id: 149589
accession number: 1979.17
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.17
updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:11.401000
Ocean Park #109, 1978. Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993). Oil on canvas; framed: 256.1 x 195 x 4.8 cm (100 13/16 x 76 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.); unframed: 254 x 193 cm (100 x 76 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and gift of The Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art and an Anonymous Donor 1979.17 © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
title: Ocean Park #109
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creation date: 1978
creation date earliest: 1978
creation date latest: 1978
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creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and gift of The Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art and an Anonymous Donor
copyright: © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922–1993) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 256.1 x 195 x 4.8 cm (100 13/16 x 76 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.); Unframed: 254 x 193 cm (100 x 76 in.)
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inscription: Initialed lower right: "RD 78"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
title: Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
opening date: 2011-09-25T00:00:00
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (September 26, 2011-January 22, 2012); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (organizer) (February 26-May 27, 2012); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (July 3-September 23, 2012).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* M. Knoedler & Co., New York: Richard Diebenkorn: Mary 12-May 31, 1979.
CMA: "Year in Review 1979," Bulletin LXVII (March 1980), cat. no. 54, p. 96, repr. p. 79.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (9/26/2011 - 1/22/2012), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2/26/2012 - 5/27/2012), and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (7/3/2012 - 9/23/2012): "Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series"
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PROVENANCE
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The Ocean Park series drew inspiration from Henri Matisse’s View of Notre Dame (1914) and French Window at Collioure (1914), which Diebenkorn saw at a Los Angeles exhibition in 1966.
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This work belongs to Diebenkorn’s landmark painting series Ocean Park, named for the then derelict artist neighborhood in which Diebenkorn lived, a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Rather than simply painting the landscape from his studio window, Diebenkorn intensely focused on the qualities of the natural light as it shone upon the surrounding buildings, water, and trees. Each painting from this series can be seen as a meditation on the way the natural world influences and affects our daily lives.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Hinson, Tom E. "Recent Paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and Jack Tworkov." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 2 (1980): 31-40.
page number: Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 31-40
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159661
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 54, p. 79; Mentioned: p. 61
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
Livingston, Jane, and Andrea Liguori. Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
page number: 261
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