Spanning the breadth of the artist’s career, Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper, 1949-1992 (at L.A. Louver through November 4, 2017) presents a concise overview of the artist’s output and the diverse range of subject matter he embraced throughout his lifetime. The earliest included are gestural works on paper (pictured here) Diebenkorn created in the late ‘40s to the mid ‘50s, where the artist began to develop his abstract visual vocabulary. 

The Crocker Art Museum Museum has just opened an exhibition that examines the early period of Richard Diebenkorn’s career from 1942-1955. While lesser known, these early pieces evolved rapidly from representational landscape scenes and portraits of military colleagues, to semiabstract and Surrealist-inspired depictions of topography and the human form, to the artist’s mature Abstract Expressionist paintings. Many of these pieces will be unfamiliar to the public, yet they offer a fuller picture of Diebenkorn’s precocious achievements and set the stage for what was yet to come. Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955 is on view through January 7, 2018.