Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993), Landscape with Awning, 1962 Lithograph
Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993) was one of the leading American painters and printmakers of the post-war period and a central figure in the Bay Area Figurative Movement. His career moved freely between abstraction and observed subjects, beginning with the expressive Albuquerque and Berkeley paintings before turning toward landscapes, interiors, and the human figure during the 1950s and early 1960s. Even in his representational work, Diebenkorn retained the broad handling, active surfaces, and underlying structure of Abstract Expressionism. After relocating to Southern California in 1966, he developed the celebrated Ocean Park series, transforming the light and architecture of Santa Monica into carefully balanced fields of color crossed by geometric lines. Diebenkorn began working at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1962 and later formed a long relationship with Crown Point Press, producing prints that preserved the searching quality and visible revisions found throughout his paintings and drawings. His work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Landscape with Awning, 1962, is a lithograph from zinc printed in black on Arches paper by Joseph Zirker at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. The image compresses a loosely described landscape into a dark horizontal band of buildings, trees, and posts beneath a broad open sky, with a striped awning form anchoring the lower right and a tower-like silhouette rising at upper right. Inscribed in graphite “Tamarind Imp.” lower left and initialed and dated “RD 62” lower right, with the Tamarind bell blindstamp lower left and Joe Zirker printer’s blindstamp lower right. The “Tamarind Imp.” inscription identifies this as one of nine workshop-retained Tamarind impressions, outside the numbered edition of 20. Verso inscribed “2-77,” “568,” and “#6528.” Sheet measures approximately 16.25 x 12.25 inches. Overall good appearance. Sheet shows light toning with a visible mat line, minor handling and edge wear, and two old hinge remnants along the upper verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993) was one of the leading American painters and printmakers of the post-war period and a central figure in the Bay Area Figurative Movement. His career moved freely between abstraction and observed subjects, beginning with the expressive Albuquerque and Berkeley paintings before turning toward landscapes, interiors, and the human figure during the 1950s and early 1960s. Even in his representational work, Diebenkorn retained the broad handling, active surfaces, and underlying structure of Abstract Expressionism. After relocating to Southern California in 1966, he developed the celebrated Ocean Park series, transforming the light and architecture of Santa Monica into carefully balanced fields of color crossed by geometric lines. Diebenkorn began working at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1962 and later formed a long relationship with Crown Point Press, producing prints that preserved the searching quality and visible revisions found throughout his paintings and drawings. His work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Landscape with Awning, 1962, is a lithograph from zinc printed in black on Arches paper by Joseph Zirker at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. The image compresses a loosely described landscape into a dark horizontal band of buildings, trees, and posts beneath a broad open sky, with a striped awning form anchoring the lower right and a tower-like silhouette rising at upper right. Inscribed in graphite “Tamarind Imp.” lower left and initialed and dated “RD 62” lower right, with the Tamarind bell blindstamp lower left and Joe Zirker printer’s blindstamp lower right. The “Tamarind Imp.” inscription identifies this as one of nine workshop-retained Tamarind impressions, outside the numbered edition of 20. Verso inscribed “2-77,” “568,” and “#6528.” Sheet measures approximately 16.25 x 12.25 inches. Overall good appearance. Sheet shows light toning with a visible mat line, minor handling and edge wear, and two old hinge remnants along the upper verso. Image presents well. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
16.25 x 12.25 in
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