Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn (American 1922-1993)
Blue Softground, 1985
Etching with aquatint in colors on wove paper
Signed with initials and dated in pencil lower right
Edition 1/25 (there were also 10 artist's proofs)
Published and printed by Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Image (plate) : 13 3/4 in H x 23 3/4in L
Sheet (unframed) 26in H x 35 5/8in L

Richard Diebenkorn was a well-known 20th century American painter associated with Abstract Expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and ’60s. His work is marked by vibrant colors on planar compositions.

Diebenkorn’s work can be found in a number of public collections including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe; Honolulu Museum of Art; Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.