Lundy Siegriest (1925 - November 13, 1985) was an American painter.

Life

Siegriest was born in 1925 in Oakland, California. His father,

Louis Siegriest Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899 - November 7, 1989) was an American painter. He was a member of the Society of Six. Life Siegriest was born in 1899. He was trained by Frank Van Sloun. Siegriest established a studio in Oakland, California, where h ...

, was a painter, as was his stepmother, Edna Stoddart. Siegriest graduated from the California College of the Arts in Oakland. Siegriest became a painter in his own right. He was initially a realist and later became an abstract expressionist. He returned to realism after being injured in a fall. He painted Western landscapes '' en plein air'', and he often exhibited his work with his father. Siegriest died of cancer on November 13, 1985, in Berkeley, California, at age 60. His work can be seen at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

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