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Tarmo Pasto

Tarmo Pasto (1906 - 1986) was active/lived in California.  Tarmo Pasto is known for Modernist-leaning landscape.

Dr. Tarmo Pasto was born on July 27, 1906 in Monessen, Pennsylvania, of Finnish descent. He died on December 26, 1986.  Tarmo Pasto was a clincal psychologist and artist, who taught psychology and art through the 1970s at California State College at Sacramento since the schools inception.

He also authored a book on art, The Space-Frame Experience in Art, published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his psychology patients, Martin Ramirez (1885-1963).  Dr. Pasto was a psychiatrist for Ramirez in the late 1950s and provided him with quality art materials and also encouraged his artistic endeavors.  The art of the insane was of particular interest to Dr. Pasto who would often use examples of it in his classroom lectures.

Pasto was also very instrumental in initiating a number of Bay Area exhibitions of what today is considered outsider art.  In the 1970's Dr. Pasto with the help of artist James   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1679 characters.]  Artist bio

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