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1927 Cerrito, California (nearby) - 2019. Known for: Sculptor-geometric design.
Tony DeLap was born in 1927. Having spent most of his life near water, DeLap, the son of a lawyer, grew up near the border between Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Gazing across the Bay, he was... Read full biography
Tony DeLap was born in 1927. Having spent most of his life near water, DeLap, the son of a lawyer, grew up near the border between Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Gazing across the Bay, he was able to see the building of the Golden Gate Bridge from his house. He studied at several Bay Area... Read full biography
Tony DeLap was born in 1927. Having spent most of his life near water, DeLap, the son of a lawyer, grew up near the border between Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Gazing across the Bay, he was able to see the building of the Golden Gate Bridge from his house. He studied at several Bay Area colleges, including the San Francisco Academy of Art and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. Courses would include illustration, graphic design, and art. During the 1950s and 1960s, DeLap was... Read full biography
Tony DeLap was born in 1927. Having spent most of his life near water, DeLap, the son of a lawyer, grew up near the border between Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Gazing across the Bay, he was able to see the building of the Golden Gate Bridge from his house. He studied at several Bay Area colleges, including the San Francisco Academy of Art and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. Courses would include illustration, graphic design, and art. During the 1950s and 1960s, DeLap was employed by trade show exhibitions and did freelance graphic design while applying his talents at painting and sculptures. From an early age, he associated himself with an emerging movement of West Coast 'minimalists' known as "finish fetish", to... Read full biography
Tony DeLap was born in 1927. Having spent most of his life near water, DeLap, the son of a lawyer, grew up near the border between Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Gazing across the Bay, he was able to see the building of the Golden Gate Bridge from his house. He studied at several Bay Area colleges, including the San Francisco Academy of Art and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. Courses would include illustration, graphic design, and art. During the 1950s and 1960s, DeLap was employed by trade show exhibitions and did freelance graphic design while applying his talents at painting and sculptures. From an early age, he associated himself with an emerging movement of West Coast 'minimalists' known as "finish fetish", to include Larry Bell, DeWaine Valentine, and Craig Kauffman. He experimented in the early 1970s with painting and sculpture in order to create the s... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art School
- •California College of Arts and Crafts, Student
- •California College of the Arts (and Crafts), Teacher
- •San Francisco Art Institute, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art