April 24, 2008

Post donates paintings to PPIC

A. Alan Post, who served as the Legislature's top budget advisor for 27 years while becoming a world-reknowned landscape artist, has donated six of his paintings to the Public Policy Institute of California for display in PPIC's new Sacramento offices.

Post -- along with his wife, Helen, also a noted artist, and their family -- attended a reception Wednesday afternoon in which PPC's conference room was named in his honor. The 93-year-old Post delivered a lengthy memoir on how he happened to work for the first legislative budget analyst just before World War II broke out and then rejoined the office after serving in the military and became the analyst in 1949.

Elizabeth Hill, who is the fourth person to hold the job and announced recently that she's retiring herself, was among those who praised Post during the ceremonies.

Post served on PPIC's board when the research organization was founded in 1994. The paintings he donated were painted between 1939 and 1945 and are all California landscapes.

Posted by Dan Walters on April 24, 2008 2:18 PM