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Berkeley, No. 52 by Richard Diebenkorn

I suppose this isn’t such big news as the Nobel prize (?!), but the Obamas are updating the art at the White House, and I noticed that “Berkeley, No. 52″ by one of my favorite California landscape painters, Richard Diebenkorn, is among the works of art that they chose. Apparently, presidents get to pick from almost the entire Smithsonian collection. That would make for a fun museum visit.

Poppies by Richard Diebenkorn

RichardDiebenkorn.net has images of other Diebenkorn paintings, including others from the Berkeley series, a number from his Ocean Park series, and a nice representation of our state flower, the poppy. I find his abstract landscapes to be very recognizably California.

Marin Landscape by Richard Diebenkorn

I think I'll... by Ed Ruscha

The New York Time has a slideshow of other paintings chosen by the Obamas. “I think I’ll…” by Ed Ruscha, seems like an offering of low-hanging fruit to political bloggers.