BIO / RESUME

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Dan McCaw is a contemporary American artist that lives and works in Torrance California with his two accomplished artist sons John and Danny.

His work is a bridge between his traditional background and the contemporary influences that continually impact his art. Strong design is the foundation that his work is based upon but curiosity is the fuel that drives his creativity. “Art flourishes in change, it expands when its limits are limitless. The artist must remain open to its possibilities and eliminate the dispassionate. The dignity of art is not in its constants but in the liberation of its possibilities. “

Influenced by the classical masters at an early age Dan, over the years, has seen his appreciation and seduction for many different genres of art. “Anything that make me think, makes me engage and broadens my perceptions is of great importance and interest to me.” Dan tries to make his paintings somewhat ambiguous so that the viewer, if they wish, can participate and walk through a door that he just holds open, what you find inside becomes your own. If he defines or explains everything Dan feels that he robs you of your own experience.

Dan was raised in a small colorful tough Irish mining town of Butte, Montana, whose people were far richer in character than the precious copper that was mined day and night. It was in these formative years much of his own character was molded and from which he constantly draws upon.

Dan began my formal art training at the San Francisco Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California when he was twenty, then on to the Art Center College Of Design, in Pasadena, California and the Bongart School of Art in Santa Monica, California. He was a on the facility of the Art Center College of Design for over fifteen years, has have had over forty Solo Exhibitions, numerous national and international articles, written one book and in 2007 was given an Honorary Doctorate degree in 2007 by the San Francisco Academy of Art University

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Dan lives with wife Stacey in Torrance, California, has five children and eight grandchildren.

BORN

Dec 16, 1942

Seattle, Washington

EDUCATION

Montana Tech of the University of Montana   Butte, Montana

Academy of Art University   San Francisco, California

Art Center College of Design      Pasadena, California

Bongart School of Art       Santa Monica, California

Honorary Doctorate Academy of Art University    San Francisco, California 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014

Anne Irwin Fine Art, McCaw Legacy, Atlanta, GA

2013

Morris & Whiteside Gallery Three Man Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
Long Beach Museum, Group Show, Long Beach, CA
California Museum of Fine Art, Group Show, Torrance, CA

2012

OFA Invitational, London, England
Gallery 1261, Group Show, Denver, CO
Gallery 25 CPW, Converge" New York City, NY
Lancaster Museum, Past and Present, Lancaster, CA
Morris & Whiteside Gallery, Three Man Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC

2011

Madden Museum, Windows to the Devine, Denver, CO
Gallery 1261, Winter, Group Exhibition, Denver, CO
District 3 Contemporary, Torrance, CA
Gallery 1261, McCaw, Denver CO
Anne Irwin Fine Art, The Man Exhibition, Denver, CO

2010

Gallery 1261, Small Works, Denver, CO

2009

Saks Gallery, American Art Invitational, Denver, CO
Gallery 1261, Group Show, Denver , CO

2009

Gallery 1269, Small Works, Group Show, Denver, CO

2008

Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Denver, CO
Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Two person Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Denver, CO

2007

Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Interpretation of the Figure, Denver, CO
C.M. Russell Museum, Invitational Art Auction, Great Falls, MT
American Art Invitational, Group Exhibition, Denver, CO
Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Auction, Hilton Head, SC
Trailside Galleries, Group Exhibition, Jackson, WY
Trailside Galleries, Small Works, Scottsdale, AZ

2006

Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Denver, CO
Howard Manville Gallery, Invitational, Seattle, WA
Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Large Works, Denver, CO

2005

American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX
Timmons Galleries, Three Man Show, Solana Beach, CA
Wendt Gallery, McCaw Tradition Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA
Trailside Galleries, Two Man Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Mendenhall Sobiski, Group Exhibition, Pasadena, CA
Gallery 1261 Group Exhibition, Small Works, Denver, CO
Salon D’ Arts, Group Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO.

2004

American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX
Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
Wendt Gallery, McCaw Tradition Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA
Timmons Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Anne Irwin, Invitational Exhibition, Atlantic, GA
Salon D’ Arts, Group Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO.

2003

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
American Heritage invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX

2002

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC

2001

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Timmons Galleries, Group Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

2000

Legacy Gallery, Group Exhibition, Livingston, MT
Gladney Foundation Invitational Exhibition, Houston, TX
Morris & Whiteside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC
Altermann Galleries, Group Exhibition, Dallas, TX
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1999

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1998

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO

1997

American Legacy Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1996

Trailside Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1990

SLBA Invitational Exhibition, Saint Louis, MO
Biltmore Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

1988

Shriver Gallery,Solo Exhibition, Taos, NM
Biltmore Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

1987

NWR invitational Group Exhibition, Helena, MT

1986

Shriver Gallery,Solo Exhibition, Taos, NM

1985

Society of American Impressionists Invitational Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1980

Shriver Gallery, Group Exhibition, Taos, NM

1985

Society of American Impressionists Invitational Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ

1980

Shriver Gallery, Group Exhibition, Taos, NM

1978

Green Street gallery, Solo Exhibition, Pasadena, CA

1977

Green Street gallery, Group Exhibition, Pasadena, CA

SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

Easy Reader 2013
American Artist, Studios, 2011
Focus, China , Dan McCaw, January 2010
American Art Collector, Friends and Art, Oct
Art and Antiques Magazine

April 2008

American Art Collector

October 2005

International Artist

December/ January 2003

Southwest Art Magazine

May 2003

Southwest Art Magazine

March 1996

Island Scene Magazine

Spring 1995

Art Talk

February 1995

Southwest Art Magazine

October 1994

Southwest Art Magazine

February 1993

Fine Art Collector

February 1991

Western Art Digest

Summer 1985

Southwest Art Magazine

March 1983

Art Voices South

September 1979