- Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century American painter. Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon; his family moved to San Francisco, California when he was two. In 1940, Diebenkorn entered Stanford University. At first, he painted and drew in a representational style that was in a large part influenced by Edward Hopper. However, during the late 1940s and early 1950s he lived and worked in various places: New York City, Woodstock, New York, … - Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud (born Mesa, Arizona,November 23, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, however, his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. He has also been seen, due to his true to life representations, … - Millard Sheets
Millard Owen Sheets (1907-1989) was an American painter and an important representative of the California School of Painting. - Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter whose work has been printed in mass production. He is marketed as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light," a trademark owned by Media Arts Group, Inc. (a public company in which Kinkade is a primary investor). The phrase "painter of light" has also been associated with 19th century artist J. M. W. Turner. Kinkade is, according to his website, America's most-collected living artist. - David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. - Robert Williams
Robert Williams is a well-known controversial painter and founder of "Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine". Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like "Big Daddy" Ed Roth. - Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor. - Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance. - John Baldessari
John Baldessari, (b. June 17 1931, National City, California) is a conceptual artist. His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His art has been featured in more than 120 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. - Bruce Conner
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Joan Brown was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. She was born in San Francisco and studied at the California School of Fine Art (now San Francisco Art Institute), where her teachers included Elmer Bischoff. She achieved prominence with a style of figurative painting that combined bright color, sometimes cartoonish drawing, … - Maurice Braun
Maurice Braun was an American artist who became known for wonderful Impressionist landscapes of southern California. He was born in Hungary on October 1, 1877, however by the age of four young Maurice and the Braun family had migrated to the United States and settled in New York City. His professional studies took him to the National Academy of Fine Arts where he studied the French tradition under Francis C. Jones, George W. Maynard and Edgar M. Ward. - Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, … - Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill (September 11,1829 - June 30, 1908) was an important American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. - Guy Rose
Guy Rose (3 March, 1867-17 November, 1925) was an American Impressionist painter who is recognized as one of California's top impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guy Orlando Rose was born March 3, 1867 in San Gabriel, California. He was the seventh child of Leonard John Rose and Amanda Jones Rose. His father was a prominent California senator. - David Park
David Park (1911-1960) was part of the post-WWII alumnae of the San Francisco Art Institute (then the California Art School). He revived an interest in figurative art, at first experimenting with still-abstracted forms that relied on colour for their impact, dynamics and warmth. Park, along with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, broke away from the philosophy of painting promoted by Clyfford Still, who taught at the Institute, … - Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, … - Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy (born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on the study at the San Francisco Art Institute getting his B.F.A. in painting. Then in 1972 he studied film, video, and art at the University of Southern California getting his M.F.A. From 1982 until the present he has taught performance, video, installation, … - Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 25 1895 - October 11 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, her birth name was Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn. - Sam Francis
Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Francis was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured in a plane crash. He was in the hospital for several years, and it was while there that he began to paint. Once out of the hospital he returned to Berkeley, … - Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957) is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist. Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous captions, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely assocated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. - Edward Weston
Edward Weston (March 24 1886 - January 1 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera. - Granville Redmond
Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935) was an American painter. - Percy Gray
Henry Percy Gray (1869-1952) was born into a San Francisco family endowed with a broad literary and artistic background. He studied under Arthur Frank Mathews at the San Francisco School of Design and later under William Merritt Chase. While he had some early Impressionistic tendencies, his primary expression was under the Tonalism Mathews had brought back from Paris. He is known for his extraction of beauty from the Northern California landscape. - Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project. - Manuel Neri
Manuel Neri (born April 12, 1930) is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Neri was born in Sanger, California to immigrant parents who had fled Mexico during political unrest following the Mexican Revolution. He began attending college at San Francisco City College in 1950, initially studying to be an electrical engineer. - Joseph Raphael
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Henry Waltermar Doane (1905, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1999, Oakland, California) was an American landscape painter and commercial artist who came to California in 1907 at age two. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco, and he had private lessons with Charles Horton, Otis Sheppard, and John Gerrity. He worked for over 40 years in display advertising, retiring in 1969, … - Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist. His work involves stuffed animals, textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. His oeuvre is often discussed by critics as engaging with the concept of Abjection. He staged his most ambitious show to date in November/December 2005, … - Hardie Gramatky
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. (April 12, 1907 - April 29 1979) was an American painter, author, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in "Watercolor Magazine", Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists. He wrote and illustrated several children's books, most notably "Little Toot". - Mabel Alvarez
Mabel Alvarez (born November 28, 1891 - died March 13, 1985) was an artist and oil painter. She was born to a prominent Spanish family who lived on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Her father, Luis F. Alvarez, a physician, was involved with the leprosy research begun by the legendary Father Damien. Her brother, Walter C. Alvarez, would later distinguish himself as a physician and author. Her nephew Luis Alvarez (son of Walter), was a Nobel Prize winner in physics. - Standish Backus
Standish Backus was a United States military artist. Born in Detroit he attended Princeton University where he obtained a degree in architecture. He then spent a year at the University of Munich studying painting. He settled in Santa Barbara, where he studied painting under Eliot O’Hara and began working full-time as an artist. At the start of the Second World War he commissioned as an Ensign in the Naval Reserve in 1940, and became an active duty officer in 1941. - Mark Ryden
Mark Ryden (b. January 20, 1963 in Medford, Oregon) is an American fine-art painter - Elmer Bischoff
Elmer Nelson Bischoff was a visual artist in the San Fransciso Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art. Elmer Bischoff, second child of John Bischoff and his wife Elna ("née" Elna Nelson), grew up in Berkeley, California, … - Barry McGee
Barry McGee (aka Twist aka Ray Fong aka Robert Pimple; born 1966, San Francisco, California) is a painter and graffiti artist. McGee rose out of the Mission School art movement and graffiti boom in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early nineties. His work draws heavily from a pessimistic view of the urban experience, which he describes as, "urban ills, overstimulations, frustrations, … - Robert Bechtle
Robert Bechtle, an American painter, born in San Francisco, California on May 14, 1932. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, in 1954 and 1958 respectively. He started drawing at a young age and with encouragement from his teachers and family, pursued a future as an artist. He taught at San Francisco State University from 1978 to 1999. - Nathan Oliveira
Nathan Oliveira (born December 19 1928) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. Since the late 1950s he is the veteran of nearly one hundred solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions, in important museums and galleries worldwide, including several Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibitions. Beginning in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, to the present he has consistently exhibited his evolving work. - Hung Liu
Hung Liu (刘虹)(b. February 17, 1948) in Changchun, China is a Chinese-American contemporary artist. Hung Liu was born in the People's Republic, China and immigrated to the United States in 1984. Her paintings and prints often make use of anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, as subject matter. Liu has received numerous awards, including two painting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, … - Armin Hansen
Armin Hansen (1886-1957), native of San Francisco, is prominent American Painter of the En plein air school, best known for his marine canvases. His father Hermann Hansen was also a famous artist of the American West. The younger Hansen studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and achieved international recognition of his scenes depicting man and the sea off the California northern coast.
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