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Broadly speaking, WEST COAST ART typically refers to art made in California in the Sixties and early Seventies. That term has now been expanded to include the diverse contributions of artists of the last 50 years and those artists living in states to the north along the Pacific Rim. It’s misleading to speak of a coherent ‘scene’, however; the artists were never unified in a movement, or by a manifesto, and worked in different locations — from San Diego to San Francisco and lately on to the Pacific Northwest. What we can safely say is that, thanks to them, the West Coast became an important …