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Helen Beling (1914-2001) Born in New York City , Helen Beling studied at the National Academy of Design and later at the Art Students League in Manhattan. She served as president of the Sculptors Guild, vice-president of the Fine Arts Federation of New York and as a long term member of the New Rochelle Art Commission. Her work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy. She exhibited regularly at the Heller Gallery and then at the Krasner Gallery in New York City. Beling's work is in the permanent collections of 11 museums and in many public and private collections. |
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Frank Ramirez (1928 - 2002) Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, Frank Ramirez graduated from San Francisco State University in 1959 and studied at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. He taught elementary school in California for 30 years. |
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Jan Stussy (1921-1990) Raised in Southern California, Jan Stussy graduated from UCLA and returned there after a stint in the Navy to teach art for many years. He exhibited widely and received numerous honors and awards during his lifetime, including an Academy Award in 1978 for the documentary film "Gravity is my Enemy" about the life of a paraplegic art student. |
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Rico Lebrun (1900-1964) Arriving in the United States from his native Naples, Italy, in 1924, Rico Lebrun enjoyed a highly successful career as a commercial artist in New York. In the 1930s he turned full time to fine art and moved to California in 1938, where his eloquent teaching profoundly influenced a whole generation of West Coast artists. Between 1940 and his death in 1964, his work achieved international stature; it is widely represented in major museums in the United States and Europe. Lebrun received three Guggenheim awards and numerous other honors and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1960. |
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Katherine Choy (1927 - 1958) Known as Choy Po-Yu in China, potter and founder of the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, Katherine Choy came to the United States as a teenager. She studied at Wesleyan College in Macon, GA, Mills College in Oakland, CA, and the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, MI. In 1952, she became Professor of Ceramics at Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans. She produced a large number of innovative ceramic vessels during the mid-1950s at the Clay Art Center. |
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Herbert Jepson (1908 - 1993) A native Californian, Herbert Jepson was awarded a scholarship in 1928 to the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and stayed on to become a well known teacher of figure drawing. In 1947, he founded the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles where artists such as Rico Lebrun taught experimental drawing and art theory. Later he taught again at Chouinard and at UCLA. In the 1970s , Jepson maintained his own studio where he made abstract wood sculpture. |
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Walter Hook (1919 - 1989) Born and raised in Montana, Hook received degrees from the University of New Mexico and the University of Montana, where he later became a professor of art. A member of the National Academy of Design, he received the Montana Governor's Visual Art Award in 1985. |
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Edith
R. Wyle (1918 - 1999) Born in San Francisco, raised in Los Angeles, CA, she studied art at UCLA, UCB, and at other art schools in Southern California in the 1950s. Her work was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art juried annual shows in 1954, '55, and '56. Edith Wyle founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and began the biennial Festival of Masks, an event that celebrates the ethnic diversity of the city. |
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E. James Wood (1922 - 1999) Born and raised in Philadelphia to English immigrant parents, he studied art at the age of 18. A member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and the Lansdale Art League, he worked as an engineer at the General Electric Company and continued his painting throughout his life |
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John R. Giordano
(1912 - 1994) Born in New York City to Italian immigrant parents, grew up in North Bergen, NJ; studied at the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art, NYC; lived and worked in Van Nuys, CA. |
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Robert Chuey
(1921-1977 ) Born in Kenmore, Ohio, lived in Los Angeles, CA where he maintained a studio, exhibited in galleries and museums and taught art at the University of California, Los Angeles and a number of local art schools. |
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