Prof. Steen is a multi-degreed Independent Art Historian (full 66 page Resume on request) working on the paintings of the Seventeenth Century Dutch master and ancestor, Jan Steen. He is a specialist and conducts classes on Seventeenth Century Dutch painting as well as Nineteenth Century French and Twentieth Century painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, photography, graphics and cinema. Most of his research is conducted at The Getty Research Institute. He is also an art and museum educator, critic, curator, former museum director, and former instructor of art history at California State University at Fullerton, U.C.L.A. Extension and has been an adjunct lecturer for the J. Paul Getty Museum Education Department. He has conducted art history lectures, classes and tours in Southern California and art study trips to Northern California, New York, Chicago, and Europe, including France, Holland, and Italy. He conducts four private art history study classes in the spring and fall and a contemporary art salon on Southern California art in the summer of each year as part of Steen Art Study (see About Steen Art Study section). He has lectured in all major Southern California museums as well as national and international museums. In 1982, Prof. Steen received the "Outstanding Achievement in Museum Education Award," from the Museum Educators of Southern California organization and in 1997 he received the "Founding President 1979-1982 Award" from the same organization. Currently he is documenting Post Modernism: Supra-Naturalism in the work of Southern California painters and sculptors. This is a realist and figurative movement on the west coast, specifically abundant in Southern California, San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego, and in that order of prominence. Some of the movements characteristics are realism, figuration, still-life, landscape, high craftsmanship of drawing, painting, sculpture, execution, as well as the elevation of contemporary late twentieth century and early twenty-first century philosophical issues relating to moral, ethical and spiritual themes.