Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.
22 April 1922
Born on the same birth date (22 April 1922): Charles Mingus • Wolf V. Vishniac
Born on the same birth day (22 April): Bernhard Gregory • Bettie Page • Harold Jeffreys • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville • Peter Frampton • Reinhard III, Count of Hanau • Rita Levi-Montalcini • Sherri Shepherd • Spyros Markezinis • William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Born in the same month (April 1922): Alistair MacLean • Andy Linden (racing driver) • Audrey Long • Charles Mingus • Erich Hartmann • Harold Washington • Heinz Baas • John Braine • John C. Whitehead • Lawrence N. Guarino • Parren Mitchell • Simon Kapwepwe