ROBERT BECHTLE
	Born 1932 San Francisco, California Education 1958 MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1954 BA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1960-61 University of California, Berkeley, CA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2005 Robert Bechtle, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; traveling to Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, TX 2005 Robert Bechtle: Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 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 2000 Robert Bechtle: Centric 58, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA; traveling to Oakland Museum of California 1997 Watercolors, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1996 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 1996 Generations, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1996 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1993 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1991 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 1991 Robert Bechtle: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1987 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1980 Matrix, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1973 Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective, E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA / Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA 1973 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 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 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 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 2002 As Real As It Gets,Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2002 American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 2002 New York Renaissance: Masterworks from The Collection of The Whitney Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, Italy 2002 Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL 2001 Les Ann�es Pop, Centre National d'Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1999 The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of Art New York, NY 1997-96 Drawings: Realism to Abstraction; A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 1995 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1993 Self Portraits in Black and White by Eighty-six West Coast Artists, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Robert Bechtle & Ralph Goings: A Review of Paintings and Watercolors, 25 Years, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1991 A Palette of Vision, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA 1991 Six Takes on Photo Realism, Whitney Museum of Art at Cahampion, Stamford, CT 1990 California A-Z And Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1990 Carsinart: The Automobile Icon, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL 1989 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY 1989 A Decade of American Drawing, 1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art- The 50's & 60's, 1987 University Art Museum, University of CA, Berkeley, CA 1986 Views Across America, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY; organized by the Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1985-87 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (traveling exhibition) 1985 Realism: Contemporary Americans, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 1985 American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum, Tokyo;Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Japan 1985 Fortissimo! Thirty Years for the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; traveling to: San Diego Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR 1984 Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT 1984 Art and the Automobile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1983-85 West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 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 1983 American Interiors, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1982 Drawings By California Painters, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1981-83 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (traveling exhibition) 1981 Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary Realism, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX 1979-80 Late Twentieth-Century Art from the Sidney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (traveling exhibition) 1979 Reflections of Realism Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM 1978 University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlotteville, VA 1978 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia 1978 Representations of America, Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia 1977-78 Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra (traveling exhibition) 1977 New Realism: Modern Art Form, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID (traveling exhibition) 1977 A View of the Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1976-78 America 1976, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (traveling exhibition) 1976 Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY 1976 Art 7'76, Basel, Switzerland 1976 Works on Paper, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany 1976 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD 1976 America as Art, National collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1975-76 Photo-Realism, American Painting and Prints, New Zealand (traveling exhibition) 1975 Signs of Life: Symbols in the City, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. 1975 A Change of View, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1975 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1974 Works on Paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 1974 Art 5'74, Basel, Switzerland 1974 Amerikaans Fotorealisme Grafiek, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1974 Tokyo Biennale '74, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (traveling exhibition) 1973-78 Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY (traveling exhibition) 1973-74 Hyperrealisme, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium 1973 American Art-Third Quarter Century, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1973 Image, Reality, Superreality, Arts Council of Great Britain (traveling exhibition) 1973 Mit Kamera, Pinsel, und Spritzpistole, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, West Germany 1973 Photo Realism, Serpentine Gallery, London, England 1973 Quatrieme Salon International d'Art, Basel, Switzerland 1973 Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie Arditti, Paris, France 1973 Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA 1973 Grand Maitres Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France 1973 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1972-73 Amerikanischer Fotorealismus, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (traveling exhibition) 1972 California Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1972 Art Around 1970, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Aachen, West Germany 1972 Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1972 The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1972 Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany 1971 Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Grants, Awards and Honors 1995 Academy Award in Painting, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1993 Elected Academician, National Academy of Design 1989 Individual Artists Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (also 1982,1977) 1983 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Selected Collections Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington , D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany