Charles Christopher Hill (b. 1948) Color Monotype w/ blind stamp lower right. Framed: 16 1/2 x 14 1/2" Sheet: 13 3/4 x 12 1/2". Gallery stamp verso. Important artist w/ important provenance from the personal collection of Laura Lee Stearns! In 2011, Hill's paintings were included in two significant museum exhibitions: Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-1981, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California 1964-1971, at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California, which were organized for the Getty Research Institute initiative: Pacific Standard Time (PST). The Getty's PST efforts encouraged Southern California art institutions to document and exhibit works significant in Los Angeles art history, 1945-1980.[7][8]Selected collectionsHill's work is included in many museum collections including: The Albright–Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers (Angers, France), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), and the Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea) are among the public collections holding works by Charles Christopher Hill. Hill had his first solo exhibitions in 1972 at Newspace Gallery and at Jack Glenn Gallery, both in Newport Beach, California, and has since established himself as a Southern California painter. Hill has had solo exhibitions worldwide including exhibitions at the Galerie Krebs and the Galerie Maurer in Switzerland, at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Scotland; at the Galleria Del Cavalinoi in Italy; at the Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris; at the Rocket Gallery in London, and throughout the United States.

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