He was pretty well-known in the art world, but this. About the retrospective, Phyllis said, “It was major. Diebenkorn arrives early at each venue he visits to help with installation. The Diebenkorns travel to Buffalo with their family, spending two weeks on the East Coast for the opening and attending each subsequent event except for the one in Cincinnati. (15 April–23 May), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (9 June–17 July), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9 August–25 September), and ends at the Oakland Museum of California (15 October–27 November). The exhibition travels to the Cincinnati Art Museum (31 January–20 March 1977), the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Tuchman, a curator at LACMA, conducts extensive interviews with Diebenkorn for his essay on the artist’s early periods he also interviews Phyllis, Gretchen, Paul Kantor, Elmer Bischoff, Frank Lobdell, Paul Harris, Gerald Nordland, Don Weygandt, Joann and Gifford Phillips, Walter Hopps, James and Barbara Byrnes, and Ray Parker. and “Diebenkorn: Reaction and Response,” by Linda L. To accompany the show, the Albright-Knox publishes a slender but important and widely circulated catalogue, with essays covering all three major periods and a historiographical account of his career: “Diebenkorn’s Early Years,” by Maurice Tuchman “The Figurative Works of Richard Diebenkorn,” by Gerald Nordland “The Ocean Park Paintings,” by Robert T. 297ġ2 November: Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976 opens at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. and sees the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in anticipation of the retrospective. 296ġ1–20 October: Travels to Toronto, Buffalo, and New York City meets with Robert T. He absorbed the aura of a place.” 295Īugust: The Diebenkorns take a trip to Northern California they raft down the Rogue River in Oregon with the McDonoughs, the Brices, and the Brices’ old friends, Charles and Alice Russell. 294 Brice says in a later interview with Jane Livingston, “I don’t know of any artist who was more responsive to his physical environment than Dick. 293Ģ7 February: Moves into his new studio at 2448 Main Street, in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Venice, just outside Santa Monica and a few blocks from his old studio at Ashland Avenue and Main Street. I am looking forward to moving into a new studio, made to my specification, soon, after nine years in this spacious old loft. For me making drawings and paintings never exhausts themselves in this way. For now, at least, I got this medium of work out of my system. In the late ’40s I tried to get all of that out of my work but now I just accept it. Diebenkorn discusses the monotypes with Henry Seldis at his studio on Ashland and Main:Īs abstract as they are, all my recent works are referential to observations in nature. Wight Art Gallery at UCLA the show tours through university galleries across the country, ending at Stanford University in 1977. and assistant curator Linda Cathcart work closely with Diebenkorn and Phyllis to plan the show.įebruary: Gerald Nordland organizes a show of Diebenkorn’s monotypes, which opens at the Frederick S. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo approaches Diebenkorn in regard to a potential retrospective exhibition.
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