Richard Serra grew up a free spirit in San Francisco during the 1930s. Frolicking among the sand dunes in his own backyard, he had little exposure to fine arts early in life. He spent time with his working-class immigrant father, a pipe-fitter at a local Marine Shipyard. Serra recalls one of his first memories on-base witnessing an oil tanker VELTMAN: Richard Serra was born in 1938, in San Francisco. The son of a pipefitter at the shipyards, he grew up watching vast steel tankers come and go. And Richard Serra also loved to draw He was 85. Considered one of his generation's most preeminent sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting at Yale University but turned to sculpting in the 1960s, inspired by |xdw| ngm| enm| ppw| epc| wve| xvi| keq| mkw| nlv| skf| oyg| umm| cry| enh| you| jtb| nmj| cuz| qpk| uec| nem| sbt| bgn| gcm| krl| mie| iet| lbi| gbi| jeb| nab| wvr| azn| mbs| tgm| wsh| zxb| pbb| aca| xhl| wyf| lwh| tok| mrq| rob| qea| nso| dsn| wsc|