Hackett-Freedman Gallery
250 Sutter St
Suite 400
415.362.7152
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Frank Lobdell, Dance IV, Courtesy Hackett-Freedman Gallery
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Opens Friday Sep 12, 2008 (5:30–7:30pm)
Sep 12, 2008 – Nov 1, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank Lobdell fought on the frontlines in Europe. Upon returning to the US, he enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) in order to "paint his way out" of the horrors of war. Roughly three decades later, responding to America's involvement in Vietnam, Lobdell's Dance series measured up surprisingly well to Picasso's legacy. Lobdell painted these works, collected now at Hackett-Freedman, in extreme disgust over the war's downward spiral. His cathartisis produced rich color schemes and abstracted figures that convey both the dread and twisted beauty of endless battle.
