Richard Diebenkorn Exhibitions

Crown Point Press presents "Richard Diebenkorn: Prints from Two Decades," a radiant exhibition of prints made by the artist during a series of residencies at the Press between 1980 and 1990. Organized with the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and Crown Point executive director, Valerie Wade, the show takes place on the occasion of the highly anticipated release of "Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné of Prints" (Yale University Press, 2025), which includes new scholarly essays, more than 850 significantly scaled images, and a richly illustrated chronology of Diebenkorn’s printmaking years. The works on view in the Crown Point gallery were created in the final decade and a half of the artist’s life, the “high point” in his printmaking oeuvre, writes Starr Figura, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. In her essay “Richard Diebenkorn, Printmaker,” she adds that the objects made during this period “rank among the most extraordinarily luminous and elegantly structured prints ever produced.”

Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) was highly accomplished in printmaking and worked with professional print shops over a period of more than 30 years (1962-1992). Master printer Kathan Brown at Crown Point Press published a selection of his earliest intaglio prints in 1965 as "41 Etchings Drypoints." “It was Crown Point Press in San Francisco and the intaglio print processes it offered that captivated him the most: etching, drypoint, aquatint, and related techniques for incising an image into a metal printing plate,” Figura adds, which “provided endless horizons for his work.”