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On Richard Diebenkorn by Clairan Ferrono

Richard Diebenkorn, 1922 – 1993, was a modern painter whose work had three main phases. He was a successful abstract painter who then turned to landscape and figures and then, remarkably enough, went back to abstraction with a fresh perspective to finish his career.

His first finished painting (1943) reveals the influence of Hopper — compare Hopper’s:

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Approaching a City

with Diebenkorn’s

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Palo Alto.

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