Visual Critic Series – Part I

…Whalen’s whatever is comfortable, and it’s enough, particularly when bookended by I imagine and I imagine. Its unapologetic self-prescribed leeway is both free and focused; a world inside and out….

Berkeley Abstraction

…unreal. If my responses are real I start to get real answers back. When the answers come back fake, my exasperation, anger or despair may become real. . . ….

The World by Air: The Making of the Lower Colorado Series

…Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections Purchase Order, United States Department of Interior, 20 January 1970, Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections On February 15th,…

Berkeley Figurative Years

…Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Award of Merit at the Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. and Andrew…

Santa Monica and Ocean Park

…is right and complete there is a cumulative excitement in the sequential encounters with the parts until the work is completely (or as completely as possible) experienced. The pitch of…

Meeting Santa Cruz Island

…intellectual order. One of the thrills comes from finding answers to unasked questions. In today’s From the Basement, we examine a place that stole Diebenkorn’s heart, viewing it from a…

An artist studio by Club Triangle

…in Collections Untitled, c. 1960–65, ink and charcoal on paper, 14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections Studio Wall, 1963, oil on…

Student and Wartime

…along the eastern seaboard; collections like these do not exist in California, and their significance is not lost on the young artist. The couple visits the Phillips Collection in Washington,…

Artforum: Matisse/Diebenkorn

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…

A look back at a celebratory #Diebenkorn100

…in. (17.8 × 27.6 cm), Collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation A highlight of #Diebenkorn100, the Foundation commissioned fresh scholarship by a diverse trio of contemporary…

The Foundation

…to his work and understanding of his legacy and time through support of exhibitions, loan of artworks, research, publications, archival services and digital initiatives. Its collection of prints, drawings, paintings…

Paintings & Drawings

…publication, such as an unresolved collection credit at the time of our provenance research deadlines, is shown here in Revisions. The final dates for provenance research were: volume 2 (1933–1955),…

Biography

…York, the Gallatin Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He internalized influences from Cézanne, Julio González, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Mark Rothko…

Santa Monica and Ocean Park

…a step toward an explanation of their presence in Diebenkorn’s art. Rather than examining clubs and spades alone, we should consider them instead as simply the most visible component of…

Esquire: A Good Reason to Visit Baltimore

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…

World War II Ephemera

…viewing of the exhibitions, making the catalogue with its new, scholarly essay by Scott A. Shields, installation and artwork images, and the press release all available for free on vandorenwaxter.com….

Sausalito, the CSFA, and Woodstock

for the CSFA New Year’s Artists’ Ball.80 Decides to leave CSFA. His position at the school is no longer rewarding; the long hours spent at the school and commuting compromise…

Early Years

…Dohrmann Hotel Supply Company, first as a salesman and designer and later as vice president, retiring after fifty years of service. A colleague will later describe him as a “‘straight-arrow’—highly…

Lincoln Yamaguchi

…Yamaguchi View in Collections Drawing session that took place in Richard Diebenkorn’s studio on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, Calif., 1955. Photographs by Lincoln Yamaguchi View in Collections Drawing session that…

New Yorker: Richard Diebenkorn

command to “tolerate chaos,” which might help to explain the exciting flux and the unfussy moments of order uniting his lifetime of work. — Johanna Fateman   Read on newyorker.com

#Diebenkorn100

…Eyes of His Students, By Harley Wong Visual Critic Series A trio of newly commissioned #Diebenkorn100 essays in miniature for @DiebenkornFoundation by a diverse group of contemporary visual critics, who…

Art Newspaper: The changeable Californian

…in recent decades. Any comprehensive study of Modernism in America must include Diebenkorn. The question is, how is he to be categorised: figurative or abstract? Except for stays in New…

Studio notes by Richard 
Diebenkorn

…torn from other uses. Studio note by Richard Diebenkorn © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections Studio note by Richard Diebenkorn © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections Diebenkorn preferred…

New Republic: The Rectangular Canvas is Dead

…engaged with the possibilities of brushes and pigments to feel free. Eleanor Ray is in her mid-twenties. That is a time in artists’ lives when they ought to be trying…

Albuquerque, Urbana, and New York

…Albuquerque, N.Mex., November 1951. Photograph by Nellie Gilman Fryer © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation View in Collections 1952 Winter: Phyllis completes her undergraduate degree in psychology. Diebenkorn applies for teaching jobs…

Six on Sausalito

…Bern Porter (1947–1950), Sausalito, Calif., 1947, Colby College Special Collections & Archives, Waterville Maine. Used by permission of Mark Melnicove, literary executor for Bern Porter Colby College Special Collections &…

Home

…Waxter Feature Following the Footsteps of Richard Diebenkorn Across California, A special #Diebenkorn100 essay by Ricky Amadour From the Basement An artist studio by Club Triangle, The latest installment of…

Visual Critic Series – Part III

…20th Intersection (2004)—and curving compositions, as displayed in Diebenkorn’s Divided Street (1961) and Bechtle’s Frisco Nova (1979). Also enrolled at CCAC in the mid- to late-1950s was painter Bernice Bing,…

Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné debuts

…paper created during the artist’s “Ocean Park” cycle and now in the museum’s Thaw Collection. The drawing was on view for guests that evening alongside other works on paper graciously…

Up Close: One Painting Tours With Artists

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…

de Young Museum: Diebenkorn and the Aerial View

…G. Diebenkorn © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation The modestly sized oil-on-canvas Seawall (1957) is one of six paintings and hundreds of works on paper by Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) in the collection

Healdsburg

and School; takes granddaughter Phyllis Grant to tour colleges.334 3–9 April: Produces a set of monotypes with Garner Tullis at his workshop in Santa Barbara. The prints are shown in…

France, 1978

…to the endless pursuit of collection and research, and the critical component of friendship. The Diebenkorn–Davenport relationship lived beyond the lifetime of the key players. Their mutual fondness, respect, and

As Seen By: Leo Holub in the Studio

…on to found the Stanford photography program in 1969. He is most well known for his decade-long project visually documenting more than 110 artists in their studios, an effort commissioned…

Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective

…‘greatest hits’ approach found in most monographs but instead, mixes with well-known and well-published works a great many paintings and drawings that have not become such common reference points for

Cantor Magazine: Richard Diebenkorn at Stanford

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,…

Publications

…Art of the University of New Mexico, 2007 AbeBooks Richard Diebenkorn and Carey Stanton: A Private Collection Texts by Marla Daily and Paul Chadbourne Mills. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Cruz…