Terry St. John Thai Model #1, 2019  Ink and pen on paper 22 × 15 inches, 30 x 22 ¾ inches framed Courtesy of Terry St. John and Dolby Chadwick Gallery (Value: $9,500)  As a painter, Terry St. John carried forward the landscape tradition of the Society of Six, the West Coast’s most significant modernist development of the 1920s. One of Terry’s most memorable exhibitions during his twenty-year role as curator was “The Society of Six,” a project of rediscovery, which received wide acclaim. Terry began accompanying Louis Siegriest, the last surviving member of the Six, and his son Lundy Siegriest into the Bay Area countryside to paint out of doors, keeping the venerable tradition alive. Terry further encouraged plein air painting in California as director of the Outdoor Painters Project at University of California, Santa Cruz from 1979 to 1991, establishing a new generation of practitioners. Terry’s studies with James Weeks in 1960 and his admiration for David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff, and other Bay Area Figurative painters informed his turn to painting the figure in an environment. Terry referred to these works as “living room landscapes, in which the figure is of equal importance to all other elements of the composition—a tenet of the Bay Area Figuration Movement. His love of thick paint continued to grow and the sensuousness of his figures was a distinctive characteristic of his late work. SF Chronicle - Tribute to Terry St. John In Loving Memory of Terry St. John: 1934–2021 St. John received a MFA in Painting in 1966.   For questions, please contact Danica Domingo, Advancement events manager, by email at danica@cca.edu or +1 415-551-9361.