Richard Diebenkorn Works Online
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Original works by Richard Diebenkorn available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
5 works online
Richard Diebenkorn at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
21 works online when last checked
Richard Diebenkorn at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
5 works by Richard Diebenkorn
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Seated Woman, 1964
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
8 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Ocean Park No. 24
Academy Art Museum, Maryland
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Untitled, 1949
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Study for Woman by a Large Window, drawing
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Woman by a Large Window
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Untitled (Ocean Park Series), 1972
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Berkeley #4
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Ochre
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Window, 1967
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Ocean Park #83
Crocker Art Museum, California
Flowers, 1957
Hammer Museum, California
Woman Leaning Back in Chair, 1963-64
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Katonah Museum of Art, New York
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled (Ocean Park Series), 1972
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Richard Diebenkorn in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Richard Diebenkorn at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Albuquerque, 1951
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Ocean Park #36, 1970
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Man and Woman, Seated, 1958
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950-1952"
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Woman and Checkerboard, 1956
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Untitled, charcoal drawing, 1965
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Ocean Park No. 89.5
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Richard Diebenkorn at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Museum Collections
Lower Colorado #8
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Ocean Park #17, 1968
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Ocean Park No.22, 1969
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Seated Nude with Table, 1968
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Richard Diebenkorn in the Artchive
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
PBase Photo Sharing
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University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Crown Point Press
PBS
Ocean Park Series #49 - with commentary by Sister Wendy Beckett
Repository of Abstract Art
Ocean Park No. 54, 1972
Repository of Abstract Art
Ocean Park No. 114, 1979
Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné Project
Brief description of the ongoing project and contact info
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Richard Diebenkorn at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1985 interview from the Oral History project
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"Hail, Richard Diebenkorn! So Heroic, So Underrated", article by Hilton Kramer
The Washington Post
Time Magazine
"A Geometry Bathed in Light", 1982 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Decisive Line of a Master", 1988 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"God is in the Vectors", 1997 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"California in Eupeptic Color", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Diebenkorn's View from the Porch, 1959
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Profiled as part of an overview of 11 of California's most celebrated artists
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature on Richard Diebenkorn
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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The Art of Richard Diebenkorn
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Richard Diebenkorn
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Richard Diebenkorn: Revised and Expanded
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