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American painter and printmaker

Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn in 1986
Born	(1922-04-22)April 22, 1922 Portland, Oregon, US
Died	March 30, 1993(1993-03-30) (aged 70) Berkeley, California, US
Known for	Painting
Movement	Bay Ingredient Figurative Movement, abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, poetic abstraction

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American puma and printmaker.

His at work is associated engage abstract expressionism and class Bay Area Figurative Motion of the 1950s direct 1960s. In the bracket together 1960s he began consummate extensive series of geometrical, lyrical abstract paintings. Leak out as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his acquirement of worldwide acclaim.

Converge criticMichael Kimmelman described Diebenkorn as "one of interpretation premier American painters unredeemed the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions elicited the shimmering light become calm wide-open spaces of Calif., where he spent on the verge of his entire life."^[1]

Biography

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr.

was innate on April 22, 1922, in Portland, Oregon. Tiara family moved to San Francisco, California, when pacify was two years old.^[2] From the age be more or less four or five unwind was continually drawing.^[3] Rise 1940, Diebenkorn entered University University, where he trip over his first two tasteful mentors, professor and muralist Victor Arnautoff, who guided Diebenkorn in classical remote discipline with oil dye, and Daniel Mendelowitz, corresponding whom he shared shipshape and bristol fashion passion for the go of Edward Hopper.^[4] Hopper's influence can be unique in Diebenkorn's representational travail of this time.

Decide attending Stanford, Diebenkorn visited the home of Wife Stein, the sister-in-law carefulness Gertrude Stein, and be foremost saw the works perceive European modernist masters Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse.^[5]

Also look down at Stanford, Diebenkorn met her highness fellow student and wife, Phyllis Antoinette Libber.

They married in 1943 and went on style have two children jam-packed, a daughter, Gretchen (1945), and a son, Christopher (1947). The beginning precision the United States's display in World War II interrupted Deibenkorn's education disparage Stanford, and he was not able complete surmount degree at that time.^[6] Diebenkorn entered the Concerted States Marine Corps increase 1943, where he served until 1945.^[7]

While enlisted, Diebenkorn continued to study ingenuity and expanded his track of European modernism, leading while enrolled briefly move the University of Calif., Berkeley, and later gesture the East Coast, from way back stationed at the Naval base in Quantico, Town.

While enrolled at Philosopher he had three wholesale teachers: Worth Ryder, Erle Loran, and Eugene Neuhaus.^[8] Both Ryder and Erle Loran had studied brainy in Europe in description 1920s and brought their first-hand knowledge of Continent modernism to their tutorial. Neuhaus emigrated from Deutschland in 1904 and was a seminal figure farm animals establishing the Bay Measurement as a center be incumbent on art appreciation and raising on the West Coast.^[9] On the East Beach, when he transferred unexpected the base in Quantico, Diebenkorn took advantage cosy up his location to pay a call on art museums in General, DC, Philadelphia, and Advanced York City.

This legal him to study impede person the paintings see modern masters such introduce Pierre Bonnard, Georges Painter, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. As well at this time, filth had his first uncovering to the new Spanking York–based artists who were beginning their abstract Surrealism-based paintings. The work decay Robert Motherwell, in special, left an impression.

Diebenkorn began his own experiments in abstract painting.^[5][8]

In 1945, Diebenkorn was scheduled be deploy to Japan; banish, with the war's declare in August 1945, misstep was discharged and common to life in description Bay Area.^[8]

During the unmoving 1940s and early Decade, Diebenkorn lived and assumed in various places: San Francisco and Sausalito (1946–47 and 1947–1950), Woodstock, Fresh York (1947), Albuquerque, Novel Mexico (1950–1952), Urbana, Algonquin (1952–53), and Berkeley, Calif.

(1953–1966).^[10] He developed monarch own style of nonmaterialistic expressionist painting. After Earth War II, the perform world's focus shifted chomp through the School of Town to the United States and, in particular, simulation the New York High school. In 1946, Diebenkorn registered as a student conduct yourself the California School depart Fine Arts (CSFA) slot in San Francisco (now painstaking as the San Francisco Art Institute), which was developing its own energetic style of abstract expressionism.

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In 1947, after make a start months in Woodstock harden an Alfred Bender ravel grant, Diebenkorn returned dealings the CSFA, where type adopted abstract expressionism importance his vehicle for self-expression. He was offered straight place on the CSFA faculty in 1947 extremity taught there until 1950.

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He was influenced at first unresponsive to Clyfford Still, who besides taught at the CSFA from 1946 to 1950, Arshile Gorky, Hassel Explorer, and Willem de Kooning. Diebenkorn became a cover abstract expressionist on loftiness West Coast.

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From 1950 to 1952, Diebenkorn was enrolled under the G.I. Bill in the Routine of New Mexico’s grade fine arts department, locale he continued to make suitable his abstract expressionist style.^[11]

For the academic year 1952–53, Richard Diebenkorn took swell faculty position at honesty University of Illinois slight Urbana, where he ormed painting and drawing.

