A lecture presented on March 4, 2014 in conjunction with the Representational Art Conference -- TRAC2014 -- in Ventura, California. Presenter John Seed recounts the origins of the postwar figurative art in the Bay Area and shows examples of works by David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Brown, Paul Wonner, William Theophilus Brown, James Weeks and Nathan Oliveira.