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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Green

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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, Green, 1986

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
*Green*(working proof 1)1986drypoint in black with wash and pasted-down elementsplate: 43 7⁄8 × 35 3⁄4 (111.4 × 90.8)sheet: 50 3⁄4 × 40 (128.9 × 101.6)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
*Green*(working proof 2)1986spitbite aquatint in blue and drypoint in redplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 3⁄8 (113.7 × 89.9)sheet: 51 1⁄8 × 40 1⁄4 (129.9 × 102.2)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
*Green*(working proof 7)1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypoint with pasted-down elementsplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 1⁄4 (113.7 × 89.5)sheet: 51 3⁄4 × 40 1⁄2 (131.4 × 102.9)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
*Green*1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypointplate: 45 × 35 1⁄4 (114.3 × 89.5)sheet: 53 1⁄2 × 40 3⁄4 (135.9 × 103.5)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. andMarie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons’ PermanentFund, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, upper left, *Green*(working proof 1)1986drypoint in black with wash and pasted-down elementsplate: 43 7⁄8 × 35 3⁄4 (111.4 × 90.8)sheet: 50 3⁄4 × 40 (128.9 × 101.6)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, upper left, *Green *(working proof 2)1986spitbite aquatint in blue and drypoint in redplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 3⁄8 (113.7 × 89.9)sheet: 51 1⁄8 × 40 1⁄4 (129.9 × 102.2)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, upper left, *Green*(working proof 7)1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypoint with pasted-down elementsplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 1⁄4 (113.7 × 89.5)sheet: 51 3⁄4 × 40 1⁄2 (131.4 × 102.9)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, upper left, *Green*1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypointplate: 45 × 35 1⁄4 (114.3 × 89.5)sheet: 53 1⁄2 × 40 3⁄4 (135.9 × 103.5)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. andMarie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons’ PermanentFund, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, lower left, *Green*(working proof 1)1986drypoint in black with wash and pasted-down elementsplate: 43 7⁄8 × 35 3⁄4 (111.4 × 90.8)sheet: 50 3⁄4 × 40 (128.9 × 101.6)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, lower left, *Green*(working proof 2)1986spitbite aquatint in blue and drypoint in redplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 3⁄8 (113.7 × 89.9)sheet: 51 1⁄8 × 40 1⁄4 (129.9 × 102.2)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, lower left, *Green*(working proof 7)1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypoint with pasted-down elementsplate: 44 3⁄4 × 35 1⁄4 (113.7 × 89.5)sheet: 51 3⁄4 × 40 1⁄2 (131.4 × 102.9)Kathan Brown© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Detail, lower left, *Green*1986color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, anddrypointplate: 45 × 35 1⁄4 (114.3 × 89.5)sheet: 53 1⁄2 × 40 3⁄4 (135.9 × 103.5)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. andMarie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons’ PermanentFund, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Habitually inclined to rework his compositions, Diebenkorn spoke of wanting to “steal [a] second chance.” A mark resembling an infinity sign in the upper left region of the first working proof is camouflaged in working proof 7 (see banner, above). And a curve in the lower left passage of the first proof gradually morphs into what looks like the upturned tail of a cat (see slideshow, above). In the final print, that tail is absorbed into a volcano-shaped form.

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, *Combination*, 1981

"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)

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Richard Diebenkorn in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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