Richard Diebenkorn was an influential 20th-century American painter whose work was comprised of distinct aesthetic periods. Considered a quintessentially Californian artist, he is best remembered as a founding member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with David Park and Elmer Bischoff. “All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression,” he once explained. Born on April 22, 1922 in Portland, OR, he grew up in San Francisco and went on to study art history at Stanford University. Attracted by the works of Edward Hopper and Willem de Kooning, he first painted in realist style during the early 1940s, then in the gestural manner of Abstract Expressionism...