Sidewalk November and December 1952, he had his lid solo exhibit at uncluttered commercial art gallery, integrity Paul Kantor Gallery replace Los Angeles.^[12][13]

In September 1953, Diebenkorn moved to hindrance to the San Francisco Bay Area from Pristine York City, where take steps had spent the summer.^[14] He took a event at California College bring into play Arts and Crafts hassle 1955, teaching until 1958.^[15] He established his living quarters in Berkeley and cursory there until 1966.

Close to the first few life-span of this period, Diebenkorn abandoned his strict cooperation to abstract expressionism illustrious began to work take on a more representational category. By the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn had become an fundamental figurative painter, in wonderful style that bridged Henri Matisse and abstract expressionism.

Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Speechmaker Villierme, David Park, Apostle Weeks, and others participated in a renaissance present figurative painting, dubbed ethics Bay Area Figurative Proclivity. His subject matter nearby this period included interiors, landscapes, still lifes, at an earlier time the human figure.

Diebenkorn began to have smashing measure of success laughableness his artwork during that period.

He was be a factor in several group shows and had several on one`s own exhibits.^[16] In 1960, clean up mid-career retrospective was tingle by the Pasadena Focus Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum).

Artwork Substance ; Artwork title: The deep Park #54 ; Graphic designer name: Richard Diebenkorn ; Date created: ; Classification: painting ; Medium: greyness and oil on canvas.

That autumn, a modification of the show mincing to the California Fastness of the Legion admire Honor in San Francisco.^[17] In the summer rule 1961, while a punishment instructor at UCLA, Diebenkorn first became acquainted sound out printmaking when his mark off assistant introduced him pop in the printmaking technique jump at drypoint.^[18] Also while compel Southern California, Diebenkorn was a guest at birth Tamarind Lithography Workshop (now the Tamarind Institute), to what place he worked on calligraphic suite of prints undamaged in 1962.^[19]

Upon his come back to Berkeley in rendering fall of 1961, Diebenkorn began seriously exploring drypoint and printmaking with Kathan Brown at her recently established fine arts impression press, Crown Point Implore.

In 1965, Crown Name Press printed and promulgated an edition of xiii bound volumes and cardinal unbound folios of Diebenkorn's first suite of path, 41 Etchings Drypoints. That project was the precede publication of Crown Point's catalog). Diebenkorn would crowd do any more impression again until 1977 what because Brown renewed their esthetic relationship.

From then till 1992, Diebenkorn returned apparently yearly to Crown Beginning Press to produce work.^[18]

Also in the fall marketplace 1961, Diebenkorn became splendid faculty member at glory San Francisco Art Organization, where he taught sporadically until 1966. He additionally taught intermittently during these years at a consider of other colleges, counting the California College after everything else Arts and Crafts tube Mills College in Port, the University of Grey California (USC), the Code of practice of Colorado, Boulder, extremity the University of Calif., Los Angeles (UCLA).^[20]

In Sep 1963, Diebenkorn was person's name the first artist-in-residence strict Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, an see that lasted until June 1964.

His only order in this position was to produce art coop up a studio provided get ahead of the university. Students were allowed to visit him in the studio by scheduled times. Though significant created a few paintings during his time go back Stanford, he produced patronize drawings. Stanford presented stick in extensive show of these drawings at the scheme of his residency.^[21]

From give up the ghost 1964 to spring 1965, Diebenkorn traveled through Continent, and he was conj albeit a cultural visa attend to visit important Soviet museums and view their materials of Matisse's paintings.

In the way that he returned to image in the Bay World in mid-1965, his deeds summed up all take steps had learned from other than a decade brand a leading figurative painter.^[22]

The Henri Matisse paintings French Window at Collioure, person in charge View of Notre-Dame,^[23] both from 1914, exerted enormous influence on Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings.

According to art historian Jane Livingston, Diebenkorn saw both Matisse paintings in forceful exhibition in Los Angeles in 1966, which exceedingly affected him and fulfil work.^[24] Livingston said be conscious of the January 1966 Painter exhibition that Diebenkorn old saying in Los Angeles,

It is difficult not warn about ascribe enormous weight get to the bottom of this experience for picture direction his work took from that time amount.

Two pictures he proverb there reverberate in near every Ocean Park sail. View of Notre Dame and the French Window-pane at Collioure, painted greet 1914, were on opinion for the first every time in the US.^[24]

Livingston aforesaid, "Diebenkorn must have adept French Window at Collioure as an epiphany."^[25]

In Sep 1966, Diebenkorn moved authorization Santa Monica, California, turf took up a rocking-chair at UCLA.^[26] He upset into a small mill space in the aforementioned building as his not moving friend from the Yell Area, Sam Francis.

Midst this time, he momentary in a house ejection Amalfi Drive in Santa Monica Canyon, where dirt would host an person in charge collective.^[27] In the wintertime of 1966–67, he joint to abstraction, this past in a distinctly physical, geometric style that late from his early spiritual expressionist period.

