Paul John Wonner

Background

Wonner, Paul John was born on April 24, 1920 in Tucson.

Education

Student, California College Arts and Crafts. Master of Arts, Master of Library Science, University California, Berkeley, 1953.

Career

He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1952, an Master of Arts in 1953, and an Master of Library and Information Science in 1955―all from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1956, Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys with bouquets. In 1962, he began teaching at the University of California, Los Los Angeles

By the end of the 1960s, he had abandoned his loose figurative style and focused exclusively on still lifes in a hyperrealist style.

Wonner died April 23, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Paul Wonner is best known for his still-life paintings done in an abstract expressionist style.

Achievements

• Paul John Wonner has been listed as a notable painter by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Repose

  • Still Life

  • Still Life with Cup

  • Figures in Sunlight

  • Landscape with Trees, Santa Monica

  • Model On The Floor

  • The Model with Pensive Look

  • View of L.A. from Beverly Hills

  • Pitcher, Lemons and Book

  • Salome Dancing

  • Yellow Bowl, Cup And Flowers

  • Lake, Nude, Black Hill

  • Untitled

  • Still Life with Napkins and Gift Box

  • Our Amazing World of Nature

  • Study of Flowers with Art Book

  • Tulips in a Milk Carton

  • Still Life with Bud

  • Self-Portrait Painting

  • Bathers After Cezanne II

  • Untitled (Nude)

  • Untitled (Nude)

  • Woman with Flowers

  • Man with Raised Arms

  • Drawing in the Studio

  • Landscape with Flowering Orchard

  • Model Bending Forward

  • Model Drinking Coffee

  • Spoons

  • Southwest Canyon, Arizona

  • View of the Sea from Malibu

  • Objects on Floor

  • The Waiter

  • The Tempest

  • Zinnias

  • Still Life with Indian Miniature

  • Untitled

  • Study for Still Life with Flowers in a Whiskey Bottle

  • Tulip

  • Dutch Still Life with Cookies and Candy

  • In a Park VII

  • View of Malibu #1

Connections

Sister:

Dorothy Kendall

life partner:

Theophilus Brown

Theophilus Brown (1919-2012) was an American artist. He represented the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

References

• Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 is based on extensive archival research and interviews, it is the first study of the movement as a whole and is the broadest and most accurate account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists who worked in this new style.
  1990
• Paul Wonner: Abstract Realist Book by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  1981
• Paul Wonner Art book by Nancy Grimes.
  1999