Biografie von Charles Frederick SURENDORF (1906-1979)

Birth place: Richmond, IN

Death place: Columbia, CA

Addresses: Logaport, IN; San Francisco, Columbia, CA

Profession: Engraver, painter, teacher, blockprinter, cartoonist, lecturer, writer

Studied: AIC; ASL; Ohio State Univ.; Mills College.

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal biennial, 1932; CM, 1933, 1935-36; SFMA, 1936-46 (prize 1937); PAFA Ann., 1937; AV, 1942; deYoung Mem. Mus., 1946; LACMA, 1936; AIC, 1938, 1940; NAD, 1941, 1946; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art, 1945; Phila. Pr. Club, 1940, 1941 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1946; Northwest PM, 1938, 1941-42, 1944-46; John Herron AI, 1933 (prize), 1935 (prize), 1938 (prize), 1946; SAM, 1938 (prize), 1945 (prize); Calif. SE, 1938 (prize), 1941 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1944 (prize), 1945 (prize), 1950-54 (prizes); GGE, 1939 (prize), 1946; Wichita AM, 1935-38, 1941; Phila. Art All., 1938; Tri-State Exhib., Indianapolis, 1945 (prize), 1946 (prize); Indiana Artists, 1929-31 (prizes), 1933 (prize), 1934 (prize),1940 (prize); Hoosier Salon, 1930 (prize), 1948 (prize), 1952 (prize); San Francisco AA, 1938 (prize); Richmond AA, 1938 (prize); Delgado MA, 1949; New Orleans AA, 1949; LOC, 1949; Indiana Printmakers, 1949, 1951; SAGA, 1940, 1950 (prize); Calif. State Lib., 1951 (prize), 1952 (prize), 1954 (prize).

Member: Calif. SE; San Francisco AA; Northwest Printmakers; Mother Lode AA; Richmond AA; New Orleans AA; Indiana Soc. Printmakers

Work: SFMA; Mills College; LOC; Wichita AA; Richmond (IN) Art Mus.; pub. sch., Indianapolis; library, Logansport; Tahiti MA; Richmond (IN) Art Gal.

Comments: Position: director, first San Francisco Art Festival; director, Mother Lode Art Sch. & Gal., Columbia, A. Illustrator: Mr. Pimney," 1945. WPA printmaker in California, 1930s.

Sources: WW59; WW47; exh. cat., Annex Gal. (Santa Rosa, CA, n.d., c.1988); Hughes, Artists in California, 544; Falk, Exh. Record Series.