BODEGA, Calif. (AP) — Wally Hedrick, an iconoclastic artist and leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, has died. He was 75.
Hedrick died of congestive heart failure at his home in Sonoma County on Dec. 17, his family said.
Hedrick was a prolific painter whose works shared gallery space with painters such as Jackson Pollock, Bruce Conner, Jay De Feo and Deborah Remington.
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He founded The Six Gallery, a major hangout for artists and writers of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. It was there that Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time.