JOEL BASS ART

1942-2019

Born in Los Angeles on December 23, 1942, to Ethel and Herbert Bass, Joel Bass attended the Art Center College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Tours France, and the University of Southern California School of Business. A lifelong accomplished artist, he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts on two occasions, in 1979 and 1987. His artwork is a part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art, in New York; National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, in California; the Fort Worth Art Center, in Texas; the Des Moines Art Center, in Iowa; and the Greenville Center for Art, in North Carolina.