Reviews of this exhibition from August 1958 highlighted the fact that it was an ‘artistic sensation of Warsaw’and that ‘Teofil Ociepka and two of his painter friends, Paweł Wróbel and Paweł Stolorz, truly became a revelation in Warsaw’.The first such an extensive exhibition of naïve — or non-professional — art at the CBWA .

‘For the first time we have the opportunity to get more closely acquainted with drawings, prints and watercolours from the United States. Therefore, the exhibition in “Zachęta” crucially supplements our limited knowledge of the art of this country and provides us with the basis for making judgements, even if very fragmentary, as to its unique character,’ Ignacy Witz wrote in a review of the American Graphic Art exhibition, opened in the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions (CBWA) in December 1957.