Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), Seawall, 1957, Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66 cm) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, gift of Phyllis G. Diebenkorn, 1995.96 © 2013 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. All rights reserved.
A splendid exhibition of Bay Area figurative and abstract-expressionist artist Richard Diebenkorn’s paintings and drawings on display at San Francisco’s de Young Museum proves 13 is a most fortunate number.
From 1953 to 1966, a 13-year expanse, the pioneering artist forged a permanent, prominent position in art history from his Berkeley vantage point. He also defied pigeon-holing. Maneuvering dexterously, his mercurial expansion of traditional figurative, landscape and abstract styles both defined and shattered expectations.
Diebenkorn’s agility during his Berkeley years allowed him to escape the narrow circles of art historians and the 1950s New York art establishment. Adhering to no formal school of thought — other than that of the natural world — the works he created in the East Bay shifted from abstract to representational, then back to abstract.(...)
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