With SF Art Week, a great Bay Area painter comes home - 48 hills

"It checks all the boxes with mastery of a few geometrical shapes that could be perceived as windows. There's this ethereal figure and some really beautiful, bright colors,"

"It's very meditative. I like the term wistful to describe that style of his. That hung on my bulletin board from my childhood, and I have a strong memory of it."

"With more than 30 paintings and works on paper, this is the largest show of Bischoff's art in about 20 years."

Nelson grew up in the Central Valley near Fresno and remembers buying a postcard of Elmer Bischoff's Orange Sweater during childhood visits to San Francisco. Nelson now directs the Nelson Duni gallery on Bartlett Street in the Mission and agreed to represent the Bischoff Family Art Trust about a year ago. Elmer Bischoff is considered a central member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement alongside Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Brown, David Park, William Theopolis Brown, and Paul Wonner. The show opens January 22 during San Francisco's Art Week, runs through March 15, and features more than 30 paintings and works on paper, including early abstract works from 1947–1950 created after Bischoff left high school teaching in Sacramento and began teaching at UC Berkeley.

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