Art: Plastic, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
Archives of American Art: California Collecting, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1976 Recent Los Angeles Work, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gerry Reosen: Video Interviews of 27 California Artists, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; traveled to the
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Last Time I Saw Ferus, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1975 Potsdam Plastics, Brainer Hall Art Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
University of California, Irvine, 1965-75, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Trends of 6 California Artists, Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Seattle Show, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Current Concerns, Part One, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Faculty Show, University of California, Irvine, CA
Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
Selections form Cirrus Editions, Ltd., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fifth Annual Summer Show, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Illuminations and Reflections, Whitney Museum of American Art - Downtown, New York, NY
Plastics: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Contemporary American Paining and Sculpture 1974, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign,
IL
1973 Ten Years of Contemporary Art, Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
New Prints, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
In a Bottle, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
The Way of Color: Thirty-Third Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.
1972 The Last Plastics Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Irvine, CA
Contemporary American Art: Los Angeles, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
California Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
20th Century Sculpture from Southern California, UCLA Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1971 The DeLuxe Show, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Terry Inch Collection, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Museum, New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand;
Traveled to Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand; and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand
The Boardwalk Show, East Convention Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
Spray, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four Artists, Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA
1970 Kompas IV, Stedejlik Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1969 A Plastic Presence, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Highlights of the 1968-1969 Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1968 Faculty 1968, University of California, Irvine, CA
Los Angeles 6, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Painting: Out From the Wall, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
L.A.-N.Y, University of California, San Diego, CA
Plastic Paintings and Sculpture, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
1967 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, IL
V Paris Biennale, Paris, France.
The exhibition was organized by the Pasedena Art Museum and shown in Paris.
A New Aesthetic, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The 1960s, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1966 Los Angeles Now, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England
1965 Five at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1961 University of Illinois Annual, Urbana-Champaign, IL
1960 Fifty Paintings by Thirty-seven Painters of the Los Angeles Area, University of California - Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, CA
1959 California Painters and Sculptors, Thirty-five and Under, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA
1955 Merry-Go-Round Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1953 Members' Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1952 San Francisco Museum Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
also: 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961
Selected Bibliography
1996 Duncan, Michael. "Craig Kauffman at Patricia Faure (Santa Monica),"Art In America, April, p. 122-123, ill.
Baker, Hilary and Couzens, Julia and others. Sexy, Armory Center for the Visual Arts, Pasadena, CA,
p.13, ill. (catalogue)
1995 Pagel, David. "Craig Kauffman at Patricia Faure (Santa Monica)," Art & Auction, October, p. 78.
Pagel, David. "Odd Precedents," Los Angeles Times, Thursday, November 9.
Calendar, Kramer, and Elizabeth, et al. Shape, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton,
p. 25, 43, ill.
1993 McKinna, Kristine. "Artist by Those Who Know Him Best," (Interview with artist friends of Robert Irwin), Los
Angeles Times, Sunday, June 13.
1992 Lettlefield, Kinney. "The Spirit of the Matter," Long Beach Press Telegram, Sunday, June 28.
Sullivan, Meg. "60's Movement Secure in Return," Daily News, Friday, May 8.
Wilson, William. “A Study in Plastic in Finish Fetish," Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 22.
Knight, Christopher. "From Out West and the Cool School: It's Abstract Pop," Los Angeles Times, April 14.
Schneider, Greg. "Only Skin Deep," Artweek, April 4, vol. 22, no. 13.
Woodard, Josef. "Crag Kauffman," (interview) Artweek, April 4, vol. 22, no. 13.
1990 Fujinami, Noriko. Abstraction, 5 Artists, (catalogue) Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, p. 47-61, 89-
100, ill.
Cassim, Julia. "Zen Influences Abound in Art from L.A.," The Japan Times, Sunday, April 1.
Pfeiffer, Adrienne. "Abstraction, Five Artists," Avenues, Nagoya, Japan, March-April, issue 30.
1989 Afif, Steve. In Barcelona Litografies 1988-89, (catalogue, illus.) Artgrafic-Galeria d'Art.
Berland, Dinah. "Kauffman's Freewheeling Synergy on Silk," Long Beach Press Telegram, June 10, ill.
Borras, Maria Lluisa. "El Look de Los Angeles," La Vangarria Barcelona, June 10.
Olivares, Rosa. "Daylight Savings," Rev. La Piz, Barcelona, no. 62.
Clot, Manel. "Luces Apagadas en California," Artes/5, Barcelona.
