  thumb|right|240px|richard diebenkorn ocean park no. 67, 1973, oil on canvas, 100 Ã 81 in.  richard diebenkorn (april 22, 1922&nbsp;â march 30, 1993) was a american painter. his early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the bay area figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s. his later work (best known as the ocean park paintings) were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. ==biography== richard clifford diebenkorn jr. was born on april 22, 1922 in portland, oregon. his family moved to san francisco, california, when he was two years old. from the age of four or five he was continually drawing.livingston, j: "the art of richard diebenkorn", page 18. whitney california, 1997. in 1940, diebenkorn entered stanford university, where he met his first two artistic mentors, professor and muralist victor arnautoff, who guided diebenkorn in classical formal discipline with oil paint; and daniel mendelowitz, with whom he shared a passion for the work of edward hopper.livingston, j: "the art of richard diebenkorn", pages 20â21. whitney california, 1997. hopper's influence can be seen in diebenkorn's representational work of this time. during the late 1940s and early 1950s, he lived and worked in various places: new york city, woodstock, new york, albuquerque, new mexico, urbana, illinois and berkeley, california (1953â1966). he developed his own style of abstract expressionist painting. abstract expressionism ha
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