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The Art of Elmer Bischoff 10/19/2002 - 12/22/2002 In the San Francisco area during the late 1940s and early 1950s, Elmer Bischoff co-founded the Bay Area School of painting with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. Bischoff emerged as the most independent and daring of the three, moving from bold abstraction in the late 1940s, to large-scale and vividly colored figure painting in the 1950s and 1960s, before unexpectedly returning to abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s. Elmer Bischoff is organized by the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibition and accompanying book were made possible with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., the Judith Rothschild Foundation, the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The local presentation of this exhibition is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Local media support is provided by the Palm Beach Daily News and WXEL-TV42 and 90.7FM. West Palm Beach, FL - The Norton Museum of Art is the exclusive East Coast venue for the major retrospective of the work of Elmer Bischoff, who in the late 1940s co-founded the Bay Area School of Painting with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. The Art of Elmer Bischoff is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to the artist, featuring 61 works from his long and celebrated career. The exhibition presents such seminal Bischoff paintings as Two Figures at the Seashore, 1957 and a number of works from the Bischoff family, including Woman with Orange Umbrella, 1958 and Figure with Blue Curtain, 1955 that have rarely been seen by the public. This important exhibition, covering more than 5,000 square feet of gallery space, will be on view in the Norton's main building from October 19th through December 22nd, 2002. Dr. Susan Landauer, curator of the exhibition, and author of Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint, and the leading scholar on the Bay Area figurative movement will lecture at the Norton Museum of Art on Sunday, October 27th at 3:00 p.m. Kevin Sharp, Norton Museum of Art's curator of American art, comments, "This is one of the most extraordinary exhibitions I have participated in since joining the Museum four years ago. We are fortunate to have attracted this special exhibition to the East Coast, and I look forward to introducing Museum visitors to this bold colorist; this incredibly exciting artist. Susan Landauer is a leading authority on Bischoff and the Bay Area School of Painting, and she has selected an exhibition that will delight anyone who appreciates painters of real virtuosity. I think that The Art of Elmer Bischoff is one of this year's most impressive and satisfying shows." Elmer Bischoff: At the end of World War II, Elmer Bischoff returned from military service to his native San Francisco. Joining the faculty of the California School of Fine Arts, Bischoff met fellow painters and future co-founders of the Bay Area School, Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. Throughout the late 1940s, Bischoff painted boldly colored abstract canvases, influenced by the avant-garde theories of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, and especially by Clifford Still and Mark Rothko, who had strong ties to California. Bischoff gradually moved away from complete abstraction, and in the 1950s and 1960s, he produced an impressive oeuvre that included nudes, beach scenes, domestic interiors and landscapes that retained the large size, vivid color, and the rich surfaces of his earlier work. These remarkable paintings were the first to bring Bischoff national and international acclaim, and when grouped with the work of Diebenkorn and Park, revealed an important and appealing West Coast School of Painting. After years of critical and popular success as a figure painter, Bischoff bravely moved back to abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s. His late monumental abstractions were the summation of a career that was spent mining the imagination and seeking the expressive potential of oil and acrylic paint. Elmer Bischoff died in 1991 at the age of 74 in Berkeley, California Exhibition Curator: The Art of Elmer Bischoff was curated by Dr. Susan Landauer, Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, California. She is a prolific author and has won two major awards from the International Association of Art Critics for past exhibitions on Bay Area artists. Exhibition Catalogue: Written by Dr. Susan Landauer, the accompanying 210-page catalogue, Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint, features over 200 full-color pages of the artist's life, a bibliography and documentary photographs. It is published by the University of California Press. Exhibition Credits: The Art of Elmer Bischoff was organized by the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibition and accompanying book were made possible with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., the Judith Rothschild Foundation, the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The local presentation of this exhibition is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Local media support is provided by the Palm Beach Daily News and WXEL-TV42 and 90.7FM. 
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