Harold Mallette Dean

Born in Spokane, Washington, H. (Harold) Mallette Dean moved to San Francisco in 1927 and enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts where he was influenced by Ray Boynton. Dean received an Anne Bremer Scholarship and remained enrolled at CSFA for nearly four years. He was one of the most prolific painters of government-sponsored murals in Northern California and was also a wood engraver whose work illustrated books at Grabhorn Press and even wound up on wine labels for Heitz, Inglenook and Mondavi. In an oral history in the 1960s, Dean recalled the enjoyment of working at the project but called his own work there "unimportant." 

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