"The bond that bonded artists into community" is in what way John Altoon is remembered today, not barely by his contemporaries in Southern California but at countless members of the generation that followed. Rough-hewn in the two manner and physique, Altoon, whose exhibition of female [i]in puris naturalibus[/i]s was held early this year at the Braunstein/Quai Gallery in San Francisco, was a charismatic figure whose capacity for warmth, gregariousness and unmitigated beatitude made him a legend after his death in 1969 at the age of 43
