Charles Surendorf
(1906-1979)
AIC;ASL; Ohio State Univ.; Mills College. Member: Calif. SE; San Franciso AA; Northwest Printmakers; Mother Lode AA; Richmond AA; New Orleans AA; Indiana Soc. Printmakers. Exhibited: Corcoran Gal biennial, 1932: CM, 1933, 35-36; SFMA, 1936-46 (prize 1937), PAFA Ann., 1937; AV, 1942m deYoung Mus., 1946; LACMA, 1936; AIC, 1938, 1940; NAD, 1941, 1946; Albany Hist. & Art, 1945; Phila. Pr. Club, 1940, 1941 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1946: Northwest PM, 1938, 1941-42, 1944-46; John Herron AI, 1933 (prize), 1935 (prize), 1938 (prize), 1946; SAM, 1938 (prize), 1945(prize);Calif,SE, 1938 (prize), 1941 (prize), 1941 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1944 (prize), 1945 (prize), 1950-54 (prizes);GGE, 1939 (prize), 1946:Wichita AM, 1935-38, 1941; Phila. Art. All., 1938; Tri-State Exhib., Indianapolis 1945, (prize), 1946 (prize); Indiana Artists, 1929-31 (prizes), 1933 (prize), 1934 (prize), 1940 (prize); Hoosier Salon, 1930 (prize), 1948 (prize), 1952 (prize); San Franciso AA, 1938 (prize); Richmond AA, 1938 (prize); Delgado MA, 1949; New Orleans AA, 1949; LOC 1949; Indiana Printmakers, 1949, 1951; SAGA, 1940, 1950 (prize). Work: SFMA; Mills College; LOC; Wichita Logansport; Tahiti MA; Richmond (IN) Art Gal. Comments: Postion: director, first San Franciso Art Festival; director, Mother Lode Art Sch. & Gal., Columba, A. Illustrator: "Mr. Pimney," 1945. WPA printmaker in California, 1930's. Sources: WW59;WW47;exh cat.,Annex Gal. (Santa Rosa CA,n.d., c. 1988), Hughes, Artists in California, 544; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
