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Phyllis in a Director's Chair 1968
| Medium: | Transfer lithograph |
| Sheet size: | 19.9 x 25 inches (50.5 x 63.5 cm) |
| Printer: | Jack Lemon |
| Publisher: | Kansas City Art Institute |
| Edition: | 20 plus proofs |
| Edition number: | 10/20 |
| Signed: | lower right "RD 68" and on the plate, "RD 68" |
$20,000
Figure on a Porch 1959
Oil on canvas
Oakland Museum of California
Gift of the Anonymous Donor Program of the American Federation of the Arts
Richard Diebenkorn drew Phyllis in a Director's Chair during the last year
that he drew from models before returning to complete abstraction. Diebenkorn's figurative years occurred from 1955 through some of 1968.
The image revisits the figure in his great painting at the Oakland Museum, Figure on a Porch, 1958. In place of a chair cropped on the left of the painting is a table cropped at the left of the lithograph. On it are the outlines of two plates, a fork, and a glass.
Jack Lemon, who eventually founded the pioneering print studio Landfall Press in Chicago, was a curator at the Kansas City Art Institute when he sent Diebenkorn transfer paper to make a lithograph. Diebenkorn drew three versions and sent Lemon one that became this lithograph. The Kansas City Art Institute sold four of the prints and Lemon sent the remainder to Diebenkorn. We found the unopened package from Lemon in the artist's studio and bought several impressions from him. This is the final uncirculated impression that we have.