Warren Eugene Brandon (November 2, 1916 – September 11, 1977) was a California painter and photographer who was born in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
.
Biography
He studied art at
Milligan College
Milligan University is a Private university, private Christianity, Christian university in Milligan College, Tennessee. Founded in 1866 as the Buffalo Male and Female Institute, and known as Milligan College from 1881 to May 2020, the school has ...
and also with
Jack Davis,
Ralph Ledesma,
Jack Feldman,
Raymond Brose, and
Eliot O'Hara
Eliot O'Hara (June 14, 1890 – July 30, 1969) was an American artist and educator known for his masterful watercolors, especially his impressionistic landscapes. The Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine has over 120 of his watercolors repre ...
. In the 1950s and 1960s, he cruised the Pacific Ocean on the
Matson Line
Matson, Inc. is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1882, Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson Navigation Company provides ocean shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, G ...
teaching on ships, as well as in Hawaii. Other than this, Brandon was a lifelong resident of San Francisco. In 1964, he was one of four Americans named "Life Fellows of Britain's Royal Society of Artists", and thereafter appended "FRSA" to his signature. Brandon founded the San Francisco
artist cooperative
An artist cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly owned and democratically controlled by its members. Artist cooperatives are legal entities organized as non-capital sto ...
. He committed suicide in San Francisco on September 11, 1977.
[''San Francisco Chronicle'', 1977]
References
* Falk, Peter Hastings, ''Who was Who in American Art'', 1564-1975, Vol I, Sounds View Press, Madison CT, 1999, p. 421.
* Harold, Margaret, Prize-winning oil Paintings, Book II, Nashville, TN, Allied Publications, 1960
* Hughes, Edan, ''Artists in California 1786-1940'', Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
* ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Sept. 17, 1977 (obituaries)
External links
Warren Eugene Brandon in AskART
Footnotes
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1916 births
1977 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
American Impressionist painters
Artists from Hawaii
Artists from San Francisco
Painters who committed suicide
Milligan University alumni
Suicides in California
1977 suicides
20th-century American male artists