RICHARD DIEBENKORN
April 22, 1922, Portland, OR - March 30, 1993, Berkeley, CA
After studying at Stanford University, he taught at the California Institute of the Arts
and there developed an abstract style
under the influence of such painters as Still and Rothko.
By the mid 1950s he had achieved some commercial success
but turned to an expressionistic figurative style.
He produced accomplished figure drawings, still lifes, landscapes,
and interiors in the Modernist tradition.
Throughout his career he alternated between figuration and abstraction.
His best-known works are the Ocean Park series, begun in the 1960s,
comprising over 140 large abstract paintings that retain allusions to landscape.
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