Formative years in the career of a good artist who later became great.

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	• Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico Gerald Nordland, Mark Lavatelli, ... Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007 - 153 pages view larger image
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Formative years in the career of a good artist who later became great.

This book accompanies an exhibition of Diebenkorn's works painted in New Mexico in the early 1950's. Wonderful illustrations make it a valuable addition to the literature on the artist. Now, you really have to be an all-out Diebenkorn fan to consider that these early works measure up to what was being painted at the same time in New York by the likes of Pollock, De Kooning, Rothko, Kline and Guston. Diebenkorn became great when he started the Ocean Park series in the 1970's, but here, he only reveals himself as a good colorist. The merit of this catalogue lies, in my opinion, in the high quality of the illustrations, albeit of minor works, and in the sensible text written by a leading authority on the artist.

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Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico is the first comprehensive overview of internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn's New Mexico period, which greatly influenced his artistic maturation. Features 86 seminal works from the early period of this internationally acclaimed artist.