Bruce Alanson McGaw (born 1935) has been a force in the San Francisco and West Coast art scene since the 1950s. He was exhibited in the seminal show held at the Oakland Museum of Art in 1957 that marked the first time the post-war San Francisco modernists were referred to as the Bay Area Figurative Movement. He studied in the 1950's at the California College of the Arts with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David Park, etc. and is professor emeritus of the San Francisco Art Institute.

McGaw was born in Berkeley, California.

In 1955, at age 18, McGaw attended classes at California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in Oakland, and was in the institution’s first class taught by Richard Dieben...