Richard Estes
American · b. 1932 · Painter, Printmaker
Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric… (Wikipedia)
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Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."
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ARoS Aarhus KunstmuseumAddison Gallery of American ArtAkron Art MuseumAllen Memorial Art MuseumArt Institute of ChicagoArt Museum of Southeast TexasBoca Raton Museum of ArtBrooklyn MuseumBuffalo AKG Art MuseumButler Institute of American ArtCarnegie Museum of ArtColby College Museum of ArtCrystal Bridges Museum of American ArtCurrier Museum of ArtDes Moines Art CenterDetroit Institute of ArtsErie Art MuseumFarnsworth Art MuseumFine Arts Museums of San FranciscoFlint Institute of ArtsFort Wayne Museum of ArtHarvard Art MuseumsHerbert F. Johnson Museum of ArtHigh Museum of ArtHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenKemper Museum of Contemporary ArtLowe Art MuseumLudwig Forum für Internationale KunstLudwig Museum BudapestMetropolitan Museum of ArtMinneapolis Institute of ArtModern Art Museum of Fort WorthMumokMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum LudwigMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Fine Arts BostonMuseum of Modern ArtNational Air and Space MuseumNational Gallery of Australia and 30 more
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