Keith Boyle is an American artist born in 1930 in Defiance, Ohio. He received his B.F.A. from Iowa State College, where he studied printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky.Upon graduation, Boyle moved to Palo Alto California, where he taught Fine Art at Stanford University from 1962 through 1986. During his tenure at Stanford, Boyle became a beloved mentor to many young artists, opening a large studio for his own work and for his students on campus. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work is now featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Boyle did not have an easy, nor linear trajectory to arrive at his signature artistic style. As ArtForum magazine stated: “The artist experimented with almost every contemporary idiom, until he arrived at a signature format that is at the same time novel and within the mainstream of 20th century painting.”Ultimately, with work in which one can also clearly see clearly see the additional influences of Matisse, Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn, Boyle’s experimentation took him to the breakthrough moment in which he arrived at a distinctively representative style.