Oral history interview with Jay DeFeo

Karlstrom, Paul J.

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Karlstrom: Director and area collector of the Archives of American Art, San Francisco office. Siegriest: painter and graphic artist; Oakland, California. Oliveira: painter and teacher; Stanford, California. Keinholz: assemblage artist; California and Idaho. Wood: Ceramist, Calif. From the description of [Photographs of California artists]. 1976-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220199675 ...

Gechtoff, Sonia, 1926-

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Sonia Gechtoff papers, 1952-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571101 ...

Martin, Fred, 1927-

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Painter, teacher, collagist (Oakland, Calif). From the description of Tarot of California [graphic] / Fred Martin. 1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205691 Fred Martin (1927- ) is a painter, teacher, and collagist from Oakland, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Fred Martin, 1980 Aug. 27-Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476946 Painter, teacher, collagist (Oakland, Calif.). From the description of Fred ...

Hopps, Walter.

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Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989

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Artist Mary Joan (Jay) DeFeo was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1929 and moved with her family to the San Francisco Bay Area at age three. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Fine Arts at UC Berkeley and won a fellowship after graduation that took her to France, Spain, northern Africa and Italy. In Florence she met artist Clinton Hill, with whom she developed a lasting friendship. In the mid-1950s DeFeo settled in San Francisco and met regularly with Beat poets and artists including Joan and Wil...

Francis, Sam, 1923-1994

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California born artist Sam Francis was a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter who incorporated influences of Jungian psychology, Buddhism, and Japanese watercolor into the urban and angst-ridden painting style of the New York School. After living abroad in Paris and Japan, he settled in Los Angeles, where he founded a print press, the Litho Shop, a book publishing enterprise, Lapis Press, and painted prolifically until his death in 1994. From the description of Sam Franci...

University of California (1868-1952)

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...