Artist List    Frederick Heidel    Images  |  Bio Born 1915, Corvallis, OR Died 2000, Portland, OR EDUCATION Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A. 1956 Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A. 1941 University of Oregon, B.S., Painting 1938 AWARDS AND GRANTS Portland State University, Branford P. Miller, Award for Excellence 1980 Chapelbrook Foundation, Boston, Grant to work in glass in Europe 1968 Oregon Centennial Exhibition Award 1959 First Grand Award, Oregon State Fair 1957, 1958, 1959 Purchase Award, Drawing Annual, Portland Art Museum 1952 Visitor Award, Annual Painting Exhibition, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1950 Painting Award, 12th Annual Watercolor Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1948 Honorable Mention, 67th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA 1947 Earl Stendahl Purchase Prize, California Watercolor Society Annual 1947 Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship, Chicago Art Institute 1942 ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS “In Memory of Frederick Heidel,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997 Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA 1994, 1996 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1988, 1990 Glasgalerie Kuhler, Amsterdam 1989 Port Angeles Art Center, Port Angeles, WA 1988 Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1986 Alexis Hotel, Portland, OR 1986 The Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1974, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985 Office of the Governor, Salem, OR 1977 Oregon State University, Salem, OR 1975 Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, OR 1972 Salem Art Association, Bush Barn, Salem, OR 1957, 1971 University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR 1955, 1970 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1953, 1962, 1970 Coos Art Association, Coos Bay, OR 1969 Eastern Oregon College Art Gallery, La Grande, OR 1959, 1965 Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR 1954, 1962, 1964 Image Gallery, Portland, OR 1963 Washington State College, Pullman, WA 1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1949 Pat Wall Gallery, Monterey, CA 1948 GROUP EXHIBITIONS “The Saward Collection, Premier Northwest Artists of the Mid-20th Century,” Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR 2004 “Currents in Northwest Art,” Portland State University, Portland, OR 2001 “15th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 “Early Works by Oregon Artists,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 1996 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR 1996 "Glass Evolutions," Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 1996 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 1995 Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA 1993 "Then and Now," Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR 1993 “Glass Directions,” Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR 1993 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1992 Multnomah Athletic Club Art Show, Portland, OR 1992 "Tableaux Et Verres Contemparains," New Art Gallery, Paris, France 1991 "5th Annual International Glass Invitational," Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1991 "30th Anniversary Exhibition," Image Gallery, Portland, OR 1991 Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR 1990 "300 Years of Teaching," Portland State University, Portland, OR 1988 "Contemporary Glass Artists," Contemporary Crafts, Portland, OR 1988 "Northwest Contemporary Glass," Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR 1988 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR 1987 "Glass Glass Glass," Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 19861987 "Celebration: Especially for Children," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1986 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 "Opening Exhibition," Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1986 Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1973, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Lake Oswego Arts Festival International, Lake Oswego, OR 1986 Portland State University Faculty Show, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR 1980 "Glass Confabulation," Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR 1980 ARTQUAKE Arts Festival, Portland, OR 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 International Architectural Glass Exhibition, Van Tetterode Glassindustrie, Amsterdam, Holland 1978 "Drawing Now," Salem Art Association, Invitational, Salem, OR 1977 "Celebration," Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, OR 1977 "Mountain High," Timberline Lodge, Invitational, Government Camp, OR 1977 "Sculpture '75," Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1975 Northwest Sculpture Exhibition, Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA 1975 Drawing Invitational, Oregon College of Education, Art Gallery, Monmouth, OR 1974 Art for Public Places, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1974 Sculpture Invitational, University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR 1974 Pacific Northwest Crafts Center Glass Exhibition, Seattle, WA 1973 Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1950-1967, 1969, 1970, 1972 Oregon Artists Invitational, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1959, 1971 Seattle Museum of Art Annual, Seattle, WA 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961-1968 "The West: 30 Contemporaries," University of