From the Model

After a distinguished early career as an abstract painter, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) focused almost exclusively on the human figure from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. With noted Bay Area painters David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Theophilus Brown, and Frank Lobdell, Diebenkorn drew regularly from live models. In his introduction to this volume, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold says, "[Diebenkorn] rarely paid academic homage to anatomy, yet the accuracy of his readings yields that rare fusion of knowing and questioning, of grace and impetuousness that give his drawings their dignity and power." The majority of the 99 images reproduced are previously unpublished and available here for the first time.