Robert Bechtle

BORN 1932 San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

1958 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; M.F.A.
1954 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; B.A. University of California, Berkeley, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

2005
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (traveling to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX)

2002
Robert Bechtle: Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2001
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2000
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Centric 58: Robert Bechtle-California Classic, University Art Museum, California State University,
Long Beach, CA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

1997
Watercolors, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1996
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1996
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1992
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1991
Robert Bechtle: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1991
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1984
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1980
Robert Bechtle: Matrix/Berkeley 33, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1977
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1974
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1973
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, CA
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA;
Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, CA

1971
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1969
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1967
Berkeley Center, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
University of California, Davis, CA

1966
E.B.Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1965
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1964
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1959
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
California College of Arts Centennial Exhibition Honoring Alumni, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
A Strong Vision: Three Decades of Exhibitions, Wiegand Gallery at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA

2004
Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY

2003
Friends: Robert Bechtle and Tom Marioni, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

2002
Vintage Photorealists, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum of Art and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
New York Renaissance: Masterworks from The Collection of The Whitney Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, Italy
Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

2001
This Is America: American Photorealists, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark

2001
Looking At You, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Illusion and Reality: Hyperrealism Paintings in Korea and New York, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea

2001
Les Annees Pop, Grande Galerie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2000
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA
A Century of the American Dream, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Go Figure, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Urban Realism, Blain Fine Art, London, UK

1999
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Constructing Realities, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT
First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998
Realism Knows No Bounds, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1997
Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Faces & Fiqures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Structures: Architecture in American Art 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Spring Fever, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

1996
Realism ‘96: Third Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
CCAC: Past, Present And Future (1906-1996) , Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Master Printers and Master Pieces, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Paper Work, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY

1995
The Landscape of American Culture, 1967-1975, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Facing Eden/100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Drawing the Twentieth Century: Works on Paper from The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Streets Seen: The Edifice Complex-New Works from O.K. Harris, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre
College, Danville, KY

1994
46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
A Room With A View, North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993
45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Robert Bechtle + Ralph Goings: A Review of Paintings & Watercolors New York, NY
Interiors, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The 57th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
The Bay Area Tradition: Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown and Wayne Thiebaud, Crown Point Press, New York, NY
Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX

1992
Photorealism From Nashville Collections, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN

1991
Photo-Realism Revisited, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Six Takes On Photo-Realism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art of the 80’s from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
American Life In American Art; Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Traffic Jam: The Automobile In Art, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1990 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
Amerikansk Kunst Efter 1960, GL. Holtegaard, Denmark
Against The Grain: Images in American Art, 1960-1990, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1990 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Motion as Metaphor: the Automobile in Art, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA

1990
California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Carsinart: The Automobile Icon, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

1989
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
International Biennial of Graphic Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
A Decade of American Drawing, 1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
International Biennial of Graphic Art, Modern Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1988
Spanish Watercolors: Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA
Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; LagunaArt Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Figure It Out: Visual Body Language, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1987
Realism: The New Generation, R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL
Made in USA: An Americanization in Modern Art: The 50’s and 60’s, University Art Museum University of California, Berkely, CA; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Multiple Realities, Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Crown Point Gallery, New York, NY

1986
Views Across America, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY; organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum, New York, NY
The Window in Twentieth Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase NY
Das Automobile in der Kunst 1886-1986, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1985
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Realism: Contemporary Americans, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Views Across America, Gannett Company, New York, NY; organized by the Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service
American Realism: Twentieth¬-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary American Painting from Kentucky Collections, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY
American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan
Photorealist Watercolors, Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; travelling to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID

