Diebenkorn "Ocean Park" Heads Banner Year for MOCA Acquisitions
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park 131 , 1985. MOCA, gift of Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg MOCA has released a list of the 158 works (by 106 artists) acquired in calendar year 2025 . They include a magisterial Richard Diebenkorn Ocean Park painting plus works by artists recently featured in MOCA exhibitions (Olafur Eliasson, Paul Pfeiffer, Henry Taylor, and Takako Yamaguchi, among others). A 1991-1992 window in the tax code favored donations of appreciated art. This resulted in a spike of gifts to museums nationwide, many of them partial gifts allowing the donors to keep the art on their walls for decades hence. At that time Lenore and Bernard Greenberg anonymously pledged their Diebenkorn Ocean Park to MOCA. The gift was completed last year, along with the donation of their drawing collection to the National Gallery of Art . Diebenkorn had a studio in Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood from 1967 to 1988. The Greenbergs' Ocean Park 131 has been ...
