Richard Diebenkorn Paintings
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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