JOHN EMMETT GERRITY
Painter, Teacher, Designer, 1895-1980


               

"Painting is a pure art - Color is as elemental as sound
and when properly presented with the same scientific exactness
as harmonies of music, is capable of producing aesthetic emotion."

Education and Teaching
Graduated Sacred Heart College, San Francisco, 1917; attended California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1919-1922. Moved to New York in 1923; returned to California and Berkeley, 1924. Taught in his studio in San Francisco; California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; University of California Extension, 1920s and 1930s. Art critic for San Francisco Call Bulletin.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
74th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1955.