Warren Eugene Brandon (November 2, 1916 – September 11, 1977) was a California painter and photographer who was born in
San Francisco.
Biography
He studied art at
Milligan College and also with
Jack Davis,
Ralph Ledesma,
Jack Feldman,
Raymond Brose, and
Eliot O'Hara.[1] In the 1950s and 1960s, he cruised the Pacific Ocean on the
Matson Line teaching on ships, as well as in Hawaii.[2] Other than this, Brandon was a lifelong resident of San Francisco. In 1964, he was one of four Americans named "Life Fellows of Britain's Royal Society of Artists", and thereafter appended "FRSA" to his signature. Brandon founded the San Francisco
artist cooperative. He committed suicide in San Francisco on September 11, 1977.[3]
References
Falk, Peter Hastings, Who was Who in American Art, 1564–1975, Vol I, Sounds View Press, Madison CT, 1999, p. 421.
Harold, Margaret, Prize-winning oil Paintings, Book II, Nashville, TN, Allied Publications, 1960
Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 17, 1977 (obituaries)