Mr. Diebenkorn tried to resist the easy fluency that could
make his works seem facile and pretty.
I was never throwing things away when I
switched from one way of painting to another," Diebenkorn stated.
I was never throwing things away when I switched from one way of painting to another",
Mr. Diebenkorn said.
Matisse was the other artist who influenced Mr. Diebenkorn most profoundly, and with whom he has been most often linked.
Mr. Diebenkorn's work was represented in the Sao Paulo Bienal in 1955,
and in 1961 the Phillips gave him a one-man show.
Matisse's combination of seriousness and suavity, often in works that contained the evidence of changes and corrections,
was something that Mr. Diebenkorn's art clearly echoed.
Mr. Diebenkorn fell strongly under the sway of Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning,
whose work he first admired in a 1948 issue of Partisan Review.
Richard Diebenkorn 1922-1993, one of the premier American painters of the postwar era,
whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life, died yesterday at his home in Berkeley.