WESTBROOK GALLERIES

John Saccaro was born in San Francisco in 1913 and began his career in the 1930s when he worked for the Federal Arts Project (F.A.P) in the Murals Section at Treasure Island.

In 1939, at the age of 25, he was given a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and in 1954, he graduated from the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He taught at UCLA.

By 1953-1955 he was receiving much acclaim for a style of painting he termed "Sensorism". The sensorist paintings are intended to move the observer on a viseral level. Variations of values in color, combined with expressive abstract patterns and brush strokes, exemplify the signature style of Saccaro's work.

He has had one-man exhibitions on the West Coast at the San Francisco Museum of Art, De Young Museum, and the Oakland Museum.