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Biography - Richard Diebenkorn

Born

April 22, 1922 Portland, Oregon. Died: March 30, 1993, Berkeley, CA

Education

1943 University of California
1946 California School of Fine Arts
1949 Stanford University, B.A
1952 University of New Mexico, M.A

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2006 “Richard Diebenkorn” Pasadena Museum of California Art- PMCA, Pasadena, CA
2004 “Clubs and Spades,”Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
“The Elegant Line - Early Prints by Richard Diebenkorn” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
“Richard Diebenkorn Prints, 1948-1993” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2003 “Richard Diebenkorn” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“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 LawrenceRubin,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 “Ocean Park Paintings”, Knoedler and Company, NYC
“Blue Surround - Evolution of a Print”, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
“Richard Diebenkorn Prints 1948-1992”, Susan Sheehan Gallery, NY
1992 “Richard Diebenkorn”, Knoedler & Company, New York City
“Richard Diebenkorn”, Crown Point Press, New York City
“Richard Diebenkorn”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“New Releases by Richard Diebenkorn”, Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Venice, CA
“Ocean Park Paintings”, Gagosian, New York City
1989 “The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
1988 “The Drawings of Richard Diebenkorn”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Monotypes”, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1987 “Richard Diebenkorn: Recent Work”, M. Knoedler & Co., NY
1985 “Printmakers Invitational”, Central Connecticut State University, CT
1984 “Recent Work”, M. Knoedler & Co., NY
“A Portfolio of 41 Etchings and Drypoints Published in 1965”, L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
“Richard Diebenkorn Etchings: Process into Form”,San Jose
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1983 “Richard Diebenkorn‑Works on Paper”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Paintings 1948‑1973”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1982 “Diebenkorn Etchings”, Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA “Richard Diebenkorn‑Intaglio 1961‑1980”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1981 “MATRIX/BERKELEY 40”, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Richard Diebenkorn: Etchings and Drypoints”,A traveling exhibition. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN;
1980 M. Knoedler & Co., NY
1979 M. Knoedler & Co., NY
1977 M. Knoedler & Co., NY
1976 “Richard Diebenkorn‑Monotypes”, Frederick S. Wight
Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, CA
“Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943‑1976”, Traveling exhibition. Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY;Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati,OH; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Oakland County Museum, Oakland, CA
1975 “Early Abstract Works 1948‑1955”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Ocean Park Series”, Marlborough Gallery, NY
1974 “Drawings 1944‑1973”, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
1973 Robert Mondavi Gallery, Oakville, CA
“The Ocean Park Series”, Marlborough Gallery, London, England
Marlborough Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1972 “Richard Diebenkorn‑Lithographs”, Gerald John Hayes
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1971 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series”, Marlborough Gallery, NY Poindexter Gallery, NY, Galerie Smith‑Anderson, Palo Alto, CA
1969 “New Paintings”, Los Angeles County Museum,Los Angeles, CA
“Richard Diebenkorn: Drawings”, Poindexter Gallery, NY
1968 Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Poindexter Gallery, NY Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1967 National Institute of Arts and Letters, NY
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
1966 “Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn”, Poindexter Gallery, NY
1965 Waddington Galleries, London, England
“Recent Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn”, Paul Kantor
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Poindexter Gallery, NY
1964 “Drawings by Richard Diebenkorn”, Stanford University Art Museum, Stanford, CA
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
The Jewish Museum, NY
Pavillion Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1963 M.H de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1962 National Institute of Arts and Letters, NY
1961 “Richard Diebenkorn” The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Poindexter Gallery, NY
1960 “Recent Paintings by Richard Diebenkorn”,California Palace of the Legion of Honor,San Francisco, CA
“Richard Diebenkorn”, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 “Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection” UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
“Twin Bill” Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
“American Master Prints” Alan Cristea Gallery, London (England)
2006 “Bay Area Painting” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Selected Works” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“redefined” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“The New Landscape / The New Still Life” - Soutine and Modern Art Cheim & Read, New York, NY
“Therese Thau Heyman - A Curators Legacy” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2005 “Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection”
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997 “Building the Collection”, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1996 “Figure Drawings”, Acquavella Contemporary Art, NY
1993 “American Prints of the Sixties”, The Art Institute of Chicago
“On Paper”, Knodeler and Company, NY
“An Ameriacn Homage To Matisse”, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY
Montgomery Glasoe fine Art, Mineapolis,MN
“From Intimate to Monumental”, Associated American Artists, NY, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, NYC
1992 “Durer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquistions of Art on Paper”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1991 “Image and Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanen Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Large Scale Works on Paper”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Communit College, Fort Myers, FLA
Group Show, Meredith Long & Comapany Gallery, Houston, TX
1990 “Silhouettes: Prints & Multiples”, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
“Recent Releases”, Crown Point Press, NY
1989 “Under Pressure”, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FLA
“Contemporary Prints”, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
“Coming of Age:Twenty One Years of Collecting by the Madison
Art Center, Madison, WIS
1987 “Prints”, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY
“Prints from Presses”, University Art Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“The M. Anwar Kamal Collection of Art”, The Cummer Gallery
of Art, Jacksonville, FL
“Crown Point Press at Frito‑Lay”, Frito‑Lay, Inc., Plano, TX
1986 “Public and Private: American Prints Today”,The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1985 “Recent Acquisitions”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 “The Zurier Collection”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Drawing Since 1974”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
“1984 Official Olympic Posters”, Exhibited by private viewing, General Motors Bldg, NY
1983 “15th Annual Exhibition”, National Academy of Art and Design, NY
“Changes”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Art for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze”,Coordinated by Barbara
Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA. Participating galleries: Margo
1982 “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection of
Graham Gund”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA “Drawings by Painters”, University of California at San Diego, CA
1981 “37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”, The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
“California: The State of Landscape, 1977‑1981”, Santa Barbara
Museum of Art, CA
1980 “American Drawing in Black and White”, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Three by Four”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1979 “Works on Paper”,Knoedler Gallery, London, England
1978 “Exposizione Biennale Internazionale d’arte di Venezia”, American Pavillion, Venice, Italy
“Drawing Explorations, 1930‑1978”, Janus Gallery, Venice, CA “Three Generations”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Western Art”, John Berggruen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “American Paintings of the 1970’s”,Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1977 “American Paintings and Drawings”, John Berggruen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians”, California Institute of Technologyadena, CA
1974 “Twentieth Century Art From Fort Worth/Dallas Collections”, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX “Fifteen Abstract Artists”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1973 “33rd Biennial of Contemporary American Paintings”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Twenty‑Five Years of American Painting 1948‑1973”, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1972 “Seventieth American Exhibition”, The Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Abstract Painting in the 70’s: A Selection”, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, MA
1971 “Made in California”, Dickson Art Center, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA
1969 “West Coast 1945‑1969”, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
“Kompas VI‑West Coast U.S.A”, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
“1969 Annual Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “L’Art Vivant Aux Etats‑Unis”, Foundation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France
1968 “Painting as Painting”, The Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1966 “Drawings”, The Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
“Art of the United States 1670‑1960”, Whitney Museum of
American Art, NY
“The Permanent Collection”, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC

Selected Collections:

Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Institute of Chicago,IL
The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
The Brooklyn Museum, NY
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
J. Paul Getty Trust, Malibu, CA
University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
University of Iowa Museum, Iowa City, IA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, NE
University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Nelson Gallery‑Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
University Art Gallery, SUNY at Albany, NY
Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, NY
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
The Oakland Museum, CA
The Philips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Stanford University Museum and Art Gallery, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT
The Fort Worth Art Museum, TX

Awards:

1986 The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY