Allison Meier previews Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. The show will be on view from September 9 to February 8, 2016.

Meier quotes the Cantor Arts Center's Alison Gass: “The books are filled with stunningly gestural sketches of bits and pieces of daily life, both mundane capturing of everyday things, and powerful vignettes of intimate family moments … We see brief visual meditations on vistas seen on travels, and we see carefully built studies that would become the large-scale finished Ocean Park paintings we know so well.”