GEORGE ABEND
Painter, Teacher, 1922-1976

George Abend
Photo by Harry Bowden

Other artists that came under Still's spell in the 1950's included George Abend, Philip Roeber, and Sam Tchakalian. Abend expanded Still's vocabulary of jagged rivulets into enormous canvases of twisting sinuous lines.
- Susan Landauer, The San Francisco and the Second Wave, Crocker Art Museum

Education and Teaching
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1947; California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1948-1950; Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1951-1952; University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1953-1954. Taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Cedar Educational Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1962-1966. Visiting artist at California State College, Los Angeles. Graphic film consultant at University of Southern California, 1966-1969.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
Howard Gallery, San Francisco, 1949; Metart Galleries, San Francisco, 1950; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, 1950, 1952; Galerie de France, Paris, 1951; Olivetti Art Gallery, Guadalajara, 1954; Batman Gallery, San Francisco, 1961; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania, 1963; Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1963-1966; Six Gallery, San Francisco, 1964; Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, 1965; Coast Gallery, Big Sur, California, 1970; Fulton Gallery, New York, 1973.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1975
Third Annual Exhibition of Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1948-1949; 68th-69th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association (from 1961, The San Francisco Art Institute) at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949-1950; 79th-80th Annual, 1960-1961; First Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960.