Six more : an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 24 - August 25, 1963

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

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AN EXHIBITION AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

SPONSORED BY THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS COUNCIL

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JULY 24-AUGUST 25 1963

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Warren M. Dorn,
Chairman
Frank G. Bonelli
Burton W. Chase

Ernest E. Debs

Kenneth Hahn

Lindon S. Hollinger,

Chief Administrative Officer

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Board of Trustees

Edward W. Carter, President

Howard E Ahmanson

David E. Bright

Sidney E Brody

Richard F. Brown

Justin Dart

Charles E. Ducommun

C. V. Duff

John Jewett Garland

Mrs. Freeman Gates

Ed N. Harrison

David W. Hearst

Roger W. Jessup

Joseph B. Koepfli

Mrs. Rudolph Liebig

Maurice A. Machris

Charles O. Matcham

Dr. Franklin D. Murphy

John R. Pemberton

A. Raborn Phillips, Jr.

Vincent Price

John R. Rex

Willian T. Sesnon, Jr.

William J. Sheffler

Norton Simon

Mrs. Kellogg Spear

Maynard Toll

Dr. Ruf us B. von Kleinsmid

Mrs. Stuart E. Weaver, Jr.

Dr. M. Norvel Young

Executive Committee of the
Contemporary Art Council

Gifford Phillips

President

Frederick R. Weisman

Vice President

Mrs. Stanley Freeman

Secretary

Harry Sherwood

Treasurer

Dr. Nathan Alpers

Mrs. Leonard Asher

Michael Blankfort

Donald Factor

Mrs. Melvin Hirsh

Melvin Hirsh

Mrs. Michael Levee, Jr.

Michael Levee, Jr.

Mrs. Gifford Phillips

Mrs. John Rex

Mrs. Henry C. Rogers

Henry C. Rogers

Taft Schreiber

Mrs. Harry Sherwood

Richard Sherwood

Milton Sperling

Donald Winston

James Elliott, ex officio

LOS ANGELES COUWV
MUSEUM OF ART

foreword

The exhibition six more includes paintings by artists working in Cali-
fornia and was conceived for simultaneous presentation here with SIX
PAINTERS AND THE OBJECT, an exhibition in which all of the paintings
were done by artists working in or near New York. The two exhibitions
were selected by Lawrence Alloway, Curator of the Solomon R. Guggen-
heim Museum, where Six painters and the object was shown earlier
in the year. In choosing the artists to be represented in each exhibition,
Mr. Alloway used the same principle of stressing pop art painting and
omitting object makers for reasons he has outlined in the introduction to
the catalog of the New York exhibition. The resulting combination of exhi-
bitions provides then a sensitive and well-reasoned survey and a compari-
son of pop art painting on the East and West Coasts.

The Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
the sponsor of both exhibitions in Los Angeles, was organized about two
years ago to encourage and help support a contemporary art program
within the Museum's overall historical program. With an aim stated in its
by-laws of "giving particular attention to the evolution of new forms and
conceptions in the work of living artists and their immediate antecedents,"
the program carried out under the Contemporary Art Council's sponsor-
ship has included six exhibitions and has made possible important
advances in the Museum's educational activities and in the acquisition of
works for the permanent collection.

On behalf of the Council I would like to express appreciation to the artists,
collectors and galleries listed on the following page for their generous
cooperation in lending works for the exhibition. james Elliott

lenders to the exhibition

The Ahrams Family Collection, New York; The L. M. Asher Family, Los
Angeles; Leo Castelli, N'ew York; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Factor, Beverly
Hills; Mr. and Mrs. Monte Factor, Los Angeles; Phillip Hefferton, Los
Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hopps, Pasadena; Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kelly, Sacramento ; Mr. and Mrs. Steven Paine, Boston; Melvin Ramos,
Sacramento ; Mr. and Mrs. Alan Slifka, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Allan
Stone, Neiv York; Wayne Thiebaud, Sacramento ; Dr. Leopold Tuchman,
Beverly Hills.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Fergus Gallery, Los Angeles; Rolf Nelson
Gallery, Los Angeles; Allan Stone Gallery, Neiv York.

