Richard Diebenkorn

A collection of the artist's works, focusing on his Ocean Park series. Includes a short introduction.

"In the 1950s American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) took a dramatic turn away from his early work, exploring new vocabularies of both abstract and representational styles, which would come to be known as the artist's "Berkeley period." This era has long been recognized as one of the most interesting chapters in postwar American art, yielding many of Diebenkorn's best-known works. Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 examines Diebenkorn's process and output during this decisive period. Three original essays explore the artist's evolving conceptions of abstraction and representation, emphasizing the interrelationships between the abstract paintings and drawings and related landscapes, figurative works, and still lifes, as well as Diebenkorn's ongoing interest in aerial views. Featuring several significant works that have rarely been on view, as well as previously unpublished photographs from the Diebenkorn archives, this important publication is the first comprehensive look at this critical period"--

"Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) is celebrated as an American master in his native United States, particularly on the West Coast, where he lived and worked for much of his career. Highly sensitive to his environment, Diebenkorn used a palette and color composition influenced by the light and location of the environments in which he worked. Whether abstract or figurative, his paintings powerfully evoke the varied locations of his studios, including the desert of New Mexico and the California coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles. This volume explores his ever-changing, always-compelling output across four decades, as well as his shifts in style and subject matter in both painting and drawing. It covers the three distinct periods of his artistic life, which started when he gained recognition for his abstract works in the early 1950s. He then turned his attention to figurative painting, and finally, in 1967, he embarked on a long and highly successful period of abstract paintings and drawings, titled the Ocean Park series"--Jacket.