Richard Diebenkorn “Ocean Park” Milwaukee Art Museum 1989

Features

Framed

Size

40” wide x 50” high

Style

Abstract

Large, beautiful Diebenkorn print with sublime coloration, "Ocean Park 16, 1968" This is a very early version of the Ocean Park series. The print was produced for the Milwaukee Museum of Art in 1989. Mid-Mod brushed steel frame with clear acrylic. Arrestingly beautiful print for a large space. Dimensions: 40" Wide x 50" High (inches) Diebenkorn painted approximately 145 different variations of the Ocean Park series. Over a period of more than 20 years, Richard Diebenkorn created 145 paintings for his Ocean Park series. Diebenkorn began working on the series in 1967, inspired by his Ocean Park neighborhood on the edge of Los Angeles, California. From his window, he could see the geometry of the streets crossing one another and the hillside. These paintings were more about light than the nearby water of the Pacific, and Diebenkorn painted the quality of the light on the landscape, framed by the angled geometry of his studio windows. About the Artist: Richard Diebenkorn was born in 1922 in Portland, Oregon, and attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied art. He served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945 and was stationed at Quantico, Virginia. Following his discharge from the Marines after World War II, Diebenkorn studied at several California art schools and graduated from Stanford University in 1949. He was painting during this time, and had his first one-man exhibition in 1948 at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor. He lived for a period in the early 1950s in New Mexico, and received a master's degree in art from the University of New Mexico. Later he taught art at the University of Illinois for a year, then returned to California, where he settled in Berkeley and became a professor of drawing and painting at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and continued to produce his own work. He died in Berkeley on March 30, 1993.