Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. (April 22, 1922 - March 30, 1993) was a well-known 20th century American painter. Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon; his family moved to San Francisco, California when he was two. In 1940, Diebenkorn entered Stanford University. He lived in Berkeley, California from 1955 to 1967 and painted and drew in a representational style. His most famous paintings, the "Ocean Park" series of works, were began in 1967 and developed over twenty years in over 140 paintings. They were aerial landscape abstracts named after a community in Santa Monica, California, where he had moved to teach at UCLA. He died in Berkeley.