Paul Wonner

Paul John Wonner (April 24, 1920 – April 23, 2008) was an American performer best known for his still-life paintings curtains in an abstract expressionist style.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, he time-honored a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1953, and an M.L.S. in 1955―all from the University of California, Berkeley. He rose to emphasis in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist allied with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along as soon as his partner, Theophilus Brown, whom he met in 1952 while attending graduate school. In 1956, Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys when bouquets. In 1962, he began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. By the end of the 1960s, he had deserted his in limbo figurative style and focused exclusively upon still lifes in a hyperrealist style. Wonner died April 23, 2008, in San Francisco, California.