JOHN SACCARO
John Saccaro, Ocean Sensor, 1958 Oil on canvas, 60” x 51.5”
Bay Area native John Saccaro was a major contributor to the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism. After studying at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1954, he began a teaching career at UCLA where he further developed his signature style. Saccaro’s utilization of slashing, angular brush work and high contrast color palette made him popular amongst institutions such as the De Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "I never went for the little business of dripping the paint on the floor or jumping up to the canvas and making stripes. No, I always had to come up with some sort of an image... I couldn't explain what the image was, I couldn't say even when I gave it a title, I couldn't make you really see what I saw because everybody sees different. But I had to have something there. And you can see that in every [painting].”
John Saccaro (1913 – 1981)
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas, 84” x 66”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas, 84” x 66”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro, Untitled, 1959 Oil on masonite, 25 1/2” x 33 3/4”
John Saccaro American (1913 – 1981)
1962 The Cantor Art Center at Stanford University 1962 California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1962 Whitney Museum Exhibition, S.F.M.A. 1973 The Oakland Museum of California 1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Biography
1981 Museo Italo Americano
Bay Area native John Saccaro was a major contributor to the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1954, which was centered on Abstract Expressionism.
1990 Carlson Gallery
After graduating, he began painting in the abstract style he is most famous for, which he called Sensorism. To Saccaro, Abstract Expressionism was not just about creating a painting through spontaneous actions; to him, he had to create something. He had to deliberately create an abstract image that captured some kind of energy or emotion.
The Oakland Museum of California
Selected Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Jose Museum Pasadena Art Museum M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Elvehjem Museum
Saccaro’s utilization of slashing, angular brush work and high contrast color palette made him popular amongst institutions such as the De Young Museum, the Bolles Gallery in New York, the Oakland Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Selected Exhibitions 1939 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1939 Art Institute of Chicago 1939-1942 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1946 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum 1954 The Oakland Museum of California 1955 Carnegie International 1955-1957 Corcoran Gallery of Art 1957-1958 Denver Art Museum 1958 the Oakland Museum of California 1958 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1959 San Francisco Museum of Art 1960 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum 1962 BoDes Gallery 1962 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Crocker Art Museum Laguna Art Museum Triton Museum
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