Exhibitions

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era

May 20, 1977 – September 11, 1977

Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

2nd & 3rd Floors

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See more than 270 works by 199 artists that demonstrate the complex variety, scope and stature of art created in California from 1900 to 1976. Emphasis is given to artists who have been pioneers, including Arthur F. Mathews, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Nicolas Brigante, Clyfford Still, Oskar Fischinger, John McLaughlin, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, Peter Voulkos, Wallace Berman, Edward Kienholz, Robert Bechtle, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman and Wayne Thibaud.

A bicentennial version of the show was on view in California in 1976.

Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with collaboration of NCFA Curator Walter Hopps.

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