Biography

John Saccaro was born in San Francisco in 1913 and died there in 1981. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts with Elmer Bischoff and David Park from 1951 to 1954 and taught at UCLA from 1963 to 1964. He has had solo exhibitions at various venues such as the de Young Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach. This would be the first work by the artist to enter the SJMA permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2006)

Born in San Francisco, California in 1913, Saccaro was a painter who is now considered the second generation of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. In 1939, Saccaro began working for the Public Works Art Project, and also had his first solo exhibition that year at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). After serving in World War II, Saccaro enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts in 1951, despite being older than many of his teachers. He was one of the most innovative and imaginative of the gesture painters in the Bay Area, painting in a unique abstract style which he called “Sensorism”.  Saccaro died in San Francisco in 1981. [Bio from Juicy Paint Exhibition, input by R. Faust, 8/1//2010]

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