Education
In 1956 Simpson graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. And in 1958 he earned an Master of Fine Arts, from the San Francisco State College.
In 1956 Simpson graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. And in 1958 he earned an Master of Fine Arts, from the San Francisco State College.
Since 1958 Simpson has had more than 70 solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries and museums worldwide. His paintings have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. During the early 1960s Simpson was included in two seminal group exhibitions: Americans 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York curated by Dorothy Canning Miller and Post-Painterly Abstraction curated by Clement Greenberg in 1964.
That traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Simpson is an artist and teacher whose work is associated with the Minimalist, Monochrome, and Color Field movements. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Columbia Broadcasting System, New York City, New York
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, San Jose, California
John Doctorate. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, District of Columbia
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Shasta College, Redding, California
University of California, Berkeley, California
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
