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Upcoming! Diebenkorn on view in Los Angeles LEARN MORE News Announcements, interviews, articles, reviews, and videos MORE ABOUT THE FOUNDATION From the Basement The World by Air: The Making of…
1922 22 April 1922: Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr. is born to Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Sr. and Dorothy née Stephens in Portland, Oregon.1 Diebenkorn Sr. is a career employee for the…
1940 Fall: Enrolls at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Does not challenge his parents’ wishes that he become a doctor or lawyer, but avoids declaring a major. Focuses on taking…
1946 17 January–11 May: Enrolls at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) in San Francisco on the GI Bill. The school, managed by the San Francisco Art Association (SFAA),…
1950 Certain things were acceptable [at CSFA], certain things were out, and it was, like there was a way. You in some sense toed a line, and this bugged me…
1953 Fall: The Diebenkorns move back to the Bay Area and settle in Berkeley; they choose the city for UC Berkeley, where Phyllis will begin her PhD program in psychology,…
1956 January: Critic Hubert Crehan, a former student of Clyfford Still at the CSFA, writes the article “Is There a California School?” for Art News, disavowing the existence of a…
1966 Fall: Daughter Gretchen marries Richard Grant, a fellow Stanford student, at the chapel at Stanford University. Moves with Phyllis in September to Santa Monica, where he begins teaching as…
1976 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo approaches Diebenkorn in regard to a potential retrospective exhibition. Director Robert T. Buck Jr. and assistant curator Linda Cathcart work closely with Diebenkorn…
1988 8 January: Attends memorial service for friend Carey Stanton, who died on 8 December 1987, held at La Capilla de la Santa Cruz del Rosario on Santa Cruz Island,…
The Artist All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. —Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) produced, over…
By Daisy Murray Holman November 13, 2020 Wayne – I’m sure you have been asked where you’ve been keeping another brilliant talent. I’ve read two examples of it — the…
Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, interview by Katharine James April 1, 2020 Largely loaned from the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation’s holdings, Richard Diebenkorn: Special Presentation | Wartime Works 1943–1945 at Van Doren Waxter,…
Six perspectives on artworks, people, places, and ideas that tell new stories about the Sausalito period and are preserved in the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives, Colby College Special Collections &…
By Daisy Murray Holman February 3, 2020 Santa Monica, California 2.20.78 Dear Roselle, We’re rushing – so no time for amenities. Thought I should let you know that I don’t…
By Katharine James December 19, 2019 Richard Diebenkorn was an introspective man who remained skeptical of his success as an artist throughout his life. Over the years he spent countless…
By Daisy Murray Holman December 19, 2019 Letter from Richard Diebenkorn to Phyllis Diebenkorn, 12 September 1958, Port Hueneme, Calif. © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections Letter from Richard…
By Daisy Murray Holman April 9, 2019 In the soft light of a New Mexican adobe house, where I had the good luck to see my first Diebenkorn painting [in…
First published by Verbatim, Brooklyn Rail (October 2016) March 27, 2019 In the fall of 1964 Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn participated in a cultural tour of the USSR. In the…
Collections The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation presents an illustrated online catalogue of Diebenkorn’s artistic production and its archival holdings of the artist’s personal and professional materials, a digital initiative inviting public…
About Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné Edited by Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori This four-volume catalogue raisonné is the definitive resource on Diebenkorn’s unique works, including his paintings, works on…
The Foundation Our mission is to expand knowledge and foster appreciation of Richard Diebenkorn’s art, and to illuminate crucial artistic developments of the 20th century. The Foundation increases public access…
About Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné of Prints Edited by Andrea Liguori This two-volume catalogue raisonné of Diebenkorn’s prints will be the first comprehensive examination of the artist’s printmaking output…
March 2, 2012 By Susan Stamberg Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #24, 1969, oil and charcoal on canvas, 93 3/4 x 77 1/2 in. (238.1 x 196.9 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn…
Biography Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr. was born in April 1922 in Portland, Oregon. When he was two years old his father, who was a hotel supply sales executive, relocated the…
Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective Sasha Nicholas With contributions by Tony Berlant, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, William Luers, Steven A. Nash, and Wayne Thiebaud. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2019 Rizzoli…
Richard Diebenkorn and the problems of modern painting September 7, 2013 By Jed Perl © Rose Mandel Archive You have probably never heard of the young painter Eleanor Ray, but…
January 27, 2016 By Sarah Cascone Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, c. 1952–53, watercolor and graphite on paper, 12 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (32.7 x 47.9 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation…
February 22, 2016 By Mostafa Heddaya Steven Nash, 2016 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation has announced that Steven Nash, a curator, art historian, and recently retired executive director of the Palm…
May 12, 2016 Landmark exhibition will offer an unprecedented view of both artists Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #29, 1970, oil and charcoal on canvas, 100 1/8 x 81 1/8 in….
August 18, 2016 By M. H. Miller Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #54, 1972, oil and charcoal on canvas, 100 x 81 in. (254 x 205.7 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation…
Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed Edward Hopper: New York Corner September 23, 2016 Exhibitions open September 9, 2015 EXHIBITIONS EXTENDED TO AUGUST 7, 2016 Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled from Sketchbook #10,…
October 4, 2016 Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn at their Hillcrest Road home, c. 1964 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn sent these postcards to the artist’s mother in…
October 6, 2016 By Abigail Cain Richard Diebenkorn in the Crown Point Press studio, Oakland, 1982. Photo by Colin C. McRae Twenty-five-year-old Robert Motherwell arrived in Manhattan in 1940, an…
October 22, 2016 By Anna Koster Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed,…
October 22, 2016 SFAI is currently seeking applications for the fall 2017 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship. Established in 1998 by the generosity of the family of painter Richard Diebenkorn—both an…
October 22, 2016 Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Woman, 1967, oil on canvas, 90 x 80 1/8 in. (228.6 x 203.5 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Featuring two of the Bay Area’s…
An excerpt from the new catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work October 22, 2016 Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #27, 1970, oil and charcoal on canvas, 100 x 80 in. (254…
October 22, 2016 Berkeley, CA Steven Nash, 2016 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation announced today the election of Steven Nash as President, Board of Directors. Mr. Nash succeeds the late Phyllis…
October 22, 2016 Berkeley, CA and New Haven, CT Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press, 2016) The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and Yale University Press today announced the October…
October 23, 2016 By Mary Carole McCauley The studios used by the painter Henri Matisse and one of his most illustrious heirs, Richard Diebenkorn, were separated by not quite half…
October 26, 2016 By Alex Belth Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Figure with Hat, 1967, oil on canvas, 57 3/4 x 61 3/4 in. (146.7 x 156.8 cm), Collection of the National…
November 4, 2016 By Sebastian Smee Henri Matisse’s “Notre Dame, A Late Afternoon” from 1902 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), and Richard Diebenkorn’s “Window” from 1967 (Richard Diebenkorn Foundation) BALTIMORE — When…
November 25, 2016 Heard on Morning Edition, Susan Stamberg Throughout his career, American artist Richard Diebenkorn studied the work of French painter Henri Matisse. They never met in real life,…
November 30, 2016 Berkeley, CA and New York, NY Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant presents Colin B. Bailey, Director, Morgan Library & Museum with the Foundation’s last remaining bound version of Richard…
Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles December 12, 2016 By Alexander Adams Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape #1, 1963, oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 50 1/2 in. (153…
January 19, 2017 Issue January 4, 2017 By Jed Perl Matisse/Diebenkorn an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 23, 2016–January 29, 2017; and the San Francisco Museum of…
January 8, 2017 Rita Braver interviews Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, Sophie Matisse, and Katherine Rothkopf How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side…
January 17, 2017 By Philip Kennicott Left: Henri Matisse. “The Yellow Dress,” 1929-31; Right: Richard Diebenkorn. “Seated Figure with Hat,” 1967. © Succession H. Matisse/ARS NY and The Richard Diebenkorn…
January 19, 2017 By Phyllis Tuchman Installation view of “Matisse/Diebenkorn,” 2016–17, showing, from left, Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park #5 (1972) and Henri Matisse’s View of Notre Dame (1914), at the…
January 24, 2017 By Andrew Shea Richard Diebenkorn, Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad, 1965, oil on canvas, 73 x 84 in. (185.4 x 213.4 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation…
February 1, 2017 By Stephen J. Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Reference Library, bury@frick.org Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press, 2016) The catalogue raisonné is…
March 3, 2017 By Ben Luke Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #79, 1975, oil and charcoal on canvas, 93 x 81 in. (236.2 x 205.7 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation When…
May 1, 2017 By Ara Osterweil Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #54, 1972, oil and charcoal on canvas, 100 x 81 in. (254 x 205.7 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation It…
First survey of the American artist’s earliest work; rarely seen paintings and drawings precede Diebenkorn’s move to figuration August 23, 2017 Sacramento, CA and Berkeley, CA Exhibition: Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings,…
September 27, 2017 Berkeley, CA Colin Bailey in the Rotunda, Morgan Library & Museum, photo by Graham S. Haber Steven A. Nash, Ph.D., the president of Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, announced…
October 19, 2017 By Tyler Green Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, c. 1947, oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 20 in. (64.8 x 50.8 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Episode No. 311…
October 26, 2017 By Julia Couzens Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Horse and Rider), 1954, oil on canvas, 21 x 24 in. (53.3 x 61 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Blockbuster museum…
December 4, 2017 Excerpted and edited from an IFAR Evening talk by Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant IFAR Journal (International Foundation for Art Research), Volume 18, Numbers 2 & 3 Editor’s Note…
February 5, 2018 By James H. Miller Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud, around 1991 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation “We had wonderful conversations,” recalls the painter Wayne Thiebaud, aged 97, of…
May 4, 2018 Portland, OR Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1945, watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 11 7/8 in. (22.9 x 30.2 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation The Portland Art…
June 20, 2018 By Surya Tubach Richard Diebenkorn, Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad, 1965, oil on canvas, 73 x 84 in. (185.4 x 213.4 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation…
July 26, 2018 By Karen Chernick Verso of Richard Diebenkorn, Woman in Profile, 1958 © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation To the untrained eye, it looked like just a piece of…
First survey of the American artist’s earliest work; rarely seen paintings and drawings precede Diebenkorn’s move to figuration; only Southern California venue to host major traveling exhibition October 2, 2018…
October 18, 2018 Berkeley, CA A still from the video Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, 2017 On the second anniversary of Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press, 2016),…
October 23, 2018 Berkeley, CA Photo courtesy of the Menil Collection, Houston Steven A. Nash, Ph.D., president of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, announced today the election of Dr. Rebecca Rabinow,…
April 26 to July 10, 2019 December 19, 2018 Easton, MD Richard Diebenkorn in the US Marine Corps with two untitled works on paper (catalogue raisonné nos. 125 and 344),…
January 17, 2019 By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Listen to podcast Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, c. 1946, pasted paper, construction paper, crayon, gouache, graphite, charcoal, and pasted cardboard on paper, 17 x 14…
March 7, 2019 Berkeley, CA Still from the video Michael Zakian on Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955, 2019 In a new video made exclusively for the new and expanding diebenkorn.org, Michael…
March 26, 2019 By Christopher Knight Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Horse and Rider), 1954, oil on canvas, 21 x 24 in. (53.3 x 61 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation The exhibition…
April 23, 2019 Easton, MD Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled (Magician’s Table), 1947, gouache and graphite on hardboard, 14 1/8 x 14 3/4 in. (35.9 x 37.5 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation…
A comprehensive new monograph featuring a revelatory interview with artist Wayne Thiebaud August 15, 2019 Berkeley, CA Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective (Rizzoli New York, 2019) This September, Rizzoli New York…
