Richard Diebenkorn  (American, 1922-1993) 

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Richard Diebenkorn Biography
1922   Born: in Portland, OR
1940   Entered Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1946   California School of Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1949   BA Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1950 - 1951   MFA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1987   Awarded by The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1993   Died: in Berkeley, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2013   Yes, No, Maybe - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2013   Ab-ex / Re-con - Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered - Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2013   The Permanent Collection - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2013   New Voices - Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur, CA
2012   Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2012   Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1961 - 1992 April 26 - June 29, 2012 - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
2012   Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2011   The Ocean Park Series, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX;traveling to Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2010   Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings 1949-1955, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2010   Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, April 11, 2010 – September 5, 2010
2009   Influences of Nature on Abstraction, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2008   Diebenkorn in New Mexico, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007   Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950-1952, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (solo)
The Female Form, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, London, UK (solo)
2006   Paintings and Drawings on Paper, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Richard Diebenkorn, Pasadena Museum of california Art- PMCA, Pasadena, CA
2004   Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1948 - 1993, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (solo)
Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA (solo)
Richard Diebenkorn Works on Paper: Ocean Park, Clubs and Spades, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003   RIchard Diebenkorn, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002   Clubs and Spades, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace Legion of Honors, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Figurative Drawings, Gouaches, and Oil Paintings, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000   Early Abstractions, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
1999   Ocean Park Paintings, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
From Nature to Abstraction, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1998   The Ocean Park Series: A Selection of Original Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1997 - 1998   Richard Diebenkorn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA (solo)
1996   Figure Drawings, Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
1995   Abstractions, Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1994   Blue Surround - Evolution of a Print, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1992   Richard Diebenkorn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1989   The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1988   The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1978   Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1976 - 1977   Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
1967   California Arts Festival. Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1964   Six Americans. Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1960 - 1961   The Figure in Contemporary American Painting, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY ; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo., Hollins College; Hollins, VA ; State University of New York, Oswego, N.Y.; Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1959   Aspects of Representation in Contemporary Art, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Imagery in American Painting, Art Center Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1958   Recent Paintings: Richard Diebenkorn, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Paintings, Oakland Art Museum.Oakland, CA
1957   Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1955   Three Young Americans, Oberlin, OH
1948   California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Selected Public Collections
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Literature
2006   Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings on Paper. Milan, Italy: Galleria Lawrence Rubin, 2006 (catalogue)
2004   Starr Figura. Richard Diebenkorn: Prints 1948-1993. New York, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2004 (catalogue)
1999   Stephen Nash. Richard Diebenkorn: From Nature to Abstraction. San Francisco, CA: Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, 1999 (catalogue)

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