Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings. 1942-1955, 2017, HC, Fine.

Shields, Scott A., and Steven A. Nash. Portland: Pomegranate Communications, 2017. 

English, Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 9 3/4", [5] 240 pp. 

ISBN: 9780764979415

Dark red-orange cloth over board, tan lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block and endpapers. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, featuring detail of Richard Diebenkorn's 1949 artwork "#2 (Sausalito)" to front panel, 1952-53 artwork "Untitled" to back panel, white lettering to front panel and interior flaps, black lettering to spine, some pressure marks to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [5] 240 pp. Includes black-and-white and full-color images, 100 full-color Plates, Foreword by Steven A. Nash, Introduction, 3 chapters: Becoming Diebenkorn, A Radical Concentration of Ideas, The Aura of Place, Epilogue, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, Exhibition Checklist. and Index. Published on occasion of the traveling exhibition of the same name starting at the Crocker Art Museum from October 8, 2017 to January 7, 2018. From inside the dust jacket: "This catalogue, complied to accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name, focuses on Diebenkorn's evolution to maturity...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."