2020 East Hampton, New York
Leslie Feely Gallery, Post War Abstraction
19–30 August 2020
The Artist
Exhibitions
2020 San Francisco
Crown Point Press, Crown Point Press in the ’80s
9 January–7 March 2020
2019 Bonn, Germany
Bundeskunsthalle, California Dreams: San Francisco, a Portrait
12 September 2019–21 January 2020
2019 San Francisco
Hackett Mill, California Luminaries: Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Bischoff
17 September–30 October 2019
2019 Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape
6 April–15 September 2019
2018 San Francisco
Crown Point Press, Robert Bechtle, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud: Three California Masters—Figures and Landscapes
13 December 2018–2 February 2019
2009 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 75 Years of Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show
19 December 2009–16 January 2011
2009 Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines Art Center, Edward Hopper: Images and Influence
18 December 2009–23 April 2010
2009 New York
Allan Stone Gallery, Bay Area to New York
28 October–22 December 2009
2009 San Francisco
John Berggruen Gallery, Independent Visions: American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
August–September 2009
2009 Washington, D.C.
Phillips Collection, Early Moderns: A Celebration of Gifts from Gifford and Joann Phillips
21 March–6 September 2009
2009 Stanford, California
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Pop to Present
18 March–16 August 2009
2009 Nashville
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Paint Made Flesh
23 January–10 May 2009
2009 San Francisco
John Berggruen Gallery, Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of Bay Area Painting
8 January–28 February 2009
2008 Miami
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
29 November 2008–1 March 2009
2008 Fresno, California
Fresno Art Museum, Every Thursday Evening: The Drawings of Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown
21 November 2008–1 February 2009
2008 New York
Robert Miller Gallery, Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945–1965
20 November 2008–3 January 2009
2008 Barcelona
Joan Miró Foundation, Modernidad americana: Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art
31 October 2008–25 January 2009
2008 Skärhamn, Sweden
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Ljuset från Kalifornien: Akvareller från Kalifornien i ett historiskt perspektiv, 1908–2008
18 May–14 September 2008
2008 Bexley, Ohio
Hammond Harkins Galleries, A Shared Vision: Roselle Davenport and Richard Diebenkorn
19 April–1 June 2008
2008 Katonah, New York
Katonah Museum of Art, Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life
30 March–29 June 2008
2008 Washington, D.C.
Phillips Collection, Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
9 February–25 May 2008
2007 New York
Leslie Feely Fine Art, Leslie Feely Fine Art: Private Eye
18 October–13 November 2007
2007 San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, De-Natured: Painting, Sculpture, and Work on Paper from the Anderson Collection and the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection
13 October 2007–6 January 2008
2007 Oakland
Oakland Museum of California, Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA
13 October 2007–16 March 2008
2007 New York
Acquavella Galleries, Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud
21 September–31 October 2007
2007 Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Postwar Works on Paper
25 June–5 August 2007
2007 Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern(ist) Love: The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection
12 May–16 September 2007
2007 Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art
11 February–20 May 2007
2006 San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl
23 September 2006–4 March 2007
2006 New York
Cheim & Read, The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art
22 June–8 September 2006
2006 New York
Museum of Modern Art, An Atlas of Drawings: Transforming Chronologies, Part Two
10 May–6 October 2006
2006 Bolinas, California
Bolinas Museum, Bay Area Figurative: 1950s and 1960s
29 April–18 June 2006
2006 Paris
Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles, 1955–1985: The Birth of an Art Capital
8 March–17 July 2006
2005 Madrid
Fundación Juan March, Celebration of Art: A Half Century of the Fundación Juan March
7 October 2005–15 January 2006
2005 San Francisco
871 Fine Arts, Assemblage and Collage in California in the 1960s
16 June–31 August 2005
2005 New York
Museum of Modern Art, Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975
30 March–29 August 2005
2005 New York
Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection
4 February–25 April 2005
2004 New York
Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
20 November 2004–22 April 2008
2004 Stanford, California
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends
18 February–20 June 2004
2003 Toledo, Ohio
Toledo Museum of Art, East Coast/West Coast: Two Points of View
19 December 2003–28 March 2004
2003 San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
22 November 2003–15 February 2004
2003 Los Angeles
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, The Eunice and Hal David Collection of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Works on Paper
14 November 2003–8 February 2004
2003 Saratoga Springs, New York
