California Post-War Modernism
With the end of World War II, many of those who served took advantage of the GI bill to return to school. Some of those who did enrolled at one of several art schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. An eclectic group of renowned artists either taught or attended school there and the area was a breeding ground for creativity.
Initially, the world-wide art community enthusiastically embraced abstract expressionism as the “new” art. In California, about five years after the war, the Bay Area Figurative Art Movement was born while the 1960s saw many new ‘modern’ ideas introduced and followed by select groups of artists.
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The California Coast
Aldrin, Anders (1889 - 1970)
27"x34" (Oil)
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The Electric Building, Balboa Park
Antognini, Alfredo (1938 - 2017)
41"x55" (Oil)
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At the Beach (1983)
Antognini, Alfredo (1938-2017)
18"x22" (Oil)
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Green House of La Jolla
Antognini, Alfredo (1938-2017)
32"x40" (Oil)
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Blowup, 400 miles
Bengston, Billy Al (1934-2022)
35"x36" (Oil)
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Girl in Red Chair
Brown, William Theophilus (1919 - 2012)
20"x17" (Oil)
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Four Figures (1960)
Brown, William Theophilus (1919-2012)
10.5x14.5 (Watercolor and Gouache)
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Near the Silver Lake Reservoir-Micheltorina Street, Los Angeles
Cohen, Larry (b1952)
30"x24" (Oil)
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View from St. Ives Street, 1984
Cohen, Larry (b1952)
54"x44" (Oil)
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Girl by the Window
Frame, Robert (1924-1999)
55"x58" (Oil)
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Potrait of a Young Woman – 3106
Frank, Harold (1917 - 1995)
12"x8 1/2" (Oil)
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Abstract – 1133
Frank, Harold (1917 - 1995)
12"x16" (Tempera on Paper)