From her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, she created large-size abstract oil paintings whose surfaces are loaded with piled, grooved, colorful paint. She attracted much attention as a... Read full biography
From her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, she created large-size abstract oil paintings whose surfaces are loaded with piled, grooved, colorful paint. She attracted much attention as a West Coast avant-garde artist, and the three-story building where she and her artist husband, Wally... Read full biography
From her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, she created large-size abstract oil paintings whose surfaces are loaded with piled, grooved, colorful paint. She attracted much attention as a West Coast avant-garde artist, and the three-story building where she and her artist husband, Wally Hedrick, lived and worked was in the 1950s and 60s the unofficial headquarters of what-was-then, the San Francisco art world. In the late summer of 1959, at age thirty, she had her first major solo show,... Read full biography
From her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, she created large-size abstract oil paintings whose surfaces are loaded with piled, grooved, colorful paint. She attracted much attention as a West Coast avant-garde artist, and the three-story building where she and her artist husband, Wally Hedrick, lived and worked was in the 1950s and 60s the unofficial headquarters of what-was-then, the San Francisco art world. In the late summer of 1959, at age thirty, she had her first major solo show, and it was held at the Dilexi Gallery on Union Street. From this exhibit, five pieces were chosen for the "Sixteen Americans" exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York. This brought her widespread attention including some prestigious collectors. In... Read full biography
From her studio on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, she created large-size abstract oil paintings whose surfaces are loaded with piled, grooved, colorful paint. She attracted much attention as a West Coast avant-garde artist, and the three-story building where she and her artist husband, Wally Hedrick, lived and worked was in the 1950s and 60s the unofficial headquarters of what-was-then, the San Francisco art world. In the late summer of 1959, at age thirty, she had her first major solo show, and it was held at the Dilexi Gallery on Union Street. From this exhibit, five pieces were chosen for the "Sixteen Americans" exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York. This brought her widespread attention including some prestigious collectors. In January, 1961, she was also featured in the "New Talent, USA" section of "Art in America.". From then on, she was a legendary figure in ar... Read full biography
Jay DeFeo - Artist Info
About Jay DeFeo: Books
Books & Publications (23)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Julie Sasse
165 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Jay DeFeo and The Rose
2003
Grren, Jane & Levy, Leah
226 pages (color)
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Landauer, Susan
271 pages (color)
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works 1952-1989 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Lewallen, Constance
0 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
Secret Exhibition Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Solnit, Rebecca
145 pages
Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists
1989
Moore, Sylvia (editor)
378 pages
Jay DeFeo Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Stich, Sidra
89 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Jay DeFeo Selected Works, Past and Present (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Rubin, David/Thomas Albright
32 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Women Artists in America II
1975
Collins, Jim L.
430 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)