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Bay Area Revisited: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture
7 November–17 December 2003
2003 Albuquerque
Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Other Than: Raymond Jonson’s Students
15 October 2003–9 January 2004
2003 Gifu, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Master Drawings from the the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection
9 August–15 September 2003
2003 Saint Louis
Saint Louis Art Museum, Diebenkorn/Thiebaud Works on Paper
14 May–28 September 2003
2003 Pasadena, California
Norton Simon Museum, Intimate Viewing: Reading Other People’s Mail
17 January–19 May 2003
2002 Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum, The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art
20 December 2002–23 February 2003
2002 New York
Charles Cowles Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell: Figurative Drawings
23 November–21 December 2002
2002 Pittsburgh
Andy Warhol Museum, Americanism: Shaping Art and Culture in the 1950’s
28 September 2002–20 July 2003
2002 Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Conversations
15 September 2002–14 February 2003
2002 New York
Gagosian Gallery, Ferus
12 September–19 October 2002
2002 Billings, Montana
Yellowstone Art Museum, The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting
23 March–30 June 2002
2002 Buffalo
Albright-Knox Gallery, Following a Line: Part Two
2 February–31 March 2002
2001 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cranbrook Art Museum, Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John & Rose Shuey Collection
8 December 2001–7 April 2002
2001 Bologna, Italy
Galleria d’arte moderna, La natura della natura morta: Da Manet ai nostri giorni
1 December 2001–24 February 2002
2001 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
18 November 2001–7 April 2002
2001 New York
C&M Arts, Naked since 1950
11 October–8 December 2001
2001 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton
9 September–11 November 2001
2001 Sante Fe
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Eye of Modernism
23 March–4 September 2001
2001 Washington, D.C.
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, The Luther W. Brady, M.D., Collection of 20th Century Works on Paper
7–30 March 2001
2001 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects
2 March–1 July 2001
2000 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000
22 October 2000–25 February 2001
2000 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection
7 October 2000–4 February 2001
2000 New York
Knoedler & Company, The Collector as Patron in the Twentieth Century
2 May–31 July 2000
2000 Kansas City
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration
7 April–26 November 2000
2000 Seattle
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape
10 February–20 August 2000
2000 New York
Knoedler & Company, Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the 20th Century
3 February–11 March 2000
2000 Miami
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum(organized and circulated by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.)
7–26 January 2000
1968 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Untitled, 1968*
9 November–29 December 1968
1968 Venice
United States Pavilion, 34th Venice Biennale, The Figurative Tradition in American Art
22 June–20 October 1968
1968 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition
19 January–3 March 1968
1967 New York
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards
25 May–25 June 1967
1966 Los Angeles
A vacant lot, corner of La Cienega and Sunset Boulevards, Artists’ Tower of Protest (Peace Tower) (organized by Irving Petlin, Mark di Suvero, and the Artists’ Protest Committee, in protest against the Vietnam War
26 February–May 1966
1964 Berkeley
Berkeley Gallery, 100 Artists for Free Speech
22 December 1964–3 January 1965
1964 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute
17 April–17 May 1964
1963 San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Drawings by Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell
27 April–2 June 1963
1962 Los Angeles
Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, The Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection
4 November–9 December 1962
1962 New York
American Academy Gallery, An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture (organized by the National Institute of Arts and Letters)
9–25 March 1962
1961 Pasadena, California
Pasadena Art Museum, Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell
5 December 1961–17 January 1962
1960 New York
Staempfli Gallery, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park
8–26 November 1960
2018 Charlottesville
Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950–Now
18 May–30 September 2018
1978 Venice
United States Pavilion, 38th Venice Biennale, From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature
2 July–15 October 1978
1977 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Private Images: Photographs by Painters
18 January–27 March 1977
1972 Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Seventieth American Exhibition
24 June–20 August 1972
1971 London
Hayward Gallery, 11 Los Angeles Artists
30 September–7 November 1971
1971 Los Angeles
Irving Blum Gallery, 6
27 March–April 1971
1989 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950–1965
14 December 1989–4 February 1990
