BORN
Bellingham, Washington, 1938
EDUCATION
California College of Arts and Crafts 1957-1958
San Francisco Art Institute 1959
Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy 1959-1960
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Galleria Numero, Florence Italy, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
El Cosario Gallery, Ibiza, 1960
Galleria Annunciata, Milan, Italy, 1961
Galerie du Siecle, Paris, 1961
Pantechnicon Gallery, San Francisco, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973
Zachary Waller Gallery, Los Angeles, 1972
Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, 1974
The Pavilion Scottsdale, Arizona, 1973
Corfu Palace, Corfu, Greece, 1975
Western Washington Museum of Art Bellingham, 1976
Greystone Gallery, San Francisco, California,
“Toward Abstraction”, Paintings 1971-1984, 1984
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
“Jubilee of the Arts, Arts of the Year Exhibit”, 1984
Mondavi Vineyards, Oakville, California
“Ira Yeager in the Country”, 1985
Vanderbilt and Company, St. Helena, California
“Country Landscapes”, 1986
Vanderbilt and Company, St. Helena, California
“Neo Veneto”, 1987
The LEF Foundation, Napa Valley , California
“The Indians: A Retrospective” 1991
Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco
“Self-Portraits in Black and White”, 1993
The Great Camp Collection, Carbondale, Colorado
“Indians: Paintings and Sculpture”, 1993
Mondavi Vineyards, Napa Valley, California
“The Wappo “, 1997
Academy of Art College Gallery, 410 Bush Street, San Francisco
“Landscapes: A New Vision of Abstraction”, 1998
Napa National Bank, Napa, California
“Les Amis de La Valle”, 1998
Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, California
“A Retropsective Exhibition”, Nov. 1999- March 2000
The Sea Ranch Lodge, The Sea Ranch, California
“Ira Yeager-Indian Painitngs” , 2000
Mondavi Vineyards, Oakville, California
“Aqva et Caelvm (Water and Sky)” 2001
Mondavi Center for Wine Food and the Arts, Costa Mesa, California
“Recent Paintings”, 2002
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“San Francisco Art Annual”, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959
“Gruppo Numero”, Galleria Kasper, Lausanne, Traghetto, Venice,
1959-1963
“Oakland Art Annual”, Oakland Museum of Art, 1960
“Mostra di Numero a Genova”, Societa di Cultura, Genoa, 1960
“Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoletto, Italy, 1960
“Group Exhibition”, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, 1971
“San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition”, San Francisco Art Institute, 1973
“Selected Works for the Museum Collections”, Phoenix Museum of Art, 1973
“Testimonianze di varie tendenze a numero dal 1951 al 1963” Galleria Fiamma Vigo, Rome, 1973
“Crocker-Kingsley Annual”, Crocker-Kingsley Museum of Art, Sacramento, 1976
“Portraits”, Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, 1976, 1977
“Group Exhibition”, Hill Gallery, Santa Fe, 1977
“Three New York Painters”, Galerie Geilsdorfer, Koln, Germany, 1982
“Animal Life - Contemporary Representation, Ericson Gallery, New York, 1982
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Drewes, Caroline. “Portraits of the Artists”, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, March 5, 1967.
Seldis, Henry J. and William Wilson. “Art Walk”, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1972.
Howell, Betje, “Indian Art Enjoying New Wave of Popularity”, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 1972.
“Yeager at The Pavilion”, Arizona Living, November 3, 1972
“Marquee: Art”, Phoenix Gazette, November, 1972
Mc Donald, Robert, “Portraits”, Artweek, December 25, 1976, January 1, 1977
Warnecke, Grace, “Ira Yeager”, Scene Magazine, April/May 1982.
“New Yorker Art Market”, Kolner Stadtanzeige, Kolon, Germany, June 7, 1982
Rowlands, Penelope, “Filled with Light”, Appellation, Nov./ Dec. 1998
Younger,Carolyn, “Ira: Chronicler of the 18th Century”, St.Helena Star, September,1999
Napa Valley Museum, “Ira Yeager: A Retrospective Exhibition” Retrospective Catalogue , Published October 1999
Costello, Ann,“Quenching a Thirst for Art”, Los Angeles Times , December 31, 2000
Brady-Herndon, Gary, “Of sea and sky”, The Napa Valley Register , August 22, 2001
Younger, Carolyn, “The World of Ira Yeager”, California Home and Design , September/October 2001
Brady-Herndon, Gary, “A-mused by nature”, San Francisco Chronicle ,December 28,2002
Masson, Kathryn. "Swedish Country Cottage." Napa Valley Style. New York: Rizzoli, 2003. 102-109.
Masson, Kathryn. "Granary and Cow Barn." Sonoma Valley Style: At Home in California's Wine Country. New York: Rizzoli, 2005. 70-79.
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