Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #42
Date:
1955 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
57 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (146.1 x 130.8 cm) Signed:
"RD 55" lower center; "Top/R Diebenkorn/1955/Berkeley #42" reverse Current owner:
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit Line:
Contemporary Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1968.95 CR number:
1478 RD number:
1139 Exhibitions
- Poindexter Gallery, New York, Richard Diebenkorn 28 February 1956 - 24 March 1956
- Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, Richard Diebenkorn—Paintings 16 January 1957 - 09 February 1957
- Cleveland Museum of Art, The Figure: de Kooning to Warhol 01 November 1983 - 08 January 1984
Bibliography
- Art Arts & Architecture, April 1956
- In the Galleries: Richard Diebenkorn Arts, March 1956
- Diebenkorn's 'Woman by a Large Window' Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Fall 1958
- Art: USA Now 1962
- The Year in Review for 1968 Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, January 1969
- Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes 1976
- Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 1976
- Richard Diebenkorn: 38th Venice Biennial 1978, United States Pavilion 1978
- Recent Paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and Jack Tworkov Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 1980
- Richard Diebenkorn Flash Art, March–April 1981
- Richard Diebenkorn 1987
- The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism 1996
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 2013
- Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
Description
This painting is one of five (see cats. 1475, 1476, 1477, 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.