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Mel Ramos (b.1935, Sacamento / CA, d., 2018, Oakland, California) lived in Oakland, CA and Horta de San Juan, Spain. He was a painter of Pinup-Girls ('Commercial Pin-Ups'), who together with Andy Warhol, Roy Liechtenstein or James Rosenquist was a co-founder of the Pop Art. Mel Ramos studied at the San Jose State College and at the Sacramento State College. He taught at the Sacramento State College, Sacramento , at the Arizona State University, Tempe, and at the California State University, Hayward.