PAST EXHIBITION

Frank Lobdell: The Dance Series, 1969-1972

September 12, 2008—November 1, 2008

Catalogue:
Frank Lobdell
The Dance Series, 1969-1972
Text by Peter Selz and Bruce Guenther
2008 $30.00

Hackett-Freedman Gallery announces a special exhibition of Frank Lobdell’s monumental antiwar paintings, the Dance Series. Created from 1969 to 1972, these nine large canvases express Lobdell’s horror and rejection of the Vietnam War. Today, these works continue to be as moving and relevant as when they were first exhibited, providing, in the words of de Young Museum curator Timothy Burgard, “a powerful metaphor for conveying the unthinkable, the unspeakable, and the incomprehensible.” Hackett-Freedman has assembled key paintings from the series and related works on paper, offering a timely view of one of the most provocative and pivotal accomplishments of this celebrated Bay Area painter.

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