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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The camera typically contributes to the work of Bay Area painter Robert Bechtle, but his drawings and watercolors at Anglim show how little photographic information matters to his art. The snapshot ...

“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 ...