Two collections of California artists are now part of the Archives of American Art Matthew Simms Demonstration painting from Art 431 (Beginner), San Francisco State University, 1987 March 3. Robert ...

Robert Bechtle, whose paintings of cars, families and intersections transformed the mundane into the captivating, died Thursday morning. He was 88. A longtime Bay Area resident, Bechtle was one of the ...

He used photographs to guide his meticulously rendered paintings of everyday American landscapes, finding unexpected beauty. By Steven Kurutz Robert Bechtle, a photorealist painter who depicted ...

The trees had grown, the cars were newer, and the house colors had changed, but there was no mistaking it: I was standing inside a painting. I was also standing in the middle of the street in ...

Like all good art, Bechtle’s work maintains the ability to instruct, because it somehow rings true. This is what appealed to Baudelaire about “ Les Femmes d’Alger.” Though he admired Delacroix for his ...

You haven’t really seen the quieter, suburban parts of San Francisco County until you’ve seen them through Robert Bechtle’s eyes. With little mediation, he transformed our everyday world into fine art ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donated 2022-2023 by the Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Revocable Trust via Robert Firehock, representative of the Estate of Robert Bechtle.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection is arranged as nine series: Series 1: Biographical Material , circa 1940s-1999 (1.0 linear foot: Box 1; .001 Gigabytes: ER0001) ...

When you hear the term "Photorealism," Robert Bechtle is not exactly the first name that springs to mind. Yet, according to Louis Meisel, the dean of Photorealist dealers, Robert Bechtle invented ...

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