Robert Bechtle, who lives and works in Berkeley, California, was part of the photo-realist movement on the West Coast along with other well-known 'new realists' such as Paul Wonner, Richard McLean... Read full biography
Robert Bechtle, who lives and works in Berkeley, California, was part of the photo-realist movement on the West Coast along with other well-known 'new realists' such as Paul Wonner, Richard McLean and Ralph Goings. Differing from East Coast photo realists who did studio still lives and figures,... Read full biography
Robert Bechtle, who lives and works in Berkeley, California, was part of the photo-realist movement on the West Coast along with other well-known 'new realists' such as Paul Wonner, Richard McLean and Ralph Goings. Differing from East Coast photo realists who did studio still lives and figures, these artists painted outdoor landscapes such as cars parked on streets, home exteriors, and streetscapes. Often Bechtle's paintings have no direct human presence but ever the suggestion that people are... Read full biography
Robert Bechtle, who lives and works in Berkeley, California, was part of the photo-realist movement on the West Coast along with other well-known 'new realists' such as Paul Wonner, Richard McLean and Ralph Goings. Differing from East Coast photo realists who did studio still lives and figures, these artists painted outdoor landscapes such as cars parked on streets, home exteriors, and streetscapes. Often Bechtle's paintings have no direct human presence but ever the suggestion that people are nearby. Photo-realists, a term coined by Louis Meisel, an East Coast dealer, depict everyday scenes in perfect detail emulating a photograph. The process involves using a photographed image and projecting it onto a canvas, then tracing the lines and... Read full biography
Robert Bechtle, who lives and works in Berkeley, California, was part of the photo-realist movement on the West Coast along with other well-known 'new realists' such as Paul Wonner, Richard McLean and Ralph Goings. Differing from East Coast photo realists who did studio still lives and figures, these artists painted outdoor landscapes such as cars parked on streets, home exteriors, and streetscapes. Often Bechtle's paintings have no direct human presence but ever the suggestion that people are nearby. Photo-realists, a term coined by Louis Meisel, an East Coast dealer, depict everyday scenes in perfect detail emulating a photograph. The process involves using a photographed image and projecting it onto a canvas, then tracing the lines and objects. Once the paint is applied, the result is a highly realistic interpretation of the actual scene.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (71)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
Photorealism in the Digital Age:
2013
Meisel, Louis K.
320 pages (color)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia (Hardcover / Edition 1000)
2009
Pagel, David; Jeff Brouws
160 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective
2005
Bishop, Janet
208 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Photorealism at the Millennium
2003
Meisel, Louis & Chase, L
224 pages (color)
California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002
McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last
231 pages (color)
Robert Bechtle: California Classic
2000
Freeman, Marina
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Photorealism Since 1980
1993
Meisel, Louis K
368 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers
1980
Arthur, John
144 pages (color)
Realism/Photorealism (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Arthur, John
123 pages (color)
Superrealist Painting and Sculpture
1980
Lindey, Christine
160 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Butler, Hiram (others)
123 pages
Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979
West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
202 pages (color)
New Realism
1976
Kulturmann, Udo
190 pages (color)
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
Topics in American Art Since 1945
1975
Alloway, Lawrence
283 pages
Super Realism: A Critical Anthology
1975
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
322 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Things Seen
1974
Geske, Norman
115 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
Les Hyperrrealists Americains
1973
Chase, Linda
76 pages (color)
Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Los Angeles Mun Art Gallery
60 pages (color)
Robert Bechtle Retrospective Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1973
McKillop, Susan Regan
48 pages (color)
American Art Third Quarter Century (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Van Der Marck, Jan
138 pages (color)
The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hope, Henry Radford (Essay)
119 pages
22 Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Monte, James K
54 pages
Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism Milwaukee Art Center (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Atkinson, Tracy (Introduction); John Lloyd Taylor (Essay)
76 pages (color)
The American Sense of Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Philbrook Art Center
56 pages
The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Portland Art Museum
160 pages
40 Now California Painters (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Tampa Bay Art Center
48 pages (color)
Realism Now (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Vassar College Art Gallery
46 pages
Painters Behind Painters An Exhibition of Central California Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Howe, Thomas C
72 pages (color)
San Francisco Art Association Painting and Sculpture (in)