Berkeley #42b

Date1955

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions59 1/4 x 62 in. (150.5 x 157.5 cm)

Signed"RD 55" lower left; "Berkeley #42/R. Diebenkorn/1955" reverse

CR number1479

RD number221

Exhibitions

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Young American Painters

September 24, 1956 - October 14, 1956

Art Department Building, University of California, Berkeley, Recent Paintings: Richard Diebenkorn

September 12, 1955 - October 12, 1955

Bibliography

Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné

Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966

Is There a California School?

Description

This painting is one of five (see cats. 1475 through 1478) of which the artist sent photographs in his first letter to Elinor Poindexter (1955). The letter referred to his work and the possibility that she would represent him at her New York gallery. It was later titled "Berkeley #42b" by the artist and Poindexter, since "Berkeley #42" (cat. 1478) already existed.