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ABOUT
Ann Thornycroft was born and raised in England. She earned her BA from the Central School of Art in London and a Higher Diploma in art at the Chelsea School of Art. Solo exhibitions include Bergamot Station Arts Complex, Canal Club, Citrus Restaurant, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, District, Four Seasons Hotel, Irene Drori Inc., Jancar Gallery, Royce Gallery, Rumba, Sam Francis Gallery, Ochi Gallery, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Thomas Babeor Gallery, Valerie Miller Gallery, West Beach Cafe, and Works Gallery. Group exhibitions include Andrea Meislin Gallery, Christopher John Gallery, Chryssanthou Gallery, Deanna Izan Miller Gallery, Fresh Paint, Gallery 258, Gensler & Associates, Hamilton Press, L.A.C.M.A. Rental Gallery, L.J.B. Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Molly Barnes Gallery, Ochi Gallery, Roberts Projects, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, The Works Gallery, and UCLA Hammer Museum Rental Gallery. Thornycroft’s work is in the public collections of 20th Century Fox, ARCO Corporation, Ashton Tate, Bank of America, Boise Art Museum, Cedars Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Century Cable, Children’s Hospital, Computer Science Corporation, Disney Studios, Equitable Life, Financial News Network, Gibraltar Savings, GTE Headquarters, Hallmark, Hillman Properties, Hofstedler, Home Box Office, Four Seasons Hotels, Kaiser Permanente, Korn/Ferry International Long Beach Museum of Art, Leeds City Art Gallery, Long Beach Museum of Art, Marshall Fields, McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, Mercedes Benz, New World Picture, Pep Boys, Pepsico, Plymouth City Art Gallery, Portsmouth City Art Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Robinsons, Royal Caribbean, Security Pacific National Bank, Sitmar Star Princess, The Blankfort Collection, The Bren Company, Tokyo Park Tower, Transamerica, Western Asset Management, Vesti Trust International, Weisberg & Aronson, Wells Fargo Bank, Westin Hotel, Arthur Young, and Yukevich. Her works have been featured in California Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Quatro Magazine, and Venice Magazine. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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ANN THORNYCROFT
b. England
EDUCATION
1968 Higher Diploma in Art, Chelsea School of Art, London
1963-66 Central School of Art, London (B.A.)
1962-63 Brighton College of Art (Foundation Year)
GRANTS
1982 National Endowment for the Arts
1965 Individual Artist's Fellowship, Washington DC
Phoebe Llewelyn Smith prize for Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Autumn-aki,” S.E.A.Contemporary and Kylin Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2019
District, San Francisco, new paintings
2013
“Beehive” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
New Paintings, Rumba, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Canal Club, Venice, CA
1999
Hiromi Paper International, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1997
Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA
1995
Deanna Miller Fine Art, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1992
Valerie Miller Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Citrus Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
West Beach Cafe, Venice, CA
1989
Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Four Seasons Hotel, Newport Beach, CA
1988
Royce Gallery, Miami, Florida
1987
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Irene Drori Inc., Los Angeles, CA
1985
Ochi Gallery, Boise, Idaho MGM Commissary, Culver City, CA
1982
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1981
West Beach Cafe, Venice, CA
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Killing Me Softly”, Two Person Show, Yiwei Gallery, Venice, CA (February 3-March 17)
2023
“AKIN,” Ann Thornycroft and Ariel Dill, Vita Art Center, Ventura (February 11-March 25)
"Beyond the Union of Opposites”, presenting Ann Thornycroft, Howard Hersh, Cybele Lyle, Carrie Ann Plank, & Mark Reynolds, Upstart Modern, Sausalito CA. (March 2-30)
“Color and Form,” Curated by Peter Frank, Tufenkian Gallery, Glendale, CA (January 19-February 18)
2022
“On the Edge,” LA Art 1970s-1990s from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection, Armenian Museum of America, Boston, MA (June 16-November 30)
”Generations,” The Brand Library, Glendale, CA (July 9-September 2)
”GARDEN” LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, CA
2015 & 2016
Small Works Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery
2013
“3” Fresh Paint Art Advisors
2012
December Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
2011
“Entering Abstraction”, Painting, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA Art Seen Gallery Opening Show, Los Angeles, CA
2010
“Britweek”, Chryssanthou Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
“Driven to Abstraction ll”, Abstract Painting in Southern California in the 1980s curated by Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum“It’s Gouache and Gouache only”, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Chelsea, New York California Dreamin’, Nu’uanu Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2007
“Master Printers”, Ed Hamilton Press, Curated by Jean Clad, Project Room, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA ( Dec 2006- Feb2007) Modernism Today, Bradley Terminal LAX
2006
“All in the Family”, George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
WA: Art of Japanese Papermaking”, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, curated by Hiromi Katayama
2005
Hamilton Press, Group Show “Hand Pulled”, Prints from Josephine Press, Santa Monica
2004
10th Annual Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA3 Painters, I-5 Gallery, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA “Nine”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
“Masters of Venice”,6 1/2 Rose Avenue, Venice, CA including Moses, LJ Dill, Bengston, Evans.
