[3] The artists she presented there included Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, Ad Reinhardt, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Matsumi Kanemitsu and Philip Guston.
This show belongs to a substantial group of exhibitions in Los Angeles between 1962 and 1963 that heralded the arrival of Pop as a major artistic style in the early 1960s.
[2] That gallery would exhibit minimalist and conceptual artists including Carl Andre, Michael Heizer, Kienholz, Sol LeWitt, Charles Ross and Robert Smithson.
[12] In 1965, the Virginia Dwan Collection, featuring artists like Willem de Kooning (Untitled, 1961), Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Lee Bontecou, was exhibited at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[13] In 1985, Dwan donated Michael Heizer's project Double Negative (1969), two 100-foot-long cuts facing each other across the curving rim of Mormon Mesa (Clark County, Nevada), to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).
In 2013, Dwan gave A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey (1968) by Robert Smithson, an indoor work containing substances from an outdoor site elsewhere;[19] and Glass Stratum (1967) by Timothy McCormack, made up of 37 sheets of half-inch-thick glass layered atop one another, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[20][15] Dwan's private collection was pledged as a promised gift to the National Gallery of Art in 2013.
[21] It includes works by 52 modern artists, including: Carl Andre, Arman, Walter de Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Yves Klein, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Fred Sandback, Robert Smithson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely.