Woman and Checkerboard
Date1956
Current owner
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions59 x 56 in. (149.9 x 142.2 cm)
Signed"RD 56" lower left; "R. Diebenkorn/Woman and Checkerboard/1956" reverse
Credit LineSanta Barbara Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Second Pacific Coast Biennial Fund
CR number2081
RD number1195
Exhibitions
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
From Avery to Zurbarán: A New View of the Permanent Collection
December 3, 1983
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February 12, 1984
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
In Memoriam—Richard Diebenkorn
April 8, 1993
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May 2, 1993
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!
March 13, 2004
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November 21, 2004
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
About Faces
March 11, 1995
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October 29, 1995
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Figuratively Speaking: 20th Century Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper
August 17, 1996
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November 3, 1996
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969
February 11, 2012
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May 6, 2012
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition
September 10, 1957
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October 13, 1957
Oakland Art Museum, Calif.,
Richard Diebenkorn One Man Guest of Honor Exhibition
September 8, 1956
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September 30, 1956
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Artist of the Month: Richard Diebenkorn
October 8, 1977
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November 16, 1977
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York,
The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956–1966
March 27, 1984
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April 28, 1984
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, N.Y.,
Art across America: A Selection of American Art from Collections Open to the Public in Communities of One Hundred Thousand or Less
October 15, 1960
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December 31, 1960
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.,
Two Hundred Years of American Painting
March 4, 1961
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April 9, 1961
Bibliography
Description
This painting won the Women’s Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Award of Merit at the Second Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1957.
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