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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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.

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 ...

The first impression one might take from Robert Bechtle's paintings -- on retrospective view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in a 96-work show that includes the contemporary realist's drawings, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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: ...