Richard Diebenkorn - Artists - Paul Thiebaud Gallery

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was born in April, 1922 in Portland, Oregon. When he was two years old, his father, who was a hotel supply sales executive, relocated the family to San Francisco. Diebenkorn attended Lowell High School from 1937–40, and entered Stanford University in 1940. There he concentrated in studio art and art history, studying under Victor Arnautoff and Daniel Mendelowitz. The latter encouraged his interest in such American artists as Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler and, most seminally, Edward Hopper. Mendelowitz also took his promising student to visit the home of Sarah Stein, sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein, where he saw works by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse; this early exposure to European modernism opened doors that continued to beckon in the future. In June, 1943, Diebenkorn married fellow Stanford student Phyllis Gilman; they would have two children, Gretchen (born 1945) and Christopher (born 1947).

Diebenkorn served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943 until 1945. While stationed in Quantico, Virginia, he visited a number of important collections of modern art, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Gallatin Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and, most often, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. He internalized influences from Cézanne, Julio González, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Mark Rothko and Kurt Schwitters; certain key paintings, such as Matisse’s 1916 Studio, Quai St. Michel at the Phillips Collection were especially compelling for him. During this time he experimented with abstract watercolor as well as making the representational sketches that would continue when he was stationed in Hawaii, and these constitute his "wartime” work.

Returning from military duty to San Francisco, in 1946 Diebenkorn took advantage of the G.I. bill to study at the California School of Fine Arts, where he met many serious contemporaries who would remain friends and artistic colleagues, and a slightly older one, David Park, who would have an especially important influence on him. In the fall of 1946, he received the Albert Bender Grant-in-Aid fellowship, allowing him to spend nearly a year in Woodstock, New York, in an environment where serious abstract artists (among them the sculptor Raoul Hague and the painter Melville Price) were finding their experimental ways. In New York City, he had his first contact with William Baziotes and Bradley Walker Tomlin. Diebenkorn’s relatively small canvases of this period reflect these sources, many of whom were greatly influenced by Picasso.

Diebenkorn and his wife, Phyllis, returned to San Francisco in 1947; they settled in Sausalito, and the artist became a faculty member at the California School of Fine Arts. Fellow teachers there included Clyfford Still, Elmer Bischoff, Hassel Smith, Edward Corbett and David Park. His first one-person exhibition was held at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1948, a singular distinction for so young a painter. In 1949, he was awarded his B.A. degree from Stanford. It was during this period—1947 to late 1949—that his first “period”—the Sausalito Period—took shape.

In 1950 Diebenkorn enrolled at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, wanting to take advantage of the G.I. Bill benefits still available to him, and to try out a new environment for his visual imagination. He and his family remained in Albuquerque for two and a half years; halfway through his tenure there, he presented a cycle of paintings as his master’s degree exhibition. The “Albuquerque Period” represents the first mature statement of Richard Diebenkorn’s distinctive, and powerful, presence on the American avant-garde art scene.

During the Albuquerque years, Diebenkorn visited and was greatly impacted by a retrospective exhibition of Arshile Gorky at the San Francisco Museum of Art. This and an epiphanic experience viewing the landscape from the perspective of a rather low-flying plane, shaped his own work in the ensuing months. He combined landscape influence, aerial perspective, and a private, calligraphic language, into an artistic style that flowered in myriad directions, and whose ideas ramified in virtually all of his work in subsequent periods. At this time, he established his life-long pattern of working simultaneously in large-scale oil paintings, and ambitious, if often restlessly experimental, works on paper.

Diebenkorn’s first in-depth exposure to the work of Henri Matisse happened in the summer of 1952, when he saw the retrospective exhibition organized by Alfred Barr for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in its venue at the Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles. In the fall of that year, he moved with his family to Urbana, Illinois, having accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois. The work made at that time is known as the “Urbana Period”; it is characterized by a continuation of his subtle abstract/calligraphic style, but with a richer, more intense palette.

