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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Introduction>Yes No Maybe Diebenkorn Touched Red

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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, Touched Red, 1991

Richard Diebenkorn, Touched Red, 1991
*Touched Red* (working proof 1)1991aquatint reversal in blackplate: 24 × 16 (61 × 40.6)sheet: 29 3⁄4 × 20 1⁄2 (75.6 × 52.1)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Touched Red, 1991
*Touched Red* (working proof 3)1991color aquatint, spitbite aquatint, softground etching,and drypoint with pasted-down elementsplate: 24 × 16 (61 × 40.6)sheet: 35 1⁄4 × 26 3⁄8 (90.2 × 67)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown PointPress, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Touched Red, 1991
*Touched Red* (working proof 8)1991color aquatint, spitbite aquatint, softground etching,and drypoint with pasted-down elementsplate: 24 × 16 (61 × 40.6)sheet: 36 × 26 1⁄2 (91.4 × 67.3)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown Point Press, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Touched Red, 1991
*Touched Red* (working proof 10)1991color aquatint, spitbite aquatint, softground etching,and drypoint with pasted- and pinned-downelementsplate: 24 × 16 (61 × 40.6)sheet: 40 × 26 3⁄4 (101.6 × 68)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Crown Point Press, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn, Touched Red, 1991
*Touched Red*1991color aquatint, spitbite aquatint, softground etching,and drypointplate: 24 × 16 (61 × 40.6)sheet: 35 3⁄4 × 26 3⁄4 (90.8 × 68)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. andMarie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons’ PermanentFund, 1996© The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

A worktable at the press covered withRichard Diebenkorn's cut-up working proofs,photograph by Kathan Brown, CourtesyCrown Point Press

Diebenkorn routinely cut up working proofs, pasting or pinning them onto others. *Touched Red* exemplifies this practice: eight cutouts are pasted onto working proof 3; almost thirty are pasted onto working proof 8; and two are pinned to working proof 10. Using this provisional method, Diebenkorn tested possible solutions and registered his next move. For example, he replaced the mushroom-like mass in the upper left in proofs 3 (see banner, above) by pinning a rectangle over it in proof 10; the rectangle was subsequently etched into the plate — permanently, for it appears in the final print (see slideshow, above).

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, *Green*, 1986

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Richard Diebenkorn in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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