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Richard Diebenkorn
American painter and printmaker
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Richard Diebenkorn in 1986 | |
| Born | (1922-04-22)April 22, 1922 Portland, Oregon, US |
| Died | March 30, 1993(1993-03-30) (aged 70) Berkeley, California, US |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Bay Area Figurative Movement, abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, lyrical abstraction |
Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker.
His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.
Art criticMichael Kimmelman described Diebenkorn as "one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open sp