Maquette Exhibition
Bay area figurative Archive
Ralph Du Casse
Born in Kentucky, Ralph Du Casse did not arrive in the Bay Area until the mid-1940s, when he came to study at the University of…
Jay De Feo
Though at an early stage in her career, and married to Wally Hedrick at the time she appeared at the “6″ Gallery, De Feo would…
Lilly Fenichel
was born in Vienna, Austria and fled to Great Britain during World War II. After relocating to California in 1940, Fenichel studied at the Chouinard…
Sonia Gechtoff
Although she lived and worked in San Francisco for less than a decade, Sonia Gechtoff took a highly active role in Bay Area art while…
Miriam Hoffman
Poet and sculptor Miriam Hoffman made her first life-sized ceramic figures over fifty years ago. She is the founder of American Figurative Sculpture. Hoffman spent…
Ralph Johnson
Ralph Johnson was reared on his family’s farm near Vancouver, Washington. He served in the Navy during World War II, and following the war, began…
Jose Ramon Lerma
Lerma was among the small group of Chicano artists who emerged out of post-War San Francisco. After studying with Hassel Smith, Edward Corbett and James…
Seymour Locks
Seymour Locks is one of the progenitors of assemblage and found object construction in the Bay Area art scene during the early to mid-fifties. Born…
Robert McChesney
After attending the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Mo. (1933-34) and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles (1936), McChesney moved…
Bruce McGaw
Bruce McGaw, regionally renowned painter of the San Francisco Bay Area Figurative movement and avid student of art history and poetry, cites significant texts and…
Ann Morency
Ann Morency moved to San Francisco in the early 1950’s and was immersed in the newly flourishing Abstract Expressionist movement. She created work known for…
Manuel Neri
Manuel Neri was born in 1930 in Sanger, California. He attended San Francisco City College from 1949-50 with the idea of becoming an electrical engineer….
Arthur Okamura
Born in Long Beach, California, Okamura gave his first solo show for his kindergarten class in his parents’ garage. Okamura continued his education (13 years…
Deborah Remington
Deborah Remington was several years younger that the rest of the “6” Gallery founders, Wally Hedrick, John Allen Ryan, Hayward King, David Simpson and Jack…
Charles Strong
Strong studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson and Frank Lobdell. He was influenced by Lobdell and Clyford…
Barbara Spring
Spring is one of the pioneers in wood sculpture and installation art. Her scenes range from complex room-size installations to the smaller, more compressed “vignettes”….
Horse Trave
Born in Germany, Horst fled with the uprising of the Nazis and eventually came to the United States in 1941. Once in the United States,…
Jean Varda
Jean Varda is best known as a collagist. From 1949 to his death in 1971, Varda experimented with paper, woven textiles, designer fabrics and painting…
Carlos Villa
Painter and post war artist Carlos Villa was born in San Francisco. He studied under Diebenkorn, Lobdell and Bischoff at the San Francisco Art Institute,…
Julious Wasserstein
By the mid-’50s, Julius Wasserstein already had spent three years at CSFA (now the San Francisco Art Institute), and he was studying at San Francisco…
William T. Wiley
William T. Wiley’s works on paper from the 70′s and 80′s represent his character and humor towards life and society. Wiley’s self-portraits exude his playful…
Paul Wonner
Paul Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona and trained as an artist at the California College of the Arts and at UC Berkeley in the…
James Weeks
James Weeks was the same age as Richard Diebenkorn, and was closer in many ways to Diebenkorn, Bischoff and Park than he was to the…
Joe Oddo
Joe Oddo has been painting a wide assortment of imagery throughout his career: still life, the figure, and landscape. He started a relationship with James…
Nathan Olivera
Nathan Oliveira was born in Oakland, California. He attended Mills College, Oakland and then received his Master of Fine Arts from the California College of…
Eleanor Kent
Born in San Francisco, Eleanor Kent has lived there most of her life, making art. She started painting and drawing seriously in the mid-1950s after…
Ann Hogle
Ann Hogle was introduced to the figurative style when she attended a lecture given at Oregon’s Reed College, at which David Parks, Richard Diebenkorn and…
Theophilus Brown
Theophilus Brown received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1941 and his Master of Arts From the University of California, Berkeley in 1952….
William Henry Brown
William Henry Brown was born in Oakland. By the mid-’50s, when he crossed paths with the other artists of the “6″ gallery, he’d already been…
Adelie Landis Bischoff
Adelie Landis was raised in Brooklyn. She studied with Elmer Bischoff, David Park and Hassel Smith at the California School of Fine Arts in1951/1952. The…
Clayton Pinkerton
In 1958, after nearly a decade of Turneresque, landscape-formed imagery, Clayton turned to the human figure. This is seen by some as the first Bay…
Michael Bowen
Michael Bowen, born in Beverly Hills, California is an avant-garde innovator. His work as a Beat artist spans several decades and provided inspiration to poets…
Hassel Smith (1915-2007)
In late 1954, Hassel Smith was only an intermittent visitor to San Francisco. He had left the California School of Fine Arts in the early…
Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991)
Elmer Bischoff is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local…
