Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition

Circulated nationally by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., to the venues above among other unknown ones

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)