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Richard Diebenkorn, artist
American, 1922--1993
Working Proof for Blue Surround (black and yellow), 1982
color aquatint, spit bite aquatint, etching and drypoint
55.7 x 47.5 cm (image)
Gift of Phyllis Diebenkorn 1994.88.5

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Artist Biography: Born in Portland, Oregon. Family moved to San Francisco in 1924 where Diebenkorn graduated from Lowell High School and entered Stanford University in 1940; at Stanford, studied under Victor Arnautoff and Daniel Mendelowitz; married Phyllis Gilman in June 1943 with whom he had two children, Gretchen (born 1945) and Christopher (born 1947); served with the U.S. Marines from 1943-1945; while serving in the war came under the influence of Bonnard, Picasso, Braque and Matisse in the Phillips Collection. Continued his studies at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946 on the G. I. Bill, under the influence of members of the New York School, particularly Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still; received Albert Bender Grant-in-Aid Fellowship, living for a year in Woodstock, NY; returned to San Francisco, teaching at the California School of Fine Arts until 1950; had his first one-man exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1948; received his B.A. from Stanford in 1949; in 1950, he entered the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and received his M. F. A. in 1951; in 1963, he was artist in residence at Stanford University; in 1966, he moved to Santa Monica, engaged by the University of California at Los Angeles until 1973 as Professor of Art; moved to Healdsburg in northern California in 1988; died of respiratory failure on March 30, 1993 in Berkeley, California.~~~~Reference: Richard Diebenkorn: Etchings and Drypoints 1949-1980. (Houston: Houston Fine Art Press, 1981) Introduction by Mark Stevens, catalogue by Chantal Guillemin.~

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