1986 New York
Crown Point Press, New Prints by Richard Diebenkorn and Others
26 April–31 May 1986
1985 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors
7 November 1985–12 January 1986
1985 Los Angeles
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California
15 January–23 February 1985
1980 New York
Blum Helman Gallery, Three by Four
13 December 1980–23 January 1981
1959 New York
Museum of Modern Art, New Images of Man
30 September–29 November 1959
1959 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Seventy-Eighth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
2 April–3 May 1959
1958 Los Angeles
Ferus Gallery, Opening of the “New” Ferus
16 December 1958–10 January 1959
1958 Brussels
American Pavilion, Brussels Universal and International Exhibition (World’s Fair), Seventeen Contemporary American Painters
17 April–19 October 1958
1957 Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition
10 September–13 October 1957
1957 Oakland
Oakland Art Museum, Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting
8–29 September 1957
1957 Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, American Paintings, 1945–1957
18 June–1 September 1957
1957 Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Fourth International Art Exhibition of Japan
23 May–15 June 1957
1957 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Now
23 April–12 May 1957
1957 New York
M. Knoedler and Co., Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
9 April–4 May 1957
1957 Los Angeles
Ferus Gallery, Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye
15 March–11 April 1957
1956 Long Beach
Municipal Art Center, California Painting: 40 Painters
5–26 June 1956
1957 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Seventy-Sixth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
28 February–31 March 1957
1956 San Francisco
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco Art Association Members Show
5 December 1956–6 January 1957
1956 Carbondale, Illinois
Southern Illinois University, Young American Painters (organized and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibitions, New York)
1956 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Seventy-Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
29 March–6 May 1956
1955 New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
9 November 1955–8 January 1956
1955 Minneapolis
Walker Art Center, Vanguard 1955
23 October–5 December 1955
1955 Pittsburgh
Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
13 October–18 December 1955
1955 New York
Poindexter Gallery, Inaugural exhibition
22 September–29 October 1955
1955 São Paulo
U.S. section of the Pavilion of Nations at the III Bienal do Museu de arte moderna, Pacific Coast Art
2 July–12 October 1955Recreated by the San Francisco Museum of Art, which then traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Walker Art Center
1955 Rome
Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, U.S. Representation: International Exhibition of Painters under 35
15 April–20 May 1955
1954 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Three Bay Region Artists: Ruth Armer, Richard Diebenkorn, Ralph Du Casse
17 August–5 September 1954
1954 New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Younger American Painters
12 May–26 September 1954
1954 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Seventy-Third Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
18 February–28 March 1954
1953 Chicago
Gallery at Werner’s Books, Exhibition Momentum Midcontinental
4–30 May 1953
1951 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum, Contemporary Painting in the United States: 1951 Annual Exhibition
2 June–22 July 1951
1950 Albuquerque
Fine Arts Gallery, University of New Mexico, 22nd Annual Exhibition of Student Work by the Graduate Students and Graduating Seniors of the Department of Art
16 May–6 June 1950
1950 San Francisco
Lucien Labaudt Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by Richard Diebenkorn and Hassel Smith
8–30 March 1950
1991 San Francisco
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Thirty Years on Paper: Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud
9 April–11 May 1991
1949 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum, California Centennials Exhibition of Art
30 September–13 November 1949
1949 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum, New Works by Bay Region Artists
20 June–25 July 1949
1949 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Little Show of Work in Progress: San Francisco Artists
3–29 May 1949
1949 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association: Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture
24 February–20 March 1949
1948 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Twelfth Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
9 June–4 July 1948
1948 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Twelfth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
20 October–14 November 1948
1948 Sausalito, California
Schillerhaus, Exhibition title unknown (organized by poet-physicist Bern Porter)
[?]–15 August 1948
1948 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, 67th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association: Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture
4–29 February 1948
1946 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association: Oil, Tempera, and Sculpture
