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ROD RAGSDALE
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1939
Bachelor of Arts, Art Education Teaching Credential,
San Jose State College - 1962
Residence in Florence, Italy 1962 - 1969
Study under Nerina Simi, Studio Simi, Florence, Italy-1963-1968
Commenced Full Time Painting Career 1976
AWARDS
1960 First Prize, Santa Clara County Fair, San Jose, California
1960 First Prize Purchase Award, Words Into Images
Competition, Wesley Foundation, San Jose State
College, San Jose, California
1981 Watercolor West Award, San Diego Watercolor
Society International Exhibition
1981 Toluca Telephone Service Award, National
Watercolor Society 61st Annual Exhibition
Painting "In the Round" selected for Toluca
Telephone Service Collection
FEATURE ARTICLE
1967 La Nazione, Cronaca de Santa Croce (principle
newspaper, Florence, Italy)
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
1967 Galleria Tre, Florence, Italy
1976-1983 Wortsman Stewart Galleries, San Francisco, California
1999-2000 Cottage Gallery, Carmel, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1981 Wortsman Stewart Galleries, San Francisco, California
1988 Hewlett-Packard Company, Cupertino, California
SELECTED GROUP AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
1960 Church Art Today National Competition, Grace
Cathedral, San Francisco, California
1967 Allevi di Pietro Annigoni Exhibition, Robert and
Elizabeth Browning Home Museum, Florence, Italy
1967 Galleria Tre, Florence, Italy
1976-83 Wortsman Stewart Galleries, Gallery Artists’
Group Exhibitions
1981 National Watercolor Society Exhibition, Palm
Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
1981 Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition,
Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
1981 San Diego Watercolor Society International
Exhibition, Bard Hall Gallery, San Diego, California
1982 National Watercolor Society Exhibition, Tucson
Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona
1981-82 San Diego Watercolor Society International Traveling Exhibit:
Loyola University Library, New Orleans, Louisiana, Carnegie Public
Library,Clarksdale, Mississippi, Lee College,
Cleveland, Mississippi, Niclaysen Art Museum, Casper,
Wyoming, Doak-Barch Museum, Turculum College,
Greenville, Tennessee, Shepard-Pruden Library,
Edenton, North Carolina, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
COLLECTOR’S LIST;
Wesley Foundation Collection
Toluca Telephone Service Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Dearld Haugh Family Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Grandstedt III Family Collection
Jenny Thoen and Sons Family Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Tikvica
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stanich
Ms. Suzan Norlock
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Nicolaisen
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gibson
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Gibson
Ms. Ann Cavrak
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brecker
Ms. Betty Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tilman
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Christenson
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth DeHaven
Mr. and Mrs. William Neary
Mr. and Mrs. Michel Peak
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dompe
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Erickson
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Le Blanc
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Le Blanc
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Le Blanc
Mr. and Mrs. William Neary
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cantrall
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Howden
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dorsey-Spitz
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bane
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Stanga
Dr. and Mrs. Frederic Weis
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Krakowski
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Nicos Achilleoudis
Mr. and Mrs. Roddy Magallanes
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Whitfield
Mr. and Mrs. John Brunolli
Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Wilhelm
Ms. Jessica Moe
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