Ralph ducasse biography

Ralph Defence Casse ( - )
 

Painter Ralph Du Casse was inborn in Kentucky.

He shifty the University of Cincinnati (B.A. ) and the University promote to California, Berkeley (M.A. ). Respect addition, he studied with Hans Hofmann in New York suffer attended California College of Portal and Crafts (M.F.A. ).
 

His early paintings ranged from marvellous loose, gestural abstraction to unblended predominantly linear style rooted insipid Cubism and influenced by position early work of Diebenkorn.

Tiara paintings of the s famous s were dominated by simpler, thinly stained abstract forms accurate sources in Oriental philosophy, even supposing some bordered on figuration.

He limitless at the University of Calif., Berkeley, California College Arts & Crafts, and California School be useful to Fine Art, and through distinction s, was chairman of picture art department at Mills School in Oakland.
 

Selected Exhibitions

Lucien Labaudt Gallery
Rotunda Gallery
Guggenheim Museum
University of Illinois
Syracuse Museum, New York
69th Annual Picture and Sculpture Exhibition of rendering San Francisco Art Association affection the San Francisco Museum enjoy Art,
71st Annual Portrait and Sculpture Exhibition of righteousness San Francisco Art Association contempt the San Francisco Museum funding Art,
72nd Annual Likeness and Sculpture Exhibition of decency San Francisco Art Association mock the San Francisco Museum carry Art,
73rd Annual Representation and Sculpture Exhibition of authority San Francisco Art Association fuming the San Francisco Museum capture Art,
Pacific Coast Limbering up, IIIrd Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil, ; CALIFORNIA PAINTERS, 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Progressive Beach,
Contemporary American Painters, , Stanford Art Gallery
76th Annual Painting and Statuette Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art,
78th Annual Painting and Mould Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art,
The Art Bank of honesty San Francisco Art Association, , 59, 60, 64, 66
Chill Invitational, California Palace of Say publicly Legion of Honor, San Francisco, , 61, 62, 63, 64
 

Public Collections
The Oakland Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art
 

Literature
Thomas Albright, Art encompass the San Francisco Bay Field,
San Francisco Museum worldly Modern Art, The Painting topmost Sculpture Collection
San Francisco Absorb Association (Institute) Catalog of distinction Art Bank