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Jun 29, 2007

Berkeley #42

1955

Richard Diebenkorn

(American, 1922–1993)

America, 20th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 147.6 x 132.7 x 4.6 cm (58 1/8 x 52 1/4 x 1 13/16 in.); Unframed: 146 x 130.8 cm (57 1/2 x 51 1/2 in.)

Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1968.95

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not on view

Description

Berkeley #42 appears to be a work of West Coast abstract expressionism. Yet the landscape and climate of Northern California influenced Diebenkorn while painting his expressive Berkeley series, which actively harnesses a push/pull relationship between representation and abstraction. By looking at the painting's lower half, one can see a jagged coastline arcing upward, as if viewed from an airplane.

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Initialed at bottom right: RD 55

Provenance

Poindexter Gallery, NY, 1958; Ellen Johnson, Oberlin, OH, 1958-1968; The Cleveland Museum of Art

Citations

"Year in Review for 1968," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LVI (January 1969), p. 48, no. 110, repr. . p. 29, 48

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 252 archive.org

Hinson, Tom E. "Recent Paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and Jack Tworkov." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 2 (1980): 31-40. Reproduced: p. 32; Mentioned: p. 31-40 www.jstor.org

Livingston, Jane and Andrea Liguori. Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reproduced: p. 579, #1478

Shields, Scott A., Matt Gonzalez, Paul Wonner, and William Theo Brown. Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown. New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers ; Sacramento, CA : Crocker Art Museum, 2023. Reproduced: p. 30

Exhibition history

Poindexter Gallery: Richard Diebenkorn: February 1956-March 1956

CMA: The Figure: de Kooning to Warhol, no cat., listed #2 in handout.

Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).

Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 26, 1984).

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