Supergraphics pioneer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon dies at 95

2024-05-13T19:06:00-04:00

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, the influential California-based graphic designer and landscape architect, passed away on May 7th in San Francisco at the age of 95.

Stauffacher Solomon died a prominent member of the design community whose career advanced aside an unusual synthesis of modern art, design, and architecture with many noted collaborators in all three channels and will be particularly remembered for the Supergraphics paintings she made in the late 1960s while in residence at the Sea Ranch utopian community.

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's Land(e)scape, 2018. Image courtesy Rob Corder/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0 Deed)

“It took a lot of verve for Bobbie to survive in a hostile environment, let alone blaze a trail,” biographer Joseph Becker recalled to the New York Times’ obituary section. “But she had the ability to create these amazing works that reflect her attitude that there should be something fun about the spaces we inhabit. In graphic design, landscape architecture, and her boo...

Al Boeke "father" of Sea Ranch, dead at 88.

2011-11-20T19:00:42-05:00

Mr. Boeke’s vision paid off. In the 1960s, single-family homes at Sea Ranch sold for about $18,000; they now sell for between $500,000 and $2 million. Many are used as weekend or vacation homes.

Although he passed on November 8th, his obituary was printed in the New York Times Nov 20th, Sunday edition. Al Boeke is perhaps most famously known as the developer-architect whose vision resulted in Sea Ranch.

He developed the project while vice president of planning and development for Oceanic Properties, a division of Castle & Cooke, a real estate entity of the Dole Food Company. He was an adherent of the so-called new-town movement and for the project Mr. Boeke assembled a team of some of the most environmentally aware architects in the country as well as the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.

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Supergraphics pioneer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon dies at 95

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