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Diebenkorn: Small Paintings from Ocean Park Text: Dore Ashton 48 pages, 15 illustrations (14 in color), 1985 Houston Fine Art Press, Hine Incorporated
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Reproduced almost exact size, though small in scale, they have the same sense of space and light of his large canvases while possessing the intimacy of an illuminated manuscript. It is no wonder therefore that this book is so popular.Museum Books, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November, 1987
Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn followed a distinctive abstract vocabulary of forms, stylistically rooted in the New York School, placing him firmly within American modernism. In 1955 he shifted from abstraction to representational still-lifes, landscapes and interior figure paintings of refined colors and structures.
From 1967 Diebenkorn worked in a studio in the beachfront enclave of Santa Monica where he returned to abstraction with his Ocean Park paintings. This series is composed of broadly brushed surfaces of luminescent and atmospheric color, and forms built from Golden Rectangle proportions. These brilliantly colored works—both paintings and drawings—brought great acclaim. Diebenkorn died in Berkeley, California, in 1993.
The artist's exhibition history and bibliography is published by the Estate of Richard Diebenkorn: Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonne
Photograph of the artist © Leo Holub. All rights reserved.