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1920 Tucson , Arizona - 2008 San Franciso, California. Known for: Abstract and realist floral still life, interior scenes and figure paintings.
Paul Wonner is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space.... Read full biography
Paul Wonner is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space. He was interested in art as a youth and his parents hired a tutor to help him with his drawing during... Read full biography
Paul Wonner is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space. He was interested in art as a youth and his parents hired a tutor to help him with his drawing during high school. Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1920, and after his early art education set out for California in 1937. He settled in Oakland where he attended the California College of Arts and... Read full biography
Paul Wonner is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space. He was interested in art as a youth and his parents hired a tutor to help him with his drawing during high school. Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1920, and after his early art education set out for California in 1937. He settled in Oakland where he attended the California College of Arts and Crafts. His art school experience provided Wonner with basic drawing and painting techniques. He graduated from CCAC in 1941 and was soon drafted into the United States Army. During his service, stationed in San Antonio, Texas, he continued his... Read full biography
Paul Wonner is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space. He was interested in art as a youth and his parents hired a tutor to help him with his drawing during high school. Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1920, and after his early art education set out for California in 1937. He settled in Oakland where he attended the California College of Arts and Crafts. His art school experience provided Wonner with basic drawing and painting techniques. He graduated from CCAC in 1941 and was soon drafted into the United States Army. During his service, stationed in San Antonio, Texas, he continued his pursuit of art and even set up a small local studio. He was discharged in 1946 and immediately headed for New York Ci... Read full biography
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American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
2004
Landauer, Susan
240 pages (color)
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton & Wo
226 pages (color)
California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002
McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last
231 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
47 pages (color)
Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald
175 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Laguna Art Museum
139 pages (color)
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Jones, Caroline
231 pages (color)
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989
Arthur, John
159 pages (color)
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Flower Painting
1986
Sydney, Clare
80 pages (color)
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)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 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)
Paul Wonner Abstract Realist (Exhibition catalog)
1981
San Francisco Museum Mod Art
72 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
East Coast-West Coast Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1968
University of Oklahoma
48 pages
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1965
University of Illinois
210 pages
Recent Painting U S A / The Figur (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Museum of Modern Art
40 pages
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
San Francisco Art Association Painting and Sculpture (in)