American painter and teacher Paul Wonner was BOTD in 1920. Born in Tucson, Arizona, he studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, associating with a group of artists who became known as the Bay Area Figurative Movement. In 1952, while attending graduate school at Berkeley, he met fellow painter Theophilus Brown, who became his life partner. In 1956, Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys with bouquets, bringing him critical acclaim. He and Brown moved to Santa Monica in 1962, where he began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. They developed a mostly queer friendship circle, including May Sarton, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, William Inge and the New Zealand writer Janet Frame. By the end of the 1960s, he had abandoned his figurative style and focused exclusively on still lifes in a hyper-realist style. He died in 2008, one day short of his 88th birthday, survived by Brown. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.