Throughout his long career, Richard kept a sketchbook—a “portable studio,” as he called it—to capture his ideas. These books span 50 years and represent the range of styles and subjects he explored, including deeply personal portraits of his wife, studies of the figure, landscape studies and compositions that point to Diebenkorn’s signature blend of figuration and abstraction.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed at the Cantor Art Center explores the relationship between his sketchbooks and his paintings and includes loans of early works that Diebenkorn created as a Stanford student.
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