GO SEE / RICHARD DIEBENKORN
PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER 1949 -1955
AT / GREENBERG VAN DOREN GALLERY
THROUGH / JUNE 25TH 2010
via GvDG Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper from 1949 – 1955 by Richard Diebenkorn (1922 – 1993). Organized in cooperation with the Estate of Richard Diebenkorn, this exhibition will feature thirty-sixworks many of which, until now, have only been seen in museum exhibitions including the 1988-89 MoMA show The Drawings of
Richard Diebenkorn and the Harwood Museum of Art’s Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico from 2007-08.
Diebenkorn’s early works from the late 40s through the mid 50s are among the finest examples of postwar American abstraction. Characterized by calligraphic lines and shifting fields of color, these works reflect both the broader interest in abstraction shared among many artists of the period and the diverse landscapes in which Diebenkorn lived during these years. Diebenkorn left Sausalito,
California in 1949 to pursue his graduate degree in art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In 1952 he moved again to Urbana, Illinois to teach and then, in 1952, returned to California where he settled in Berkeley. Each new surrounding provoked a change in the artist’s palette and in the overall rhythm of his compositions.
