Robert Bechtle, the artist who painted photorealist scenes of Bay Area suburbia, died yesterday in Berkeley, California. He was 88 years old. The artist’s son Max Bechtle confirmed to the San ...

You haven’t really seen the quieter, suburban parts of San Francisco County until you’ve seen them through Robert Bechtle’s eyes. With little mediation, he transformed our everyday world into fine art ...

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 ...

Robert Bechtle starts most mornings with a stroll around his Potrero Hill neighborhood, surveying the terrain that has become brand imagery in his artworks: low, shrubbery-hugged California dwellings ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Robert Bechtle conducted 2010 February 8 and 9, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Bechtle's home and ...

Robert Bechtle appears a tad sheepish, standing beside his snazzy convertible in Bob’s Sebring (2011). The car’s rear end bulges in this 3 1/2 x 5 foot oil painting, perhaps a slight fish-eye effect ...

Robert Bechtle, “Burbank Street Alameda” (2015), watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches; 25 3/4 x 33 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches framed, © Robert Bechtle, photo: David ...

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 ...

“I think of the camera as a sketchbook tool.”— Robert Bechtle For more than 40 years, Robert Bechtle has been widely recognized as one of the founders of American photorealism, a style of painting ...

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 ...

Robert Bechtle`s Photorealistic paintings from the late `60s quickly became classics of the genre, taking the banal icons of suburbia-American cars parked in the sloping sunbaked driveways of ...