Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park Paintings

Each canvas is meant to be episodic of a day in the life of the artist.

Richard diebenkorn ocean park paintings.

Richard clifford diebenkorn jr. Richard clifford diebenkorn jr. Was born on april 22 1922 in portland oregon his family moved to san francisco california when he was two years old from the age of four or five he was continually drawing. There is elegance in the design and palette of this painting that only comes of being a mature painter.

His later work best known as the ocean park paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Was born on april 22 1922 in portland oregon. Nearly 80 of those works created between 1967 and 1988 are on display at the orange. Like the impressionist painters who also worked in series diebenkorn based his 140 ocean park paintings on the changing atmospheric effects and conditions that he perceived.

His family moved to san francisco california when he was two years old. In 1940 diebenkorn entered stanford university where he met his first two artistic mentors professor and muralist victor arnautoff who guided diebenkorn in classical. Ocean park 1968 1985 17 genres abstract 52 cityscape 4 genre painting 1 interior 8 landscape 5 nude painting nu 1 portrait 12. Broad collection los angeles 1 university of arizona museum of art tucson 1.

A highly influential mid century american artist richard diebenkorn is known skip to main content. Richard diebenkorn ocean park series. Diebenkorn s seductive surfaces and exquisite sense of balance was a mix of figuration and abstraction that came to define the california school of abex. The buck collection at the uci institute and museum for california art 1 the eli and edythe l.

Painting ii richard diebenkorn 1949. Over the course of more than 20 years richard diebenkorn created 145 paintings for his ocean park series. Find the latest shows biography and artworks for sale by richard diebenkorn.