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Richard Diebenkorn | |||
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1922 in Portland, OR Died 1993 in Berkeley, CA |
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| Untitled (Ocean Park Series), 1972 | ||||
| gouache
and charcoal on paper 33 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust and Foundation 1997.14 |
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| Diebenkorn began his artistic
career as an Abstract Expressionist painter, then became a leader of the
Bay Area Figurative movement in the 1950s. In the 1960s he moved his studio
to a beachside community near Los Angeles, and returned to abstraction with
his Ocean Park series of paintings and drawings (1967–92),
for which he is perhaps best known. Inspired by the beauty of that coastal
area, the Ocean Park works explore form, color, composition, and
the particular light of southern California. |
