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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was the antithesis of Abstract Expressionism, but it didn’t really Pop. When photorealism flashed in the pan at Documenta 5 in 1972, fans cheered the return of painting with a ...

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: ...

For more than 40 years, Robert Bechtle has been widely recognized as one of the founders of American photorealism, a style of painting that rivals the detail and objectivity of a photograph. When ...