10 October–3 November 1949
1946 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, Tenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
17 April–5 May 1946
2018 Stanford, California
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper
8 March–20 August 2018
2018 New York
Acquavella Galleries, California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn | Wayne Thiebaud
1 February–16 March 2018
2018 Berkeley, California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Way Bay
17 January–3 June 2018
2017 Albuquerque
Albuquerque Museum, When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection
30 September–31 December 2017
2017 Los Gatos, California
New Museum Los Gatos, Abstracts from Life: Bay Area Figurative Past and Present
23 March–10 September 2017
2017 Montclair, New Jersey
Montclair Art Museum, Matisse and American Art
5 February–18 June 2017
2017 Athens, Georgia
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Artists of the New York School
14 January–19 March 2017
2016 Baltimore
Baltimore Museum of Art, Matisse/Diebenkorn (jointly organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
23 October 2016–29 January 2017
2016 Newport Beach, California
Orange County Museum of Art, American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art through the Eye of Duncan Phillips
8 August–4 December 2016
2016 New York
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco (organized with Hackett Mill, San Francisco)
4 February–13 March 2016
2015 Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum, Back to Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawing with Gifts from John S. Knudsen
11 October 2015–1 May 2016
2015 San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection
3 October 2015–7 February 2016
2015 New York
Acquavella Galleries, Off Canvas: Drawing
15 April–12 June 2015
2015 Paris
8 April–22 June 2015
2015 Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art, The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina
28 March–23 August 2015
2015 New York
Gagosian Gallery, In the Studio: Paintings
17 February–18 April 2015
2015 San Francisco
Hackett Mill, Interiors and Places: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff
30 January–27 March 2015
2014 Norman, Oklahoma
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism and the American Southwest
3 October 2014–4 January 2015
2014 Stanford, California
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University Opening Exhibition
21 September 2014–23 August 2015
2014 Oakland
Oakland Museum of California, Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California (organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
20 September 2014–12 April 2015
2014 Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University Art Museum, Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell
24 May–5 October 2014
2014 Washington, D.C.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction
18 April 2014–11 January 2015
2014 New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University Art Gallery, Five West Coast Artists: Bischoff, Diebenkorn, Neri, Park, and Thiebaud
28 March–13 July 2014
2013 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press
1 September 2013–5 January 2014
2013 West Palm Beach, Florida
Norton Museum of Art, Circa 1960: Figure and Form
27 June–1 September 2013
2013 London
Thomas Williams Fine Art, The Bay Area School Drawings: Californian Artists from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
25 June–19 July 2013
2013 London
Thomas Williams Fine Art, The Bay Area School Paintings: Californian Artists from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s
15 May–22 June 2013
2013 Metz, France
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Vues d’en haut
14 May–7 October 2013
2012 Ventura, California
Museum of Ventura County, Island Treasures: Artworks from the Santa Cruz Island Foundation
2 December 2012–3 March 2013
2012 Newport News, Virigina
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, 50 Great Americans
21 October 2012–13 January 2013
2012 Pasadena, California
Norton Simon Museum, Significant Objects: The Spell of Still Life
20 July 2012–21 January 2013
2012 New York
Leslie Feely Fine Art, Drawings by Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn
15 April–30 June 2012
2012 Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
22 March–27 May 2012
2012 Davenport, Iowa
Figge Art Museum, Legacies for Iowa
20 March 2012–9 March 2014
2012 Northampton, Massachusetts
Smith College Museum of Art, Shared Inspiration: The Muriel K. and David R. Pokross Collection
2 March–29 July 2012
2012 Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969
11 February–6 May 2012
2011 Pasadena, California
Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
18 November 2011–8 April 2012
2011 Genoa, Italy
Palazzo Ducale, Van Gogh e il viaggio di Gauguin
12 November 2011–15 April 2012
2011 Los Angeles
J. Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970
1 October 2011–5 February 2012
2010 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
25 June–10 October 2010
2010 Trentino, Italy
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
5 June–12 September 2010
2010 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Facing the Figure: Selected Works from the Collection, 1962–2007
28 May–6 September 2010
Our exhibitions listings will be expanded at a future date and will include selected group shows.