SIX more lawrence alloway

This exhibition is devoted to painters, not object-makers, and it is as neces-
sary to make this distinction on the West Coast as it is on the East Coast.
There has been a tendency to confuse object-makers with the painters who
use known signs and common objects. To summarize the differences very
quickly, however. West Coast object-makers are concerned with delapida-
tion (both of artifacts and of images of the human figure) and with the
evocation of disaster. Toys are treated as the monuments of a decHning
civilization and dolls simulate rapes and mutilations. Twin threads of
American Gothic (Poe) and of social protest are present. The family vault
of the Ushers is, in this compound, blended with fall-out shelters ; family
curses with the human condition. Characteristically West Coast object-
makers exhort the spectator while, at the same time, their works seem
to subside in decays The painters in this exhibition, however, work in
another way, avoiding nostalgia and anger ; the supermarket or Pacific
Ocean Park rather than the crypt or the junk shop is their scene.

In one way or another, mass communications provide subject matter for
these painters. It is not that they expect to reach a mass audience ;
obviously their audience is the same as the audience for art. In New York,
for instance, Andy Warhol may paint Troy Donahue, but his work is not
distributed like Troy's movies nor seen by the readers of the fan magazines
that Troy appears in. Warhol is, like any artist, shown in a gallery, bought
by art collectors, not teen-agers, and written about by art critics, and not
by Hedda Hopper. What has happened is that independently and simul-
taneously various painters extended their choice of subject-matter to
include the dimension of heroes, signs, and objects that they have in
common with other Americans. Until recently, the mass media have not
been accepted by artists as a usable part of their environment. The main
approaches to the subject have been Marxist, Freudian, or sociological.
(1) To the Marxist the mass media are intended to drug the minds of the
masses (you and me) with vitiating dreams ; (2) to the Freudian the mass
media are receptacles of antique fantasy; and (3) to the sociologist the
media are an index of hidden assumptions and shifting opinion. It is worth
recording, in view of the cultural inertia which attracts art critics to the

Wayne Thiebaud

34. JAWBREAKER MACHINE. 26" x 3iy2'
Lent by Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

first two of these approaches, that the decision by artists to approach the
mass media objectively, in a spirit of acceptance, called for originality and
rigour, opposing the habits and reflexes of both American and European
intellectuals.

Pop art, as the tendency looks like being called for a while, has been con-
sistently misunderstood by its critics and, maybe, by those who like it.
It is often represented as antithetical to abstract art, and sometimes as its
heir. It is true that connections that can be made, for instance, between the
large single color fields of Barnett Newman and those of Joe Goode and
Edward Ruscha in this exhibition (and with Jim Dine in New York, of
course). This does not mean, however, that the strength of pop art derives
simply from one preceding style. A common error is involved here, which
consists in assuming that there is one main, correct, proper style at any
One historical moment. If you think that only abstract or expressionistic
art has the sanction of history, pop art seems to be an invader or a distrac-
tion. In fact, this monolithic view is untenable in historical terms. The
fact is, modern artists exist in a situation of multiple choice ; each artist
is faced with various possibilities, of equal historical availability. The
spectrum of choice includes abstract art, of various kinds, and pop art, of
various kinds, and everything else. At least since 1870, multiple styles have
co-existed in European and American art and, apart from giving comfort
to obsessively tidy critics and historians, there is no reason to reduce the
choice. Artists who are hermits and artists who are propagandists
co-exist ; downtown and uptown, are equally possible places.

