BRUCE MCGAW
Painter, b. 1935

Although not the oldest of the second generation, Bruce McGaw was the only one to be included in the 1957 Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting exhibition (Bischoff, Diebenkorn, Park, Weeks, et al.). Born in 1935, he was in fact the youngest in the show, and recalls that "I got in on Diebenkorn's coattails .... I didn't even meet Park until virtually the night of the opening." Of all the students at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Mcgaw was perhaps closest to Diebenkorn.
- Caroline A. Jones, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University of California Press

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions 1955-1965
Solo Exhibition, Distel Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 1964; Fifth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, 1955; Bay Printmakers Society: First National Exhibition of Prints, Oakland Art Musuem, 1955; Seventy-Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1956; Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, Oakland Art Museum, 1957; Group Show, "6" Gallery, San Franciso, 1958; Ninth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, 1959; Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute. 1961; Third Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1961.