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Through Diebenkorn’s Eyes: A Story of Artistic Inspiration

Matisse/Diebenkorn unfolds across the arc of Richard Diebenkorn’s career and explores the profound inspiration he found in the work of Henri Matisse. Learn more about these two artists and the exhibition, which is designed as a series of imagined encounters that allow visitors to vicariously experience Matisse through Diebenkorn’s eyes.
An abstracted painting depicting an orange peel on a blue background, Diebenkorn
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Still Life with Orange Peel: The One that Dropped from the Sky
Alfred Barr, ​Matisse: His Art and His Public​, 1951 (inside cover with Richard Diebenkorn's signature)
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Diebenkorn’s copy of Alfred Barr’s Matisse: His Art and His Public
A painting by Henri Matisse and a painting by Richard Diebenkorn
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Through Diebenkorn’s Eyes: Curators Reflect on Matisse/Diebenkorn
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Richard Diebenkorn: Inspired by natural light