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Nathan Joseph Roderick Oliveira

Nathan Joseph Roderick Oliveira (1928 - 2010) was active/lived in California.  Nathan Oliveira is known for Abstract figurative painting, graphics.

Nathan Oliveira was born in Oakland, California to parents of Portuguese descent. As a youth he was interested in art and music, and considered the possibility of becoming a coronetist in a jazz band.  However, during his high school years he visited the California Palace of the Legion of Honor where he saw a Rembrandt painting that profoundly influenced the course of his life.  For a time he attempted to study advertising art before enrolling in the California College of Arts and Crafts* in Oakland with the intention of pursuing a career as a portrait painter.

During the course of his college studies he began to move from portraits to a more expressionistic and non specific figuration.  Despite the shift to a more abstract mode of expression, Oliveira's work has always remained tied to recognizable content rather than pure abstraction*.  He felt it was important to make something out of this abstract language, concrete images in which one can believe.
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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Nathan Joseph Roderick Oliveira available:    Manuel Neri Jr,  David Park,  Paul John Wonner,  James (Darrell Northrup) Weeks,  Elmer Nelson Bischoff,  William Theophilus Brown,  Joan Brown,  Raimonds Staprans,  Roland Petersen,  Robert Carston Arneson,  Frank Lobdell,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Roy Dean De Forest,  Wayne Thiebaud,  William T Wiley,  Billy Al Bengston,  Emerson S Woelffer,  Hassel Smith,  Ronald Davis,  George Herms,  David James Gilhooly III,  Laddie John Dill,  Conrad Marca-Relli,  Robert Graham

Sales Stats

.   422 auction records.  1 upcoming.