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1934 Hoquiam, Washington - 2014 Castro Valley, California. Known for: Photo-real equestrian genre, still life and landscape painting, photography.
It was primarily only after 1972, at the Kassel Documenta Fair, that Richard McLean became well known. He began exhibiting his work in San Francisco in 1957, after studying painting at the California... Read full biography
It was primarily only after 1972, at the Kassel Documenta Fair, that Richard McLean became well known. He began exhibiting his work in San Francisco in 1957, after studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. At the end of the 1960s, realism became quite... Read full biography
It was primarily only after 1972, at the Kassel Documenta Fair, that Richard McLean became well known. He began exhibiting his work in San Francisco in 1957, after studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. At the end of the 1960s, realism became quite fashionable in the United States. As this was McLean's primary style, he participated in many exhibitions such as 22 Realists in 1970 at the Whitney Museum in New York; Radical Realism, in 1971 at the... Read full biography
It was primarily only after 1972, at the Kassel Documenta Fair, that Richard McLean became well known. He began exhibiting his work in San Francisco in 1957, after studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. At the end of the 1960s, realism became quite fashionable in the United States. As this was McLean's primary style, he participated in many exhibitions such as 22 Realists in 1970 at the Whitney Museum in New York; Radical Realism, in 1971 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Sharp Focus Realism in 1972 in New York; and many others both in the United States and overseas. McLean's most successful theme involved horses and their accompanying figures, such as racehorses and their... Read full biography
It was primarily only after 1972, at the Kassel Documenta Fair, that Richard McLean became well known. He began exhibiting his work in San Francisco in 1957, after studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. At the end of the 1960s, realism became quite fashionable in the United States. As this was McLean's primary style, he participated in many exhibitions such as 22 Realists in 1970 at the Whitney Museum in New York; Radical Realism, in 1971 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Sharp Focus Realism in 1972 in New York; and many others both in the United States and overseas. McLean's most successful theme involved horses and their accompanying figures, such as racehorses and their jockeys, military horses, and farm horses. In a majority of cases, the animal plays a major role at the expense of the figures or surrounding la... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Painting, Fine Art
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Art School
- •California College of Arts and Crafts, Student
- •California College of the Arts (and Crafts), Teacher
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Horse Subject Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art