Introduction: Lawrence Alloway
Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Publication: 1962, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 56
Size: 125 x 240
Text: English
An Exhibition organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the occasion of London Week in San Fransisco. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 13 – December 16. Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, January 15 – February 17, 1963. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, March 7 – April 7, 1963.
Single page profile with monochrome illustration featuring the work of Gillian Ayres, Francis Bacon, Trevor Bell, Peter Blake, Sandra Blow, Denis Bowen, Harold Cohen, William Crozier, Alan Davie, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Terry Frost, William Gear, Adrian Heath, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, John Hoyland, Gwyther Irwin, Allan Jones, Peter Kinley, Stefan Knapp, Peter Lanyon, Loius Le Brocquy, Henry Mundy, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Peter Phillips, John Plumb, Ceri Richards, William Scott, Richard Smith, Peter Stroud, Graham Sutherland, Joe Tilson, William Turnbull, Bryan Wynter, Robet Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Hubert Dalwood, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth, F.E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, Brian Wall. A comprehensive showcase of the best of British contemporary art with a concise overview by Alloway.
(Foreword) This exhibition is the result of a visit to London by Mrs. Walter A. Haas, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Art. While in London this summer, she devoted considerable time and effort to ensure that an exhibition of British Art would be a major feature of San Francisco's London Week. With the encouragement of the Minister of the American Embassy, Mr. G. Lewis Jones, and Mr. George D. Culler, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art, I have tried to select the most representative and interesting British works available. The exhibition reflects what is in the forefront today. Some artists have been omitted because their work was not available. The wide variety of styles, which is characteristic of British contemporary art, has been its strength as well as its weakness, but its most noteworthy feature is its distinct individuality. The exhibit reflects primarily non-figurative art which is one of the dominant post-war tendencies of the British art scene.
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