Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
Berkeley #52
Date:
                                        1955                                    Medium:
                                            Oil on canvas
                                        Dimensions:
                                            58 5/8 x 53 7/8 in. (148.9 x 136.8 cm)                                        Signed:
                                                "RD 55" lower left                                            Current owner:
                                            National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
                                        Credit Line:
                                            National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the Collectors Committee                                        CR number:
                                            1488                                        RD number:
                                            1145                                        Exhibitions
                                        - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Vanguard 1955 23 October 1955 - 05 December 1955
 - Stable Gallery, New York, Vanguard 1955 28 December 1955 - 01 January 1956
 - Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, Richard Diebenkorn—Paintings 16 January 1957 - 09 February 1957
 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., Artist of the Month: Richard Diebenkorn 08 October 1977 - 16 November 1977
 - 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
 - Artsy, Richard Diebenkorn: Special Online Presentation 09 May 2020 - 12 September 2020
 
Bibliography
                                        - Vanguard 1955: A Painter's Selection of New American Paintings 1955
 - Gallery Notes: Artist of the Month–Richard Diebenkorn October 1977
 - American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue 1992
 - Death of Master of Space and Light The Washington Times, 4 April 1993
 - The 20th-Century Art Book 1996
 - Pure Painterly Ambiance: Richard Diebenkorn Artnet.com, 29 October 1997
 - The Art of Richard Diebenkorn 1997
 - Coming Home Washingtonian, May 1998
 - Richard Diebenkorn and the Art of Crossing Borders Revue, Fall 1998
 - National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection 2004
 - Obamas Play to the Gallery Australian, 1 June 2009
 - Changing the Art on The White House Walls Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2009
 - Obama Brightens Up the White House Independent, 4 July 2009
 - Modern Art Hits 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as Obamas' Tastes Take Hold Day, 7 October 2009
 - Obama Art: What's on the Walls at the White House? Minneapolis Star Tribune, 7 October 2009
 - Abstract Makeover at White House Daily Telegraph, 8 October 2009
 - 'Highly Sophisticated' Tampa Tribune, 8 October 2009
 - A Bold and Modern White House Financial Chronicle, 8 October 2009
 - Overtuigt de kunstkeuze voor het Witte Huis door politiek expressionist Obama? Vrij Nederland, 21 November 2009
 - Making Pictures: Berkeley and the Bay Area Art Revolution California Magazine, Winter 2009
 - A Fond Farewell to the Budapest-Bound San Francisco Chronicle, 6 January 2010
 - Acquavella: The First Ninety Years 2012
 - Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné 2016
 - Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective 2019
 
Description
                                        
                                            The photograph shows President Barack Obama adjusting his bow tie in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House, with Berkeley #52 reflected in the background. Courtesy Barack Obama Presidential Library