Ray Bertrand

Ray Bertrand, born in San Francisco in 1909, was a lithographer as well as an easel artist who painted primarily landscapes. He had been a student of Eric Spencer Macky at the California School of Fine Arts, where he later taught lithography. In 1927, he won the Anne Bremer scholarship, enabling him to make "outstanding contributions to the development of the graphic arts of the West" as both an easel artist and lithographer. Reporting on one of his exhibits, a critic commented that Bertrand used "freezing blues, whites, and grays" in his oils in a "small but icy collection of arctic landscapes." He appears as the "author" of a book entitled "Rape, Mayhem, and Vagrancy" in Harris' mural on the opposite wall. In 1942 he won an Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship enabling him to continue his study of color lithography. He died in Oakland on December 18, 1986. 

Works in Coit Tower:

Meat Industry