Richard Diebenkorn and Carey Stanton: A Private Collection

By Santa Cruz Island Foundation and and Paul Chadbourne Mills DIEBENKORN, Richard, Marla Daily

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1886342083
• ISBN13: 9781886342088
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Santa Cruz Island Foundation
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.

Customer Reviews

RICHARD DIEBENKORN AND CAREY STANTON

AVAILABLE CURRENTLY from the Stanford University's Cantor Art Museum bookstore for approx. $40, this 136-page paperback, 10" by 8", is loaded with illustrations, including reproductions of the 45 works currently on show at the museum. These works are virtually all on an intimate scale and were created by the artist for his long time friend, the late Dr. Carey Stanton, and are now held by the foundation Stanton created. Diebenkorn and Stanton met as freshmen at Stanford in 1940 when they pledged the same fraternity and the pair remained friends until Stanton's death 47 years later. Stanton, best man at Diebenkorn's 1943 wedding to Phyllis Gilman, earned an M.D. degree at Stanford in 1947 but ten years later he moved to Santa Cruz Island in the Santa Barbara Channel to take over management of the island, which was owned by his family and run as a cattle ranch. (Tough duty, but someone had to do it.) The Diebenkorns and Carey Stanton exchanged visits and gifts over the years and in the process Stanton accumulated one of the largest collections of Diebenkorn's works, both by purchase and also by gift, quite a few using the beautiful coastal island, or Stanton himself, as subjects. Stanton also has some of the earliest of the artist's Ocean Park works, starting in 1958. The largest of the works is 22" x 24", most of them perhaps 10" by 15", and they include landscapes, his wonderful intimate still lifes, and, most exciting, small Ocean Park pieces including a jewel-like Ocean Park oil on cigar box lid, 6-1/2" by 5-3/4". Many of the pieces in the collection have been featured in the various touring exhibitions of Diebenkorn's work over the years, but many others are being shown for the first time. In addition to showing the 45 works in the current show at the Stanford Museum, the book includes over one hundred color and b & w photos of the Diebenkorns' visits to the island and also of features on the island illustrated in some of the works. It also includes copies of correspondence between the two friends and additional drawings, gifts not included in the show. Some of the works are of such intimate scale that they are actually illustrated larger than life in the book. (The colors are reproduced very accurately.) The Stanton Foundation collection includes famous images by Diebenkorn such as the much-reproduced "Palo Alto Circle", 1943. A wonderful look an outstanding private collection, including photos of the works as they were displayed in Stanton's homes. This is the sort of work which could well sell at a premium in a few years, as with other obscure texts about this popular artist.