Anthony Meier, in co-representation with von Bartha, is honored to announce the representation of the estate of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (1928–2024), the groundbreaking American artist whose work across painting, drawing, design, and architecture redefined perceptions of space and continues to shape the visual language of contemporary culture.

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (1928–2024) was a visionary American artist and designer whose work across painting, drawing, design, and architecture transformed how art defines and inhabits space. Internationally recognized as the originator of Supergraphics—monumental wall paintings that merge art and architecture—she was, above all, a painter and thinker whose formal rigor, wit, and conceptual clarity shaped modern visual culture. A third-generation San Franciscan, she studied painting with David Park at the San Francisco Art Institute and Hans Hofmann at the Art Students League in New York, then trained in design under Armin Hofmann at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Returning to California in the 1960s, she introduced Helvetica to the United States and developed a modernist sensibility that fused European precision with West Coast experimentation.

Stauffacher Solomon conceived her Supergraphics at The Sea Ranch (1964) alongside life-long friend and collaborator, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, and achieved great acclaim with subsequent public projects including Promenade Ribbon (1995), (1995), San Francisco Embarcadero with Vito Acconci and Stanley Saitowitz, and Turia Gardens (1996), Valencia, Spain with Ricardo Bofill. She later studied architecture at UC Berkeley, publishing Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden (1988), and received the Rome Prize and an NEA Distinguished Design Fellowship. Her work has been featured at the Whitney Museum, Venice Biennale, Walker Art Center, SFMOMA, BAMPFA, the Graham Foundation, LAX Art, Marin MOCA, and the Palm Springs Art Museum. A posthumous mural along Minna Street, San Francisco, adjacent to SFMOMA, will debut in 2027 as part of the Minna-Natoma Art Corridor Project. A dedicated educator at institutions including UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, ILAUD, California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute, Solomon left an enduring legacy that continues to inspire artists, designers, and architects alike.