Loading cases in New York for the shipment of the United States’ submission to the IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1957.

The International Program was founded in 1952 to develop and tour circulating exhibitions—including United States representations at international exhibitions and festivals, one-person shows, and group exhibitions. An example of a major exhibition to be sponsored abroad under its auspices was the U.S. representation at the IV Bienal de São Paulo, September-December 1957. The bulk of the exhibition included a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Jackson Pollock, who had died the previous year in a tragic automobile accident. A second part of the exhibition included sculptures by David Hare, Lassaw, and Seymour Lipton and paintings by James Brooks, Philip Guston, Hartigan, Franz Kline, and Larry Rivers. Seymour Lipton received the top acquisition prize at the Bienal (given to a living artist). The Pollock retrospective garnered much critical acclaim and was awarded an hors de concours recognition.

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