RALPH DU CASSE
Painter, Teacher, 1916-2004

"No artist can remain static in a dynamic world."

Like Hassel Smith, Du Casse represented an older generation of painters during the "6" Gallery years, but the artist himself - like many others - remembers that age distinctions were relatively insignificant in the atmosphere of excitement and enthusiasm in which the gallery functioned. Later, Du Casse became interested in simple, lightly applied abstract forms, which he called "spiritual forms," often with ties to Oriental imagery or thought.
- Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery

Education and Teaching
Studied at the University of Cincinnati, B.A., 1940; University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1948; Hans Hofmann, New York; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, M.F.A., 1950. Taught at University of California, Berkeley; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland; California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Chairman of the Art Department at Mills College, Oakland, 1970s.

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions 1945-1965
Lucien Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco; Rotunda Gallery, City of Paris Department Store, San Francisco; Guggenheim Museum, New York; University of Illinois; Syracuse Museum, New York; 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, 1950; 71st- 73rd Annual, 1952-1954; 76th Annual, 1957; 78th Annual, 1959; Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil, III Beinal, 1955; California Painters: 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, 1956; Contemporary American Painters, 1950-1955, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, 1956; The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958-1960, 1964, 1966; First-Fifth Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960-1964; Kranert Art Museum, University of illinois, 1963; Los Angeles County Museum, 1964; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1966.