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for Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition
Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition
1957–1958
Venues
Exhibition InfoCirculated nationally by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., to the venues above among other unknown onesSanta Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash.
Portland Art Museum, Ore.
September 10, 1957
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October 13, 1957
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
October 26, 1957
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January 1, 1958
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash.
January 15, 1958
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February 9, 1958
Portland Art Museum, Ore.
February 20, 1958
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March 20, 1958
Juried by Joseph Pulitzer Jr. and Andrew C. Ritchie among others
Richard Diebenkorn's Woman and Checkerboard (pictured left; catalogue raisonné no. 2081) won the Women’s Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Award of Merit at the biennial. A catalogue was also produced.
"10 SEPTEMBER–13 OCTOBER: Woman and Checkerboard (cat. 2081) wins the Women's Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Award of Merit at the 'Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition' at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. and Andrew C. Ritchie are jurors. The painting is reproduced and mentioned in 'Arts Magazine.' After Santa Barbara, the show will travel to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. Arthur Millier comments that the work 'shows one of the leaders of the West Coast nonobjective painting now returning to figures and objects. But his "subject" still is energy expressed in terms of space.'" —Chronology from Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 2016)
“…a painting so solidly visual that its two-dimensionality hits one with the impact of three.” —Sarah Grissom for ARTS Magazine (February 1958)
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