Serra studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957 before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduating in 1961 with a BA in English Literature. He watched as the ship transformed from an enormous weight to a buoyant, floating structure and notes that: "All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory." ![]() Serra recounts a memory of a visit to the shipyard to see a boat launch when he was four years old. The young Serra would carry a small notebook for his sketches and his mother would introduce her son as "Richard the artist." His father worked as a pipe fitter for a shipyard near San Francisco. From a young age, he was encouraged to draw by his mother. ![]() ![]() Serra was born in San Francisco, California to Tony and Gladys Serra – the second of three sons.
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