Richard Diebenkorn Exhibitions

Pacific Coast Art: United States' Representation at the Third Biennial of São Paulo

Pacific Coast Art: United States' Representation at the Third Biennial of São Paulo

  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 15 May 1956 - 15 July 1956
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo., 15 August 1956 - 17 September 1956
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 4 October 1956 - 4 November 1956
  • Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, 4 December 1956 - 20 January 1957
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, 12 February 1957 - 13 March 1957
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 9 March 1957 - 31 March 1957
  • Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1 May 1957 - 1 June 1957
This exhibition showed works from American artists along the West Coast, with an emphasis on the unique Pacific Coast school of abstract expressionism.

A catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition.

“Richard Diebenkorn’s view is closer to the dynamism of the experienced world, expressed in expansive, organic forms that correspond to landscape elements. He is aware of the kind of materialism stated by Courbet, and the rich corporeality of his surface is a metaphor for matter.” —Herschel B. Chipp for Art News (September 1956)

“ … enormous, very freely handled abstractions of Richard Diebenkorn which, if you back into the corridor, refer loosely to landscape.” —Miriam Dungan Cross for Oakland Tribune (3 June 1956)
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