By using signs and objects from the man-made environment, pop artists
are evoking that part of the culture that we all share, and have all grown
up with. It is our only universal culture and, as such, it is likely to be
attached to personal and compelling experiences. At the same time, the
mass media offer a huge vocabulary of visual communications that are
vivid in color and spatially flat. It is formally convenient as well as
humanly rich. Thus, the media offer artists a way of handling a rich sub-
ject matter, rooted in our experience of the urban environment- , but
without loss of the autonomy of the flat picture plane.

Looking back at wayne thiebaud's early work, it is possible to detect
elements in which his later development, as a laureate of lunch counters
and diners, is implicit. In the early 50's, his still-lives of trophies bunched
very similar objects together. Around 1954 he painted a cigar counter
frontally, the display of regular forms identified with the format of the
painting ; probably in the following year he painted the portrait of a one-
armed bandit and a close-up of a jewelry tree display-stand. His forms
were ornate and spiky, the surface metallic and corrugated; the orna-
mental excitement obscured the emerging subject matter. Throughout the
50's he progressively soothed the paint surface and curbed his quirky
linearism until, in 1961, he achieved, in the first of his pie paintings, sim-
plicity and, to quote the artist, the "isolation of the objects."

Still-life painting has, traditionally, celebrated unique works of crafts-
manship, as in Chardin's copper pans and china bowls, or the personal
arrangement of plates and food, as in Bonnard's domestic table settings.
Thiebaud, though basically a still-life painter, extends the genre to include
slices of cake, in assembly line rows, or sandwiches like cars in a parking
lot. It is the impersonality and repetition of objects that Thiebaud paints,
samples of the anonymous, continuous highway culture that crosses the
United States. The reassurance of standardization, its stability in a mobile
environment, is his theme and not, as socially-minded gourmet art critics
have suggested, the decline of American food.

The familiarity of the objects he paints— it is the same as the food ive eat,
at least some of the time— should not obscure recognition of the formal
properties of Thiebaud's work. The formal elements do not act as a grid,
within which his objects are arranged, like chessmen ; nor are the objects
merely the pretext (as Roger Fry proposed of Cezanne's skulls) for an
exercise in design. On the contrary, Thiebaud fuses the subject matter
with the formal means. He has written of his interest in "what happens
when the relationship between paint and subject matter comes as close as
I can get it— white, gooey, shiny, sticky oil paint spread out on the top of
a painted cake to 'become' frosting. It is playing with reality— making an
illusion which grows out of an exploration of the propensities of mate-

Melvin Ramos

16. CRIME BUSTER. 30" x 26".

Lent by the Abrams Family Collection, New York

rials. "^ He uses paint, too, in such a way as to suggest the clear light of a
store or lunch counter, with the color of the goods spreading and leaking
into the background.

MEL RAMOS, like Roy Lichtenstein, uses comic book sources, but where
Lichtenstein paints episodes, as evocative as thematic apperception tests
when isolated from the narrative flow, Ramos paints portraits. In 1962
he painted a series of heroes from costume comics (Batman, Superman,
the Atom), and, in 1963, he turned from male to female figures to paint a
series of sex queens. These atheltic and erotic girls (Fantomah, Camilla,
and Glory Forbes- Vigilante) , are taken from pre-Code comic books, which
are now collectors' items. In a statement dated April, 1963, Ramos writes :
"I paint portraits of romantic heroes. There is no mystery about these
heroes— they are a tradition. American folk heroes are imbued with a
nostalgic romance that makes it difl^cult for us not to identify with them . . .
When they are taken out of context the symbolic reference becomes sub-
merged and the image asserts itself. I try to celebrate folk heroes and sex
queens in a straight-forward manner ... While their likeness is not faith-
ful, their character is obvious. The 'clever handling' is deliberate, not
because I particularly like technical virtuosity but to reinforce the image,
sustain the formal structure, or to instill a quality of heraldic elegance."

His figures combine elements of the plastic (rounded three-dimensional
forms) with the heraldic (inscriptions, frames, flat color). The result is
figures that are plastically real but, at the same time, locked in the popular
conventions in which they originated. Whereas Thiebaud makes paint a
metaphor of substance and light, Ramos raises problems about the process
of representation itself. Prior to using comic book sources, Ramos' works
were thickly-painted figures in daily clothes or in striped bathing cos-
tumes, bulky and emphatically three-dimensional. When he quit painting
Clark Kent and turned to Superman, he was forced to incorporate, into
the dense medium of paint, the streamlined drawing of the comics, with
their summary foreshortenings and diagrammatic anatomies. The stream-
lined drawing of linear originals intermeshes with the modelling in light
and shade ; painterly handling ripples through the heraldic schema.

Billy Al Bengston

4. TROY. 60" X 60".

Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Factor, Beverly Hills

Clearly, all the artists in this exhibition are distinct individuals, with
styles of their own, and belonging to several milieus that do not overlap.
The use of the mass media that they have in common, however, is suf-
ficiently general to allow them to be grouped together, without implying
any united movement. There is, perhaps, a formal characteristic shared
by most of the artists, though one which is wide open to personal variation.
The combination of flatness with signs indicating things in the world
(words, trademarks, objects, currency) leads to a kind of pictorial struc-
ture that might be called emblematic. In the emblem traditionally words
and a visual image mutually re-enforced each other to make an amalgam
of moral point. The emblems of these painters combine references to the
world, by means of pre-existing signs, with new formal layouts of great
density and vigour. The flat and the significative are fused. (The "heraldic"
elements in Ramos' work are analogous to this definition of the emblem.)

BILLY AL bengston's paintings are symmetrical, concentric displays which
expand, in subtle pictorial activity, around central signs. He has used in
his paintings, to quote the Motorcyclist, "such items as the license plate,
the BSA nameplate in several difl'erent interpretations and the cylinder
head, complete right down to the pink spark plug insulator (a Lodge
exclusive feature)."* Bengston's paintings are not restricted to refer-
ences of this kind, but the catching of common signs and objects in webs
of systematic formality and of glowing color is constant in his work. It
can be seen in his big heart series of 1961, like exuberant Valentines of a
hot-rod coach painter, and in his paintings of a centrally silhouetted iris
surrounded by checkerboard patterns. The painting partly carries a
familiar image and partly subdues it, as the new form of the painting
takes precedence over the pre-existing image. Recognition and unf amiliar-
ity oscillate in the painting. The work, however, is never wholly non-
figurative, which is why the term emblem may be appropriate.

EDWARD RUSCHA has anticipated and dismissed one of the explanations for
using the man-made environment as subject-matter. "Most important, I
do not paint to prove that 'there is no poor subject'," he wrote in a journal.
A book of photographs by Ruscha, Tiventij-six Gasoline Stations'', and

Edward Ruscha

24. ANNIE. 71" X 661/2".

Lent by the L. M. Asher Family, Los Angeles

consisting exactly of that, records the subject without sociological interest
(no generalizations in store) and without the melancholy of Edward
Hopper (whose gas station is as fraught with morality as a Charles
Dickens' house). Ruscha, in his painting, uses typography to create mas-
sive images of words : "Boss," Noise," "Annie," "Honk." It is as if a bill-
board designer were to work with the chaste reticence of a funerary
mason. Each word that Ruscha uses is known to us, and connects with
knowledge that we have ; at the same time, the word is denied the syntax
or the context that confers meaning. An isolated word is a unit of lan-
guage, but denied any instructions we do not know how to take it. Annie:
a girl-friend, little Orphan Annie, Annie Laurie, Annie Get Your Gun? In
Honk, the letters are differentiated by progressive textural change, but
we cannot, finally, pretend, that it not a word and just an abstract sequence
of forms. Ruscha's paintings are emblems, with verbal and pictorial mean-
ings jointly suspended. They refer, as much pop art painting does, to the
process of communication itself; common words become cryptic in the
clear light of day and without any mystification.