1984
Art and the Automobile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT

1983
West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; travelling exhibition
Drawings By Fifty CaliforniaArtists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL
Faces Since the Fifties-A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Watercolor in America, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
American Interiors, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Art of the Sixties, University of California, Davis, CA
24 California Artists, Monterey Penninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Master Watercolors, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1982
Drawings by California Painters, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Motor Trends, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA. Shown in Kyoto, Japan
Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Myers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College, Plattsburgh, NY
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981
Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Salas de Exposiciones (Recoletos) Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nuremburg, West Germany
Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, IL
Insights, The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary Realism, San Antonio Museum of
Art, San Antonio, TX
Changes: Art in America 1881-1981, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
New York Gallery Showcase, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Seven Photorealists from New York Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Drawing Acquisitions 1978-1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1980
Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Realism/Photorealism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

1979
Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sidney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Dupont Gallery, Washington, DC; Lee University, Lexington, VA
Reflections of Realism, Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
America in the 70’s as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
North Texas State University, Denton, TX
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
Photo Realism, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Perceiving Time and Space Through Art Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

1978
Representations of America, Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia
Things Seen, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlotteville, VA
California: Three By Eight Twice, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
New Work 76-77, 77-78, Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Albert Contreras Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photo-Realist Printmaking, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

1977
New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID; travelling exhibition
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Thirty Years of American Art 1945-1975: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Modern American Masters, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper II, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Master Watercolors, O.K. Harris Works of Art, NewYork, NY
Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; travelling to: Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

1976
Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NJ
Art 7’76, Basel, Switzerland
America 1976, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; travelling to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI; Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Works on Paper, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany
Today/Tomorrow, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Super Realism, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
Aspects of Realism, travelling exhibition sponsored by Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Stratford, Ont.; Centennial Museum, Vancouver, B.C.; Glenbow¬-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alta., Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Man.; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alta.; Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Que.; Dalhousie University Museum and Gallery, Halifax, N.S.; Windsor Art Gallery, Ont.; London Public Library and Art Museum and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery; University of Western Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ont.
America as Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1975
Photo-Realism, American Painting and Prints, New Zealand travelling exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton
Richard Brown Baker Collects, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Carlin Station, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
The New Realism: Rip Off or Reality?, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Signs of Life: Symbols in the City, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Layfayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium, Layfayette, LA
A Change of View, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Watercolors and Drawings-American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Image, Color and Form – Recent Paintings by Eleven Americans, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

1974
Works on Paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Art 5’74, Basel, Switzerland
Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Tokyo Biennale ‘74, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, Nagoya
New Photo-Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1973
Photo- Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; travelling exhibition
Hyperrealisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
American Art - Third Ouarter Century, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, San Jose State University. San Jose, CA
Ekstrem realisme, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Image, Reality, and Superreality, Arts Council of Great Britain, travelling exhibition
Mit Kamera, Pinsel und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany
Photo Realism, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Quatrieme salon international d’art, Basel, Switzerland
Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France
Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Grands Maitres Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1972
Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunst und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, West Germany
California Painting, Aibright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
California Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
California Representation: Eight Painters in Documenta 5, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Phases of the New Realism, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Art Around 1970, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Aachen, West Germany
The Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany
Sharp-Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

1971
The Shape of Realism, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Realism, Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY
Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Arts Festival 1971, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

1970
Directly Seen-New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA
The Cool Realists, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA
Directions 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Graphics ‘71, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
West Coast ‘70, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Beyond the Actual – Contemporary California Realist Painting, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA
American Report-The 1960s, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The American Scene: The 20th Century, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Christmas at Christie’s, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Cool Realism, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Looking West 1970, Jocelyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Younger Artists from O.K. Harris, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Painting and Sculpture Today 1970, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Twenty-Two Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1969
Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Direct Representation, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY; Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL; London Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
The American Realist Tradition, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; Oklahoma Art Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, IL
University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK

1968
West Coast Now, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
West Coast Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; M.H. de
Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1967
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Artist as His Subiect, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Western Painting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Biennial Exhibition of American Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1966
East Bay Realists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1965
Recent California Painting, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
California Printmakers, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary American Lithographers, USIA Overseas Exhibition

1964
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
California Society of Etchers, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1961
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
California Society of Etchers, San Francisco, CA

1960
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Lithography: Ingres to Picasso, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
California Society of Etchers, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
American Graphic Art, USIA-SAGA Overseas Exhibition

