List of San Pedro artists

Artists from San Pedro are found in museums and galleries around the world.

• Craig Keith Antrim is a graduate of Claremont graduate school. His work is in the collection of the Getty, LACMA, and Cocoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.^[1][2]
• Elmer Albert Batters (1919–1997): Famous fashion and glamour photographer^[3]
• Mark “Mr. Cartoon” Machado: Mexican-American artist of designs, sneakers, tattoos, Joker Brand clothing, album covers, video game atmospheres, and public works^[4][5]
• William Crutchfield is an internationally known artist in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. A Fulbright Scholarship funded his studies in Hamburg, Germany from 1960 to 1962. William Crutchfield's work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.^[6]
• Jay Meuser (1911–1963): Artistic painter who commenced residing in San Pedro in 1944. In his honor, a bronze plaque is mounted on a building in the heart of the art gallery district at 343 West Seventh Street—the 100th anniversary of his birth was September 28, 2011.^[7][8]
• Jay McCafferty. McCafferty practices a method of solar burning, done on the roof of his San Pedro studio. In the process, he rubs pastel on paper. Focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass, he creates a loose grid on his finished work. McCafferty was included in the Getty PST exhibition at Laguna Art Museum last year. His impressive resume stretches back more than 30 years and represents a massive body of work with exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country.^[9]
• Scott Stantis: Editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and USA Today who created the comic strips, "The Buckets" and "Prickly City". Stantis resided in San Pedro between 1977 and 1986, and was married to a woman from the city—he now resides in Chicago, US.^[10][11]
• Misty Copeland: One of the first African-American female soloists with the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland has also been described as the muse of popular musician Prince.^[12]
• Eugene L. Daub Sculptor of the statue of Rosa Parks, installed in the US Capitol building, 2013. Daub created the statue with his partner Rob Firmin. Daub is a recognized contemporary figure sculptor. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and taught there. He has been an instructor at the Scottsdale Artists’ School, and designer of the first Philadelphia Liberty Medal, which that city awards every year to a champion of world peace.^[13]

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