[ Diebenkorn Painting] Richard Diebenkorn completed Man and Woman in a Large Room at the height of his involvement with the Bay Area Figurative Movement. These artists fused the loose brush work of Abstract Expressionism with recognizable subject matter to capture the atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay area.

Diebenkorn structured the painting by a play of parallel and perpendicular lines through his placement of windows, doorways, landscape, and figures in a nearly empty room. The room's simplicity and its occupants' anonymity recall Edward Hopper's work.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972.

Man and Woman in a Large Room, 1957, by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93), oil on canvas

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