In the nineteenth century frompe VoeU artists who painted facsimilies of
dollar bills were investigated as potential forgers by the federal authori-
ties. This should not happen to Phillip hefferton however, for though
his subject is the currency, he enlarges it to a vast scale, often painting-
only details, and radically transforms it even while he is quoting. With
American bills of various amounts he knows that money talks, that money
can be everything. He takes Washington's, or Jackson's, or Hamilton's, or
Lincoln's likeness, which he distends or otherwise changes. Money is the
root of all images : portrait heads, baroque ornament, and landscapes, like
the view of the U.S. Treasury with the stately automobile in the fore-
ground on the back of the $10 bill. In his mad money the signature of the
treasurer suddenly becomes "Hefferton." Personal reference and exuber-
ant jokes riddle the paper money. The residual Baroque features of the
bills, blown up by Hefferton, reveal a ripe full rhythm which the free
brushwork increases. The surface of the paintings is rugged and negli-
gent, with the rough, loose brushwork approximating to the original line

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Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Monte Factor, Los Angeles

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JOE GOODE, alone of the artists in this exhibition, uses objects in addition
to his painted canvases. The canvas, always one color, painted rather
ripely, is responsive, as large areas of single color must be, to color changes
in the spectator's eye and to light changes that produce gradations of light
and shadow. The object, painted the same color as the canvas, with an
assigned place on a shelf built at the base of the canvas is always a milk
bottle. It is inevitable that we read the canvas as a wall ; on the other hand,
it is possible to read the bottle as a kind of knot of color, projected for-
ward, out in space, but in color and texture bound to the canvas surface.
Thus the object is and is not a milk bottle and the canvas is and is not, a
canvas.

Paradoxes of representation, the play of levels of signification, are at the
heart of this kind of painting. The artist is engaged both in making legible
references to external objects and in achieving satisfactory internal for-
mality. The issue of this double impulse is signs that are problematic and
complex, as subtle, for all their references to mass communications, as art
that refers to more respected sources.

FOOTNOTES

1. For West Coast object-makers, see: Arthur Secunda on Edward Keinholz, Artforiim
I, No. 5, 1962; Philip Leider on Bruce Connor: "A New Sensibility," Artforum I,
No. 6, 1962. For George Herms see William Seitz, The Art of Assemblage, Museum of
Modern Art, 1961. For a painter analogous to the object-makers, see John Coplans on
Llyn Foulkes, "3 Los Angeles Artists," Artforum I, No. 10, 1963.

2. There is a covert bias in a great deal of twentieth century art opinion against urban
subject-matter. The timeless or the eternal, and the prestige that goes along with the
transcendence of topicality, underlies much current formal art criticism. Pop art,
though it has a sufficient formality, makes no secret of its temporal existence. In this
respect it is in line with Italian Futurism (townscape as hectic simultaneity), Dada
(communication as fragmented profusion), and French Purism (mass produced
articles used as still-life objects), as pro-urban and anti-idealist.

3. Wayne Thiebaud; "Is a Lollypop Tree Worth Painting?", San Francisco Sundaij
ChroJiicle, July 15, 1962.

4. "Brush-Strokes of a 4-Stroke," Motorcyclist, 772, February, 1962.

5. Edward Ruscha; Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, Alhambra, California, 1963.

Joseph Goode

6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 16"x66W.

Lent by Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles

six more: works in the exhibition

billy al bengston

Joseph goode

phillip hefferton

melvin ramos

1. BIG HOLLYWOOD. 1960. Oil on canvas, 78" x 90".
Lent by Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles.

2. GAS TANK AND TACHOMETER 2. 1961. Oil on canvas,
42" X 40". Le7it by Fe)-us Gallery, Los Angeles.

3. BUSTER. 1962. Oil and oil lacquer on masonite, 60 " x 60".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hopps, Pasadena.

