San Francisco: Portrait of a City, 1940–1960

In “San Francisco, Portrait of a City 1940–1960”, Fred Lyon captures the iconic landscapes and one‑of‑a-kind personalities that transformed the city by the bay into a legend. Lyon's anecdotes and personal remembrances, including sly portraits of San Francisco characters such as writer Herb Caen, painters Richard Diebenkorn and Jean Varda, and madame and former mayor of Sausalito Sally Stanford add an artist's first‑hand view to this portrait of a classic American city.