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, ...
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Richard Diebenkorn, 1985 May 1-1987 December 15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Funding Funding for the ...
“Albuquerque was, I guess, my period of reclusiveness,” said Richard Diebenkorn in a 1985 interview with Susan Larsen. “There is something that really is kind of overwhelming and most immediately ...
Richard Diebenkorn Urbana #6, 1953 (© the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation) In May 1985, the painter Richard Diebenkorn — by then a titan in the art world — spent three full days with art historian Susan ...