Richard Diebenkorn

     Richard Diebenkorn was born in Portland OR in 1922, and grew up in San Francisco. He attended Stanford, then was in the Marine Corps. After leaving the Marines he enrolled at the California School of Fine Art. Diebenkorn moved to Albuquerque, and flew a low altitude plane between New Mexico and California, from which he viewed landscapes from above. He started producing prints with Crown Point Press in 1962. Diebenkorn died in 1993 at the age of seventy-one. 

    Diebenkorn’s abstract works use a lot of grids in them, sometimes loosely, but always seem present. He seems influenced by aerial views of divided land from above. He did a lot of iterative works, such as his 140 paintings that comprised the Ocean Park Series.  I especially like Window and Construct for their grids that intersect with fluid objects.

        "I'm really a traditional painter, not avant-garde at all. I wanted to follow a tradition and extend it."                                                                                                                                                                              — Richard Diebenkorn

Construct

Window

Folsom Street Variations 

Ocean Park no. 54

Untitled (Albuquerque)

Large Bright Blue