The art of Richard Diebenkorn is identified with California, but is valued throughout the US. This catalogue is published to coincide with the first retrospective of his work since his death in 1993. The three essays provide insights into the artist's life and work.
Artist Richard Diebenkorn lived in Albuquerque from 1950-1952, where he executed an impressive body of more than a 100 paintings, drawings, and welded-metal sculpture. This book presents an overview of this New Mexico period, and investigates the role it played in Diebenkorn's exploration of the idiom of abstraction and the maturation of his art.