1959
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Bradley University, Peoria, IL

1958
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Provincetown Arts Festival, Provinceton, MA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1957
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

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Neue Formen des Bildes, Udo Kultermann, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tubingen, West Germany, 1975.
Hyperrealisme, Linda Chase, Rizzoli, New York, NY, 1975.
Super Realism: A Critical Anthology, Gregory Battcock, ed., E.P. Dutton, New York, NY, 1975.
Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, Peter Plagens, Praeger, New York, NY, 1974.
L’lperrealismo italo Medusa, Romana Libri Alfabeto, Rome, Italy, 1974.
Who’s Who In American Art, R.R. Bowker, New York, NY, 1973.
Neue Formen des Realismus, Peter Sager, Verlag
M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, West Germany, 1973.
Hyperrealisme, Isy Brachot, ed., Imprimeries F. Van Buggenhoudt, Brussels, Belgium, 1973.
New Realism, Udo Kultermann, New York Graphic Society, New York, NY, 1972.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - CATALOGUES

New York Renaissance: Masterworks from The Collection of The Whitney Museum, Palazzo Reale, ElectaEinaudiMondadori Publishing, Milan, Italy, 2002.
Master Printers and Master Pieces, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Text: Lui Li Lundin, 1996.
The Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA: Text Carl Belz, 1995.
Drawings 2000, Text: Klaus Kertess, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, 2000, p.24.
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Lisa Phillips, published in association with W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Essay: Peter Frank, 1999.
Photorealists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; Essay: Judith Van Baron, Ph.D., 1997.
Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance Schwartz, 1997.
A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 1996.
New Art In An Old City/2, Virlane Foundation and K&B Corporation Collections, Essay: Edward Lucie-Smith, New Orleans, LA 1994.
American Realism + Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Text: John Arthur, 1994.
Six Takes on Photo-Realism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT; Text:
Helen Ferrulli, 1991.
Robert Bechtle: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Text: John Caldwell, 1991.
Expressive Visions And Exquisite Images: Two Aspects Of Art Of The 80s From The Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI; Text: Kiichi Usui, 1991.

Amerikansk Kunst Efter 1960, GL. Holtegaard, Denmark; Introduction: Axel Bolvig, 1991.
Traffic Jam; The Automobile In Art, New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ;
Introduction: Nancy Cohen, 1991.
Against the Grain: Images in American Art, 1960-1990, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Foreword: Paul Binai, 1991.
In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance Schwartz, 1991.
California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of America Art, Youngstown, OH; Introduction:Louis Zona, 1990.
Carsinart: The Automobile Icon, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL; Text: Joseph L. Kagle, Jr. and Gerald Silk, 1990.
American Realism: Twentieth- Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Text: Alvin Martin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Harry N.Abrams Publishers, New York, 1985.
American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Text: John Arthur;
Published by The Asahi Shimbun, 1985.
Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of
Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Foreword: Franklin W. Robinson, 1985.
Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art:
Fairfield County, Stamford, CT; Pamela Gruninger Perkins, 1984.
West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Lynn Gamwell, 1983.
Realism Now, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 1983.

American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL; Introduction: Linda Chase, 1983.
Faces Since the Fifties-A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA, 1983.
Drawings by California Painters, Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA, 1982.
Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sidney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA, Frederick R. Brandt and Susan L. Butler, 1981.
Seven Photorealists from New York Collections, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY;
Text: Lisa Dennison Tabak, 1981.
Reflections of Realism, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM; Ellen Landis, 1980.
Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sidney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Introduction: Susan L. Butler, 1979.
As Artists See It: America in the 70s As Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, NY; “As Artists See It: America in the 70s”, Charlotte Stokes, 1979.
Documents, Drawings and Collages: Fifty American Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr.& Mrs. Atepheri D. Paine, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Foreword: Franklin W. Robinson, 1979.
Things Seen, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Introduction: Norman A. Geske, 1978.
The Complete Guide to Photo-Realist Printmaking, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Introduction: Susan Pear Meisel, 1978.
Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Foreword: Stuart G. Hodge, 1978.
Illusion and Reality, Australian Gallery Directors’ Council, North Sydney, N.S.W.;
Introduction: John Stringer, 1977.
New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID; Introduction: Ivan C. Karp, 1977.
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Martin Friedman, Robert Pincus ¬Witten,
Peter Gay, 1977.

