Fredric Hobbs

Fredric Hobbs (December 30, 1931 - April 25, 2018) was an American artist and filmmaker. He is known for pioneering an artistic style he termed ART ECO. His work has been showcased at museums and galleries internationally, and his works are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. These films were in part experimental platforms for Hobbs' other work, for example, Troika is a film about a fictionalized Hobbs attempting to fund and make a film titled Troika, and the titular "godmonster" of Godmonster of Indian Flats was depicted using a sculpture made by Hobbs himself.

In 1978, with Warren Hinckle, Hobbs wrote and illustrated The Richest Place on Earth, a history of Nevada's Comstock Lode in the 1860s and '70s, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Once an owner of the Silver Dollar Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, Hobbs had a long and multifaceted relationship with Virginia City and environs. He also wrote and directed a film of the same title the same year, produced by the Virginia city Restoration Corporation.

Hobbs' 1986 acrylic drawing "South Coast Series: Two Currents" is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's permanent collection. It was last exhibited there in 1987.

Hobbs died on April 25, 2018, in Monterey County, California.

Filmography Trojan Horse (1969) (writer and director) Troika (1969) (writer, director, producer) Roseland: A Fable (1970) (writer, director, producer) Alabama's Ghost (1972) (writer, director, producer) Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973) (writer, director, producer) The Richest Place on Earth (1978) (writer and director) FASTFUTURE I (1992) and 2 (2001) (director), for KCRB TV