George Stillman

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George Stillman (February 25, 1921 โ€“ March 12, 1997)

abstract expressionist artist and member of the San Francisco Bay Area
group known as the "Sausalito Six".

Biography

George Stillman was born in Laramie, Wyoming, but was raised in Ontario, California. He began working with photography while still a teenager and at the age of 17 or 18 won first prize for creative photography in the Golden Gate International Exposition. He got an associate degree at Chaffey College (1941) and then enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, but in 1942 he was drafted to serve in the military in World War II.[1]

After the war ended, he studied painting at the

Oakland, where he had a photography studio, but he had close ties with the rest of the group and often visited them and exhibited with them.[2][4]

The late 1940s were very active years for Stillman, who produced over 1000 paintings, prints, and other artworks in this period.

San Francisco Museum of Art honored him with the Ann Bremer Award.[1] However, in the 1950s, when he went to Mexico to study and later take up a teaching job at the University of Guadalajara, he hauled most of his work to the dump. As a consequence, only a few dozen works survive from this phase of his career.[1][2]

In the 1960s, Stillman went back to school, earning a B.F.A. (1968) and then an M.F.A. (1970) from

Columbus College in Georgia (1970โ€“72) and at Central Washington University (1972โ€“88), where he was chair of the Art Department. He died in Ellensburg, Washington.[1]

Stillman's work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Oakland Museum (California), the British Museum (London), and numerous other art institutions.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "George Stillman". The Annex Galleries website. Retrieved Oct. 1, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e Lockhart, Wood. "Sausalito Historical Society: The Sausalito Six". Sausalito Marinscope , Nov. 3, 2009. Retrieved Sept. 30, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "George Stillman". California Abstract Expressionism, Modern Art West website.
  4. ^ "California Abstract Expressionists: Prints form the Charles R. Dean Collection". International Print Center, New York, 2003.
  5. ^ Acton, David. The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001.
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