seriously at the time; and which saw the rise of Abstract expressionism. A retrospective of Elmer Bischoff's work, Grand Lyricist: The Art of Elmer Bischoff, was offered by the Oakland Museum of California, November 3, 2001- January 13, 2002. The Crocker Art Museum (California), the de Young Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Museum of the National Academy of Design (New York City), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.) are among the public collections holding works by Elmer Bischoff. Bischoff was the father of composer John Bischoff. See also Bay Area Figurative Movement External links Reference books: Elmer Bischoff: the Ethics of Paint (monography), Susan Landauer, 2001, Oakland Museum of California-University of California Press. Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 (about the Bay Area art movement: esp. David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff), Caroline A.Jones, 1990, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-University of California Press. Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) . p. 38-41 Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) . p. 44-47 1916 births 1991 deaths American abstract artists Abstract expressionist artists American Expressionist painters American Figurative Expressionism American contemporary painters Painters from California Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area Artists from Berkeley, California San Francisco Art Institute alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II American people of German descent American people of Swedish descent 20th-century American painters American male painters United States Army Air Forces officers American people of Ecuadorian descent United States Army colonels Military personnel from California 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters