Richard Diebenkorn Berkeley Paintings

Art critic michael kimmelman described diebenkorn as one of the premier american painters of the postwar era whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide open spaces of california where he spent virtually his entire life.

Richard diebenkorn berkeley paintings. Richard diebenkorn foundation 71 santa cruz island foundation 16 oakland museum of california 9. Richard diebenkorn grew up in san francisco and attended stanford university and later the california school of fine arts now the san francisco art institute. List of all 92 artworks by richard diebenkorn go to artist page signup for news updates. Richard diebenkorn s berkeley series were executed in a twenty month period between 1953 and 1955.

67 1973 oil on canvas 100 81 in. He incorporated the dominant expressive painting style into representational canvases often landscapes. 8 is one of diebenkorn s last abstract expressionist paintings executed upon his return to california and just before transitioning to more imagistic work as part of the bay area figurative movement. In 1966 he moved.

Although well established as an abstract painter diebenkorn returned to figuration in the mid 1950s. Painting ii richard diebenkorn 1949. 149 5 x 157 2 cm richard diebenkorn foundation. 1 20 out of 92 load more.

Miller 22 richard diebenkorn 1951 22 albuquerque richard diebenkorn. Diebenkorn died on march 30 1993 in berkeley ca. At this early point in his career diebenkorn who had been painting abstractions since the mid 1940s held to the goal of expressive color non objectivity and flatness in his art. In this excerpt richard diebenkorn reveals how he approaches a blank canvas.

The berkeley years 1953 1966 is on view at the de young mu. Berkeley 46 1955 oil on canvas 58 7 8 x 61 7 8 in. The paintings and drawings of the berkeley period established the artist as an abstract painter of uncommon authority and profundity. For an overview of his work and biographical notes see the previous blog post.

Richard diebenkorn ocean park no. Berkeley figurative paintings 71 berkeley abstract paintings 50 landscape paintings 44 still lifes on canvas 44 albuquerque paintings 32 highlights from our collection 23. Richard diebenkorn berkeley series this is the second of three postings on the work of richard diebenkorn and is looking specifically at his berkeley series. 8 1954 berkeley no.

Diebenkorn s focus on figuration lasted until the late 1960s when he embarked on a new series employing abstracted geometric forms.