This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "American Painting of the 1970s," which was on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery from December 8, 1978, to January 14, 1979. The exhibition later traveled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Newport Beach, California; the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi; the Oakland Museum; and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This publication features an essay by exhibition organizer and Albright-Knox Curator Linda L. Cathcart.