ERNEST BRIGGS
Visiting Critic in Drawing
Born: 1923, San Diego, California. Education: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Exhibitions: (one-man) Metart Gallery, Stable Gallery (2), San Francisco Art Association Gallery,
Howard Wise Gallery (3); (group) San Francisco Art Association Annuals (3), California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Stable Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals (3),
Museum of Modern Art, Corcoran Biennial, Carnegie International, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco Museum of Art, Jewish Museum. Awards: Albert Bender Grant, 1951; Anne Bremmer Memorial
Prize for Painting, 1953. Public Collections: Carnegie Institute; Michigan State University;
Rockefeller Institute; Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Housatonic
Community College; Oakland Art Museum.
Icarus, 1967, Acrylic Orbit, 1967, Acrylic Vermilion, 1967, Acrylic Black Planet, 1967, Acrylic Grey Space, 1967, Acrylic Homage, 1967, Acrylic
WILLIAM CONLON
Instructor in Art
Born: 1941, Albany, New York. Education: School of Visual Arts, New York City; Yale University School
of Art and Architecture. Exhibitions: (group) Visual Arts Gallery; Yale University School of Art and
Architecture. Awards: Graham Foundation of Fine Arts, Research Grant — Environmental Design, 1966.
Color wall system No. 1, Plywood and masonite constructed, painted with acrylics. Spectrum shape No. 3, Fabricated out of 20 gauge sheetmetal, painted with acrylics. Ten spectrum columns, sheetmetal acrylics. Four working drawings.
