Richard Diebenkorn Exhibitions
California Painting: 40 Painters
- Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, Calif., 5 June 1956 - 26 June 1956
- Atlanta Public Library, 10 July 1956 - 31 July 1956
- Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, 2 October 1956 - 22 October 1956
- North Carolina State College, Raleigh, 4 November 1956 - 25 November 1956
- Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Fla., 9 December 1956 - 3 January 1957
- Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 17 January 1957 - 10 February 1957
- University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1 April 1957 - 22 April 1957
- Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, 5 May 1957 - 26 May 1957
- Utah State Student Union, Logan, 1 September 1957 - 22 September 1957
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 6 October 1957 - 1 November 1957
- Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 10 November 1957 - 1 December 1957
Organized by the Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, with the San Francisco Museum of Art, and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C.
Curated by Samuel Heavenrich and Grace L. McCann Morley
A catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition.
After the first venue, the exhibition was titled California Painting.
“‘What I paint often seems to pertain to landscape but I try to avoid any rationalization of this either in my painting or in later thinking about it. I’m not a landscape painter (at this time, at any rate) or I would paint landscape directly.
‘I don’t object to verbalizing about painting or feel that words damage it. I am simply aware of and (with my first paragraph in mind) wary of the scant and often absurb [sic] relationship between painters’ works and their verbal stances and self-justifications.’” —Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue for “California Painting: 40 Painters” (1956)
Curated by Samuel Heavenrich and Grace L. McCann Morley
A catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition.
After the first venue, the exhibition was titled California Painting.
“‘What I paint often seems to pertain to landscape but I try to avoid any rationalization of this either in my painting or in later thinking about it. I’m not a landscape painter (at this time, at any rate) or I would paint landscape directly.
‘I don’t object to verbalizing about painting or feel that words damage it. I am simply aware of and (with my first paragraph in mind) wary of the scant and often absurb [sic] relationship between painters’ works and their verbal stances and self-justifications.’” —Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue for “California Painting: 40 Painters” (1956)