![]() In 1964, Serra was awarded a one-year traveling fellowship from Yale and went to Paris where he met the composer Philip Glass who became a collaborator and long-time friend. Serra taught a color theory course during his last year at Yale and after graduating was asked to help proof Josef Albers' notable color theory book "Interaction of Color." ![]() At Yale Serra met visiting artists from the New York School such as Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, and Frank Stella. Fellow Yale alumni include Chuck Close, Rackstraw Downs, Nancy Graves, Brice Marden, and Robert Mangold. Serra studied painting at Yale University and graduated with both a BA in Art History and an MFA in 1964. ![]() During this time, Serra worked in steel mills to earn a living. Both were in the Art Department and took Serra under their wing. In Santa Barbara, Serra met the muralists, Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw. Serra studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957 before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduating in 1961 with a BA in English Literature. He watched as the ship transformed from an enormous weight to a buoyant, floating structure and notes that: "All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory." Serra recounts a memory of a visit to the shipyard to see a boat launch when he was four years old. The young Serra would carry a small notebook for his sketches and his mother would introduce her son as "Richard the artist." His father worked as a pipe fitter for a shipyard near San Francisco. ![]() From a young age, he was encouraged to draw by his mother. Serra was born in San Francisco, California to Tony and Gladys Serra – the second of three sons. ![]()
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