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Serra has said took inspiration from the artists who taught there, including Philip Guston, composer Morton Feldman, and painter Josef Albers.

Fellow Yale alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Janet Fish, and Sylvia and Robert Mangold. program at the Yale School of Art between 19.

Serra helped support himself by working in steel mills, strongly influencing his later work. At UCSB, he studied art with Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun. Serra studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957 before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with a B.A. His mother, Gladys Feinberg, was born in Los Angeles to Russian Jewish immigrants from Odessa and later became a housewife. Serra described the San Francisco shipyard where his father worked as a pipefitter as an important influence on his work. His father, Tony, was a Spanish native of Mallorca who worked as a candy factory foreman and in steel mills. Serra was born on November 2, 1938, in San Francisco, the second of three sons.