Introduction to Art 7 ‘76, Basel, Switzerland; Introduction: Dr. Frederic P. Walthard, 1976.
America as Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; Introduction: Joshua C. Taylor, 1976.
Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Robert Doty, 1976.
America 1976, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Thomas S. Kleppe, Robert Rosenblum, Neil Welliver, 1976.
Aspects of Realism, Rothman’s of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd., Linda Chase, (“U.S.A.”), 1976.
Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Introduction: Brenda Richardson, 1975.
A Change of View, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Introduction: Carlos Dyer, 1975.
Watercolors and Drawings-American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Susan Pear Meisel, 1975.
Richard Brown Baker Collects, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Introduction:
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., 1975.
Image, Color and Form: Recent Paintings by Eleven Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Introduction: Robert F. Phillips, 1975.
Contemporary American Paintings from the Lewis Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Introduction: Charles Wyrick Jr., 1974.
Art 5 ‘74, Basel, Switzerland, Foreword: Dr. Frederic P. Walthard, 1974.
Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; William Davis, 1974.
Tokyo Biennale 1974, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; “Photo-Realism”, Linda Chase, 1974.
Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, 1974.

Super-Realist Vision, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Foreword: Carlo M. Lamagna, 1973.
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective Exhibition, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA;
Ivan C. Karp and Susan McKillop, 1973.
Robert Bechtle, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1973.
Photo-Realism, Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Lawrence Alloway, 1973.
East Coast/West Coast/New Realism, University Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San
Jose, CA; Introduction: Bruce Radde, 1973.
Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Louis K. Meisel, 1973.
Image, Reality and Superreality, Arts Council of Great Britain; Introduction: Edward Lucie¬Smith, 1973.
Hyperrealistes americains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France; Introduction: Carroll Edwards Hogan, 1973.
Mit Kamera, Pinsel und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele Reckinghausen, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany; Introduction: Wolfgang Becker, 1973.
Grands maitres hyperrealistes americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France;
Introduction: Salvador Dali, 1973.
Separate Realitites, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Laurence Dreiband, 1973.
Ekstrem realisme, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1973.
American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1973.
1973 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;
Foreword: John I.H. Baur, 1973.

California Republic, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Michael Walls, 1972.
Art Around 1970, Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Aachen, West Germany, 1972.
Phases of the New Realism, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; John J. Baratte,
Paul E. Thompson, 1972.
Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY; Introduction: Sidney Janis, 1972.
The Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY; Scott Burton, 1972.
Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, West Germany;
Introduction: Uwe Schneede and Heinz Hoffman, 1972.
Documenta 5, Neue Galerie and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany;
Introduction: Jean Christophe Amman, 1972.
Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Introduction: Ivan C. Karp, 1971.
New Realism, Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY; Benedict
Goldsmith, 1971.
Graphics 71, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, 1971.
Twenty-Two Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Introduction’: James Monte, 1970.
Directly Seen: New Realism in California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA, 1970.
The Highway, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;
Introduction: Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, 1970.
Beyond the Actual-Contemporary California Realist Painting, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA; Introduction: Donald Brewer, 1970.

American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Introduction: Peter Selz, 1970.
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Richard L. Warrum, 1970.
West Coast 70: Crocker Biennial, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1970.
Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI;
Introduction: John Lloyd Taylor and Tracy Atkinson, 1969.
Direct Representation, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY; Scott Burton, 1969.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL; Introduction: James R. Shipley, Allen S. Weller, 1969.
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN;
Introduction: Richard L. Warrum, 1969.
Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Linda Nochlin, (“The New Realists”) , 1968.
West Coast Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1968.
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1968.
Painters Behind Painters , California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, 1967.
Biennial Exhibition of American Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign¬Urbana, IL, 1967.
Recent California Painting, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1965.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - PERIODICALS

Art in America, “Review: Robert Bechtle at O.K. Harris”, Jason Rosenfeld, September 2001, p.149.
Tate The Art Magazine, (London), “Pretty fascinating boredom”, Sophie Howarth, Spring 2001, p.63,65.
Southwest Art, "Museum Preview: A California Realist", Marina Freeman, May 2000, p.124.
The Museum of California, “Robert Bechtle: Hidden Reflections”, Abbey Wasserman, Spring 2000, p.8-13.
The Art Review, New Orleans Art Review, “Some Realisms”, Terrington Calas, November/December 1994, p.2
Art In America, “Painting Snapshots, or the Cursory Spectacle”, Richard Kalina, June 1993, p.92-95,118.
ArtNews, “Reviews: Robert Bechtle, O.K. Harris”, Gerrit Henry, March 1993, p.117.
Art & Antiques, “Americas s Top 100 Collectors”, March 1992, p.52.
Fairfield County Advocate, “Super-Real”, Karin Niesyn, December 19-25, 1991.
Arts Magazine, “Robert Bechtle”, Jennifer R. Crohn, October 1991, p.87.
Art News, “Robert Bechtle, Deborah Butterfield”, Eric Jay, September 1984.
Connecticut Magazine, “Autoscape at the Whitney”, Alberta Eisman, May 1984, p.111-113.
Art Express, “Realisms”, John Perrault, March/April 1982, p.34-38.
New York Magazine, “Art: Dead-End Realism”, Kay Larson, October 26, 1981.
Life Magazine, “The Lonely Look of American Realism”, October 1980, p.74-82
The Barat Review, (Vol.7,No.l), “Painting From the Photograph: A Modern American Realism”, Diane Levine Jadwin, 1979.
Arts Magazine, “Photo-Realist Printmaking”, Barbara Harshman, February 1979, p.17.
American Art Review, “New Realism and the Photographic Look”, Alwynne Mackie, November 1978, p.72-79, p.132-134.
Town and Country, “Art and Antiques: The New Realists”, Helen Harris, October 1978, p.242,244,246-47.
Archives of American Art Journal, “San Francisco”, Paul Karlstrom, Vol.18, No.3, 1978, p.30.
Arts/Canada, “Toward a Definition of Realism: Reflections on the Rothman’s Exhibition”, Mark Greenwood, December/January 1977, p.6-23.
Art International, “Photo-Realism: Post Modernist Illusionism”, Linda Chase, March/April 1976, p.14-27.
San Francisco, Bay Guardian, “Anne Appleby and Robert Bechtle”, Harry Roche, December 11, 1996.
New York Times, “Also of Note”, Pepe Karmel, March 22, 1996.
Art in America, “Painting America First”, Robert Rosenblum, January\February 1976, p.82-85.
ArtNews, “Painting the Public Lands”, Kay Larson, January 1976.
Art and Artists, “The Neutral Style”, Edward Lucie-Smith, vol.10, no.5, August 1975, p.6-15.
Harper’s, “The Painted Word”, Tom Wolfe, April 1975, p.91-92.
Newsweek, “Summing Up the Season”, Douglas Davis, July 1, 1974, p.73.
Arts Magazine, “An Omnivorous and Literal Dependence”, Robert Hughes, June 1974, p.25-29.
Arts Magazine, “The Connotation of Denotation”, Linda Chase, February 1974, p.38-41.
Arts Magazine, “Photographic Illusionist Prints”, John Loring, February 1974, p.42-43.
Arts Magazine, “Stuart M. Speiser Collection”, Jane Bell, December 1973, p.57.
Art in America, “The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law”, Linda Nochlin, November/December 1973, p.102.
Art International, “Stuart Speiser Collection”, November 1973.
Daily California Arts Magazine, (Berkeley), “Robert Bechtle’s Photo Realism”, John Markell, November 2, 1973.
Art Gallery Magazine, “Recycling Reality”, Linda Chase, October 1973, p.75-82.
Opus International, “Interviews with Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, and John Salt”, Linda Chase and Ted McBurnett, no.44-45, June 1973 p.38-50
Le Monde des Grandes Musipues, “L’Hyperrealisme americain”, no.2, March\April 1973, p.4,56-57.
Louisiana Revy, “Kunstmiljoeti Rhinlandet”, Oysten Hjort, vol.13,no.3, February 1973.
Arts Magazine, “Rent Is The Only Reality, or the Hotel Instead of the Hymm”, Ivan Karp, December 1972, p.47-51.
Art in America, “The Real and the Artificial: Painting of the New Environment”, William C. Seitz, November/December 1972, p.58-72.
Art in America, “Robert Bechtle”, Brian O’Doherty, November/December 1972, p.73-74.
Art in America, “The Photo-Realists: 12 Interviews”, Linda Chase, Nancy Foote and Ted McBurnett, November/December 1972, p.73-89.
Argus de la Presse, “Les hommes et les oeuvres”, J.J. Levequi, October 1972.
La Galerie, “Les hommes et les oeuvres”, no.120, October 1972, p.16-17
Arts Magazine, “Documenta 5: A Critical Preview”, Bruce Kurtz, Summer 1972, p.34-41.
Connaissance des Arts, “La revolte des realistes”, E. Wasmuth, June 1972, p.118-123.
Flash Art, “Realismus”, Jean Christophe Amman, May-July 1972, p.50-52.
Arts Magazine, “Prints and Multiples”, W.K. Muller, April 1972, p.28.
Bolaffiarte, “Super Realisti U.S.A.”, Lucio Pozzi, no.18, March 1972, p.54-63.
ARTnews, “Reviews and Previews”, Bruce Wolmer, February 1972.
Arts Magazine, “In the Galleries”, Lucille Naimer, February 1972.
The New Yorker, “The Art World”, Harold Rosenberg, February 5, 1972, p.88-93
Art International, “New York Letter”, Carter Ratcliff, February 1972, p.54-55.
Magazin Kunst, “Neue Formen des Realismus”, Peter Sager, 4th Quarter, 1971, p.2512-16.
Art International, “The Deductive Image: Notes on Some Figurative Painters”, J. Patrice Marandel, September 1971, p.58-61.
Arts Canada, “The Eleven O’Clock News in Colour”, Barry Lord, June 1970.
Art International, “Review”, J. Patrice Marandel, May 1970.
Art International, “Twenty-two Realists at the Whitney”, Carter Ratcliff, April 1970, p.105.
Artforum, “Twenty-two Realists, Whitney Museum”, Robert Pincus-Witten, April 1970.
Arts Magazine, “Notes on Realism, Exhibition at Whitney Museum”, Lawrence Alloway, April 1970.
Newsweek, “Return of the Real: Twenty-two Realists on View at New York’s Whitney”, Douglas Davis, February 23, 1970, p.105.
Art and Artist, “Likenesses, Aspects of a New Realism at Milwaukee Art Center”, Tracy Atkinson, John Lloyd Taylor, February 1970.
Konstrevy (Stockholm), “Realism U.S.A.”, Karl-Gustav Nilson, no.2, November 2, 1969, p.68-71.
Art International, “Exhibition at Fischbach Gallery”, Peter Schjeldahl, November 1969.
Artforum, “Direct Representation at the Fischbach Gallery”, Robert Pincus-Witten, November 1969.
New York Magazine, “The Shape of Things”, John Gruen, September 8, 1969.
Artforum, “San Francisco”, Palmer French, October 1967.
Artforum, “San Francisco”, James Monte, October 1966.
ARTnews, “Reviews: San Francisco”, Katherine Metcalf, February 1966.
Arts Magazine, “Pop, Photo and Paint”, Anita Ventura, April 1964, p.50-54.
Frontier Magazine, “Art: John Altoon”, Gerald Nordland, October 1958.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - NEWSPAPERS

Tucson Weekly, “The Sharper Image”, Pamela Portwood, July 31, 2002.
Arizona Daily Star, “Pretty As A Picture”, Kathleen Allen, June 23, 2002, p.D1,6.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Anne Appleby and Robert Bechtle”, Harry Roche, December 11, 1996.
New York Times, “Also of Note”, Pepe Karmel, Marach 22, 1996.
Advocate-Messenger, “Contemporary artists offer fresh look at street scenes”, February 16, 1995, p.A8.
New York Times, “Art in Review: Robert Bechtle”, Roberta Smith, November 13, 1992, p. C27.
New York Times, (Connecticut Edition), “Differences Can Outweigh Similarities in Photo-Realism”, Vivien Raynor, January 5, 1992.
San Francisco Examiner, “We’ve Been in this Neighborhood Before - or Have We?”, David Bonetti, September 24, 1991, p.B3.
Contra Costa Times, “Exploring Painter Robert Bechtle’s Vision”, Carol Fowler, September 22, 1991, Timeout/p.9.
Art Week, “Robert Bechtle”, Terri Cohn, May 23, 1991, p.13.
Los Ange1es Times, “Lonely Scenes of Isolation from Bechtle”, Kristine Mckenna, April 23, 1991, p.F6.
Advocate & Greenwich Time, “Painting a controversy; Photo-Realism focus of Whitney Museum”,
Carolee Ross, December 15, 1991.
Detroit Free Press, “Expressionism, realism coexist at Meadow Brook”, Marsha Miro, November 3, 1991.
The Star-Ledger, “Art”, Eileen Watkins, October 11, 1991, p.49.
The New York Times, (N.J.Edition) “Art: Seeing Beauty Or Problems”, Vivien Raynor, October 6, 1991, p.14.
Altoona Mirror, (Altoona, PA) , “SAMA show - a realistic view”, John Wall, June 11, 1991.
Village Voice, “Order Aura”, Peter Schjeldahl, May 22, 1991.
The New York Times, “In Connecticut, Contemporary Classics at Aldrich”, John Russell, August 4, 1989, p.C23.
The Westchester/Rockland Newspapers, “Whitney’s ‘Autoscape’ is driving display”, Kathie Beals,
April 6, 1984.
The Sunday Republican (Waterbury, CT), “Autos, landscapes, and art”, David Boraks, April 1, 1984.
Southern Connecticut News, “America on wheels; Whitney show explores our paved-over paradise”, Philip Eliasoph, April 8, 1984.
New York Times, “Pooling of Resources Produces Stimulating Success”, Vivien Raynor, February 7, 1982.
Village Voice, “Opposites Attract”, Peter Schjeldahl, April 16, 1981.
Washington Post, “New Smithsonian Art: From ‘The Sublime’ to Photo Realism”, Paul Richard, November 30, 1978, p.G21.
SoHo Weekly News, “Four Artists”, John Perreault, December 29, 1977.
New York Times, “Art: While Waiting for Tomorrow”, Vivian Raynor, December 29, 1977.
Melbourne Sun, “Realism from the Squad”, Jeffery Makin, October 19, 1977, p.43.
Sunday Mail (Brisbane), “Just Like the Real Thing”, Ralph Phillips, September 11, 1977.
Sunday Telegraph (New South Wales), “In Search of Reality”, W.E. Pidgeon, July 31, 1977.
Sydney Morning Herald, “In Selecting a Common Domestic Object”, Nancy Borlase, July 30, 1977.
Sydney Morning Herald, “Art”, Nancy Borlase, December 30, 1976.
Washington Star, “The New Realism, Paintings Worth 1,000 Words”, Benjamin Forgey, November 30, 1976, p.G24.
Artweek, “Richard McLean and Robert Cottingham”, Robert McDonald, October 16, 1976,
p.3-4.
Vancouver Sun, “Aspects of Realism”, Mary Fox, September 21, 1976.
SoHo Weekly News, “Getting Flack”, John Perreault, April 22, 1976, p.19.
Portland Oregonian, “Coast Artists Credited with Realism’s Growth”, Beth Fagan, September 21, 1975.
Portland Oregonian, “Realism in Art Returns with Camera’s Clarity”, Roger Hull, September 14, 1975.
Milwaukee Journal, “Photo-Realism Flies High at Paine”, May 1975.
San Francisco Chronicle , ‘‘A Wide View of the New Realists”, Thomas Albright, February 6, 1975, p.38.
Toledo Blade, “Brash Paintings Stimulate Thinking Rather than Passive Thoughts”, Louise Bruner, January 12, 1975, p.4.
Richmond Mercury (VA), “Multi-Dimensional Works on Paper”, Edwin J. Slipek, Jr., October 23, 1974, p.19.
New York Times, “Too Easy To Be Art?”, Peter Schjeldahl, May 12, 1974, p.23.
SoHo Weekly News, “On Art”, Peter Frank, April 18, 1974, p.14.
Christian Science Monitor, “Today’s Pilgrims”, Corinne Geeting, November 21, 1973.
Art Week, “Robert Bechtle Print Retrospective”, Judith Dunham, November 10, 1973.
San Francisco Examiner, “Turning Photos into Subtle Art”, Alexander Fried, November 6, 1973.
San Francisco Chronicle , “An Artist with Vision”, Thomas Albright, October 26, 1973.
San Francisco Chronicle, “A Cool Retrospective of a Master New Realist”, Alfred Frankenstein,
October 7, 1973.
Sacramento Bee , ‘‘A New Realist Takes a Look at Parked Cars”, Charles Johnson, September 16, 1973.
Rinascita, “Iperrealismo tra ‘pop’ e informale”, Antonio del Guercio, No.8, February 23, 1973, p.34.
Le Monde, “Le super-realisme”, Jacques Michael, February 6, 1973, p.23.
Los Angeles Times, “New Realism: Crisp Focus on the American Scene”, Henry J. Seldis, January 21, 1973, p.54.
Chicago Daily News, “It’s Big and It’s Superreal”, Franz Schulze, February 12-13, 1972, p.6.
Newsday, “On the Arts”, Emily Genauer, February 21, 1970.
Konstrevy (Stockholm) , “Realism U.S.A.”, Karl-Gustav Nilson, November 2, 1969, p.68-71.
San Francisco Examiner, “Review”, Alexander Fried, August 11, 1967.
San Francisco Chronicle, “Realism Brought Down to Date”, Alfred Frankenstein, February 2, 1967.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

1995 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Academy Award in Art
1989 NEA Individual Artists Grant
1983 Guggenheim Fellowship
1982 NEA Individual Artist Grant
1977 NEA Individual Artist Grant

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1968- San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1967 University of California, Davis, CA
1965 University of California, Berkeley, CA
1957- California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Television Coverage:
2/1/89 “Shock Of The Old”, segment of: Signals, Produced by: Illuminations Ltd., Channel 4
Television, London, England

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA
E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Sloan Galleries of American Painting, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Gibbes Art Gallery, Carolina Art Association, Charleston, SC
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Arts Council of Great Britain
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis, IN
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
United States Information Agency, Washington, DC
City and County of San Francisco, CA
Southland Corporation, Dallas, TX
Pacific Telesis, San Francisco, CA
Richard Brown Baker, New York, NY
Robert Rossi-Arnaud, Paris, France
Malcolm Forbes, New York, NY
Glenn Janss, Sun Valley, ID
Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, VA
Dr. Peter Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany
Ivan and Marilynn Karp, New York, NY
John and Gretchen Berggruen, San Francisco, CA
Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Philip Anglim, Venice, CA
Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Selected Collections (continued)
Bernardo Collection, Sentra Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Mills College, Oakland CA
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Doane College, Crete, NB

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