Richard diebenkorn paintings

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…

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

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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...

Richard Diebenkorn (1922 – 1993) had a long career as a painter and inevitably his work and style of painting evolved in different ways over his lifetime. For that reason I’m putting up three different posts on him. This first one has a brief look at his work from his whole career, the others are more specific; further down you’ll see mention of both Diebenkorn’s ‘Berkeley’ series, and his ‘Ocean Park’ series, that feature in the next two blogs. Richard Diebenkorn was born in Portland…

Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Oct. 9, 1997-Jan.11, 1998, and others

Richard Diebenkorn - Artists - Richard Gray Gallery

lawrenceleemagnuson: Richard Diebenkorn (USA 1922-1993) Driveway (1956) oil on canvas 45.7 x 50.8 cm

I am very pleased to have caught the Richard Diebenkorn show at the Royal Academy before it closed. I have to confess I knew nothing about him beforehand, but looking through the RA website I expected that I would love the later abstract paintings.