Byron Randall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1918
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, United States
Date of Death: 11-Aug-1999
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Byron Randall
- Byron Randall (October 23, 1918 – August 11, 1999) was an American West Coast artist, well known for his expressionist paintings and printmaking.
- A contemporary of artists Pablo O'Higgins, Anton Refregier, Robert P.
- McChesney, Emmy Lou Packard (his second wife), and Pele de Lappe (his final companion), Randall shared their left wing politics while exploring different techniques and styles, including a vivid use of color and line.
- Permanent collections holding his art include the National Gallery of Art; the Phillips Collection; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Mills College Art Museum; the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento); the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Jundt Art Museum (Spokane); the Maryhill Museum of Art; the Museum of Sonoma County; the Fresno Art Museum; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust; the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Salem); the Schneider Museum (Ashland); the Bolinas Art Museum; the UC Irvine Institute and Museum for California Art; the Riverside Art Museum; the Janet Turner Print Collection and Gallery (Chico); the Oakland Museum of California; the de Saisset Museum (Santa Clara); the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle); the Western Art Gallery (Bellingham); the Davison Art Center (Wesleyan University); the Museum of Northwest Art (La Conner); the Mariners' Museum (Newport News); the Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel (Portland); the Georgia Museum of Art; the Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara); the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Smith College Museum of Art; the Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois); the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University); the Grinnell College Museum of Art; the Weatherspoon Art Museum (UNC Greensboro), and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum (Santa Barbara).
- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Davis Museum at Wellesley College; the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (St.
- Joseph); the Monterey Museum of Art; the Palm Springs Art Museum; the Hunter Museum of American Art, and the Frost Art Museum (Florida International University) are currently in process of adding Randall's work to their permanent collections, along with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; the Montefiore Medical Center, and Seattle's Swedish Medical Center.
- The private collections of Anne Baxter, Samuel Lustgarten, Clifford Odets, and Alfred Stern, among others, included Randall's work.
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