High Green Version I [working proof 8]
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View on museum website →Medium
aquatint with spitbite, softground, hardground, and soapground etching and sugarlift aquatint with scraping and burnishing in black on Somerset soft white paper [working proof]
Dimensions
image: 101 x 57.5 cm (39 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.) sheet: 136.5 x 81.3 cm (53 3/4 x 32 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Crown Point Press
Accession Number
1996.94.20
About the Artist
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr. (1922-1993) was one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions and figurative works evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California. Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco, Diebenkorn became a pivotal figure in elevating the status of California art on the international stage. His career encom...