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Alexander Nepote
Source: "American Scene Painting: California 1930s & 1940s" by Ruth Lilly Westphal & Janet B…
Source: "American Scene Painting: California 1930s & 1940s" by Ruth Lilly Westphal & Janet Blake Dominik

Alexander Nepote

1913 - 1986
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BiographyAlexander Nepote (1913-1986) A painter known for mixed-media abstractions, Alexander Nepote was born on a ranch in California near Stockton. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, at Mills College, and at the University of California from where he received a Master's Degree. From 1945 to 1950, he was Dean of the Faculty at the California College of Arts and Crafts and served in the same capacity at San Francisco State College from 1950 to 1977.

Memberships included the West Coast Watercolor Society, the Bay Region Art Association, and the California Watercolor Society.

Biography courtesy of:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Courtesy of CaliforniaWatercolor.com
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