Untitled, The Ocean Park Series, 1972 gouache on paper Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Purchase: Museum Purchase Plan of the NEA and the Tabriz Fund, 1974. 74.011.00e
Richard Diebenkorn
American, 1922 - 1993
Born in 1922 in Oregon, Richard Diebenkorn studied at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Following service with the United States Marine (1943-45), he enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Early in his career, Diebenkorn abandoned a representational style of painting, but in the 1950s came back to landscape painting. In the 1960s he switched back to abstraction. In this work Untitled, which belongs to his Ocean Park Series, one can see it as both an abstract or perhaps as a topographic view of his native Oregon or California.
According to Gerald Nordland, principle author of Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Collection, "The Ocean Park drawings show an appreciation of the unifinished paintings of Piet Mondrian and the corrected charcoals of Matisse (1909-40), output which revealed both artists' searching process - drawing, erasing and correcting."
  
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