Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico. 2007 Near Fine HC in DJ, Abstract Expressionist

Nordland, Gerald; Mark Lavatelli, Charles Strong. Santa Fe, NM. Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico, Taos. 2007.

English, Fine, HC Quarto, 10" x 12," 153 pp.  

ISBN: 9780890134986

Near Fine blue cloth over boards, blind stamped lettering to cover and spine, spine lightly cocked, previous owner name written on title page, showing no other visible wear. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, black and white lettering to cover and spine, one closed tear else clean, complete, and protected in Mylar. 153 pp. Replete with full color images of the paintings and prints Richard Diebenkorn created during his stay in New Mexico 1949-1952 while he completed graduate studies. The desert environment had a profound impact on his abstract expressionist work. From Lavatelli's essay: "The dry, piquant air and dazzling light of New Mexico permeated Diebenkorn's artistic sensibility, contributing to exquisite tensions of line and color, of space and surface, of disarray and order. In the raw and often tender beauty of this exciting body of work, one sees and feels echoes of the harsh and spacious high-desert environment and also a new openness to landscape influences that proved seminal to the rest of his distinguished painting career." Published in conjunction with a 2007-2008 exhibition of the same name held at the Harwood Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Grey Art Gallery of New York University.