Other than a 1991 Diebenkorn exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, is it fair to say that the British public has had very little opportunity prior to your show to see works from the Bay
Area Figurative tradition?
He became friends and colleagues with Terry St John, Denis Hare, Christopher Brown, Anthony Dubovsky and other exponents of the Bay
Area figurative tradition.
Bechtle began painting directly from the photograph in the early 60s as an alternative to the personal expressionism of the Bay
Area Figurative tradition.
Not exact matches
In the Bay
Area, artists Joan Brown (MATRIX 24) and William Wiley among many others carry on a
figurative tradition established in the fifties by David Park, Richard Diebenkorn (MATRIX 40) and Elmer Bischoff (MATRIX 55).