Charles Culver: Exhibits, Collections, Awards and Commissions


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	Exhibitions

	2023, June-October: Charles Culver Public Art Exhibition, an outdoor exhibit, Bellaire, MI. https://www.bellairelibrary.org/programs/charles-culver-public-art-display-2023
	2017 A Charles Culver Retrospective, Charlevoix, Mi
	2016 Dennos Art Museum's 25th Anniversary, Traverse City, Mi
	2014 Retrospective, August 1-15, Jordan River Art Center, East Jordan, Michigan
	2014 Selected Watercolors, Below the Bridge and Above, Walled Lake, MI
	2011 "Its a Zoo in Here! Prints and Drawings of Animals", Detroit Institute of Arts
	2005 "Watercolors" solo, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan
	The Charles Culver Memorial Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market
	"Birds, Beasts, the Land" solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
	"Old Master Parodies and Paraphrases", solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
	"Recent Watercolors" solo, Garelick's Gallery
	1964 Solo, Saginaw Museum of Art, Saginaw, Michigan
	Solo, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan
	"Small Watercolors of Beasts and Birds", solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
	"New Watercolors" solo, Garelick's Gallery, Detroit
	Retrospective, Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
	Retrospective, Detroit Artists Market
	Solo, Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
	1955 Solo, Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
	1954 Worcester Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, solo
	1952 Solo, Detroit Artists Market
	Solo, Macbeth Gallery, New York, "Stone Series"
	1951 Solo, University of Maine Art Gallery, Orono, Maine; "Stone Series"

	Public and Corporate Collections Detroit Institute of Arts Whitney Museum of American Art University of Michigan Museum of Art Cranbrook Art Museum Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College National Gallery of American Art Smithsonian Institution New Britain (Connecticut) Museum of American Art Edsel and Eleanor Ford House - Grosse Pointe Michigan Butler Institute of American Art Flint Museum of Art Illinois State Museum Dearborn Art Institute, Worcester (Massachusetts) Museum of Art Lever House (New York) Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan) Michigan Consolidated Gas Company International Business Machines (New York) First Federal Savings of Detroit Middlebury (Vermont) College, University of Maine, Albion (Michigan) College Mt. Pleasant (Michigan) College, American Embassy; Kampala, (Uganda), Africa American Embassy, Brazil, Central Michigan College

	Private collections Dr. W.R. Valentiner Lawrence A. Fleischman Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman John S. Newberry Robert M. Tannahill, Dr. E.P. Richardson Mrs. Edsel Ford Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II

	Prizes and awards Gold Medal of Merit Audubon Artists Society Gold Medal, Scarab Club (twice) First Prize, Butler Institute of American Art (twice) First Prize, Michigan Watercolor Society and fifteen prizes and awards, Exhibitions for Michigan Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts
	Commissions Twelve views of the Detroit Institute of Art, commissioned by Lawrence A. Fleischman Two hundred illustrations for Ford Times and Lincoln-Mercury Times, commissioned by Ford Publications, the Ford Motor Company Designs for hand puppets and scenery for The Bear that Played the Bijou Designs for shadow puppets for Trappers' Return, commissioned by the Detroit News for the Detroit Institute of Arts Puppet Theater

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