Warren Eugene Brandon
Warren Eugene Brandon (November 2, 1916 – September 11, 1977) was a California painter and photographer who was born in San Francisco.
Biography[]
California Field Workers, oil on canvas painting by Warren Eugene Brandon
He studied art at Milligan College and also with , , , , and Eliot O'Hara.[1] In the 1950s and 1960s, he cruised the Pacific Ocean on the Matson Line teaching on ships, as well as in Hawaii.[2] Other than this, Brandon was a lifelong resident of San Francisco. In 1964, he was one of four Americans named "Life Fellows of Britain's Royal Society of Artists", and thereafter appended "FRSA" to his signature. Brandon founded the San Francisco artist cooperative. He committed suicide in San Francisco on September 11, 1977.[3]
References[]
- Falk, Peter Hastings, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Vol I, Sounds View Press, Madison CT, 1999, p. 421.
- Harold, Margaret, Prize-winning oil Paintings, Book II, Nashville, TN, Allied Publications, 1960
- Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
- San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 17, 1977 (obituaries)
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Categories:
- 1916 births
- 1977 deaths
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- American Impressionist painters
- Artists from Hawaii
- Artists from San Francisco
- Painters who committed suicide
- Milligan University alumni
- Suicides in California
- 1977 suicides