Leslie (Les) Kerr (1934-1992) was included in the Oakland Museum’s 1964 group show Pop Art and the Whitney Annual in 1967, and showed at Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery in 1957 and 1958. He had five solo shows at San Francisco’s famed Dilexi Gallery in the 60s, and was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s seminal 1962 exhibition Fifty California Artists. He also showed at two of New York’s era-defining 60s galleries: at Bianchini Gallery in 1964 and at Green Gallery in 1963. Kerr received his MFA from UCLA in 1958. His works are in the permanent collections of the SFMOMA, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Crocker Art Museum, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, and the di Rosa Collection.