Jack Boyd

Jack Boyd, son of Verlie Boyd, was born in San Diego in 1934. Jack grew up on the family ranch in Alpine with his brother Ronnie. A self-taught painter, sculptor and silversmith, Jack earned accolades as a teenager and joined up with the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego at a peak in artistic creativity of the local arts group.

At the same time that fellow Alpine residents, Lester Ramsay and William Lethbridge moved to the beaches and opened their Viejas La Jolla studio and retail store, Jack moved to Pacific Beach. Prior to opening his own workshop/studio, while still in his early 20s, Jack worked from the back room of Viejas on La Jolla Boulevard and contributed so some of their products including local commissions.

“At the time of his participation in the Viejas business… Boyd cultivated an association with La Jolla, where his target clientele lived and shopped. He lived on Chalcedony Street in Pacific Beach but maintained a La Jolla post office box and employed variations of the catchphrase "Arts of La Jolla" in his print marketing,” offers writer and curator Dave Hampton.

By the 1960s, Boyd was exhibiting and selling his work at La Jolla Art Center, Orrs Gallery, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery and the Dick Seeger Gallery (in Scottsdale), as well as in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Germany and Finland.