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The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Roland Conrad Petersen [1] (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. [2] His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davis) beginning in 1959 to today.
In 1978, the American art collections were transformed by the decision of John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller to donate their renowned collection of 110 paintings, 29 drawings, and 2 sculptures to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The de Young's chronological survey of American art includes galleries devoted to art ...
Astrid Preston (born 1945) is a Latvian-American artist, painter and writer born in Stockholm, Sweden. [1] She lives in Santa Monica, California where she received a B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles in 1967. [2]
Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Sassone's work have been organized by the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California (1979); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1988); Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco (1989); Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1990); Museo Italo-Americano, San ...
In 1950 he moved to California to study at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) on scholarship, where he earned a bachelor's degree (1953). [1] After serving in the US Army as a sign painter, De Forest went on to earn his master's degree (1958) at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University ).