Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #39
Date:
1955 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
59 1/8 x 59 in. (150.2 x 149.9 cm) Signed:
"RD 55" lower right; "Berkeley #39/R. Diebenkorn/1955" reverse CR number:
1477 RD number:
1137 Exhibitions
- Poindexter Gallery, New York, [group exhibition] 22 September 1955 - 29 October 1955
- Poindexter Gallery, New York, Richard Diebenkorn 28 February 1956 - 24 March 1956
- Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, Richard Diebenkorn—Paintings 16 January 1957 - 09 February 1957
- Baltimore Museum of Art, New Paintings and Sculpture from Established and Newly Formed Baltimore Collections 12 July 1959 - 06 September 1959
- 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
- Acquavella Galleries, New York, California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn | Wayne Thiebaud 01 February 2018 - 16 March 2018
- Artsy, Richard Diebenkorn: Special Online Presentation 09 May 2020 - 12 September 2020
Bibliography
- Landscapes Show Art Out of Context Washington Post, 1 May 1966
- What is Art Really Worth? Miami Herald, 29 November 2010
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
Description
This painting is one of five (see cats. 1475, 1476, 1478, and 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.