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Andy Feehan: Contemporary Allegories
Jan. 8–March 13, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Marti Mayo
Catalogue (essay by Marti Mayo; checklist; biography; bibliography; 6 pp.; 2 black & white illus.)

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The Works of Edward Ruscha
Jan. 15–Feb. 27, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Catalogue

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Louise Bourgeois
March 12–May 8, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Catalogue

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Michael Tetherow: Paintings
March 19–May 29, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Linda L. Cathcart
Catalogue (essay by Linda L. Cathcart; checklist; biography; bibliography; 6 pp., 2 black & white illus.)

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Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir [201c]
May 27–June 17, 1983
Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
Marti Mayo
(traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida)

Catalogue (foreword by Linda L. Cathcart;
acknowledgments and essay by Marti Mayo;
interview with the artist by Ted Castle; checklist; chronology; biography; bibliography; 56 pp.; 8 color and 20 black & white illus.)

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Form Illusion Myth: Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir
May 27–July 17, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
(shown concurrently with Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir)
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Catalogue

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Laura Russell: Surfaces in Space
June 11–Aug. 7, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Marti Mayo
Catalogue (essay by Marti Mayo; checklist; biography; bibliography; 6 pp.; 2 black & white illus.)

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Southern Fictions
Aug. 2–Sept. 4, 1983

(John Alexander, David Bates, Donald Beason, Derek Boshier, William Christenberry, Rebecca Davenport, James Drake, William Eggleston, Vernon Fisher, Roy Fridge, Robert Gordy, Jimmy Jalepeeno, Alexa Kleinbard, Clarence John Laughlin, Ken Dawson Little, Ed McGowin, Melissa Miller, Nic Nicosia, Francie Rich, Art Rosenbaum, Julian Schnabel, Lee N. Smith III, Gael Stack, Earl Staley, Richard Stout, James Surls, Russell Warren, and Susan Whyne)

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
Linda L. Cathcart and Marti Mayo
Catalogue (acknowledgments and introduction by Linda L. Cathcart and Marti Mayo; essays by William S. Fagaly and Dr. Monroe K. Spears; checklist; biographies; bibliographies; 80 pp.;
6 color and 29 black & white illus.)

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Frank Freed: People and Places
Aug. 13–Sept. 18, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Emily L. Todd
Catalogue (essay by Emily L. Todd; checklist; biography; bibliography; 6 pp.; 2 black & white illus.)

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American Still Life: 1945–1983
Sept. 20–Nov. 20, 1983

(Milton Avery, William Bailey, David Bates, Ed Baynard, Jack Beal, Thomas Hart Benton, Ed Blackburn, Nell Blaine, Troy Brauntuch, Vija Celmins, Robert Colescott, Mary Ann Currier, Richard Diebenkorn, Linda Etcoff, Manny Farber, Eric Fischl, Janet Fish, Audrey Flack, Alice Forman, Jane Freilicher, Albert Eugene Gallatin, Jedd Garet, Gregory Gillespie, Ralph Goings, Morris Graves, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Gabriel Laderman, John Lees, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Nancy Mitchnick, Malcolm Morley, Walter Murch, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neel, Jud Nelson, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Piccolo, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Harry Roseman, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Richard Shaw, Charles Sheeler, David Smith, Niles Spencer, Saul Steinberg, Billy Sullivan, Jim Sullivan, Wayne Thiebaud, Sidney Tillim, James Valerio, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Paul Wiesenfeld, Donald Roller Wilson, Jane Wilson, Paul Wonner, Albert York, and Joe Zucker)

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
Linda L. Cathcart
(Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase; and Portland Art Museum, Oregon)
Catalogue (foreword, acknowledgments, and essay by Linda L. Cathcart; checklist; biographies; bibliographies; 144 pp.; 40 color and
64 black & white illus.)

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Michael Tracy: Requiem Para Los Olvidados [202a]
Sept. 24–Nov. 6, 1983

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Marti Mayo
Traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, and The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery
Catalogue (essay by Marti Mayo; checklist; biography; bibliography; 6 pp.; 2 black & white illus.)

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Scott Burton Chairs
Nov. 12, 1983–Jan. 15, 1984

Contemporary Arts Museum
Perspectives Gallery
Co-organized by Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
Catalogue (essay by Marti Mayo; checklist; biography; bibliography; 4 pp.; 1 black & white illus.)
The Fort Worth Art Museum published a catalogue to accompany the exhibition.

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Earl Staley: 1973–1983
Dec. 3, 1983–Feb. 5, 1984

Contemporary Arts Museum
Upper Gallery
Co-organized by Contemporary Arts Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Catalogue (foreword, acknowledgments and
essays by Linda L. Cathcart and Marcia Tucker; checklist; biography; bibliography; 96 pp.;
12 color, 62 black & white illus.)

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