An American artist: Elmer Bischoff

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (1916–1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Late Afternoon 1953 

Oil on canvas 52”x56” Private collection

 Orange Sweater, 1955

Two Figures at a Seashore, 1957

Girl with towel, 1960

Girl Reclining, 1960

Rooftops and Bay, 1961

Group of Houses, 1961

Breakers (1963)

Interior with two Figures, 1968

 

Green Lampshade, 1969

 Boats

Houses and Hills

In the Library

a comment from tumblr:
"Bischoff seemed to hit a sweet spot between figuration and abstraction. He was part of a West Coast group of painters working with and against some of the same stuff the Abstract Expressionists were wrestling with. Diebenkorn and Park are better known but Bischoff was closer to my heart. There’s a quiet, dreamy melancholy in his pictures, some Hopper and some DeKooning and a bit of something else."

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (1916 – 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art. (more on wikipedia)