Richard Diebenkorn Exhibitions
Westcoast: Art from the Vice President's House
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif., 15 March 1980 - 23 March 1980
- The Vice President's Residence and Office, Washington, D.C., 16 April 1980 - 1 February 1981
- National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 20 February 1981 - 5 May 1981
Curated by Henry Hopkins
The exhibition spanned "three major stylistic tendencies which prevailed in painting and sculpture in this area from the 1950's through the 1970's: Southern California purist abstraction, the Bay area preference for the figurative and the painterly, and the native and Oriental sensibility of the Northwest. It recognize[d] in addition the strong photographic tradition of the West Coast and the unique contribution made by California artists to the development of ceramic art." Among the other artists included in the show were Imogen Cunningham, Robert Arneson, and Betye Saar. —Essay by Mary Lou Friedman in the exhibition catalogue
The exhibition spanned "three major stylistic tendencies which prevailed in painting and sculpture in this area from the 1950's through the 1970's: Southern California purist abstraction, the Bay area preference for the figurative and the painterly, and the native and Oriental sensibility of the Northwest. It recognize[d] in addition the strong photographic tradition of the West Coast and the unique contribution made by California artists to the development of ceramic art." Among the other artists included in the show were Imogen Cunningham, Robert Arneson, and Betye Saar. —Essay by Mary Lou Friedman in the exhibition catalogue