Arizona 1967 "Contemporary Landscape Exhibit," Field Enterprises Collection, World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago, IL 1965 "Northwest Art Today," Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA 1962 Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1961 Northwest Painting Invitational, University of Oregon, Art Museum, Eugene, OR 1961 Oregon Centennial Exhibition, Portland, OR 1959 Smithsonian Institution Touring Exhibition 1958 Vancouver, B.C., Annual Invitational Exhibition 1958 Denver Art Museum Annual, Denver, CO 1958 Second Pacific Coast Biennial, traveling exhibition 1957 Pacific Coast Representation at Sao Paulo Traveling Exhibition, United States Museums 1957 Sao Paulo III, Biennale, Brazil 1956 Oakland Art Museum Annual, Oakland, CA 1950-1955 Young Collectors National Invitational, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX 1954 United Nations International Exhibition, San Francisco Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 1953 San Francisco Art Museum Annual, CA 1947, 1948, 1949 "Glass," Portland State University, White Gallery, Portland, OR 1975 National Drawing Show, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1952 Watercolor, Drawing and Print National, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1951 Los Angeles County National Painting Exhibition, CA 1949 Pepsi-Cola Annual, traveling exhibition 1947 11th Annual Northwest Printmakers, Seattle, WA 1947 California Watercolor Annual, Pasadena, CA 1946, 1947 COMMISSIONS Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Portland, OR 1992 Portland General Electric, Portland, OR 1985 Lloyd Tower, Portland, OR 1983 State of Oregon, Revenue Building, Salem, OR 1982 State of Oregon, State Office Building/Labor Dept., Portland, OR 1981 Temple Beth Israel, Landau Chapel, Portland, OR 1980 Holiday Park Hospital, Spark Chapel, Portland, OR 1980 Oregon School of Art and Crafts, Portland, OR 1979 Marvin Witt Architectural Office, Portland, OR 1979 University of Oregon Art Museum, Eleanor Maneru Memorial Window, Eugene, OR 1975 Lane County Courthouse, Eugene, OR 1958 COLLECTIONS Allen, Kilmer, Schrader, Yazbeck & Chenoweth, Portland, OR Ball Janik LLP, Portland, OR Bank of America, Portland, OR Bank of America, Seattle, WA Bank of Tokyo, Portland, OR Carla Properties, Portland, OR Children's Library, Salem, OR Claremont Resort Hotel, Oakland, CA Collins Foundation, Portland, OR Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Portland, OR Eugene City Library, Eugene, OR Field Enterprises Art Collection, World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago, IL Glassindustrie Van Tetterode, Amsterdam, Holland Harsch Investments, Portland, OR Holiday Park Hospital, Spark Chapel, Portland, OR Lane County Courthouse, Eugene, OR Lloyd Tower, Portland, OR Marvin Witt, AIA, Portland, OR Mitsubishi Bank, Portland, OR Montana Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland, OR NEC America, Portland, OR Omark Industries, Portland, OR Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR Oregon School of Art and Craft, Portland, OR Portland General Electric, Portland, OR Portland State University, Portland, OR Portland State University, Science Bldg. I, Portland, OR Princeton Group, San Francisco, CA Salem Civic Center, Salem, OR Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, WA State of Oregon, Professional Services Building, Salem, OR State of Oregon, Revenue Building, Salem, OR State of Oregon, State Office Building/Labor Dept., Portland, OR Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Temple Beth Israel, Landau Chapel, Portland, OR University of Oregon Art Museum, Eleanor Manerud Memorial Window, Eugene, OR Washington State Arts Commission, Evergreen School District, Vancouver, WA RELATED EXPERIENCE Portland State University, Portland, OR, Professor of Art 1951-1980 Portland State University, Portland, OR, Chairman, Department of Art and Architecture 1951-1977 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Professor of Art 1949-1953 Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA, Professor of Art 1946-1949 Biarritz American University, Biarritz, France, Professor of Art 1945-1946 PUBLICATIONS Kangas, Matthew, “New Talent: Matthew Kangas on Frederick Heidel (1915-2000),”Glass Quarterly, Number 103: Summer 2006, pp 46-47 Row, D.K., “Critics Picks,” The Oregonian, May 2000 Gragg, Randy, “Frederick Heidel, Influential Art Teacher, Dies,” The Oregonian, January 25, 2000, p. C8 Johnson, Holly, “Heidel’s Airy Sculpture on Display at Laura Russo,” The Oregonian, October 7, 1994, p. 38 Johnson, Holly, “Picture These on First Thursday,” The Oregonian, October 5, 1994 McIvor, Kristen, “Heidel,” The Winged M, October 1992, pp. 20, 21 Turner, Priscilla, “Over the Years,” Alaska Airlines Magazine, April 1990 White, Brain, "Artworks Enhance Portland Businesses,” The Business Journal, May 1989 “Round-up,” Reflex, September/October, 1988, p. 23 Johnson, Barry, “Contemporary Crafts: Glass Acts,” The Oregonian, September 30, 1988 Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR, 1987 Allen, Lois, “Lushness in the Landscape, ”Artweek, April 1987. “Frederick Heidel,” Preview, March/April, 1987, p. 34 Johnson, Barry, “The Changing Direction of Artists,” The Oregonian, March 6, 1987, p. 20 Johnson, Barry, “Critic’s Choice,” The Oregonian, March 20, 1987, p. 20 Barden, Renardo, “Visual Arts,” Willamette Week, February 26-March 4, 1987, p. 30 Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 1986 Burress, Charles, “A Touch of Northwest Class at the Claremont, The Oregonian, July 31, 1983