Los Angeles Hard Edge from the Collection places the exhibition, June Harwood Paintings, into a broader context. The artists in this exhibition, as well as June Harwood, participated in the exhibition California Hard-Edge Painting at the Pavilion Gallery in Balboa, California, in 1964 which featured eleven artists, including four women. Their paintings emphasize flat shapes, colors, and forms differentiated from each other by well-defined (‘hard’) edges.  

 As an important international traveling exhibition, Four Abstract Classicists announced one of the first key West Coast art movements. It was largely a reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism of the late 1940s and 1950s, with its emphasis on energetic brushwork, subjectivity, and emotionality. In contrast, the work of the Abstract Classicists was clean, precise, and impersonal.