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page two - biographical data

of the painting depended upon the pattern of the course of viewing; my classic attitude toward movement remained the same in this phase as is all my previous and later work. The first important exhibition of Postsurrealism was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1936, and was also shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art in the same year.

From 1944 to about 1949, I was occupied with surreal, non-representational images which I called "Magical forms". Examples of this phase were exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago's "Abstract-Surrealist Show", 1947; "Contemporary American Painting" shows at University of Illinois in 1949, 1950, 1951; etc. From this developed the new series which I call "Magical Space-Forms", characterized by duality of interchangeable form and space, in which stark, flat areas of color have an ambiguous existence, being both positive and negative, in a state of continual fluctuation; another manifestation of my obsession with kinetics. The first large group of these "Magical Space-Forms" to be exhibited was shown in my retrospective exhibition at the Pasadena Museum in 1952.

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Major one-man shows :

Daniels Gallery, New York ...1924 or '25
Legion of Honor, San Francisco...1928 and 1932
San Diego Museum ...1928 or '29
Los Angeles Museum ...1929 and 1944
Pasadena Museum ... Retrospective, 1952
McNay art Institute. San Antonio ...1955

Participated in major exhibitions :

Surealist-Dada show, Museum of Modern Art ...1936
Postsrrealist exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum and San Francisco Museum of Art ..1936
Abstract-Surrealist show, Chicago ..1947
University of Illinois ...1950, '51, '52
American Drawing show, Metropolitan Museum ...1953
Whitney Annual ..January, 1955
Sao Paulo Biennial, 1955
etc.