4. TROY*. 1962. Oil and oil lacquer on masonite, 60" x 60".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Factor, Beverly Hills,

5. STERLING. 1963. Oil and oil lacquer on masonite,

60" X 60". Lent by the L. M. Asher Family, Los Angeles.

6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY*. 1962. Oil on canvas and milk bottle,
76" X 66W. Lent by Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles.

7. ONE YEAR OLD. 1962. Oil on canvas and milk bottle,
66%" X 67". Lent by Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles.

8. PURPLE. 1962. Oil on canvas and milk bottle, 68" x 66".
Lent by Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles.

9. LEROY. 1963. Oil on canvas and milk bottles, 84" x 132".
Lent by Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles.

10. HEFFERTON. 1962. Oil on canvas, 48" x 96".
Lent by the artist.

11. SINKING GEORGE*. 1962. Oil on canvas, 90" x 67y2".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Monte Factor, Los Angeles.

12. WINKIN' LINCOLN. 1962. Oil on canvas, 96" x 66".
Lent by the artist.

13. LINCOLN MEMORIAL. 1963. Oil on canvas, 68" diameter.
Lent by the artist.

14. TREASURY BUILDING. 1963. Oil on canvas, 67-''4" diameter.
Lent by the artist.

15. THE ATOM. 1962. Oil on canvas, 50" x 44".
Lent by Wayne Thiebaud, Sacramento.

16. CRIME BUSTER*. 1962. Oil on canvas, 30" x 26".

Leyit by the Abrams Family Collection, New York.

17. THE JOKER. 1962. Oil on canvas, 11" x 10".
Lent anonymously.

18. CAMILLA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. 1963. Oil on canvas,
30" X 26". Lent by Leo Castelli, New York.

edward ruscha

wayne thiebaud

19. FANTOMAH. 1963. Oil on canvas, 40" x 36".
Lent hy Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.

20. FUTURA. 1963. Oil on canvas, 58" x 44".
Lent by the artist.

21. GLORY FORBES VIGILANTE. 1963. Oil on canvas, 40" x 40"
Lent by the artist.

22. UNTITLED. 1961. Oil on canvas, 72" x 67".
Lent by Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles.

23. UNTITLED. 1961-62. Oil on canvas, 72" x 67".
Lent by Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles.

24. ANNIE*. 1962. Oil on canvas, 71" x 66y2".
Lent by the L. M. Asher Family, Los Angeles.

25. UNTITLED. 1962. Oil on canvas, 72" x 67".
Lent by Dr. Leopold Tuchman, Beverly Hills.

26. TALK ABOUT SPACE. 1963. Oil on canvas, 72" x 67".
Lent by Ferns Gallery, Los Angeles.

27. UNTITLED. 1963. Oil on canvas, 72" x 67".
Lent by Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles.

28. COLD CEREAL. 1960-61. Oil on canvas, 24" x 30".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Allan Stone, New York.

29. DELICATESSEN COUNTER. 1962. Oil on canvas, 60" x 72".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Paine, Boston.

30. RIDE, RIDE, RIDE. 1962. Oil on canvas, 40" x 50".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alan Slifka, New York.

31. YO-YOS. 1962. Oil on canvas, 12" x 12".

Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly, Sacramento

32. CAKE COUNTER. 1962-63. Oil on canvas, 60" x 72".
Lent by the Abrams Faintly Collection, New York.

33. CREAM SOUPS. 1963. Oil on canvas, 30" x 36".
Lent by Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

34. JAWBREAKER MACHINE*. 1963. Oil on canvas, 26" x 31%'
Lent by Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

Works marked by an asterisk are illustrated.
In dimensions, height precedes width.

acknowledgements

I am indebted to Mrs. Eugenie Klix for her curatorial work on the exhibi-
tion, and to Mrs. Leonard Asher for advice and hospitality ; and to Irving
Blum and Rolf Nelson for their cooperation. L. A.

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