From the Press Release: “I’d left all my influences in San Francisco. I left my mentors. I think I was saying to myself in Albuquerque that OK I’m going to damn well paint what I want I’m not going to do this qualifying of my intuitive responses….If grass green and sky blue and desert tan; if these associations come into the work that’s part of my experience.” - Richard Diebenkorn, interview with Mark Lavatelli, Santa Monica, California, November 1978 Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper from 1949-1955 by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993). Organized in cooperation with the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Color Abstractions 1949-1955 features thirty works exhibited for the first time. Diebenkorn’s early works from the late 40s through the mid 50s are considered among the finest examples of postwar American abstraction. Illuminating Diebenkorn's formative perio...