Byron Randall (October 23, 1918 – August 11, 1999) was an American West Coast artist, well known for his expressionist paintings and printmaking. A contemporary of artists Pablo O'Higgins, Anton Refregier, Robert P. McChesney, Emmy Lou Packard (his second wife), and Pele de Lappe (his final companion), Randall shared their left wing politics while exploring different techniques and styles, including a vivid use of color and line. His art is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art; the Phillips Collection; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Mills College Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Jundt Art Museum; Maryhill Museum of Art; Museum of Sonoma County; Fresno Art Museum; Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust; Hallie Ford Museum of Art; Schneider Museum; Bolinas Art Museum; UC Irvine Institute and Museum for California Art; Riverside Art Museum; Janet Turner Print Collection and Gallery; Oakland Museum of California; de Saisset Museum; Henry Art Gallery; Western Art Gallery; Davison Art Center; Museum of Northwest Art; Mariners' Museum; Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel; Georgia Museum of Art; Triton Museum of Art; Long Beach Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Smith College Museum of Art; Krannert Art Museum; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art; Grinnell College Museum of Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Middlebury College Museum of Art; Palm Springs Art Museum; Hunter Museum of American Art; Frost Art Museum; Swedish Medical Center; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Montefiore Medical Center; the Art, Design & Architecture Museum; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. Williams College Museum of Art, and Monterey Museum of Art are currently in process of adding Randall's work to their permanent collections. The private collections of Anne Baxter, Samuel Lustgarten, Clifford Odets, and Alfred Stern, among others, included Randall's work.
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23 October 1918 Tacoma, Washington
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Died |
11 August 1999 (aged 80) San Francisco, California
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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