Gallery-Going
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By the late 1950s, word was out that the figure was dead, no longer a viable subject for art. Three young painters in the Bay Area ignored the obits: Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Charles Cajori. They met weekly in Bischoff’s studio to draw from live models, defying fashionable dogma by applying painterly intelligence to a form more durable than any ism in the arts.
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