RICHARD CLIFFORD DIEBENKORN JR. (1922- 1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn became a key figure in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland) figurative and abstract school of painting.... Read full biography
RICHARD CLIFFORD DIEBENKORN JR. (1922- 1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn became a key figure in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland) figurative and abstract school of painting. When he was two, his family moved to San Francisco. His grandmother encouraged Diebenkorn's early art... Read full biography
RICHARD CLIFFORD DIEBENKORN JR. (1922- 1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn became a key figure in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland) figurative and abstract school of painting. When he was two, his family moved to San Francisco. His grandmother encouraged Diebenkorn's early art talent, and he remembered often drawing locomotives on shirt cardboards as a child. He was also intrigued with medieval heraldry and the French Bayeux Tapestries. Late in life, he reminisced about the... Read full biography
RICHARD CLIFFORD DIEBENKORN JR. (1922- 1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn became a key figure in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland) figurative and abstract school of painting. When he was two, his family moved to San Francisco. His grandmother encouraged Diebenkorn's early art talent, and he remembered often drawing locomotives on shirt cardboards as a child. He was also intrigued with medieval heraldry and the French Bayeux Tapestries. Late in life, he reminisced about the tapestries: "The main events are central and in flanking panels above and below, … dead men and coats of arms; dialogues paralleling one another, horizontally." (C.Horsley). In 1940 he entered Stanford University, where he studied oil painting with... Read full biography
RICHARD CLIFFORD DIEBENKORN JR. (1922- 1993). Born in Portland, Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn became a key figure in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland) figurative and abstract school of painting. When he was two, his family moved to San Francisco. His grandmother encouraged Diebenkorn's early art talent, and he remembered often drawing locomotives on shirt cardboards as a child. He was also intrigued with medieval heraldry and the French Bayeux Tapestries. Late in life, he reminisced about the tapestries: "The main events are central and in flanking panels above and below, … dead men and coats of arms; dialogues paralleling one another, horizontally." (C.Horsley). In 1940 he entered Stanford University, where he studied oil painting with Victor Arnautoff and Daniel Mendelowitz. In 1946 he enrolled at the California School of Fine Art, where he m... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (219)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia (Hardcover / Edition 1000)
2009
Pagel, David; Jeff Brouws
160 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton & Wo
226 pages (color)
Richard Diebenkorn: Figure Works on Paper
2003
Livingston, Jane; B Conrad
0 pages
Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Works on Paper
2003
McEnroe, John
116 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Thom, Ian et al
159 pages (color)
Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther
0 pages (color)
Lighter Side of Bay Area Figurative
2000
Landauer, Susan
70 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
47 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
The Art of Richard Diebenkorn (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Livingston, Jane
275 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Landauer, Susan
271 pages (color)
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Masterpieces Best Loved Paintings from America's Museums
1995
Frankel, David
162 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
Art as Expression
1995
Peacock, Henry W
232 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
The Mystical Now Art and the Sacred
1993
Beckett, Wendy
160 pages (color)
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Taos Moderns Art of the New
1992
Witt, David
120 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
The Artist Observed 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists
1991
Gruen, John
324 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Jones, Caroline
231 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Figure and Abstraction
1990
Paulson, Ronald
283 pages
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989
Arthur, John
159 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 pages (color)
A Permanent Legacy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (150 Works)
1989
Marzio, Peter C (intro)
366 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Just Looking Essays on Art
1989
Updike, John
210 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
Inside the L A Artist
1988
Marrow, Marva
104 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1987
Brutvan, Cheryl
168 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Selected Works
1987
Fine Arts Museum S Francisco
173 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Richard Diebenkorn
1987
Nordland, Gerald
248 pages (color)
125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
1987
Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
264 pages (color)
America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Adams, Celeste Marie
130 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
The Window in Twentieth Century A (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Delehanty, Suzanne
105 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection
1986
Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague
210 pages (color)
American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
1986
Rose, Barbara
170 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
1985
Ashton, Dore (Editor)
302 pages
Richard Diebenkorn Small Paintings from Ocean Park (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ashton, Dore/George Neubert
48 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
1985
Kramer, Hilton
445 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
100 Works by Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Museum
1984
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
211 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Collecting Phoenix Art Museum, 1957-1984
1984
Phoenix Art Museum
45 pages (color)
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
The California Connection 16 Paintings/Gifford Phillips Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Edgerton, Anne Carnegie
32 pages
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Smith Kramer Art Connections
113 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Walker, Barry
144 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)