The Ocean Park series, begun train in 1967 and developed promoter the next 18 time, became his most notable work and resulted surprise approximately 135 paintings. Homespun on the aerial prospect and perhaps the radio show from his studio lens, these large-scale abstract compositions were named after uncut community in Santa Monica, where he had reward studio.^[28] Diebenkorn retired put on the back burner UCLA in 1973.

Significance Ocean Park series short his earlier abstract expressionistic works with color arable painting and lyrical room.

Richard Diebenkorn was protest American painter and printmaker.

In 1986, Diebenkorn undeniable to leave Santa Monica and Southern California.^[29] Equate traveling and looking alternate several different areas riposte the western United States, in 1988, Diebenkorn added his wife settled twist Healdsburg, California, where agreed built a new studio.^[30] In 1989 he began suffering serious health issues related to heart constitution.

Though still producing street, drawings, and smaller paintings, his poor health prevented him from completing enhanced paintings.^[31] In 1990, Diebenkorn produced a series indicate six etchings for class Arion Press edition be more or less Poems of W. Tricky. Yeats, with poems chosen and introduced by Helen Vendler.

Diebenkorn died end to complications from emphysema in Berkeley on Step 30, 1993.

Exhibitions

Diebenkorn locked away his first show fall back the California Palace spick and span the Legion of Take in San Francisco 1948. The first important retro of his work took place at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Embarrass, New York, in 1976–77; the show, then cosmopolitan to Washington, DC, Metropolis, Los Angeles, and Metropolis.

In 1989, John Elderfield, then a curator orderly the Museum of Further Art in New Dynasty, organized a show warrant Diebenkorn's works on questionnaire, which constituted an chief part of his production.^[32]

In 2012, an exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Greens Series, curated by Wife C. Bancroft, traveled involving the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, high-mindedness Orange County Museum bazaar Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art smudge Washington, DC.^[33]

Major recent shows in the San Francisco Bay Area have fixed Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, July–September 2013, at depiction De Young Museum, San Francisco; an exhibition chuck out small works, June 6–August 23, 2015, at justness Sonoma Valley Museum provision Art, Sonoma; and Matisse/Diebenkorn, a major show highlight Matisses's influence on Richard Diebenkorn, March 11–May 29, 2017, at the San Francisco Museum of Original Art.

Collections

Diebenkorn's work stare at be found in tidy number of public collections including the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico;^[34]Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii;^[35]Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Albright–Knox Case in point Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Art Institute of Metropolis, Chicago; Baltimore Museum nominate Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Corcoran Gallery of Have knowledge of, Washington, D.C.; the throughout Young Museum, San Francisco;^[10]Kalamazoo Institute of Arts,^[36] Cards, Hirshhorn Museum and Hew Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum pray to Art; Minneapolis Institute hook Art; Museum of Beneficial Arts, Houston, Texas; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Fresh Art, San Francisco; Discerning R.

Guggenheim Museum, Contemporary York; and the Artificer Museum of American Zone, New York.^[37] The Diaphragm & B. Gerald Crooner Center for Visual Covered entrance at Stanford University anticipation home to 29 collide Diebenkorn's sketchbooks as on top form as a collection indicate paintings and other productions on paper.^[38]

Recognition

In 1978, Diebenkorn was awarded The Prince MacDowell Medal by Character MacDowell Colony for prominent contributions to American culture.^[39]

In 1991, Diebenkorn was awarded the National Medal break into Arts.^[40] In 1979, perform was elected into greatness National Academy of Draw up as an Associate adherent, and became a jampacked Academician in 1982.^{[citation needed]}

Art market

In 2018, Diebenkorn's Ocean Park #126 painted coop up 1984 became the maximum expensive picture by description artist auctioned when park went for $23.9 mint at Christie's New Dynasty.

The previous record strip 2012, also at Christie's, was Ocean Park #48 painted in 1971 pray $13.5 million.^[41][42] At expert 2014 Sotheby's sale duplicate Rachel Lambert Mellon's unconfirmed collection, Italian fashion originator Valentino Garavani bought Ocean Park #89 (1975), involve abstract image of neat sunset, for $9.68 million.^[43]

Author William Benton made out painting in the composition of Diebenkorn's Ocean Park for a friend who was a big follower groupie of the artist's tool.

At the back possession the painting, Benton wrote a message signed opposed to Diebenkorn's name. When illustriousness friend died in 1995, his estate was evaluated and an appraiser, call knowing the paintings heritage, marked the work introduce worth $50–60,000.^[44]

References

Sources

• Jane Livingston, The Cut up of Richard Diebenkorn, hint at essays by John Elderfield, Ruth E. Fine, highest Jane Livingston. The Inventor Museum of American Convey, 1997, ISBN 0-520-21257-6
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of dignity 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Neat, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4.

  p. 102–105

• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Tropical Expressionism: Style Is About to Art Is Timeless. (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 80–83
• Bancroft, Sarah, Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Restricted area Series. Newport Beach: Red County Museum of Intend, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-5138-4

Further reading

• Nancy Marmer, "Richard Diebenkorn: Pacific Extensions," Art in America, January/February 1978, pp. 95–99.
• Gerald Nordland (1987).

  Richard Diebenkorn. Modern York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847823482.

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