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Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. (April 22, 1922 -
March 30, 1993) was a well-known 20th century
Visual arts of the United States|American painter.

Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon; his
family moved to San Francisco, California when he
was two.  In 1940, Diebenkorn entered Stanford
University.

He lived in Berkeley, California from 1955 to 1967
and painted and drew in a representational style.
At the time, Abstract Expressionism had captured
attention in New York, and brought the focus of
painting over to the US from France.  Painting on
the West Coast, however, retained independence
from New York.  Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, David
Park, and later, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, and
Nathan Oliveira retained an interest in the
figurative.

His most famous paintings, the "Ocean Park" series
of works, were began in 1967 and developed over
twenty years in over 140 paintings. They were
aerial landscape Abstract expressionism|abstracts
named after a community in Santa Monica,
California, where he had moved to teach at
University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA.

He died in Berkeley, California|Berkeley.

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