Richard Diebenkorn was born on April, 1922 in Portland, Oregon. His works can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The National Gallery, Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art, New York among many others. In 1980 and 1981, Diebenkorn produced works on paper known as the “Clubs and Spades” drawings. When these were initially shown the reaction was somewhat perplexed; with time, however, these images have become some of the most highly prized of his works. Richard Diebenkorn died on March 30, 1993.