Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #42b
Date:
1955 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
59 1/4 x 62 in. (150.5 x 157.5 cm)Signed:
"RD 55" lower left; "Berkeley #42/R. Diebenkorn/1955" reverseCR number:
1479 RD number:
221 Exhibitions
- Art Department Building, University of California, Berkeley, Recent Paintings: Richard Diebenkorn 12 September 1955 - 12 October 1955
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Young American Painters 24 September 1956 - 14 October 1956
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., Young American Painters 14 November 1956 - 04 December 1956
- Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Young American Painters 01 February 1957 - 22 February 1957
- Atlanta Public Library, Young American Painters 20 February 1957 - 13 March 1958
- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Young American Painters 01 March 1957 - 22 March 1957
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Young American Painters 05 April 1957 - 26 April 1957
- Marshall College, Huntington, W.Va., Young American Painters 10 May 1957 - 31 May 1957
- San Francisco Museum of Art, Young American Painters 09 July 1957 - 04 August 1957
- Portland Art Museum, Ore., Young American Painters 13 August 1957 - 15 September 1957
- Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Young American Painters 01 October 1957 - 22 October 1957
- Long Beach Museum of Art, Calif., Young American Painters 01 November 1957 - 01 November 1957
- Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, Calif., Young American Painters 07 November 1957 - 28 November 1957
- Tucson Art Center, Ariz., Young American Painters 12 January 1958 - 02 February 1958
- Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Miss., Young American Painters 30 March 1958 - 20 April 1958
- Western MIchigan College, Kalamazoo, Mich., Young American Painters 05 May 1958 - 26 May 1958
- Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Young American Painters 10 June 1958 - 01 July 1958
Bibliography
- Is There a California School? Art News, January 1956
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 2013
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
Description
This painting is one of five (see cats. 1475 through 1478) 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. It was later titled "Berkeley #42b" by the artist and Poindexter, since "Berkeley #42" (cat. 1478) already existed.