Berkeley No. 8

Artist Richard Diebenkorn American, 1922–1993

Date1954

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions69 1/8 x 59 1/8 in. (175.6 x 150.2 cm)
Frame: 70 1/8 x 60 1/8 in. (178.1 x 152.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.57.34.3

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Berkeley, CA, 1954; collection of the artist; [Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles]; sold [?] to William R. Valentiner, Los Angeles, ca. 1954; given to NCMA, 1957.

Published ReferencesJames B. Byrnes, "Some Recent Accessions of Twentieth Century Painting," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, nos. 4 and 5 (Winter 1957/Spring 1958), discussed 44-46, illus. (b-w) fig. 8.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 195, illus. (b-w) 245, fig. 194 (erroneously mislabeled).

Richard Diebenkorn (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1964), no. 16, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w).

Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976 (exhibition catalogue) (Buffalo: Albright-Knox Gallery, 1976), no. 20, illus. (b-w) fig. 38.

Maurice Tuchman, "Richard Diebenkorn: The Early Years," Art Journal 36 (Spring 1977), discussed 219-220, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 30.

Gerald Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn (New York: Rizzoli, 1987), discussed 63, illus. (color) 66.

Paintings from the San Francisco Bay Area (exhibition catalogue), Bev Harrington, ed. (Oshkosh, WI: Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1988), cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) xxvi and 270.

William Harmon, "Riddle," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 110-111, illus. (detail, color) 110. Reprinted in North Carolina Literary Review no. 6 (Greenville: East Carolina University, 1997) 108-109, illus. (color), 109.

Jonathan Williams,"'Grain Stacked in the Shape of a House'," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 112-113, illus. (color) 112.

John W. Coffey, entry for Berkeley No. 8, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 226, illus. (color).

Deborah Flapan, "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 280, no. 15 (October 21, 1998), 1292, illus. (color) cover.

Harry Humes, August Evening with Trumpet (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004), illus. (color) cover.

John W. Coffey, entry for Berkeley No. 8, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 474, illus. (color) 475.

Timothy Anglin Burgard, “The Nature of Abstraction,” in Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 (exhibition catalogue) (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in association with Yale University Press, 2013), discussed 24–25, illus. (color), 24, fig. 13; also illus. (color) 87.

Jane Livingston and Andrea Liquori, Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), Vol. 2, cat. no. 1335, illus. (color).

Bryn Chancellor, "Aerial" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 48.
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, CA, Paul Kantor Gallery, "Richard Diebenkorn," March 22-April [ ], 1954.

San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art, "Three Bay Region Artists: Ruth Armer, Richard Diebenkorn, Ralph Du Casse," August 17-September 5, 1954.

"Painters Under 35," (organized and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art Circulatiing Exhibitions), April - November 1955, then traveling, cat. no. 131.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 195, illus. (b-w) (erroneously mislabeled as fig. 194).

Washington, DC, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Richard Diebenkorn," November 6-December 31, 1964; New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, January 13-February 21, 1965; Newport Beach, CA, Pavilion Gallery, March 14-April 15, 1965, no. 16, illus.(b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w).

Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976," November 12, 1976-January 9, 1977; Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, January 31-March 20, 1977; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 15-May 23, 1977; New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 9-July 17, 1977; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 9-September 25, 1977, Oakland, CA, The Oakland Museum, October 15-November 27, 1977, no. 20, illus. (b-w) fig. 38.

Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, December 7, 1979-January 31, 1980.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area," July 24-September 4, 1988; Oshkosh, WI, Paine Art Center and Arboretum, September 25-November 20, 1988; Peoria, IL, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, January 8-February 12, 1989, cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w). [Painting was exhibited only at NCMA]

San Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966,” June 22–September 29, 2013; Palm Springs, CA, Palm Springs Art Museum, October 26, 2013–February 16, 2014; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 16–June 8, 2014, discussed 24–25, illus. (color) 24, fig. 13, also illus. (color) 87.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 22, 2023. Object Rights Statement

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