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Jesse Sharp

This was originally in the collection of Marcelle Labaudt, the widow of noted San Francisco artist, art professor, muralist, and collector Lucien Labaudt. Following her husband's 1943 death while on assignment as a war correspondent in World War II, Marcelle opened the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery at 1407 Gough St. in his memory. From 1943 to 1980, the gallery showcased unknown, up-and-coming young artists from the Bay Area.

Jesse Sharp is loosely referred to as a poet, artist, and adventurer by Beat poet Robert Lavigne, who also stated that Sharp was part Apache, born in Pueblo, Colorado, and had once been a coal miner. Thus far, none of this information has been verified, though there was an artist by the name of Jesse Sharp who exhibited at the Batman Gallery in San Francisco in the early 1960s along with other Beat Generation artists.

The Annex Galleries hopes to learn more about Jesse Sharp, in order to complete a biography of the talented artist's life.