Richard Diebenkorn

Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.

I went and saw the Richard Diebenkorn Berkeley Years show at the de Young museum the other day. I have, over the years, had mixed feeling about Diebenkorn--never, for instance, being as enamored of his figurative work as many folks seem to be. But as in my thirties I have found myself turning and returning more and more to mid-century abstract painting, both my fondness and respect for his abstract work has continued to increase. Of course the pinnacle of this is his Ocean Park series. For…

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“These paintings were made for this building, and the building was made for these paintings.” According to exhibition curator Sarah Bancroft, this was the response of Phyllis Diebenkorn, wife of the late abstract expressionist Richard Diebenkorn, upon touring the upstairs...

Seated Woman, Green Interior, 1961. Oil on canvas (1922-1993) Private collection. John Berggruen Gallery

Richard Diebenkorn was an American abstract expressionist painter who painting the light and landscapes from his Ocean Park studio.

Richard Diebenkorn wanted painting to be difficult. Self-imposed obstacles helped him arrive at greatness.

Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

In iconic works from the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud defined a California vernacular in the early 1960s—Diebenkorn with suburban views of figures at windows and Thiebaud with arrays of desserts.

Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) produced, over a forty-five year span, a body of work whose beauty and mysteriously empathic nature has long attracted many devotees worldwide. He lived during the period of America’s great surge onto the world stage of visual art, working alongside the likes of Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, but forging a decisively independent style.