In the summer of 1953, he visited New York, where, among many other artists, he first met Franz Kline. In September, he returned with his family to Berkeley, settling there for a number of years. The paintings and drawings of the “Berkeley Period” established the artist as an abstract painter of uncommon authority and bravura. In the fall of 1953, Diebenkorn received an Abraham Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship for advanced study in art, and was able to work in his studio on a full-time basis.

In late 1955, Diebenkorn suddenly launched upon a path that veered dramatically from his extended early abstract period: he began to work in a “representational” mode, painting and drawing landscapes, figure studies and still lifes. With fellow artists David Park, Elmer Bischoff and later Frank Lobdell, he regularly worked on figure drawing from models; one of his largest bodies of work comprises exhaustively experimental figure drawings. He was also prolific in the still life genre: some of his nearly monochromatic still life drawings are among the most distinctive, and ravishing, in twentieth century art. But it was the figurative and landscape paintings of this period (1956–67) that created an ever increasing audience for his work. In March, 1956, he had the first of nine exhibitions at the Poindexter Gallery in New York; these were duly noted by the East Coast art establishment and helped further his national reputation.

In the academic year 1963–64, the artist left his teaching activity at the San Francisco Art Institute (formerly the California School of Fine Arts) and accepted an artist-in-residence stint at Stanford University. This period produced an especially concentrated and lyrical group of figure drawings, in addition to paintings. In 1964 he was invited to visit the Soviet Union on a Cultural Exchange Grant from the U.S. State Department. On that (somewhat harrowing) trip, he was able to see the great Matisse paintings at the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, which had been unavailable to most of the world for decades. This experience fed his work of the next period. In 1965, he began the late figurative works, characterized by relatively flat, planar areas of color, geometric compositions, and occasionally smaller areas of decorative figuration. In 1966, he saw the Matisse retrospective at the University of California, Los Angeles Art Gallery which included View of Notre Dame and Open Window, Collioure.

It was in 1966, too, that he and Phyllis moved from Berkeley to Santa Monica, where Diebenkorn accepted a teaching position at UCLA. Within several months of beginning work in his first Santa Monica studio, located in a neighborhood near the beach known as Ocean Park, the artist embarked on the great cycle of paintings and drawings known as the Ocean Park works. In doing so, he definitively ended his figurative approach, to invent a unique abstract language he would develop until 1988. In 1971, he had his first exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in New York; these three shows became much-anticipated opportunities to observe the unfolding of the Ocean Park vocabulary. In 1977, he moved to New York’s M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, where, over the course of the next decade—working with gallery director Larry Rubin—he exhibited nearly annually. This would become a series of events perhaps even more appreciated than his earlier Ocean Park shows at Marlborough. Both the drawings and paintings became ever more richly chromatic and compositionally complex.

In 1976–77, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, organized a major retrospective exhibition which traveled to Washington, DC, New York City, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Oakland. By now Diebenkorn was generally regarded as a well-established American master; his association with California would always remain, but his stature as a world-class modern artist was secure.

In 1980 and 1981, Diebenkorn temporarily changed direction, producing a rather eccentric group of works on paper known as the “Clubs and Spades” drawings. When these were shown at Knoedler, the reaction was somewhat perplexed; with time, however, these images have become some of the most highly prized of his works. They were, at least in part, inspired by the artist’s lifelong interest in heraldic imagery, and their explorations of form would reappear in modified form at the very end of his life.

In late 1988, and continuing as a traveling exhibition throughout 1989, Diebenkorn’s works on paper were organized into a major show and book by the Museum of Modern Art’s curator John Elderfield. This was a landmark event for the artist and his public, including, as it did, the entire range of his stylistic journey right through the late 1980s.

In the spring of 1988, Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn moved from Santa Monica to Healdsburg, California, to a rural home near the Russian River, overlooking vineyards and scrub-oak hillsides. In his Healdsburg studio he worked in mostly small scale, producing some of the most gem-like, quirkily decorative, and perfectly executed, works of his life. Though he experienced serious health problems during much of his time in Healdsburg, he was able to continue his restless exploration of form and color and poetic metaphor. Virtually all of the Healdsburg work was abstract. However, in one of his last ambitious print series, done in 1990, he represented variations on the theme of a coat on a hanger. The late etchings, meant to illustrate a luxury edition book of poems by W.B. Yeats published by San Francisco's Arion Press, constitute a kind of valedictory gesture.

In late 1992, the Diebenkorns were forced to take up residence at their Berkeley apartment in order to be nearer to medical treatment. They looked forward to returning to Healdsburg, but were never able to do so. Richard Diebenkorn died there on March 30, 1993.

Richard Diebenkorn: Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2013
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco. Will travel to the Palm Springs Art Museum (catalogue)

2012
Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1961–1992, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn: Prints and Proofs, Crown Point Press, San Francisco

2011
Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper in the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Traveled to the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)

2010
Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Christopher Diebenkorn, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings 1949—1955, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn: In Context 1949—1952, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York (catalogue)

2008
Richard Diebenkorn, Artist, and Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Connection, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA
Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA
Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park Monotypes and Drawings, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2007
Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 1950–1952, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM. Traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn: The Female Form, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London (catalogue)

2006
Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings on Paper, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2005
Richard Diebenkorn: Unseen Santa Barbara Works, Santa Cruz Island Foundation (producer), Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

2004
Prints 1948–1993, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalogue)
Works on Paper: Ocean Park, Clubs and Spades, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2003
Figurative Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)

2002
Clubs and Spades, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Figurative Drawings, Gouaches, and Oil Paintings, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2000
Representational Drawings, Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Early Abstractions, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York (catalogue)

1999
Ocean Park Paintings, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York (catalogue)
From Nature to Abstraction, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)

1997
Richard Diebenkorn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA (catalogue)
The Ocean Park Series: A Selection of Original Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

1996
Selected Works from 1949–1991, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Figure Drawings, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn: Drawing from the Model 1954–1967, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA (catalogue)

1995
41 Etchings/ Drypoints, 1965, and Selected Rare Prints from 1961–62, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Abstractions, Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich (catalogue)

1994
Ocean Park Paintings on Paper Never Before Exhibited, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)
Blue Surround, Evolution of a Print, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (catalogue)
Small Format Oil on Canvas: Figures, Still Lifes and Landscapes, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)
The Ocean Park Image, Paintings on Paper and Important Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

1993
Works on Paper from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1992
Ocean Park Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1991
Richard Diebenkorn, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Traveled to the Fundacion Juan March, Madrid; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
New Work, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1989
Graphics 1981–1988, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT. Traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock (catalogue)

1988
The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco MOMA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Monotypes, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1987
Recent Work, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1986
1981–1986, Crown Point Press, New York

1985
Recent Work, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)
Small Paintings from Ocean Park, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. Traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, NY (catalogue)

1984
A Portfolio of 41 Etchings and Drypoints Published in 1965, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Recent Work, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1983
Paintings 1948–1983, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

1982
Richard Diebenkorn, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)
Etchings, Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, CA (catalogue)
Intaglio 1961–1980, The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1981
Matrix/ Berkeley 40, University Art Museum University of California, Berkeley (catalogue)
Etchings and Drypoints, 1949–1980, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Traveled to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; The Saint Louis Art Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, MI; Springfield Art Museum, MO; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; San Francisco Museum of Art (catalogue)

1980
Recent Work, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1979
Richard Diebenkorn: Intaglio Prints 1961–1978, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1978
From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, (Richard Diebenkorn), American Pavilion, XXXVIIIth Venice Biennale (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1977
Recent Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue)

1976
Monotypes, Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Paintings and Drawings 1943–1976, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Traveled to Cincinnati Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)

