Marin, Sutter (1926 - 1985 — A Visionary Landscape
San Francico: 1955. Oil on canvas. Hand made frame. 26 x 40 inches. Signed and dated lower right. A California painter and poet affiliated with San Francisco's North Beach and the San Francisco Beat Movement. His small paintings were in an exuberant figurative or abstract style. He was an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the San Francisco Creative Art Center, which he co-founded. Often collaborating with Beat poet Ruth Weiss, he illustrated her book of poetry Gallery of Women and was immortalized in one of her poems. From the collection of the late San Francisco artist Vesta Kirby (1936-2016) who was a designer at SOM and the studio and restoration assistant and to Gordon Onslow Ford (1981-1992). .
