Richard Diebenkorn

Known for: the Ocean Park series (1967–1988)

Richard Diebenkorn moved from Abstract Expressionism to Bay Area Figurative painting in the late 1950s — a shift associated with the influence of Cézanne and Hopper — before returning to abstraction in the Ocean Park series (1967–1988), large-scale canvases of layered horizontal zones of color derived from the light and landscape of Santa Monica. He is considered the most significant Californian painter of the postwar period. His Ocean Park No. 67 sold for $12.1 million at Christie's in 2014.