1975
Early Abstract Works, 1948–1955, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Traveled to James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1974
Drawings, 1944–1973, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (catalogue)

1973
Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Mondavi Gallery, Oakville, CA
The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London, and Marlborough Galerie, Zurich (catalogue)

1972
Lithographs, Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Paintings from the Ocean Park Series, San Francisco Museum of Art (catalogue)

1971
Richard Diebenkorn, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawings, 1970–71, “Ocean Park,” Poindexter Gallery, New York
Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1969
Recent Drawings, Poindexter Gallery, New York (catalogue)
New Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
The Ocean Park Series, Poindexter Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1968
Richard Diebenkorn: 1967–68 Exhibition Series, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Richard Diebenkorn, Poindexter Gallery, New York
Richard Diebenkorn Drawings, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (catalogue)

1967
Waddington Galleries, London

1967
Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Drawings, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue)

1966
Drawings, Poindexter Gallery, New York

1965
Recent Drawings, Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

1964
Drawings, Stanford University Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (catalogue)
Richard Diebenkorn, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to The Jewish Museum, New York; Pavilion Gallery, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)

1963
Paintings 1961–1963, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Richard Diebenkorn, Poindexter Gallery, New York

1961
Poindexter Gallery, New York
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)

1960
Pasadena Art Museum, CA (catalogue)
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (catalogue)

1958
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1957
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston

1956
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Poindexter Gallery, New York

1954
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

1952
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

1951
Master’s Degree Exhibition, University Art Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1948
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Richard Diebenkorn: Public Collections

Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Museum

Albany, New York: University Art Museum, State University of New York

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Jonson Gallery Collection, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art

Athens, Georgia: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum

Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art

Berkeley, California: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Art Museum

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Art Museum

Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts

Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art

Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Burlington, Vermont: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums

Chicago, Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago

Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art

Colorado Springs, Colorado: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art

Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center

East Logan, Utah: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

Fort Worth, Texas: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Grand Rapids Art Museum

Hamilton, New York: Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University

Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society

Honolulu, Hawaii: Honolulu Academy of Arts

Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Museum of Art

Kalamazoo, Michigan: Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts

Kansas City, Missouri:

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Lincoln, Nebraska: Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska

Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Arts Center

Los Angeles, California:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Museum of Contemporary Art

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum

Montclair, New Jersey: Montclair Art Museum

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery

New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art

New York, New York:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art

Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art

Norfolk, Virginia: Chrysler Museum of Art

Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College Museum of Art

Oakland, California: Oakland Museum of California

Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Orlando, Florida: Orlando Museum of Art

Pasadena, California: Norton Simon Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Art

Poughkeepsie, New York: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum

Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York

Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio Museum of Art

San Francisco, California:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art

Santa Barbara, California:

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Santa Cruz Island Foundation

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico

Seattle, Washington: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington

St. Louis, Missouri:

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University

Saint Louis Art Museum

Stanford, California: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

Storrs, Connecticut: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut

Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Museum of Art

University Park, Pennsylvania: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Washington, DC:

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

National Gallery of Art

The Phillips Collection

Washington, DC:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wellesley, Massachusetts: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum

Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art

CANADA

Ontario, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario

SOUTH KOREA

Seoul: Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art

Selected Bibliography: Monographs & Solo Exhibition Catalogues

Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966. San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 2013. Texts by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Steven A. Nash, and Emma Acker.

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. Newport Beach, Calif.: Orange County Museum of Art, 2011. Texts by Sarah C. Bancroft, Susan Landauer, and Peter Levitt; chronology and bibliography by Anna Brouwer.

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings 1949—1955. New York: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2010.

Richard Diebenkorn: In Context 1949—1952. New York: Leslie Feely Fine Art, 2010.

Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park Monotypes & Drawings, exhibition catalogue. New York: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2008.

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico, exhibition catalogue. Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007. Texts by Gerald Nordland, Mark Lavatelli, and Charles Strong.

