Ocean Park, No. 53
Artist:
Richard Diebenkorn
(American, 1922 - 1993)
Place made:United States
Place made:United States
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
100 x 76 in. (254 x 193 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Brown Foundation
Object number: 73.173
Copyright: © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Label Text
The soft, translucent colors in Richard Diebenkorn’s painting evoke the sandy beaches, golden sunlight, and blue waters of Ocean Park, a community where the artist lived in Santa Monica, California. One in a series of 145 paintings completed over twenty years, Ocean Park, No. 53 transforms the landscape into an abstract exploration of color, line, form, and light. Diebenkorn worked out compositions directly on the canvas through trial and error, scraping away and reapplying paint until he was satisfied. Left visible are schematic lines and erasures that trace the artist’s process and suggest underlying geometric or architectonic structures.
(Lana Meador, 2022)
(Lana Meador, 2022)
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