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Letter to Tom Marioni from Richard Diebenkorn, November 16, 1975; BAMPFA, gift of the Naify Family.


Dick’s Disclaimer


Author
Nina Zurier

Decade

1940s 1950s


Tags

Feminism Painting



S.M. [Santa Monica]
11/16/75

Dear Tom,

Even though it gives me momentary feelings of exaltation to read that I once established an identity (painting) for San Francisco I must come down to earth—and even though I realize you’re not attempting a detailed and objective history of Early California—and even though it might be tedious to list names like Bischoff, Lobdell, Park, Corbett, Smith, Spohn, Jefferson, Dixon, Hultberg, Briggs and others (these are only the first wave—more to come in the mid-50s)—I must correct you. I don’t object to your summariness but I do to your omissions which can only generate further distortion of an already mangled history.

Clyfford Still taught at CSFA 3 1/2 years in the late forties and possibly only 3 1/2 months into 1950. I was on the faculty with him but was never his student. Best wishes for your new and good magazine.

Richard Diebenkorn


In January 1946, Richard Diebenkorn enrolled at SFAI as a student, and in September was awarded the school’s Albert Bender Grant, which allowed him to travel and work independently for a year. Diebenkorn went to New York, and when he returned the following year was offered his first teaching appointment at SFAI. He taught through 1949, and again from 1959 to 1966. The Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship was founded to honor his contributions as a teacher and to provide a similar opportunity to contemporary artists. Established in 1998 by the generosity of the family of Richard Diebenkorn, the fellowship provides an opportunity for artists to both teach at SFAI and have sufficient time and financial support to work in the studio.

 NZ 


Faculty roster from summer 1947 to 1950, SFAI archives.



Fellowship Recipients



  • Delia Brown, fall 2019
  • Katharine Kuharic, fall 2018
  • Terry Powers, fall 2017
  • Brad Kahlhamer, fall 2016
  • Kate Nichols, fall 2015
  • Allison Miller, fall 2014
  • Liam Everett, fall 2013
  • Judie Bamber, fall 2012
  • Taravat Talepasand, fall 2010
  • Marlene McCarty, fall 2009
  • Josephine Taylor, fall 2008
  • Iona Rozeal Brown, fall 2007
  • Shaun O’Dell, fall 2006
  • Brett Cook, fall 2005
  • Darren Waterston, fall 2004
  • Whitfield Lovell, fall 2003
  • Fred Hayes, fall 2002
  • Monica Majoli, fall 2001
  • Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, spring 2001
  • Polly Apfelbaum, spring 2000
  • Brad Brown, spring 1999

 

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