California Painting: 40 Painters

1956–1957

Venues

Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, Calif.

June 5, 1956 - June 26, 1956

Atlanta Public Library

July 10, 1956 - July 31, 1956

Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute

October 2, 1956 - October 22, 1956

North Carolina State College, Raleigh

November 4, 1956 - November 25, 1956

Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Fla.

December 9, 1956 - January 3, 1957

Speed Art Museum, Louisville

January 17, 1957 - February 10, 1957

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

April 1, 1957 - April 22, 1957

Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy

May 5, 1957 - May 26, 1957

Utah State Student Union, Logan

September 1, 1957 - September 22, 1957

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

October 6, 1957 - 1957-11

Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

November 10, 1957 - December 1, 1957

Exhibition InfoOrganized 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)
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