1929 - 2011
Known for realistically drawn, pensive seeming figures, Wade Reynolds was born in Jasper, New York and showed early art talent. He was in the Navy where he studied electronics, and during that period his only art expression was a mural at the Enlisted Men's Club on Guam. He then briefly studied at an electronics school in Rochester, New York, but decided he was in the wrong field. He was briefly with a theater group and studied drama in New York with Herbert Bergoff. He also turned to designing fabrics, china, wallpaper, and glassware in The Village and then returned to painting.
In May, 1959, he moved to Los Angeles where he was a prolific and successful painter of portraits and figures.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 'Wade Reynolds, Full Circle', Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY
2003 'Figuratively Speaking', Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, Wade Reynolds Retrospective
1973,74 Zachary Waller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Palm Springs Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
1971 Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA,
1971 Solo Exhibition Saks Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
1970 Copenhagen Gallery, Solvang, CA
1967 San Francisco palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Solo
1968 Exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Inaugural Exhibition Jenkins Johnson, New York, NY
2005 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2004 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2003 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2002 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Fourth Annual Realism Invitational, San Francisco, CA
2002 The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY RePresenting Representation V
1999 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, Passion and Patronage, The Robert Rowan Collection
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum (Ala Story collection)
Palm Springs Desert Museum
Arnot Museum
California Historical Society, State Capital, Sacramento, CA Official Portrait of Governor Deukmejian
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