Charles Stafford Duncan

Charles Stafford Duncan (1892–1952) was a San Francisco painter and lithographer perhaps best known for his mural in the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. He won the Benjamin Altman Prize from the National Academy of Design in 1937. Early in his career, Charles Stafford Duncan worked at the advertising firm Foster & Kleiser under another Charles Duncan. This has caused some researchers to confuse them with one another. His painting style was modernist, and was affiliated with other left-leaning, bohemian San Francisco artists who gathered around Diego Rivera, including Otis Oldfield and Ralph Stackpole. He created the murals for the basement women's smoking lounge.

He was a resident of San Francisco until 1945, when he moved to Sausalito, California. Beaux Arts Gallery (San Francisco), 1927, 1928; de Young Museum, 1935; California Pacific International Exposition, 1935; San Francisco Museum of Art (now called San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMoMA), 1935, 1938 (solo), 1950, 1952; National Academy of Design (NAD), 1937 (prize), Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE), 1939; Seattle Museum, 1940

Memberships San Francisco Art Association (SFAA); California Society of Etchers; Bohemian Club