Artwork in Public Collections
Gordon Onslow Ford, Untitled (Sketch for Peter Ibbetson—La Jeu de Marseilles Tarot Card), 1941, Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation. This work is part of the exhibition Tarot!: Renaissance Symbols / Modern Visions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York, June 26 - October 4, 2026.
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Current Exhibitions
Surrealism and Mexico: Magnetic Mirror
April 28-November 11, 2026
CISCM // Maisons André Breton and Émile Joseph-Rignault, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France
Image: Street Scene Paris, 1938. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
The Out There is Right Here: Ian Collings and
the Bishop Pine Preserve
June 6–August 29, 2026
Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, California
Image: Primordial Play, 1959. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Tarot!: Renaissance Symbols / Modern Visions
June 26 - October 4, 2026
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
Image: Untitled (Sketch for Peter Ibbetson—La Jeu de Marseilles Tarot Card), 1941. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Remedios Varo (1908-1963): A Retrospective
September 18, 2026-January 10, 2027
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Image: Study for Checkmate, 1939. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Selected Past Exhibitions
Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings
June 5 - August 1, 2026
Château Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Luminous Land, 1943. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100
November 8, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Image: The Circuit of the Light Knight Through the Dark Queen, 1942. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: The inner dynamic, the sincere friendship
October 16-November 29, 2025
Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris, France.
Image: Future of the Falcon (Version 2), 1948. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Surréalisme
September 4, 2024 - January 13, 2025
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Image: Propaganda for Love, 1940. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Gordon Onslow Ford and JB Blunk
November 13, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Blunk Space Gallery, Point Reyes Station, California
Image: Lunelipse Series, 1951.Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation
Tertium Organum: Traversing Space
August 20-October 15, 2022
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
Review by Art and Cake magazine here
Surrealism Beyond Borders
February 24 – August 29, 2022
Tate Modern, London, England
Image: A Present for the Past, 1942. Collection of Tate Modern, London, England.
Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo April 28-June 10, 2018 at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and
January 12-March 17, 2019 at Bolinas Museum.
For more information and to purchase the catalog, click here.
Image: Forest Go Round (detail), 1951. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950
October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Image: The Marriage (detail), 1944. Private Collection.
Gordon Onslow Ford: Centennial Celebration
January 26 - February 26, 2013
Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California
Image: Analytical Landscape, 1939. Private Collection
Stellar Orbits
September 6 - October 27, 2012
Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California
Image:The Painter and the Muse, 1943. Collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
Gordon Onslow Ford: Voyager and Visionary
February 11 - May 13, 2012
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Image: Storm Struck, 1947. Private Collection.
Image: Temptation of the Painter, 1941. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Di Rosa, Napa, California
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, California
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Nebraska
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia
Tate Modern Museum, London, England
University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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