Bruce Porter

Porter was raised in the East Bay town of Martinez, where his father was the editor of the local newspaper.

[1] His tonalist paintings, which are rare, include Man and Nature (1903) and Presidio Cliffs which was exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1915).

His many murals include those at the Pacific Union Club on Nob Hill and the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco.

Porter's sculptures include the Robert Louis Stevenson monument at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco, and the Memorial Arch (1919) on Saratoga-Los Gatos Road in Saratoga, California.

For two years, 1895 to 1897, Porter, along with Gelett Burgess and William Doxey, published the literary magazine The Lark.