Jack Jefferson, a much-revered artist in the Bay Area for over fifty years, died November 5, 2000 at the age of 79. Jefferson's powerful brooding abstractions and his imperviousness to changing art fashions justify his reputation as a "painter's painter." As art critic Thomas Albright noted, Jefferson managed to keep his "underground credentials fairly well intact" by quietly pursuing his own idiom forged during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s.