1. Fredric Hobbs was an American artist and filmmaker.
12 Facts About Fredric Hobbs
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Fredric Hobbs is known for pioneering an artistic style he termed ART ECO.
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Fredric Hobbs's work has been showcased at museums and galleries internationally, and his works are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
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Fredric Hobbs was born in Philadelphia on December 30,1931.
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In 1963, Fredric Hobbs created a radical new automobile art called "Parade Sculpture".
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Fredric Hobbs wrote, directed, and produced four films that received distribution: Troika, Roseland, Alabama's Ghost and Godmonster of Indian Flats.
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Copies of these films and other videorecordings Fredric Hobbs' directed or produced are held by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the American Genre Film Archive.
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In 1978, with Warren Hinckle, Fredric Hobbs wrote and illustrated The Richest Place on Earth, a history of Nevada's Comstock Lode in the 1860s and '70s, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
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Once an owner of the Silver Dollar Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, Fredric Hobbs had a long and multifaceted relationship with Virginia City and environs.
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Fredric Hobbs wrote and directed a film of the same title the same year, produced by the Virginia city Restoration Corporation.
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Fredric Hobbs' 1986 acrylic drawing "South Coast Series: Two Currents" is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's permanent collection.
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Fredric Hobbs died on April 25,2018, in Monterey County, California.