1977 Works of Annette Rosenshine, San Francisco Art Insti-
tute Library, San Francisco, California
1982 Pirkle Jones, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois
1983 Historical Photographs, San Francisco Art Institute
Library, San Francisco, California
1984 Vintage Years Through 1980, Vision Gallery, San
Francisco, California
1994 Berryessa Valley: The Last Year, Vacaville Museum,
Vacaville, CA and Napa Valley Museum, Napa Valley,
California
2001 Pirkle Jones: Sixty Years in Photography, Santa Bar-
bara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
1954 Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
1955 Pictorial Image, George Eastman House, Rochester,
NY
1955 Subjektive Fotographie, Saarland Museum, Saarbru ̈cken,
West Germany
1956 These Are Our People, United Steel Workers of Amer-
ica, Pittsburgh, PA
1956 This Is the American Earth, California Academy of
Sciences, San Francisco, CA
1958 Images of Love, Limelight Gallery, New York City, NY
1960 Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House,
Rochester, N.Y. (traveled to Walker Art Gallery, Minnea-
polis, MN; de Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA;
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Harford, CT; Addison Art Gal-
lery, Andover, MA; Boston Museum of Fine Art, MA)
1961 Photographs and Etchings: The World of Copper and
Silver, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1967 Photography for the Art in the Embassies Program,
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967 Photography in the Twentieth Century, National Gal-
lery of Canada, Ottawa (toured Canada and the U.S.
1967–1973)
1968 Photographs From the Permanent Collection, Museum
of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1969 Recent Acquisitions,Contemporary Photographers,Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1975 The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (traveled to
National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Ulster
Museum, Belfast; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)
1975 Marin County Spectrum: The Camera Work of Marin
County Photographers, Lamkin Camerawork Gallery,
Fairfax, CA
1976 Court House, Seagram House, New York (traveled to
Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Art Institute
of Chicago, IL; American institute of Architects,
Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Art Institute, CA;
Camden Arts Centre, London)
1978 New Acquisitions, University of New Mexico Art
Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1980 Bay Area Photographer 1954–1979, Focus Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1980 Rock Series and Salt Marsh Series, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco, CA
1982 Fifteen Outstanding Photographers, Carmel Photoart
Gallery, Carmel, CA
1984 Photography in California 1945–1980, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art (traveled to Akron Art
Museum, Akron, Ohio; The Corcoran Art Gallery,
Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles; Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany; Musee National d’Art Moderne, Cen-
tre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Pho-
tographic Arts, San Diego, CA
1986 The Monterey Photographic Traditions; The Weston
Years, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Ca; Fresno
Art center, Fresno, CA; Triton Museum of Art, Santa
Clara, CA; the Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno,
NV
1988 Master Photographs from‘‘Photography in the Fine
arts Exhibition, 1959–1967,’’ International Center of
Photography, New York
1988 Picturing California: A Century of Genius, Oakland
Museum, Oakland, CA
1990 Legacy: 15 Prote ́ge ́s of Ansel Adams, Arkansas Art
Center, Little Rock, AK
1991 Patters of Influence: Teacher/Student Relationships in
American Photography Since 1945, Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
1992 This is the American Earth: A Silver Celebration of the
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Friends of Photography,
Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco (and venues
throughout the United States and Canada)
1992 Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photogra-
phy 1849–1950, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa
Barbara, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA;
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1994 Friends and Contemporaries: Documentary Photogra-
phy in Northern California, Lange in Context, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
CA
1997 Summer of Love: Revolution & Evolution, Ansel Adams
Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA
2000 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–
2000 , Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Capturing Light Masterpieces of California Photogra-
phy,1850–2000, Oakland Museum of CaliforniaSelected Works
Grape Picker, Berryessa Valley, 1956
Oak Tree, Marin County, 1952
Oak Tree, Marin County, 1978
Man Lifting Tomato Box, Walnut Grove: Portrait of a Town,
1961
Black Panther Demonstration, Alameda County Court House,
Oakland, 1968
Plate Glass Window Shattered by Oakland Policemen, 1968
Black Panther Guard, Marin City, 1968
Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary, De Fremery
Park, 1968
Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, 1968JONES, PIRKLE