James Strombotne
James Strombotne was born in Watertown, South Dakota. He was raised and educated in Southern California; receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1956 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate School in 1959. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to study in Italy, and in 1962 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study in Rome. The same year, a feature article about his work appeared in Time Magazine.
Strombotne’s first one-man show was at the Studio 44 gallery in San Francisco in 1956. Since then, he has had over seventy five one-man shows, with twelve retrospectives: four in New York City, twenty-two in Los Angeles, and others in San Francisco, Washington D.C., Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Newport Beach, and other venues.
Works in Our Collection
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James Strombotne
Laguna Beach
Oil on canvas, 1960
50 1/2 x 70 1/4 inches
Gift of Sterling Holloway
1965.005
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James Strombotne
Picasso and the Cubist Monster
Oil on canvas, c. 1965
44 x 48 inches
Gift of the artist
1975.015