Squeak Carnwath - Oakland Museum of California

  • Squeak Carnwath - Oakland Museum of California


A portrait of Bay Area artists and art movements through the 20th century and celebration of the California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) centennial. The survey includes the renegade plein-air painters known as the Society of Six; production ceramists Edith Heath and Jocomena Maybeck; artists of the Bay Area Figurative school Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and Manuel Neri; Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, and Viola Frey, leaders of the studio ceramics movement; minimalist John McCracken and conceptualists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; photorealists Robert Bechtle, Richard McLean, and Jack Mendenhall; and cultural commentators Squeak Carnwath and Raymond Saunders.