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Accompanying Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Works on Paper 1946-1952, Richard Diebenkorn: Special Presentation | Wartime Works 1943–1945 presents a selection of the artist’s “wartime” work loaned by Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. These representational drawings, installed on the third floor of the gallery, were made during the artist’s military service from 1943 to 1945, a period when he produced sketches and watercolors of soldiers. “It was a happy yet terrifying time,” Shields writes, “as Diebenkorn knew he was to be sent behind enemy lines”—the artist was honorably discharged after the …