High Green Version II
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color aquatint with spitbite, softground, hardground, and soapground etching and sugarlift aquatint with scraping and burnishing, and with a pasted-down collage element on Somerset soft white paper
Dimensions
image: 101 x 57.5 cm (39 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.) sheet: 134 x 85.4 cm (52 3/4 x 33 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1996.77.97
Art Historical Context
**High Green Version II**1992) is a captivating print by Richard Diebenkorn, one of America's most revered postwar artists. Created just a year before his death, this work showcases Diebenkorn's late-career fascination with printmaking, blending his signature abstracted landscapes with bold color fields. Measuring nearly 40 by 23 inches in its image area, it was executed on luxurious Somerset soft white paper, viewers into a luminous world of greens and subtle geometries that evoke California's coastal vistas. Diebenkorn, known for bridging Abstract Expressionism and Bay Area Figurative paint...
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...