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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
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

May 15, 1956 - July 15, 1956
Venues
San Francisco Museum of Art
May 15, 1956 - July 15, 1956

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo.
August 15, 1956 - September 17, 1956

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
October 4, 1956 - November 4, 1956

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
December 4, 1956 - January 20, 1957

Cincinnati Art Museum
February 12, 1957 - March 13, 1957

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
March 9, 1957 - March 31, 1957

Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles
1957-05 - 1957-06

Exhibition InfoThis 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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