September 3, 2019 By Albert Mobilio Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Figure with Hat, 1967, oil on canvas, 57 3/4 x 61 3/4 in. (146.7 x 156.8 cm), Collection of the National…
A new monograph debuts, Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective September 17, 2019 New York, NY Sasha Nicholas, independent curator and art historian specializing in American Art This month, Rizzoli New York…
The Stanford exhibition celebrates a great American painter and alumnus. September 23, 2019 By Robin Wander At the touchscreen is Susan Dackerman, the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the…
On Richard Diebenkorn, Mario Buatta, Giambattista Vico & more from the world of culture. January 14, 2020 By The Editors Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective (Rizzoli Books, New York, 2019) Richard…
Co-produced with PRX January 25, 2020 © Reveal News In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style…
Tracing six of Diebenkorn’s works on paper to their origins in the south of France, 1978. February 3, 2020 By Amy Beth Wright Richard Diebenkorn’s temporary studio at the home…
A new, scholarly text adapted from a landmark essay by curator Scott A. Shields now available online March 19, 2020 Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Works on Paper 1946-1952 (Van Doren…
Experts share their perspectives on viewing the artist’s work at the Cantor and Anderson Collection March 30, 2020 Director Susan Dackerman and curatorial assistant Jessica Ventura review Richard Diebenkorn’s Window,…
Anderson Collection at Stanford University April 23, 2020 Hosted by art historian and the associate director of ITALIC at Stanford, Kim Beil, the micro-video series focuses on a single object…
Presented alongside an online exclusive exhibition curated by Nicholas May 5, 2020 New York, NY Last fall, Rizzoli New York introduced Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective, the most comprehensive monograph yet…
Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are three shows worth viewing virtually. July 1, 2020 By Roberta Smith Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled,…
July 6, 2020 By Emma Acker Richard Diebenkorn, Seawall, 1957, oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66 cm), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Phyllis…
There may be no more beautiful painting of California than this 1963 work by Richard Diebenkorn July 7, 2020 By Sebastian Smee Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape #1, 1963, oil on canvas,…
October 29, 2020 Berkeley, CA Photo courtesy of Sarah C. Bancroft. Photographer: Tomas Segura The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation today announced the election of Sarah C. Bancroft as President, Board of…
By Daisy Murray Holman April 4, 2019 In 1955 Richard Diebenkorn was 33 years old and working out of a two-story brick building on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California. The…
#diebenkorn #diebenkorntoday October 5, 2021 Berkeley, CA New diebenkorn.org designed by MacFadden & Thorpe and developed by Kanopi Studios, 2021 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, which expands knowledge and fosters appreciation…
Richard Diebenkorn in the US Marine Corps, Los Angeles, Calif., 1945 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation #diebenkorn #diebenkornbeginnings October 19, 2021 Berkeley, CA The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation is delighted to introduce…
By Daisy Murray Holman August 25, 2021 A young couple stands in the bright sun and holds their small children securely in their arms, loose enough so they can still…
By Daisy Murray Holman August 25, 2021 Leo Holub first photographed Richard Diebenkorn in 1963 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At the time Diebenkorn was the university’s first…
May 15, 2021 By Maxwell L. Anderson © 2021 Art Scoping Listen to podcast “A $7 Billion Philanthropic Force.” That’s an artnet headline describing artist-endowed foundations, and this episode sheds…
By Jacquelyn Northcutt November 18, 2021 Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell in the North Edith Street house with Albuquerque #4 (1951), Albuquerque, N.Mex., 1951. Photograph by Nellie Gilman Fryer © Richard…
Richard Diebenkorn’s coastal landscape does everything you could ask an artwork to do September 15, 2021 By Sebastian Smee Richard Diebenkorn, Seawall, 1957, oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in….