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Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in 1922 in Portland, Oregon and died 1993 in Berkeley, CA.
Self-portrait
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Diebenkorn served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943 until 1945.
Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Albuquerque), 1952.
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He was stationed at Quantico, Virginia. While there, he sought out the Henri Matisse paintings in various Museums in NY.
Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Horse and Rider), 1954.
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His favorite was Studio, Quai Saint-Michel (1916) in the Phillips Collection, making several return trips.
Interior with a Book
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Diebenkorn absorbed many lessons from Matisse, especially concerning his use of color and
Poster
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The organization of perspectival space into flattened planes.
Left: Matisse's Notre Dame, a Late Afternoon, 1902. Right: Diebenkorn's Ingleside, 1963
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Decades later, in 1964, he traveled to Leningrad, where Diebenkorn viewed several of Matisse’s greatest paintings at the State Hermitage Museum.
Influencer:
Matisse’s French Window at Collioure
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Upon his return from military duty to SF, where Diebenkorn took advantage of the G.I. bill to study at the California School of Fine Arts.
Still Life
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It was at the California School of Fine arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute).
Berkeley No. 46
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Where Diebenkorn met many serious contemporaries who would remain friends and artistic colleagues.
Berkeley No. 52, 1955.
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Diebenkorn and his wife, Phyllis, eventually settled in Sausalito, where the artist became a faculty member at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947.
Green
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Fellow teachers there included Clyfford Still, Elmer Bischoff, Hassel Smith, Edward Corbett and David Park.
Still Life
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Diebenkorn was especially close to artist David Park.
Cityscape I 1963
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Diebenkorn's first one-person exhibition was held at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1948, which was a huge honor for a young a painter.
Seawalk - 1957
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Diebenkorn eventually moved to Berkeley in late 1955 and continued working in a highly abstracted style.
Berkeley #57
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His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Girl with Plant -1960
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In 1966, he moved to Santa Monica and returned to quasi-geometric abstraction.
Interior with View of Ocean - 1957
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Though his work continued to evoke the landscape and the hazy coastal light of Southern California.
Richard Diebenkorn, Coffee, 1959
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He began to work in a "representational" mode, painting and drawing landscapes, figure studies and still lifes.
Seated Woman - 1967
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With fellow artists David Park, Elmer Bischoff and later Frank Lobdell, he regularly worked on figure drawing from models;
Woman with Hat and Groves
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One of his largest bodies of work comprises exhaustively experimental figure drawings.
Buildings -- Hill Background 1961
(Reminds me of the Sausalito houseboats)
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He was also prolific in the still life genre: some of his nearly monochromatic still life drawings are said to
Berkeley #8
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Among the most distinctive, and sublime, in twentieth century art.
Ocean Park #54 -1972
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In 1980 and 1981, Diebenkorn temporarily changed direction, producing a rather eccentric group of works on paper known as the "Clubs and Spades" drawings.
Richard Diebenkorn's "Woman on a Porch," 1958
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They were, at least in part, inspired by the artist's lifelong interest in heraldic imagery, and their explorations of form would reappear in modified form at the very end of his life.
Ocean Park 70
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Diebenkorn and Phyllis then moved from Berkeley to Santa Monica in 1966 where Diebenkorn accepted a teaching position at UCLA.
Ocean Park #19
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In 1979, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1982
Ocean Park #24
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Within several months of beginning work in his first Santa Monica studio, located in a neighborhood near the beach known as Ocean Park,
Ocean Park, No. 27
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The artist embarked on the great cycle of paintings and drawings known as the Ocean Park works.
Ocean Park - watercolor
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In doing so, he definitively ended his figurative approach, to invent a unique abstract language he would develop until 1988.
Blue club , 1981
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In the spring of 1988, the couple moved from Santa Monica to Healdsburg, California, to a rural home near the Russian River, overlooking vineyards and scrub-oak hillsides.
Tri-color , 1981
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In his Healdsburg studio he worked in mostly small scale, producing some of the most gem-like, quirkily decorative, and perfectly executed, works of his life.
Blue loop , 1980–1980
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Though he experienced serious health problems during much of his time in Healdsburg, he was able to continue his restless exploration of form and color.
Blue with red , 1987–1987
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In 1991, Diebenkorn was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Ochre , 1983–1983 - Woodcut
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In late 1992, the Diebenkorns were forced to take up residence at their Berkeley apartment in order to be nearer to medical treatment until he passed in 1993.
Small Thin, 1980
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Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
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Richard Diebenkorn and the colours of California
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How Richard Diebenkorn Fell for Henri Matisse
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A Lifetime of Sketchbooks from Postwar Painter Richard Diebenkorn
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View of the Ocean
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Ingleside - 1963
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