The artist’s studio at his home on Soda Rock Lane during construction, Healdsburg, Calif., 1988 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Timeline
- Early Years: 1922–1939
- Student and Wartime: 1940–1945
- Sausalito, the CSFA, and Woodstock, NY: 1946–1950
- Albuquerque, Urbana, and New York: 1950–Fall 1953
- Berkeley Abstraction: Fall 1953–1955
- Berkeley Figurative Years: 1956–1966
- Santa Monica and Ocean Park: Fall 1966–1975
- Santa Monica and Ocean Park: 1976–1987
- Healdsburg: 1988–1993


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

The artist’s studio at his home on Soda Rock Lane during construction, Healdsburg, Calif., 1988 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Moves permanently to Healdsburg.
The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn, curated by John Elderfield, opens at MoMA.
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.

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

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.

Begins spending more time in Berkeley, to be closer to his doctor. Sets up a studio in his kitchen.

The artist’s studio on Soda Rock Lane, Healdsburg, Calif., 1993 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

The artist’s studio on Soda Rock Lane, Healdsburg, Calif., 1993 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

The artist’s studio on Soda Rock Lane, Healdsburg, Calif., 1993 © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
30 March: dies at his home in Berkeley.