Ocean Park No. 52 / Richard Diebenkorn
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1974/2.22
- Title
- Ocean Park No. 52
- Artist
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1922 - 1993
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1972
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- California (state)
- Los Angeles (county)
- Santa Monica (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- California (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Los Angeles (county)
- Creation Place 5
- Santa Monica (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Purchase assisted by the Friends of the Museum of Art and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Style/Group/Movement
- abstract
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.l.: RD 72
- Dimensions
- 206.2 cm x 206.2 cm (81 3/16 in. x 81 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- A canvas saturated in layered shades of muted browns, oranges, ochres, and yellows is crossed by lines, some dark some light, some on the surface, some buried beneath the surface color. A bold horizontal line cuts across about a quarter of the way from the bottom. On the right are several faint verticals. At the top two horizontal lines underlap and overlap with two diagonals.
- Subject Matter
- Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series is named after the neighborhood in Santa Monica, California where he had his studio. The subjects of the series are 1) an abstract consideration of color and form, 2) a treatment of the southern California landscape (the mellow subtleties of West Coast sunlight, the vast almost abstract appearance of the dry, open land), and 3) the painting process itself, which the artist makes visible to the viewer through the layers of paint.
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstraction
- color-field
- lyrical abstraction
- natural landscapes
- oil painting
- santa monica (inhabited place)
- sunlight
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- california (state)
- daylight
- descriptors
- electromagnetic radiation
- energy
- energy and related concepts
- european
- european styles and periods
- genres
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- landscapes (environments)
- light (energy)
- los angeles (county)
- modern and contemporary art
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- non-representational art
- north and central america (continent)
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- physics concepts
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- united states (nation)
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 967 x 967
- File Size
- 44 KB
- Record
- 1974/2.22
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1974-sl-2.22/1974_2.22.jpg
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"Ocean Park No. 52; Richard Diebenkorn." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1974-sl-2.22/1974_2.22.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.