After the war, back in San Francisco, Bischoff found himself once more in the midst of avant-garde artistic ebullience - mixing, among other painters (and to name but two), with such artists as Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still.
1951 in San Francisco sees Abstract Expressionist art of Elmer Bischoff, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn etc., starts to focus on the paint as subject in his work
At this time she honed her technique at the Vermont Studio Colony with Stanley Boxer, George McLean and Elmer Bischoff and with Elizabeth Lyons in Tuscany, Italy.
Elmer Fudd | Elmer Snowden | Elmer Gantry | Eric Bischoff | Elmer Gantry (film) | Elmer Bischoff | Elmer's Pet Rabbit | Elmer Rice | Elmer Livingston MacRae | Elmer Lach | Elmer Bernstein | James Elmer Mitchell | Elmer Woggon | Elmer Thomas | Elmer Keith | Elmer Grey | Elmer "Gloomy Gus" Henderson | Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer | Winfried Bischoff | Paul Elmer More | Elmer Wexler | Elmer Towns | Elmer the Great Dane | Elmer Scipio Dundy | Elmer Robinson | Elmer Kelton | Elmer Iseler Singers | Elmer E. Ellsworth | Elmer Dessens | Elmer C. Nelson |
He studied at the Monterey Peninsula College, California, the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and San José College (arts and humanities) subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley, a.o. with David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn In 1967 B. A. in Philosophy, in 1969 M.A. in arts .
At the California College of Arts and Crafts Villierme studied under David Park, Harry Krell, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn.