Ocean Park No. 52 / Richard Diebenkorn

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Accession Number
1974/2.22
Title
Ocean Park No. 52
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 2
United States (nation)
Creation Place 3
California (state)
Creation Place 4
Los Angeles (county)
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.
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967 x 967
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1974/2.22
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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 March 29, 2024.
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