Biography from AskART:
| James Eakle studied at the University of California 1939-1943, 1950 (MFA); California School of Fine Arts from 1947-1948 (BFA) under Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhart. Eakle spent his entire career as an art instructor and eventuallyhead of the art department at Contra Costa College where he hired many well know active bay area artists to its faculty including David Simpson, John Battenberg, and Robert McLean.He continued to paint until his death in 1997
Literature:Susan Landauer, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism; Painting and Sculpture in California.
Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.
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