Howard Bradford was born in Toronto, Canada in 1919. He received formal art training at the Chouinard Art Institute, the Jepson Art Institute, as well as the San Francisco Art Institute. He lived in Big Sur for 10 years before he moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1957. In 1960, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative print making. Bradford joined the Carmel Art Association in 1970, serving on the Board of Directors for several years. Bradford’s work has been exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Library of Congress, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Bradford cited Franz Kline, George Rouault, and Rico Le Brun as key artistic influences.