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Fred Spratt is an artist from Dorset, England, working in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, sound, video, drawing, photography, and mixed media.
Frederick Spratt (1927 – April 29, 2008) was an American artist and educator, best known for his color theory paintings.
Early life
Born in Iowa, Spratt was the grandson of a house painter from whom he received his first lessons in painting. He later built upon this early training during his adolescence as a sign painter. He received his MA in Studio Art from University of Iowa in 1951, and in 1954 he began teaching in the Art Department at San Jose State University,[1] where he taught the American figurative artist, Robert Graham (1938–2008) in 1961. In 1962 he took a sabbatical in England for one year, where he lived and painted representationally in St. Ives Cornwall, United Kingdom. During this period he created several figurative and landscape paintings.[2] He returned to San Jose, California, in 1963 and continued to teach at San Jose State University where he served as the Chairman of the Art Department and as the interim Dean of Humanities and Arts.[3]