Born in Pinckneyville, Kentucky, 1938
Education
1966–1968 Studied at Atlanta School of Art
1958–1962 Studied at Kansas City Art Institute
Awards and Grants
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1986 Awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1985 Awarded Robert C. Scull Foundation for the Arts Grant
1967 Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant for painting
One Man Shows
2014 John Tweddle, Curated by Alanna Heiss, Kayne Griffin Corcoran
2010 New Sculptures, El Farol, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sponsored by Brook Smith
2009 Drawings by John Tweddle, James Mayor Gallery, London
2006 Studio Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 Strehlgasse 20, Zurich, Switzerland, Sponsored by Michael Jewel
2000 Studio Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 John Tweddle: In Memory of Robert C. Scull, MoMA PS1, New York City
1995 Studio Show, Atlanta
1994 Studio Show, Santa Fe
1994 Zero One Gallery, Atlanta
1994 Nations Bank Plaza, Atlanta
1992 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta
1991 30 Year Retrospective, Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange, GA
1989 Open Studio, Los Angeles
1987 Studio Show, Los Angeles
1985 Caroline Lee Gallery, San Antonio
1985 Texas Gallery, Houston
1983 Blum Helman Gallery, New York City
1976 Solway Gallery, New York City
1975 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
1974 Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago
1973 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angles
1973 The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
1972 LoGuidice Gallery, New York
1971 The Hellman Gallery, St. Louis
1970 David Whitney Gallery, New York
1968 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
1967 Illien Gallery, Atlanta
1967 Clark College, Atlanta
1966 14th Street Gallery, Atlanta
1965 Judith Alexander Gallery, Atlanta
1964 Adair Gallery, Atlanta
1963 State Line Gallery, Kansas City
Group Exhibitions
2022 Holiday, Art Sales & Research, Clinton Corners, New York
2022 Art Basel, The Mayor Gallery, London
2021 Summer Love, Art Sales & Research, Clinton Corners, New York
2021 Art Basel, The Mayor Gallery, London
2020 International Pop, The Mayor Gallery, London
2020 Anne Brown and John Tweddle: Outsider Artworks from 60s-70s, Art Sales & Research, Clinton Corners New York
2017 Make America Great Again: Works by Peter Saul and John Tweddle, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Curated by Judith Stein, Peter Freeman, New York, New York
2016 May Day Salon, Rose Burlingham Projects, New York, New York
2015 Georgia/Georgia, Curated by Annette Cone-Skelton, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
2010 The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York
2009 Exile on Main Street, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2002 Celebration Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
1992 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
1992 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
1992 Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1992 Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1991 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1991 Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1991 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1991 Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
1987 “Texas Artists” James Corcoran Gallery, New York
1987 “Texas Artists” James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 “Blue Star Exhibition of San Antonio Artists”
1986 Gallery Collection, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1985 “Texas Currents” S.A. Art Institute, San Antonio
1985 Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston
1984 “Landscape Painter” Ducal Palace (grand opening), Gubbio, Italy
1984 “New Narrative Painters” Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1983 “Recent Acquisitions” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1981 “Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures #1” Oil and Steel, New York
1980 “Image into Pattern” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., MoMA P.S.1 New York
1973 “Homers” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972 “Contemporary American Artist” The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
1971 “Contemporary American Drawings” French and Co. Inc. New York
1970 “Summer Exhibition of painting and Sculpture” French and Co. Inc. New York
1969 The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1969 “Arp to Artschwager” 3rd Annual Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
1968 “NEA Grants to Southwest Artists” Witte Museum, San Antonio
1968 “Arp to Artschwager” 2nd Annual Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
Periodical Publications Featuring John Tweddle
Art in America
Art News
Art Forum
Art Now
New Art Examiner
New York Times
Vogue
Houston Chronicle
San Antonio Express
Los Angeles Times
Chicago Tribune
Kansas City Star
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Books Featuring John Tweddle
Art Today
The Art Dealers
Exile on Main Street
50 Texas Artists
Texas Currents
The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art
New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Public Collections
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Brook Smith Collection, Louisville, KY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Emory University, Atlanta
Georgia Art Commission, Atlanta
Atlanta School of Art, Atlanta
Fulton County Library, Atlanta
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
Morris Museum of Art, Atlanta
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Southwest Museum of Art, Corpus Christi
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
Institute of Art and Urban Resources, New York
The Robert Scull Foundation, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis
Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange, GA
Witherspoon Art Center, Greensboro, NC
Private Collections
New York: Robert Scull, Charles Cowles, David Whitney, Victor Ganz, Alanna Heiss, Richard Bellamy, Andy Warhol Estate, Joseph Helman, George Waterman, Robert Stearn, Howard Smagula
Los Angeles: James Corcoran, Paul Schimmel, Judy Sachar, Nancy Kattler
Atlanta: Judith Alexander, Ives Illien, Don Chapman, Marcyln Evans, John Lawrence
Kansas City: Dale Eldred, Richard Hollander
Chicago: Walter Kelly, Silverman Collection
Zurich: Bruno Bischoffburger, Michael Jewel
London: David Davies, James Mayor, Stephanie Scull
Other: Ronald Greenberg, St. Louis; Charles Gross, Oxford, MS; James Mitchener, Pipersville, PA; Olga Osborne, San Francisco; Dr. Greg Jackson, San Antonio; Rick Brainin, Van Nuys, CA; Peter and Eileen Norton, Santa Monica; Elizabeth Rowland, San Antonio; Brook Smith, Louisville, KY; Charlie Tweddle, Santa Cruz, CA