Cameron, Dan. Daylight Savings, (illus. Catalogue) Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
1988 Woodard, Josef. "Bubble Heady Art," The Independent, Santa Barbara, p. 40, ill.
Wilson, William. "The Galleries," Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 29, part IV.
Crower, Joan. "Kauffman's Exhibit of Bubbles," Santa Barbara News Press, Wednesday, May 18.
1986 Clothier, Peter. "Craig Kauffman," Art In America, February, p. 139, (reprod.).
Cone, Michele. "Modern Objects," Flash Art, no. 130, October-November, ill.
Hackman, William. "Seven Artists in Search of a Place to Hang," California, vol.II, no. 11, November,
p. 88, ill.
Curtis, Kathy. "UCI Studio Art Instructors Practice What They Teach," Art, April 27, The University of
California Fine Art Gallery 1985-86, 20th Anniversary, (Catalogue), p. 39.
1985 Larsen, Susan. "Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California," p. 46.
McDonald, Robert. "Art in L.A./L.A. Art," Spectrum In L.A., ill.
Craig Kauffman, Tamarind Impressions: Recent Lithographs (Catalogue), p. 24-25.
Muchnic, Suanne. "Sunshine on 29 Local Artists," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, January 24.
Schipper, Merie. "Exhibitions," Art Week, vol. 16, no. 6, February 9.
Hail, Natalie. "Oral History Interview with Craig Kauffman," UCLA Library Shelves, UCLA Announcements, Los
Angeles CA.
1984 French, Christopher. "Looking Back to Dilexi," Artweek, vol. 16, no. 27.
Fitzpatrick, Robert. "Art of the States: Work from Santa Barbara Collection," Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
p. 27, 51.
1983 Kienholtz, Ed. Craig Kauffman (catalog of solo exhibition), Faith Charity and Hope Gallery.
Wortz, Melinda. The Carolyn and Jac Farris Collection, (Catalogue) La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art,
p. 63.
1982 Rickey, Carrie. "Studs and Polish: L.A. in the Sixties," Art In America, January, p. 80-89.
Blum, Helman. "Review: Solo Exhibition," New York Times, February 5.
Armstrong, Richard. Drawings by Painters (catalogue), Long Beach Museum of Art.
1981 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California. Craig Kauffman: Comprehensive Survey 1957-80
(catalogue).
Southern California Artists 1940-1980, (Catalogue), Laguna Beach Museum of Art, p. 42.
Decade of Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, (catalogue), Art Center College of Design, p. 76.
Proctor, Roy. "Listen to the Artist," Richmond News Leader, November 7, A-42.
1980 Dunham, Judith. "Twenty American Artist," Artweek, 11, August 3, p. 28.
Wilson, William. "Modern American Art in Peaks and fits," Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 24, Calendar.
Visiting Artists, Catalogue-Visiting Artist, October 16 – November 9.
20 American Artists (catalogue), San Francisco Museum of Art, Hopkins, Henry T., p. 26-27.
1979 McDonald, Robert. "Painterly Surface, Architectonis Structure," Artweek, 19, November 24, 39, p. 3.
Wolfe, Clair. "On Art Writing," LAICA journal, September – October, 24, pp. 58-59.
Singerman, H. "Craig Kauffman," Artweek, 10, May 19, 20, p. 20, ill.
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Review," Los Angeles Times, May 18, Part IV, p. 6.
Gibson, Eric. "New York Letter," Art International, 48, April, 1, p. 149.
1978 Frank, Peter. "Unslick in L.A.," Art In America, 66, September – October, 5, pp. 87 – 91.
Wortz, Melinda. "Craig Kauffman's Interiors," Artweek, 9, May 13, 19, p. 3.
Artforum, 16, April 8, p. 4 (illus. only).
1976 Micha, Rene. "Lettre de Paris," Art International, 20 December, 10, p. 50.
Butterfield, Jan. "Craig Kauffman Interviewed," Art In America, 64, July-August, 4, pp, 81 – 82 (illus. p. 80)
Wooster, Ann Sargent. "Craig Kauffman," Art News, 75, May, 5, pp. 128-129
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York Letter," Art International, 20, April-May, 4-5, pp. 53-54, ill.
Plagens, Peter. "Los Angeles," Artforum, 8, April, 8, p. 84, ill.
Perlmutter, Elizabeth. "A Hotbed of Advanced Art," Art News, 175, January, 1, p. 46.
