Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #23
Date:
                                        1955                                    Medium:
                                            Oil on canvas
                                        Dimensions:
                                            62 x 54 3/4 in. (157.5 x 139.1 cm)                                        Signed:
                                                "RD 55" lower left; "R. Diebenkorn/Berkeley #23/1955" reverse                                            Current owner:
                                            San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
                                        Credit Line:
                                            San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of the Women's Board, 1958                                        CR number:
                                            1470                                        RD number:
                                            1125                                        Exhibitions
                                        - Poindexter Gallery, New York, Richard Diebenkorn 28 February 1956 - 24 March 1956
 - Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, Calif., California Painting: 40 Painters 05 June 1956 - 26 June 1956
 - Atlanta Public Library, California Painting: 40 Painters 10 July 1956 - 31 July 1956
 - Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute, California Painting: 40 Painters 02 October 1956 - 22 October 1956
 - North Carolina State College, Raleigh, California Painting: 40 Painters 04 November 1956 - 25 November 1956
 - Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Fla., California Painting: 40 Painters 09 December 1956 - 03 January 1957
 - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, California Painting: 40 Painters 17 January 1957 - 10 February 1957
 - University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, California Painting: 40 Painters 01 April 1957 - 22 April 1957
 - Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, California Painting: 40 Painters 05 May 1957 - 26 May 1957
 - Utah State Student Union, Logan, California Painting: 40 Painters 01 September 1957 - 22 September 1957
 - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, California Painting: 40 Painters 06 October 1957 - 01 November 1957
 - Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, California Painting: 40 Painters 10 November 1957 - 01 December 1957
 - San Francisco Museum of Art, Contemporary Images 03 July 1958 - 13 July 1958
 - Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 01 November 1959 - 01 November 1959
 - Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 01 December 1959 - 01 January 1960
 - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 01 February 1960 - 01 February 1960
 - Museo della Permanente, Milan, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 01 March 1960 - 01 March 1960
 - Amerika Haus Berlin, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 15 April 1960 - 15 May 1960
 - Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 03 June 1960 - 26 June 1960
 - Göteborg Museum of Art, Sweden, American Painting of the Last Twenty-Five Years 15 July 1960 - 07 August 1960
 - Auckland City Art Gallery, Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand 27 May 1961 - 25 June 1961
 - Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand 25 July 1961 - 20 August 1961
 - Dunedin Art Gallery, New Zealand, Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand 01 September 1961 - 01 October 1961
 - National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Painting from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, New Zealand 01 November 1961 - 01 December 1961
 - Modesto Junior College, Calif., title unknown 07 April 1964 - 30 April 1964
 - San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, Calif., Masterpieces from the San Francisco Museum of Art 29 September 1965 - 19 October 1965
 - San Francisco Museum of Art, On Looking Back: Painting and Sculpture in the Bay Area 1945–1962 10 August 1968 - 08 September 1968
 - The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, Trends in Twentieth Century Art: A Loan Exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art 06 January 1970 - 01 February 1970
 - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works, 1948–1955 12 March 1975 - 19 April 1975
 - James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works, 1948–1955 01 September 1975 - 01 December 1975
 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 12 November 1976 - 09 January 1977
 - Cincinnati Art Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 31 January 1977 - 20 March 1977
 - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 15 April 1977 - 23 May 1977
 - Whitney Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 09 June 1977 - 17 July 1977
 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 09 August 1977 - 25 September 1977
 - Oakland Museum of California, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 15 October 1977 - 27 November 1977
 - University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Richard Diebenkorn: Matrix/Berkeley 40 15 January 1981 - 08 March 1981
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Facets of the Collection: Masterpieces and Recent Acquisitions 14 August 1981 - 15 November 1981
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Resource/Response/Reservoir—Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings, 1948–1983 13 May 1983 - 17 July 1983
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection 09 December 1984 - 17 February 1985
 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Works on Paper 14 October 1989 - 03 December 1989
 - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Richard Diebenkorn 04 October 1991 - 01 December 1991
 - Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Richard Diebenkorn 10 January 1992 - 08 March 1992
 - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Richard Diebenkorn 28 March 1992 - 31 May 1992
 - Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt, Richard Diebenkorn 25 June 1992 - 23 August 1992
 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Richard Diebenkorn 13 September 1992 - 01 November 1992
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn 19 November 1992 - 24 January 1993
 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Richard Diebenkorn 09 October 1997 - 19 January 1998
 - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Richard Diebenkorn 08 February 1998 - 12 April 1998
 - Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Richard Diebenkorn 09 May 1998 - 16 August 1998
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn 09 October 1998 - 19 January 1999
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art 23 March 2001 - 28 October 2001
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Focus on Artists: Selections from the Collection 22 October 2009 - 12 January 2010
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists 16 January 2010 - 23 May 2010
 - M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 22 June 2013 - 29 September 2013
 - Palm Springs Art Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 26 October 2013 - 16 February 2014
 - Grand Palais, Paris, American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection (Icônes Américaines: Chefs-d’oeuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher) 08 April 2015 - 22 June 2015
 - Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection (Icônes Américaines: Chefs-d’oeuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher) 11 July 2015 - 18 October 2015
 - Baltimore Museum of Art, Md., Matisse/Diebenkorn 23 October 2016 - 29 January 2017
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif., Matisse/Diebenkorn 11 March 2017 - 29 May 2017
 
Bibliography
                                        - California Painting: 40 Painters 1956
 - Modernt Amerikanskt Måleri 1932–1958 1960
 - Trends in Twentieth Century Art: A Loan Exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art 1970
 - Catalog of the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture 1970
 - Reviews: Richard Diebenkorn, John Berggruen Gallery Artforum, Summer 1975
 - Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works 1948–1955 1975
 - The Big Wave Was Rising San Francisco Examiner, 9 November 1975
 - Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 1976
 - Doomsday in the Bright Sun San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, 16 October 1977
 - A Painting Should Have Flex Horizon, July 1978
 - Richard Diebenkorn: 'Berkeley' Landscapes Calendar, University Art Museum, Berkeley, February 1981
 - Resource/Response/Reservoir—Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings 1948–1983 1983
 - Diebenkorn: A Painter's 'Pentimento' United, June 1983
 - Richard Diebenkorn and the Humanly Abstract Artweek, 2 July 1983
 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection 1985
 - Richard Diebenkorn 1987
 - Richard Diebenkorn 1989
 - The Golden Age of Bay Area Painting Art of California, August–September 1989
 - The Art of Richard Diebenkorn 1997
 - Richard Diebenkorn: Whitney Museum of American Art Artforum International, February 1998
 - Richard Diebenkorn American Art Review, May–June 1998
 - MATRIX / Berkeley, 1978–1998 1998
 - SFMOMA Showcasing its Enhanced Collection: The Museum is Reaching Out to Patrons with its "Points of Departure" Exhibit Contra Costa Times, 1 April 2001
 - Cézanne, d'un siécle à l'autre 2006
 - MATRIX / Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art 2009
 - Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 2013
 - Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 San Francisco Arts Quarterly, May–July 2013
 - Inimitable Diebenkorn San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2013
 - L'Amérique Triomphe en 49 Icônes Le Figaro, 6 April 2015
 - Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
 - Matisse/Diebenkorn 2016
 - Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective 2019