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 ...

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The Robert Bechtle papers measure 15.0 linear feet and 2.08 gigabytes, and date from circa 1930s-2020. The collection documents Bechtle's career as a photorealist painter in the San Francisco Bay area ...

Robert Bechtle's cars look stuck there. His Bel Airs and Gran Torinos, his Novas, Karmann Ghias, T-Birds, Jettas and Impalas do not move at all. Basking like big turtles in the California sun, aging ...

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) ...

Robert Bechtle was an American Photorealist painter known for his depictions of sunlit streets and everyday life. With a distinctive, non-narrative aesthetic, his watercolors and oil paintings ...

Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective Just as Freud’s rejoinder that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” was deceptively simple, so too are Robert Bechtle’s paintings of shiny jalopies, suburban tract ...

Robert Bechtle appears a tad sheepish, standing beside his snazzy convertible in Bob’s Sebring (2011). The car’s rear end bulges in this 3 1/2 x 5 foot oil painting, perhaps a slight fish-eye effect ...

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 ...

For the past 40 years, painter Robert Bechtle has focused our attention on the everyday. Working in a sun-bleached color palette and photorealist style, Bechtle gives us a quiet Americana: ...