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An example of work by Barnaby Conrad
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Barnaby Conrad is an artist, author and educator living in Santa Barbara, California. Conrad taught at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for seven years, and is
currently faculty at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He accepts several portrait and mural commissions each year and his works hang in collections
worldwide, ranging from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., to Bing Crosby's family mansion in Hillsborough. In 2001 Conrad was commissioned by Jean
Hayward of Montecito to paint a portrait of her dog, Wally, which hangs prominently in her private art collection.
Among his literary accomplishments, Conrad has written over thirty books (many for which he created cover art or illustrated), including Matador (which has sold over three million copies), Tahiti, La Fiesta Brava, Gates of Fear, San Francisco, Dangerfield, How to Fight a Bull, Famous Last Words, Hemingway's Spain, Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters and The World of Herb Caen.
Born in San Francisco in 1922, Barnaby Conrad studied at the University of North Carolina, where he was captain of the freshman boxing team, and studied art at the
University of Mexico and the Academie Julien in Paris. He graduated from Yale in 1943.
His varied career includes working as vice-consul to Spain, amateur bullfighting (he was the first American bullfighter in Spain, Mexico, and Peru), teaching art, making films, working as secretary to Sinclair Lewis, and playing piano for his San Francisco night club.
In 1973, Conrad founded the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference, which he and his wife Mary continue to direct. Guests of this conference have included Eudora
Welty, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, and Ross McDonald.
Source:
http://www.digitalstoryawards.org/indie2002/admin/judges/conrad.html
http://www.mistersf.com/literary/index.html?litconrad.htm
http://www.caprapress.com/books/last_boat.php
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