Frederick Hammersley
Born 1919, Salt Lake City, UT
The artist currently lives in Albuquerque, NM

Education
1936-38 University of Idaho, Southern Branch, Pocatello
1940-42 Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, CA
1945 Ecole des Beaux Art, Paris, France
1946-47 Chouinard Art School, Los Angeles, CA
1947-50 Jepson Art School, Los Angeles, CA

Selected articles
Kuspit, Donald, Reviews: Frederick Hammersley, ArtForum, April, p. 274.
(click to read the full article)

Miles, Christopher, Ever True to Forms, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, 12 April, 2007.
(click to read the full article)

David Pagel, Around the Galleries: Winding through a landscape of gems,
Los Angeles Times, Friday, August 1, p. E18. full article (PDF)

Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, His Speciality: One-Liners, L.A. Times Calendar, August 22, 1999.
full article (PDF)

full biography

bibliography

works available

Recent exhibitions
Frederick Hammersley
Hunches, Geometrics, Organics: Paintings by Frederick Hammersley
23 January - 8 April 2007
Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center
Claremont, CA
www.pomona.edu

Selected articles
Kuspit, Donald, Reviews: Frederick Hammersley, ArtForum, April, p. 274.
(click to read the full article)

Miles, Christopher, Ever True to Forms, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, 12 April, 2007.
(click to read the full article)

 

Seven Rooms Seven Artists
L.A. Louver Summer 2006
13 July - 2 September 2006

 

Frederick Hammersley: Paintings of the 1960s
15 October - 13 November, 2004

 

The Art Show 2004
Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America

Seventh Regiment Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City
19- 23 February, 2004

works by Rebecca Campbell, Gajin Fujita,
Frederick Hammersley, David Hockney, 
Jason Martin, John McCracken, Ken Price 

 

Frederick Hammersley, Organic Abstract Paintings
9 July – 30 August, 2003

 

Selected works by decade

1940 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
1970 - 1979 >>
1980 - 1989

1990 - 1999
2000 - the present



                                                           
 


Mutual fund


Dutch treat

 


Like is not

 


Conjugate

 


Separate checks

 


Four awhile

 


Reflect upon

 


Because & effect

 


Yogurt

 


Equal odds

 


In two

 


Powersteering

 


Pact

 


Photo finish

 


Sacred & pro fame

 


Devoted two

 


Needless to say