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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Combination

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Exhibition Introduction

Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

IntroductionKeithJohnLeslieSelf-Portrait

IntroductionTouched RedGreenCombinationHigh Green Version 1

Introduction17 Drawings by ThoreauSeven Day Diary (Not Knowing)Changes and DisappearancesWhere R=RyoanjiFireThe Missing Stone 75 StonesEninkaStonesWhere There is Where There

IntroductionAnne ApplebyPia FriesDarren AlmondSusan MiddletonJoel FisherBrad BrownTom Marioni

IntroductionMamma AnderssonSol LeWittFred WilsonRobert BechtleKiki Smith

IntroductionJulie MehretuWayne ThiebaudJockum NordströmTomma AbtsNathan OliveiraChris Ofili

IntroductionPat SteirLaura OwensWayne ThiebaudAmy Sillman

# Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*(working proof 1)1981aquatint in black with chalk additionsplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 30 11⁄16 × 22 (78 × 55.9)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversaryof the National Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*(working proof 4)1981aquatint in blackplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 24 1⁄2 × 21 5⁄8 (62.2 × 54.9)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversaryof the National Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*(working proof 5)1981aquatint and drypoint in black with graphite additionsand pasted-down elementsplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 30 3⁄4 × 21 5⁄8 (78.1 × 54.9)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversaryof the National Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*(working proof 8)1981aquatint and drypoint in blackplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 24 1⁄2 × 26 11⁄16 (62.3 × 67.8)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversaryof the National Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*(working proof 12)1981color spitbite etching, aquatint, and drypointplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 24 1⁄4 × 26 5⁄8 (61.6 × 55)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversaryof the National Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Combination, 1981
*Combination*1981color spitbite etching, aquatint, and drypointplate: 15 1⁄2 × 13 1⁄2 (39.4 × 34.2)sheet: 30 13⁄16 × 24 1⁄2 (78.3 × 62)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Joshua P. SmithCollection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of theNational Gallery of Art, 1991© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

*Combination*features****a club-spade hybrid. Multiple paper cutouts are pasted onto working proof 5, including a brown one that tests the effect of filling the smaller spade’s left half with color (see below). Another cutout, in white, covers a bulbous protrusion near the top of the club-spade visible in previous working proofs. By pasting over that protrusion, Diebenkorn signaled a decision to cancel it out, giving the club-spade a more streamlined appearance.

Richard Diebenkorn, *Combination*(working proof 5), 1981, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown Point Press and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991, © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Banner image: Detail, Richard Diebenkorn, *Green* (working proof 7), 1986, color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, and drypoint with pasted-down elements, Kathan Brown, © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Next: Richard Diebenkorn, *High Green Version 1*, 1992

"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)

Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Richard Diebenkorn in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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