"Banker's Holiday" Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 29x29 by Patricia Gren Hayes

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"Banker's Holiday" Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 29x29
Wonderful Bay Area School figurative of tan man with blue hat … Read more "Banker's Holiday" Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 29x29
Wonderful Bay Area School figurative of tan man with blue hat by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century), 1980. Banker’s Holiday is a striking example of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, a mid-century style that revitalized representational art by merging it with the raw, gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism.
In this work, Hayes presents a solitary figure defined by bold, sculptural brushwork and a vibrant, sun-drenched palette. The subject—a tanned man in a moment of quiet repose—is punctuated by a brilliant cerulean bucket hat, which serves as the painting's structural and tonal anchor.
Rather than focusing on fine detail, Hayes uses broad "painterly" strokes to build form, allowing the background and subject to bleed into one another. This technique emphasizes the emotional atmosphere of the scene—one of heat, stillness, and introspection—rather than a strict literal likeness.

Signed "Gren Hayes", titled "Bankers Holiday" and dated "May 1980"on verso.
Unframed.
Canvas size: 29"H x 29"W.

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 she served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner at the 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. , 1976-1982, 2nd Annual Bay Area Women's
Graphic Art Competition, Los Gatos, Ca., 1979. See less