Younger American Painters
1954–1956
Venues
Exhibition InfoCurated by James Johnson SweeneySolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Portland Art Museum, Ore.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
San Francisco Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans
May 12, 1954
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September 26, 1954
Portland Art Museum, Ore.
September 2, 1955
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October 9, 1955
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
October 16, 1955
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November 13, 1955
San Francisco Museum of Art
November 15, 1955
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January 22, 1956
Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles
February 1, 1956
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February 29, 1956
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
March 9, 1956
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April 10, 1956
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans
April 15, 1956
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May 20, 1956
The group exhibition was Diebenkorn's first showing in New York. A catalogue was published on its occasion.
"Much of the most vigourous of the unsung talent came from the West Coast. In the Pacific Northwest he found a remarkably strong collector's market for new young art, and a correspondingly strong group of artists. In California, on the other hand, a large group of coming artists has grown out of nothing. With little general interest, little support, few galleries, young painters have collected there apparently in recognition of good university art schools, and of the creative friction on each other of their talents. The paintings in the show of the nine San Francisco Bay area painters...have, for the most part, a wide-open flair, smashing colour or smashing line, an uninhibited vigour. Largely abstract to the innocent eye, these paintings stirred Mr. Sweeney to announce that he was surprised at how representational they were. Identifying a huge umbrous squiggle as a still-life, he added, 'After all, they have to have been something.'" —Glamour magazine (June 1954)
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