BIO / RESUME
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