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Harmony Hammond - Albuquerque Journal / Journal
  • Dec 17, 2011
  • 4 min

The Bay Window - San Francisco's Influence can be seen through Artists' Works

Bay Area Abstraction: 1945-1965” featuring paintings by Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell and Charles Strong is the best exhibition to date that I’ve seen at David Richard Contemporary. They always have some good work, but the space is usually so overhung and cluttered that it is impossible to see anything. This time, thankfully, there was no sculpture to back into or get in the way of the paintings. While New York is considered the center of Post-War American Art, abstract expr
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Richard Tobin - THE Magazine
  • Nov 30, 2011
  • 4 min

Bay Area Abstraction 1945 - 1965

The bearer of its passion. Locus is Latin for “place”—“where it’s happening,” in English—as in: “By the early 1950s,New York had emerged as the locus of Postwar abstraction.” In his introduction to 50 West Coast Artists, published three decades later (1981) by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, its director framed “the question of local designation” as an abiding problem for art history as well as for artists and the art world: “It seems to emerge from the unspoken and c
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Bay Area Abstraction: 1945 - 1965
David Richard Contemporary
  • Nov 11, 2011
  • 8 min

Bay Area Abstraction: 1945 - 1965

Click here to view catalog BAY AREA ABSTRACTION: 1945-1965 by David Eichholtz Abstract Expressionism dominated Post-War American art and was explored in parallel on the two coasts—in New York with notable figures such as Pollock, DeKooning, Motherwell, and Newman, and in San Francisco with painters such as Diebenkorn, Francis, Bischoff, Dugmore, Smith, Jefferson and Lobdell. There were striking similarities in the work produced from the two cities in terms of thick gestural b
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Antiques and The Arts Weekly
  • Nov 11, 2011
  • 2 min

'Bay Area Abstraction: 1945 - 1965' at David Richard Contemporary

SANTA FE, N.M. — David Richard Contemporary will present "Bay Area Abstraction: 1945-1965," an exhibition featuring the work of Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell and Charles Strong. The exhibition opens November 11 with a reception from 5 to 7 pm and remains on view until December 31. Abstract Expressionism dominated postwar American art and was explored in parallel on the two coasts — in New York with notable figures such as Pollock, De Kooning, Motherwell and Newman, and in San
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