2003
“Cross Currents” Two Person Show, Christopher John Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.“Tinseltown”, Group Show, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA(Dec).“Black and White,” Group Show, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
"The New Minimalism", Gensler & Associates, Santa Monica
“Update 2000", Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA
1999
"Screens & Totems", Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1998
"Coastal Abstractions Transcendence", California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Thornycroft and Levin", Toomey/Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
“Faculty Show, S.M.C.D.A.A.", Gallery 258, Los Angeles, CA
1997
“Women’s Work”, Alexis Deutsch, Santa Monica, CA
“Forms of Abstraction”, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA
1996
“L.A. Current: The Full Spectrum”, UCLA/Hammer Museum Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“L.A. Current: The Female Perspective”, UCLA Hammer Museum Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
“4”, L.J. Dill, Herms, Katselas, & Thornycroft, Gallery 258, Los Angeles, CA
“L.A. Current: Works on Paper,” UCLA/Hammer Museum
1992
“Moves West”, Gensler & Associates, Santa Monica, CA
1991
“Retrospective/Prospective”, Art Rental Gallery, L.A.C.M.A.
1989
L.J.B. Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1988
Two person, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Thornycroft and M. Hayden at Bistango, Irvine, CA
“Art for All Seasons”, Gensler & Associates, Century City, CA
10th Anniversary Exhibit, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica High School, CA
1987
“Explorations 11”, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA
Group Show, I.S.D. Inc., Los Angeles, CA
1985
Two Person Show, Pink’s Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Printed in California”, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, L.A., CA
“The First Show”, Doolittle Theater, Hollywood, CA
1984
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Contemporary Watercolors, San Diego State University, CA
Olympic Show, L.A.C.M.A. Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Printmaking; College of the Mainland, Texas.
1983
The Nancy Yewell Collection, Baxter Art Gallery, Caltech, Pasadena, CA Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin (catalogue) L.A. Pattern Painters, ARCO Center for Visual Art, L.A.CA
1982
Selections from the Collection of Security Pacific Bank at the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Hollywood, Carson/Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO
The Michael & Dorothy Blankfort Collection, L.A.C.M.A. (cat)
“Drawings by Painters”, Long Beach Museum of Art, curated by Richard Armstrong
1981
Two Person Show, Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980
“Venice, California”, Palos Verdes Community Arts Assoc.CA
1978
“Traditions/Five Painters”, Artist’s Space, New York City Linda Cathcart (catalog)Rental Gallery, L.A.C.M.A.
Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Women In Art”, Volume 2, Selected Works of Contemporary Female Artists. Edited by Reinhard Fuchs, published 2013
October 1, 2012, New York Magazine, Kelly Wearstler Renovates Tribeca Triplex Photo of Sankhara V, 1987
Quatromagazine.com 10/1 Winter Issue
November 2010: The California/International Arts Foundation’s new encyclopedia
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Better Homes & Gardens, June 2003
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Smith, Michael, Baxter Art Gallery, Caltech, 1977 (catalog)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, estate of Judd Hammeck
Children's Hospital, Orange County, CA
Western Asset Management, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Yukevich, Calfot & Cavanaugh
Korn/Ferry International
ARCO Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Ashton Tate, Torrance, CA
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
The Blankfort Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
The Bren Company, Irvine, CA
Cedars Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care Center, Los Angeles, CA
Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA
Century Cable, Los Angeles, CA
Computer Science Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Disney Studios, CA
Equitable Life, Los Angeles, CA
Financial News Network
Gibraltar Savings, Los Angeles, CA
GTE Headquarters, Thousand Oaks, CA
Hallmark, Kansas City, MO
Hillman Properties, Irvine, CA
Hofstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, Los Angeles, CA
Home Box Office, New York
Kaiser Permanente,Los Angeles, CA
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, U.K.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Marshall Fields, Chicago, Ill.
McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, Los Angeles, CA
Mercedes Benz, Las Vegas, NV
New World Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
The Northern Group, Seattle, WA
Pep Boys, Los Angeles, CA
Pepsico, New York
Plymouth City Art Gallery, Plymouth, U.K.
Portsmouth City Art Gallery, Portsmouth U.K.
Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles, CA
Robinsons, Santa Monica, CA
Royal Caribbean, Miami, FLA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Sitmar Star Princess, Dawn Princess & Crown Princess, Florida
Transamerica, Los Angeles, CA
20th Century Fox, Los Angeles, CA
Vesti Trust International, Boston, MA
Weisberg & Aronson, Los Angeles, CA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Westin Hotel, San Francisco Airport
Arthur Young
Fidelity National Title, Irvine
Tokyo Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Four Seasons Hotels
UCLA Medical Art Association, Center for Advanced Surgery & Interventional Techniques & Robotics Surgery Center/Minimally Invasive Surgery Center