Lee Michael AltmanLee Altman was raised in Washington state. He belonged to an early ecological sportsman group and spent time in the woods hiking, fishing, and understanding nature. His artistic influences were the nature mysticism of the painters Tobey and Graves an the poet Roethke. In the early 60s he studied poetry with Elizabeth Bishop and Galway Kinnell. Lived in San Francisco in the late 60s during the artistic cultural revolution. Traveled and lived in Mexico and the Southwest. Received his BFA at the University of Washington. He completed his MFA degree at Stanford University where he studied with the painters and printmakers Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. Went on to teach at Stanford, CCA, SFAI, and Saint Mary's College. Read More Read Less