Orange County Register

Perhaps you’ve heard this already, but the Richard Diebenkorn exhibition scheduled to open at the Orange County Museum of Art in October has been postponed for six months. The reasons appear to be financial.

The Diebenkorn show, which is supposed to feature 60 paintings an works on paper, is now scheduled to open April 4, 2010.

Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, was an important American artist associated with Abstract Expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. His later works — the Ocean Park series in particular – were among his best known, and OCMA owns a particularly notable painting, “Ocean Park #36,” a 1970 oil on canvas (pictured). The OCMA show is to focus on his Ocean Park period — the first museum exhibit to do so, according to OCMA.

The postponement will allow the museum to coordinate with other institutions and take the Diebenkorn show on a national tour.

In the meantime, the museum’s next exhibition, “Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce,” is still scheduled for May 3-Sept. 6, 2009.

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