Exhibitions: Richard Diebenkorn: An Intimate View

September 16, 1985: Richard Diebenkorn: An Intimate View, an exhibition of thirteen small paintings by this renowned artist, opens in the 2nd floor Print Gallery of The Brooklyn Museum on September 27 and will be on view through December 2. These small compositions executed on the unlikely surface of cigar-box lids, none larger than 9 x 7 inches, have never before been seen in the East.

Created in 1976 and 1979, these are paintings on an intimate scale, condensed analogs of the large paintings of Diebenkorn’s major Ocean Park series begun in the late ‘60s and, like them, poetic meditations on the space and light of California. Pentimenti, the trace images of initial marks readjusted by a more recent layer of paint, also link these paintings in form and feeling to the Ocean Park series. Like illuminated manuscripts or Persian miniatures, these works compel us to get up close then open up an infinite universe of delicacy and nuance.

This exhibition was organized by George W. Neubert, Director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

A full-color catalog reproducing each painting in its actual size, with an essay by Dore Ashton, will be available in the Gallery Shop ($11.90 Members; $14.00 Non Members.) A 30 x 40 inch poster of Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park #27 from The Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection is also available at a special introductory price for Members of $20 ($30 Non Members)

Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1986, 071. View Original

Winter 1985: Richard Diebenkorn: An Intimate View, which opened at The Brooklyn Museum on September 27, is having its original closing date of December 2 extended to Monday, January 6, 1986. The extension is in response to the exhibition’s enthusiastic reception by the press and public alike.

This exhibition consists of thirteen small paintings created in 1976 and 1979. They are condensed analogs of the large paintings from the artist’s major Ocean Park series begun in the late 1960s and, like them, are poetic meditations on the space and light of California.

Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1986, 072. View Original