Student and Wartime

…29 1 July: Fails to qualify for commission and is transferred from OCS one week before graduation. [During training exercises] I was platoon leader [and was] bringing my platoon through…

An artist studio by Club Triangle

…contains a sheltered bus stop and a portable toilet,” and is a place “where community groups dole out free meals and services to those in need.”23 The oral history account…

Albuquerque, Urbana, and New York

…blues, yellows, oranges, and pinks. Phyllis later comments on the flat, sunless quality of the landscape, and that unlike that of Albuquerque and later Berkeley and Santa Monica, the Urbana…

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 Figurative Years

for a period of time in Southern California.157 Stuart Preston of the New York Times calls Diebenkorn a “rising star” of Abstract Expressionism: “His compositions . . . resemble aerial…

Lincoln Yamaguchi

and the utter boredom of their female subject are evident. The air between them is both clinical and thick with concentration. The photograph is of high quality, with a clean…

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…

Sausalito, the CSFA, and Woodstock

…. . A lot of intensity was born from this feeling. The freewheeling quality, I think, came from the attitude that there were not really instructors and students as much…

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…

Santa Monica and Ocean Park

complexity and difficulty as such as, where the situation permitted, stacking two poles to make a quite high one or the aligning of members in three or more levels of…

The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation announces #Diebenkorn100

…featuring special museum installations; fresh research and content; rarely seen archival material, including photography and correspondence; and new, original videos. As a centerpiece of #Diebenkorn100, the Foundation is inviting museums…

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),…

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…

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…

France, 1978

…these new materials we were able to take a closer look. Now we have identified seven works (see example here) in the photos that are still in existence. Most are…

Meeting Santa Cruz Island

…think Carey and I will get on each other’s nerves. Please don’t consider not coming. Somehow it can and must be arranged. When you come bring a copy of “The…

World War II Ephemera

…is strictly my own. I am struck by the high degree of emotional connection I feel to them. The men who as yet haven’t gone overseas are bored and communicate…

Berkeley Abstraction

…New York public work of quality and pioneering interest by lesser known artists from all quarters of the country, side by side with selected examples of leading younger artists of…

Bookforum: Art Books | Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective

…works, this retrospective volume presents less familiar material—still lifes, portraits, and landscapes—completed while Diebenkorn lived in Berkeley from the late ’50s to the mid-’60s. A darker palette and a penchant…

New Criterion: Pieces of Ocean Park

…studio was highly improbable. Aside from intimate landscape sketches, often views from the homes of close friends, few finished drawings from Diebenkorn’s travels in this period have survived. And yet,…

Esquire: A Good Reason to Visit Baltimore

…even though just about any painting is a Google search away, you’re never prepared for how powerful it is in person. The painting greets you as you walk into the…

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

Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective

…our current age of artistic pluralism and multiculturalism, we have come to understand that ‘fitting in’ is much less important than the quality and depth of individual creativity. It is…

Studio notes by Richard 
Diebenkorn

…painting across six decades in postwar America. Browse the artist’s writings 1. Richard Diebenkorn quoted in Dan Hofstadter, “Almost Free of the Mirror,” New Yorker, 7 Sept. 1987, 54. 2….

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…

Museums and art lovers celebrate #Diebenkorn100

…are celebrating the artist’s beautiful, mysterious body of work by creating fresh commentary and content, from wall labels to videos to essays, for all audiences with the celebratory hashtag #Diebenkorn100….

Six on Sausalito

…now been recorded. Contextualization also serves to enliven the biographies of the artists and other community members, highlighting personal elements of their lives. Archival materials surrounding the life and art…

Biography

…family to San Francisco. Diebenkorn attended Lowell High School from 1937–40, and entered Stanford University in 1940. There he concentrated in studio art and art history, studying under Victor Arnautoff…

Art Newspaper: The changeable Californian

…x 128.3 cm), Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) is the most high-profile member of the San Francisco Bay Area…

Reveal News: Fancy galleries, fake art

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…

Cantor Magazine: Richard Diebenkorn at Stanford

…(1967), discovered by Stanford undergraduate Katherine Van Kirk, ’19, and high-resolution, digitized copies of Diebenkorn’s 29 sketchbooks, which were gifted to the museum by Phyllis Diebenkorn, Richard’s wife, in 2014….

de Young Museum: Diebenkorn and the Aerial View

…two miles from the Pacific Ocean. Diebenkorn completed the majority of his education in the Bay Area, attending Lowell High School in San Francisco; Stanford University in Palo Alto; and

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,…