Richard Diebenkorn Exhibitions
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950–1965
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 14 December 1989 - 4 February 1990
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 13 June 1990 - 9 September 1990
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 5 October 1990 - 30 December 1990
A catalogue was published on occasion of the group exhibition.
"The visitor will be struck by a palpable sense of esthetic camaraderie, almost of such collaboration as might be found in a survey of Fauvist or Cubist works. The show speaks clearly of a close-knit circle of artists working on a shared problem—how to parlay Abstract Expressionism’s innovative scale, shallow pictorial space and outspoken brushwork into a viable figurative style, one that reflected the world at large as much as the artist’s private encounter with the canvas." —Roberta Smith, New York Times (August 29, 1990)
"The visitor will be struck by a palpable sense of esthetic camaraderie, almost of such collaboration as might be found in a survey of Fauvist or Cubist works. The show speaks clearly of a close-knit circle of artists working on a shared problem—how to parlay Abstract Expressionism’s innovative scale, shallow pictorial space and outspoken brushwork into a viable figurative style, one that reflected the world at large as much as the artist’s private encounter with the canvas." —Roberta Smith, New York Times (August 29, 1990)