Richard Diebenkorn: The Female Form, exhibition catalogue. London, England: Thomas Gibson Fine Art, 2007.

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings on Paper, exhibition catalogue. New York: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2006.

Richard Diebenkorn and Carey Stanton: A Private Collection, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 2005. Texts by Marla Daily and Paul Chadbourne Mills, chronology by Peggy Wirta Dahl.

Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1948–1993, exhibition catalogue. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 2004.

Richard Diebenkorn Works on Paper: Ocean Park, Clubs and Spades, exhibition catalogue. New York: Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2004.

Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Works on Paper, exhibition catalogue. San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 2003. Introduction by John McEnroe, texts by Barnaby Conrad III and Jane Livingston.

Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Drawings, Gouaches, and Oil Paintings, exhibition catalogue. New York: Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2002.

Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstractions, exhibition catalogue. New York: Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, 2000.

Richard Diebenkorn: Representational Drawings, exhibition catalogue. Milan, Italy: Galleria Lawrence Rubin, 2000.

Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park Paintings, exhibition catalogue. New York: Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, 1999.

Richard Diebenkorn: From Nature to Abstraction, exhibition catalogue. San Francisco: Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 1999. Essay by Stephen Nash.

The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997. Texts by John Elderfield, Ruth E. Fine, and Jane Livingston.

Richard Diebenkorn: Drawing from the Model 1954–1967, exhibition catalogue. Venice, Calif.: LA Louver Gallery, 1996.

Richard Diebenkorn: Figure Drawings, exhibition catalogue. New York: Acquavella Gallery, 1996.

Small Format Oil on Canvas: Figures, Still Lifes and Landscapes, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1994.

Ocean Park Paintings on Paper Never Before Exhibited, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1994.

Flam, Jack. Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park. New York: Gagosian Gallery/Rizzoli, 1992.

Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. London, England: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1991. Introduction by Catherine Lampert, text by John Elderfield.

New Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1991.

Elderfield, John. The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988.

Nordland, Gerald. Richard Diebenkorn. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987; revised edition 2001.

Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1987.

Newlin, Richard. Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper, Houston, Tex.: Houston Fine Art Press, 1987.

Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1985.

Small Paintings from Ocean Park, exhibition catalogue. San Francisco and Houston, Tex.: Hine Incorporated and Houston Fine Art Press, 1985. Introduction by George W. Neubert, text by Dore Ashton.

Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1984.

Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1982.

Richard Diebenkorn: Etchings and Drypoints 1949–1980, exhibition catalogue. Houston, Tex.: Houston Fine Art Press, 1981. Introduction by Phyllis Plous, texts by Mark Stevens and Kathan Brown.

Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1980.

Richard Diebenkorn: Intaglio Prints 1961–1978, exhibition catalogue. Santa Barbara, Calif.: UCSB Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979. Texts by Kathan Brown and Phyllis Plous.

Richard Diebenkorn, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1979.

Richard Diebenkorn, 38th Venice Biennial, 1978, exhibition catalogue. New York: International Exhibitions Committee of The American Federation of Arts, 1978. Text by Linda L. Cathcart.

Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler Gallery, 1977.

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1980, exhibition catalogue. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1976; revised edition 1980. Texts by Robert Buck, Jr., Linda L. Cathcart, Gerald Nordland, and Maurice Tuchman.

Richard Diebenkorn Monotypes, exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. Text by Gerald Nordland.

The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1975.

Richard Diebenkorn: Drawings, 1944–1973, exhibition catalogue. Santa Cruz, Calif.: Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, College Five, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974. Introduction by Don Weygandt, text by Phillip Brookman and Walter Melion.

The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1973. Introduction by John Russell.

The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work, exhibition catalogue. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1971. Introduction by Gerald Nordland.

Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn. Stanford, Calif.: Department of Art and Architecture, Stanford University, 1965. Introduction by Lorenz Eitner.