Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalog is the most comprehensive volume on the artist now available. Jane Livingston's extensively researched biographical essay covers Diebenkorn's entire career and concentrates on the artist's inner life and purposes as revealed in his paintings. Ruth Fine deals primarily with the figurative aspect of Diebenkorn's work (1955-67), and John Elderfield concentrates on the Ocean Park period (1967-93). All three authors provide valuable insights based on their personal relationships with the artist and his widow, Phyllis. On both page and canvas, the reader can sense Diebenkorn's complexity and highly self-conscious working methods, as well as his formidable integrity. The Art of Richard Diebenkorn will give readers with an interest in all phases of modernism new thoughts about the relationship between abstraction and representation. Stunningly illustrated, with 192 full-color reproductions, this book is an exhilarating testament to a distinctive American artist.

The Art of Richard Diebenkorn

Arts & Photography

Whitney Museum of American Art

Livingston, Jane

DIEBENKORN, Richard

Elderfield,John

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

This book is from a traveling exhibition in 1976-1977 that commenced at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. In addition to photographs of the works in the exhibition, the book includes essays by Robert T. Buck, Jr., Linda L. Cathcart, Gerald Nordland, and Maurice Tuchman. Richard Diebenkorn's work changed considerably as it evolved over the three decades represented here, demonstrating the artist's capacity for continuous self-criticism and awareness rarely matched by any of his contemporaries. This willingness to transform his images radically has been misinterpreted by some art critics who see these shifts as signs of weakness. The opposite is the case: Diebenkorn comprehends the nature of art at its most fundamental as a mutating, vibrant, and even evolving force contrasted to packaged and predictable presentations. An independent figure who understandably guarded his personal privacy and artistic integrity carefully, Diebenkorn nevertheless evokes in the art world-at-large reflections and feelings about California more than any other artist. Although he was the best known painter on the West Coast at the time of the exhibition, a position he had held for some time, Diebenkorn is a painter's painter.

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and drawings, 1943-1976

Robert T. Buck

Linda L. Cathcart

ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLEY

Richard Diebenkorn Small Paintings from Ocean Park

Menil Collection

Richard Diebenkorn Works on Paper

Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative drawings, gouaches and oil paintings

Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in association with Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milano

Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1961-1992

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings on Paper.

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings & Drawings 1949- 1955 [May 5 - June 25, 2010]

Throughout his career, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) produced still lifes and landscapes in a range of media. In his introduction to this book, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold describes Diebenkorn's landscapes and still lifes as "achievements radiant with human reflection and the gravity of knowing," as well as "a summons to pay attention to the everyday, and a reminder of the rewards in doing so." Of the 101 images reproduced in this volume, nearly half are previously unpublished and available here for the first time.

Richard Diebenkorn: Still Lifes And Landscapes

Schneider, Bart (Edited by)

Kelly's Cove Press

Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper 1946-1992

Van Doren Waxter

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