Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #36
Date:
1955 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
73 1/2 x 71 in. (186.7 x 180.3 cm) Signed:
"RD 55" lower left CR number:
1475 RD number:
1134 Exhibitions
- Oakland Art Museum, Calif., Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting 08 September 1957 - 29 September 1957
- Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting 13 November 1957 - 22 December 1957
- Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting 07 January 1958 - 09 February 1958
- Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colo., Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting 01 March 1958 - 01 March 1958
- 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
- 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
Bibliography
- Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstract Works 1948–1955 1975
- Los Angeles: Richard Diebenkorn at James Corcoran Art in America, July–August 1975
- Richard Diebenkorn, 1948–1955 Artweek, 22 February 1975
- The Art of Richard Diebenkorn 1997
- Diebenkorn Emerging as a Major Artist North Jersey Herald-News, 26 October 1997
- Richard Diebenkorn: A Reasoned Sensuality Art in America, October 1998
- A Collector Is Selling 21 Treasures Out of 700 New York Times, 11 November 2002
- High Art: Bay Area Collector Thomas Weisel is Selling Choice Works that Could Fetch $60 Million San Francisco Chronicle, 7 November 2002
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
Description
This painting is one of five (see cats. 1476 through 1479) of which the artist sent photographs in his first letter to Elinor Poindexter (1955). The letter referred to his work and the possibility that she would represent him at her New York gallery.