Oral history interview with Richard Diebenkorn
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 10 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 16 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 43 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
label: Names
content: Bischoff, Elmer, 1916-1991
label: Names
content: Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982
label: Names
content: Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
label: Names
content: Mendelowitz, Daniel Marcus
label: Names
content: Park, David, 1911-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Painting -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. [Another interview of Diebenkorn was donated by Larsen, 1977].
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a painter from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 153 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985 May 1-1987 December 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dieben85
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Richard Diebenkorn conducted 1985 May 1-1987 December 15, by Susan Larsen, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Diebenkorn speaks of his family background and early life; his education and his service in the Marine Corps; his introduction to modernism; his early abstract work; the formation of the Bay Area figurative school and the relationship between art in New York and in the Bay Area; teaching; critical and public reaction to his work; important exhibitions of his work; vacillating between the figurative and the abstract in his painting; his working methods. He recalls Daniel Mendelowitz, Erle Loran, Raymond Jonson, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff.