Bay area figurative movement

Nineteen Twenty-Nine is a painting of Oliveira’s mother drawn from the artist’s memory and imagination.

Richard Diebenkorn

I can never come up with what to say so here are some words that I love from Leonard Cohen:ring the bells that still can ringforget your perfect offering- there is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in ~leonard...

This is an oil on canvas painting. In the foreground is a man at a café/diner. He sits alone at a table, stirring a cup of coffee. The table is covered with a white …

Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), has held his job for 16 years now but has the energy of a man who is just getting started.

Acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn’s masterpiece “Horizon-Ocean View” is on public display in the University of Montana Office of the President reception area in Main Hall through May 24. The painting

Earl Haig (1918-2009) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945

A look at the dramatic shift of David Park, an abstract painter who became one of the founders of the Bay Area Figurative Art Movement.

SFMOMA turns 75 this month. We’ve just published a new (and very beautiful) collection catalog, 75 Years of Looking Forward, highlighting, as the curators of The Anniversary Show and the catalog, Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, write, both “the inarguably significant and the admittedly idiosyncratic” of the museum’s collecting, exhibiting, and presenting history. […]

This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown | San Jose Museum of Art