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Richard Diebenkorn
Coffee, 1959
oil on canvas
57 1/2 in. × 52 1/4 in.
Collection of SFMOMA
© 2025 Richard Diebenkorn Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

—Richard Diebenkorn
American painter and printmaker

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