1081095

Ernest Briggs #1081095

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Ernest Briggs #1081095
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The provenance on this painting is impeccable!</em></td>
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Rudolph Schaeffer created one of the most distinctive and successful schools of color and design, The Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. Teachers remember the wonderful site and school as "The Gumps of Interior Design". Schaeffer?s impact was felt worldwide. He believed, "we have to delve into the secrets of color. The reason color study is so important is because color is differentiated light and we can?t live without light." Even his critics admitted, "he spent the better part of a century teaching San Franciscans to make their city, their homes, their gardens, and their lives more harmonious, more beautiful, and hence more human.



Ernest Briggs studied at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, 1946-1947 and the California School of Fine Arts, 1947-1951. Briggs co-founded Metart Galleries in San Francisco, 1949 and then in 1953 moved to New York. Taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1958; Pratt Institute, New York, 1961-1984; and Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture, 1967-1968.




Solo Exhibitions: Metart Galleries, 1949; Stable Gallery, New York, 1954, 1955; California School of Fine Arts, 1956; Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1960, 1962, 1963; Yale University Art Gallery, 1968; Green Mountain Gallery, New York, 1973; Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, 1975; Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984




Selected Group Exhibitions: 68th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco ...
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#: 037</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1947</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Ernest Briggs</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Ben Lomond, California.</td></tr>
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