Framed figural oil on board by San Francisco artist Stefan Shapona. In Stevan Shapona's realist paintings of the figure, one finds qualities of light, color and composition that are not often seen in work by the artists of today. "I'm a traditionalist," says Shapona. "My aim is to take a concern for formal values on one hand and a concern for representing the human figure on the other. My hope is to harmoniously combine these two concerns." Shapona, a native of San Francisco, has strong formal training. He has studied with a number of well-known Bay Area artists and in New York and Washington. His degree is from San Jose State University. He has painted portraits, still lifes and a series of tonalist landscapes reminiscent of the Barbizon school. But it is figure work that has commanded his attention in recent years. Dimensions are 23" wide x 27" high to outside of frame, painting measures 14" wide x 18" high to edge of matt. Signed en verso.