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Harry Jacobus Untitled 1970s,1980s Pastel on paper 23.25 x 15.5 inches Good condition hinged to mat board Provenance: estate of a San Francisco Bay Area modern architect. In-House Shipping $35 Harry Jacobus, (b.1927) was deeply involved in the San Francisco Abstract Expressionism painting movement of the early 1950s and eventually entered the circle around the artist Jess and the poet Robert Duncan. After serving in World War II, Jacobus moved to California, enrolling first at the Oakland School of Arts and Crafts and later The California School of Fine Arts, where he studied with Clyfford Still and David Park. At that time he met fellow student Jess, and in turn Duncan. Together, they opened the King Ubu Gallery in December 1952, which quickly, though briefly, became the center of the avant garde art, music, and poetry scene in San Francisco. The King Ubu Gallery hosted exhibitions by artists such as Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Hassel Smith, Jess, Lyn Brockway, Roy De Forest, and Deborah Remington, as well as poetry readings and performances. During the 50s and 60s, Jacobus traveled through Europe, particularly Hydra, Greece, as well as Mexico. Back in California, he lived at the Ghost House on Franklin Street, a former mansion turned group home for artists inhabited by Jay Defeo, Wally Hedrick and others. Jacobus was profoundly influenced by Duncan and Jess's ideas about imagination, as well as by french modern painters, particularly the Fauves. Artists and critics often focus on the romanticism, color, and light in the paintings of Jacobus. Duncan called him a painter in a mixed light, noting that his work is an intimation of the beauty around us as it is within us.