Category Archives: Bay Area Artists

Skinner

Posted on June 19, 2012 by admin

Skinner is a California Artist from Sacramento. He has been very successful with commercial art including toys and other merchandise. His art has been featured on record covers and band posters, including the stage decoration for last year’s “Outside Lands … Continue reading →

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Leslie Shows

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin

  Leslie Shows is a local Bay Area artist whose paintings have titles like “ The Arrangement of Salts and Metals by Properties,” where she succeeds in melding elemental natural tones with moody pychedelic lightning and rainbow crystals.  The vibrant colors … Continue reading →

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Julia Morgan (American 1872 – 1957)

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Julia Morgan was one of the first women to graduate from University of California at Berkeley with a degree in civil engineering, the first to graduate with an architecture degree at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first … Continue reading →

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Wayne Thiebaud (American 1920 – Present)

Posted on January 30, 2011 by admin

Wayne Thiebaud was born in Arizona but moved to Los Angeles at a young age. Eventually he came to Northern California, studied more art and became a teacher at UC, Davis. I love his San Francisco Hillside Landscapes. It looks … Continue reading →

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Jay DeFeo (American 1929-1989)

Posted on January 28, 2011 by admin

Jay DeFeo is a painter and photographer who lived in San Francisco during the Beat Generation. She is known for her painting “The Rose.” It is a large canvas that weights, over 1 ton!  Its 8 x 11 feet and over … Continue reading →

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Henrietta Shore (American 1900-1963)

Posted on January 7, 2011 by admin

I admire this artist and first saw her work as Murals in the Santa Cruz Downtown Post Office. I am still trying to find her painting of a white horse near Pigeon Point CA.

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