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1925 Oakland, California - 1985 Oakland, California. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape, coastal view painting.
Born in Oakland, California, Lundy Siegriest was a modernist painter whose work spanned pure abstraction to plein-air landscape painting. He first worked in the thick impasto style of the Abstract... Read full biography
Born in Oakland, California, Lundy Siegriest was a modernist painter whose work spanned pure abstraction to plein-air landscape painting. He first worked in the thick impasto style of the Abstract Expressionists but in the late 1950s moved to grotesque figurative images inspired by mummies he had... Read full biography
Born in Oakland, California, Lundy Siegriest was a modernist painter whose work spanned pure abstraction to plein-air landscape painting. He first worked in the thick impasto style of the Abstract Expressionists but in the late 1950s moved to grotesque figurative images inspired by mummies he had seen in Guanajuato Mexico. He also had a passion for painting cows and found it amusing to consider them self portraits. In the 1970s, he became part of a nucleus of painters including Terry St. John... Read full biography
Born in Oakland, California, Lundy Siegriest was a modernist painter whose work spanned pure abstraction to plein-air landscape painting. He first worked in the thick impasto style of the Abstract Expressionists but in the late 1950s moved to grotesque figurative images inspired by mummies he had seen in Guanajuato Mexico. He also had a passion for painting cows and found it amusing to consider them self portraits. In the 1970s, he became part of a nucleus of painters including Terry St. John who revived more traditional approaches. Hearkening back to the "Society of Six," which Lundy's father, Louis, had helped found, they began painting landscapes in a broad painterly style related both to the Bay Area figurative tradition and the... Read full biography
Born in Oakland, California, Lundy Siegriest was a modernist painter whose work spanned pure abstraction to plein-air landscape painting. He first worked in the thick impasto style of the Abstract Expressionists but in the late 1950s moved to grotesque figurative images inspired by mummies he had seen in Guanajuato Mexico. He also had a passion for painting cows and found it amusing to consider them self portraits. In the 1970s, he became part of a nucleus of painters including Terry St. John who revived more traditional approaches. Hearkening back to the "Society of Six," which Lundy's father, Louis, had helped found, they began painting landscapes in a broad painterly style related both to the Bay Area figurative tradition and the plein-air painting of the "Society of Six." Lundy and Terry often painted together "en plein air" in the countryside around Mt. Diablo . He was... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Contemporary Impressionism, After 1940
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Art Association
- •Bohemian Club
Art School
- •California College of Arts and Crafts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts