Painter, printmaker, and illustrator Stan Washburn was born in New York City in 1943. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in Oakland, where he received his BFA in 1967 and his MFA in 1968. He has illustrated several books, and he continues to live and work in California. 

Selected solo exhibitions:
2013, 2011: ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002: Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998: The Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
1996, 1993: North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991, 1990, '88, '86, '83: Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986, 1981: Thackrey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985, 1980, '77, '75: Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA
1984, 1981, '78, ;74: Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1977: The Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; The St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
1974: Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1973: Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Public collections:
Achenback Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Chicago Art Institute, IL; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA; Houghton Library Print Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Library of Congree, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; New York Public Library, Print Division, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; W.R. Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.

Source: stanwashburn.com