1975 Preisman, Fran. "Irvine, 1965-75, A Sense of Communication," Artweek, 6, December, 42, p. 9.
Frank, Peter. "Craig Kauffman at Riko Mizuno," Art In America, 63, pp. 114-116.
Wortz, Melinda. "Kauffman's Subtle Joke," ArtNews, 74, Summer, pp. 110-111, ill.
Wortz, Melinda. "Current Concerns, Part One," Artweek, 6, February, 6, p. 1, ill.
Seldis, Henry J. "Exhibitions at Mizuno," Los Angeles Times, March 7, Part IV, p.4.
1974 Lutjeans, Phyllis J. "U.C. Irvine Faculty Exhibit," Artweek, 5, February, 5, p. 5.
1973 Schwartz, Sanford. "New York Letter," Art International, 27, Summer, 6, p. 99.
Stitelman, Paul. "New York Galleries," Arts Magazine, 47, May-June, pp. 58-59, ill.
Wortz, Melinda. "New Paintings by Craig Kauffman," Artweek, 6, May 20, p. 1, ill.
Ratcliff, Carter. "Reviews and Previews," Artnews, 72, April, 4, p. 86.
Lynn, Elwin. "Confessions of an Art Purchaser," Art International, 27, March, pp. 24-25, ill.
McCann, Cecile N. "Craig Kauffman," Artweek, 4, January, 1, p.12.
1972 Pindell, Howardena D. "California Prints," Arts Magazine, 46, May, 7, p. 33.
1971 Baker, B. C. "Los Angeles, 1971," Art News, 70, September, 5, p. 38, ill.
S. R. "Spray Painting," Artweek, 2, May 1971, 21, p. 2.
Terbell, Melinda. "Transparency, Reflection, Light and Space," Arts Magazine, 45, March, 5, pp. 47-48.
Plagens, Peter. "Transparency, Reflection, Light and Space: Four Artists," Artforum, 45, March, 5, pp. 47-48.
Plagens, Peter. "West Coast Blues," Artforum, 9, February, 6, p. 57, ill.
1970 Plagens, Peter. "Los Angeles," Artforum, April 7, p.84
Looking West, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.
1969 Bengston, Billy Al. "Late Fifties at the Ferus: A Participant Refuses to Take the Show Lying Down," Artforum, 7
(January), pp. 33-35.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. "New Work Letter," Art International, 13 (April), p.70.
Schjeldahl, Peter, "New York Letter," Art International, 13 (April 20), p.65
1968 Livingston, Jane. "Recent Work, by Craig Kauffman...a New Non-pictorial Set of Terms," Artforum, 6
(February), pp. 36-39.
1964 Monte, James. Review: "Exhibition at Ferus Gallery," Artforum, vol. II, no. 8, February.
Coplans, John. "Circle of Styles on the West Coast," Art in America, vol.52, no. 3, June.
Coplans, John; Leider, Philip; Hopkins, Henry T. "A Portfolio of Contemporary Los Angeles Art – Formal
Art, The Cool School, Abstract Expressionism," Artforum, vol. II, no. 12, Summer.
1953 Langsner, Jules. Review: "Exhibition at Felix Landau," Art News, vol.51, no. 9, January.
Selected Books
Prown, Jules, David and Barbara Rose. American Painting, 1977 New York: Rizzoli Books, pp. 223 and 224.
Auping, Michael. Interviews with Craig Kauffman, May 21, 1996 – January 27, 1977, Los Angeles:
University of California, 1977, pp. 234.
Rose, Barbara. American Art Since1900, New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1975, pp. 225-226.
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, New York: Frederick A. Praeger
Publisher, 1974, pp. 105, 115, 120, 121 and pl. 7, 12, 13, 16.
Newman, Thelma R. Plastics as Sculpture, Rodnor: Pennsylvania Book Company, 1974, p. 74.
Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future, New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1973, pp. 12.
Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1972, pp. 324, 432.
Bunch, Clarence. Acrylic for Sculpture and Design, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1972, pp.
54-55.
Martin, Julie and Barbara Rose. Pavillions: Experiments in Art and Technology, New York: Dutton Publisher,
1972.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Late Modern, New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publisher, 1969, p. 267, 227.
Battcock, Gregory. Minimal Art, A Critical Anthology, New York: Dutton Publishers, 1968, p. 428.
Public Collections
The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport, CA
Oakland Museum of Modern Art, Oakland, CA
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Phillip Morris Foundation
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
The Tate Gallery, London, England
University of California, Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY