John Berggruen Gallery

Richard Diebenkorn

Biography

Born: Portland, Oregon 1922

Selected Public Collections and Museums

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arkansas Arts Centre Foundation, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines, IA
Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Harry and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, Atherton, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Kalamazoo Institutes of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Oberlin College Museum, Oberlin, OH
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York, NY
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Santa Cruz Island, CA
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Stanford University Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Selected One-Artist Exhibitions

2004 “Clubs and Spades,” Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2003 “Figurative Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
2002 “Clubs and Spades,” The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace Legion of Honors, San Francisco, CA
“Figurative Drawings, Gouaches, and Oil Paintings,” Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Early Abstractions,” Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY “Representational Drawings,” Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan, Italy
1999 “Ocean Park Paintings,” Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
“From Nature to Abstraction,” Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997-1998 “Richard Diebenkorn,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Traveled to Modern Art of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
“The Ocean Park Series: A Selection of Original Prints,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Figure Drawings," Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue).
1995 "Abstractions," Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich (catalogue).
"41Etchings / Drypoints, 1965, and Selected Rare Prints from 1961-62," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
"The Ocean Park Image, Paintings on Paper and Important Prints," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
1994 "Blue Surround, Evolution of a Print," M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (catalogue).
"Ocean Park Paintings on Paper Never Before Exhibited," M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
"Small Format Oil on Canvas Figures, Still Lifes and Landscapes," M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1993 "Works on Paper from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection," Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue).
1992 "Ocean Park Paintings," Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue).
1991 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Traveled to the Fundacion Juan March, Madrid; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue).
1989 "Graphics 1981-1988," Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana. Traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock (catalogue).
1988 "The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn," The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
"Monotypes," Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York (catalogue).
1987 "Recent Work," M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1986 "1981-1986," Crown Point Press, New York.
1985 "Recent Work," M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
"Small Paintings from Ocean Park," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Traveled to The Brooklyn Museum, New York (catalogues).
1984 "A Portfolio of 41 Etchings and Drypoints Published in 1965,"
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
"Recent Work," M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1983 "Paintings 1948-1983," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue).
"Works on Paper," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1982 "Etchings," Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, CA (catalogue).
"Intaglio 1961-1980," The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1981 "Etchings and Drypoints, 1949-1980," The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Traveled to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Saint Louis Art Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Flint Institutes of Arts, Michigan; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; San Francisco Museum of Art (catalogue).
"Matrix-Berkeley 40," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (catalogue).
1980 M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1979 M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1978 "From Nature to Art, From Art to Nature," (Richard Diebenkorn), American Pavilion, XXXVIIIth Venice Biennale (catalogue).
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
1977 M. Knoedler & Co., New York (catalogue).
"Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
1976 "Monotypes," Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue).
"Paintings and Drawings 1943-1976," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Oakland Museum, California (catalogue).
1975 "Early Abstract Works, 1948-1955," James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled to the John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue).
"The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work," Marlborough Gallery, New York.
1974 "Drawings, 1944-1973," Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (catalogue).
1973 Robert Mondavi Gallery, Oakville, California.
"The Ocean Park Series: Recent Work," Marlborough Fine Art, London, and Marlborough Gallerie, Zurich (catalogue).
1972 "Lithographs," Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue).
"Paintings from the Ocean Park Series," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (catalogue).
1971 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Ocean Park Series: Recent Work," Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue).
Poindexter Gallery, New York.
Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
1969 "Drawings," Poindexter Gallery, New York (catalogue).
"New Paintings," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue).
1968 "Drawings," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.
Poindexter Gallery, New York.
Richmond Art Center, Virginia (catalogue).
1964 "Drawings," Stanford University Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California (catalogue).
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to The Jewish Museum, New York; Pavilion Gallery, Newport Beach, California (catalogue).
1963 "Paintings 1961-1963," M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.
Poindexter Gallery, New York.
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
Poindexter Gallery, New York.
Pasadena Art Museum, California (catalogue).
"Recent Paintings," California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (catalogue).
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston.
Oakland Art Museum, California.
Poindexter Gallery, New York.
Allen Frumkin Gallery, Chicago.
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
San Francisco Museum of Art.
Paul Kanto Gallery, Los Angeles.
Oakland Art Museum, California
"Masters Degree Exhibition," University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1948 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.

Press

DIEBENKORN ON PAPER - DIEBENKORN ON PAPER APRIL, 2003


Artist Works

Green 1986 color aquatint etching 53 5/8 x 40 3/4 inches
Green
1986
color aquatint etching
53 5/8 x 40 3/4 inches   

Spreading Spade, from Clubs and Spades , 1981 etching and aquatint in colors 36 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
Spreading Spade, from Clubs and Spades , 1981
etching and aquatint in colors
36 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches   

High Green, Version II 1992 color spit bite and soap ground aquatints with soft ground and hard ground etching and drypoint 52 5/16 x 33 1/2 inches
High Green, Version II
1992
color spit bite and soap ground aquatints with soft ground and hard ground etching and drypoint
52 5/16 x 33 1/2 inches   



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