'Oakland Estuary' by Gren Hayes, Bay Area Woman Artist, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Signed lower right, 'Gren Hayes' (American, born 1932); additionally signed verso twice, titled 'Port of Oakland' on stretcher bar and … Read more Signed lower right, 'Gren Hayes' (American, born 1932); additionally signed verso twice, titled 'Port of Oakland' on stretcher bar and dated 1976. Inscribed 'Oak. Cathedral Bldg Mural #1 sketch' verso.

Bay Area Figurative / Bay Area Feminist Art Movement artist, Patricia Gren-Hayes, studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.

She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada.

She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.

She started a free lance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976 and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, he was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, nd was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.

Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974, Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979.

Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio
One; Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978. San Francisco Art Festival,
1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976,
1977, 1978; San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award
winner - 1970, 1977, 1978; Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner
-1971; Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973, Oakland Art Festival, 1973,
1974; Alameda Art Association, 1978; El Cerrito Art Association; 1979,
Delta Art Annual; 1986, San Francisco Woman's Gallery; 1976-1982,
Stanton Gallery; Alameda, CA. , nd Annual Bay Area Women's
Graphic Art Competition, Los Gatos, Ca., 1979.

Reference:
Askart; The Winnipeg Museum of Art; et al. See less