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John Saccaro (American Painter, 1913-1981)
John Saccaro was born in San Francisco, and served as a camoufleur in France in the Army during WWII.
He began his artistic career working for the Federal Arts Project in the Murals Section at Treasure Island in the 1930s. In 1939, at the age of 25, he was given a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and in 1954, he graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). Saccaro later went on to teach at UCLA from 1963 to 1964.
Around 1955, Saccaro began to paint in the manner for which he is best known, using a slashing, angular brushwork that bears resemblance to the gestural canvases of Kline. He called these paintings "sensory raids," defining sensorism as "the scrape, slash, and violence of the sensory."
Saccaro's bright palette contrasted to the earth tones and monochromes more common among San Francisco artists at the time. He was a major contributor to the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, and his works appear in the book of the same name by Susan Landauer (published by UC Press in 1996). Saccaro's work has been featured in several West Coast exhibitions, including shows at the San Francisco Museum of Art, de Young Museum, and Oakland Museum.
Selected Exhibitions 1996 Group Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA 1990 Solo Exhibition, Carlson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 Solo Exhibition, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA 1973 Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1962-1963 Group Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
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1962 Group Exhibition, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX 1962 Group Exhibition, Stanford University Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 1962 Group Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1962 Solo Exhibition, Bolles Gallery, New York, NY 1959-1960 Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1960 Solo Exhibition, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 1960 Group Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1959 Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery Arts Biennials, Washington, D.C. 1957-1958 Group Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1958 Group Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 1958 Solo Exhibition, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1955-1957 Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery Arts Biennials, Washington, D.C 1955-1956 Group Exhibition, 3rd Biennial Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil 1956 Solo Exhibition, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1955 Group Exhibition, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA 1954 Group Exhibition, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA 1946 Solo Exhibition, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1939-1942 Group Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1942 Group Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1939 Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Public Collections Oakland Museum, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Pasadena Art Museum, CA M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA Elvehjem Museum, University of Wisconsin at Madison Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Literature Susan Landauer, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980 Gibbons J. Cooney, John Saccaro: Catalog #5 (of a year-long series), Carlson Gallery, 1990
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Edan Hughes, Artists in California 1786-1940 Mary Fuller McChesney, A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950 Frederick S. Wight, The Artist's Environment: West Coast Henry Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era
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