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…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…game – basically quite simple – but lending itself to much greater complexity and difficulty as such as, where the situation permitted, stacking two poles to make a quite high…
…and key landing pages combined with more powerful search functionality. The website has been enhanced with researchers, scholars, and students in mind, including for the first time online the artist’s…
…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….
…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…
…available for free to the public at vandorenwaxter.com. “I think what one is about now has intimately to do with what one did yesterday, ten years ago, thirty years ago,”…
…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…
…shares, and celebrates major projects from the world’s leading art museums and foundations. For more information visit www.yalebooks.com. Follow us on Facebook or on Twitter @YalePress. October 2016 | 4-volume…
…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…
…. . 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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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),…
…After years in storage, brightly-colored paintings finally come to light. “Albuquerque was, I guess, my period of reclusiveness,” said Richard Diebenkorn in a 1985 interview with Susan Larsen. “There is…
…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…
…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…
…of the more enjoyable highlights of my career as a minor bureaucrat. John DeWitt sent this letter to Richard Diebenkorn in 1978, while the artist was living in Santa…
…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…
…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…
…it should not be easy to make. Diebenkorn came to relish the search and struggle, making them critical components of his art and battling against his innate predisposition toward the…
…Marines. As a reservist, he was transferred to U.C. Berkeley, which had an art department with a more modern orientation. As part of an officers training program, which he never…
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…
…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…
…Area.) The review committee will consider the applicant’s experience, their appropriateness to the SFAI community, and the quality of work and written statements. Fellowship Award The Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow…
…and purchase the highest quality materials with the idea that it will aid in the production of the highest quality work. The Cigar Box Lid paintings achieve the same imaginative…
…comprehensive exhibition to date of the artist’s epic and longest-running series. She is also the leading authority on the art of James Rosenquist (1933–2017) and is the Executive Director of…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…in conjunction with the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, the landmark exhibition is the first to solely examine the work Diebenkorn made prior to his turn to figuration and…
…Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art. “Rebecca is a noted scholar and museum leader with a proven record of accomplishment who will help us to…
…introduces Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective, the most comprehensive monograph yet on the distinguished American painter, draftsman, and printmaker for readers of all backgrounds and levels of interest. The book features…
…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…
…c. 1944–45, watercolor and ink on paper, 8 x 5 1/4 in. (20.3 x 13.3 cm) © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Richard Diebenkorn Ongoing. Van Doren Waxter, vandorenwaxter.com As an artist,…
…serious study of Matisse’s paintings in East Coast museums, including The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the BMA. These seminal examples…
…Friday, April 26, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. is free and the public are invited to attend. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue aim to present a comprehensive view of…
The free database aims to elevate public access to the artist’s work, with more than 8,000 images and writings October 5, 2021 Gabriella Angeleti Richard Diebenkorn in his Stanford studio,…
…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…
…Reflecting on these works, Diebenkorn writes that his “only intention is to bring to them what to me is a human look.” He adds that this quality intuitively unspools, as…
…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….
…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…
…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….
…from April 26 to July 10 — the only venue on the East Coast. A reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, is free, and the public is…
…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…
…of giving in to the pull to return to California or venture to New York, Diebenkorn and Phyllis committed to the desert and the happiness and creative freedom they found…
…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…
…“I embraced Hopper completely….It was his use of light and shade and the atmosphere…kind of drenched, saturated with mood, and its kind of austerity,” Diebenkorn recalled. “It was the kind…
…side comparisons of unique works and prints made by the aritst—as he often worked out compositions that closely relate to one another in composition, palette and imagery. The Buffalo AKG…
…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…
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…
…(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….
…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…
…you look back and it’s suddenly all great, you can’t get enough. It’s as if your clammy, goose-fleshed body has stepped in to a hot, high-pressure shower after 10 days…
…art program. Since I had scored high in the sciences and had a mimetic drawing ability, I was placed in the medical illustration program—located in the same art building. Like…
…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,…