Healdsburg

1988

The artist’s studio at his home on Soda Rock Lane during construction, Healdsburg, Calif., 1988 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

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Moves permanently to Healdsburg.

The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn, curated by John Elderfield, opens at MoMA.

1989

Undergoes emergency heart surgery; contracts infection in the hospital. For the next six months, he is unable to walk to his studio and works from the house. When his health improves enough to return to his studio, focuses on works on paper.

SFMoMA organizes a show of forty works for Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.

1990

View of Mount Saint Helena from the artist’s home on Soda Rock Lane, Healdsburg, Calif., 1988 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

Undergoes a second surgery to correct the first. The infection is eliminated, but Diebenkorn never fully regains his strength.

1991

The artist at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, Calif., 1991. Photograph by Kathan Brown

Receives National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. Travels to London with his family to attend the opening of a retrospective exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The exhibition travels to Madrid, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Richard Diebenkorn: New Work opens at M. Knoedler and Co. in New York. This is the first and only show of work from Healdsburg at Knoedler.

1992