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Richard Estes

(American, born 1932)

urban landscapes no. 3 by richard estes

Richard Estes

Urban Landscapes No. 3, 1981

27,500 GBP

Biography

Timeline

1936
Born in Kewanee, IL
1952 - 1956
Studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1956 - 1966
Worked as a commercial artist in publishing and advertising; doing paste-ups, layouts, illustrations, etc
1959
Moved from Chicago to New York, NY
1962
Lived and painted in Spain
1996
Recipient, MECA Award for Achievement as a Visual Artist, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2021
May 14 - November 28, 2021 Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes, Portland Museum of Art
June 14 - July 30, 2021, Richard Estes: Voyages at Manconi, Schoelkopf
2017
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Richard Estes: Obra Reciente, Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
The American Dream: American Realism 1945 - 2017, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands; Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
2016
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Acadia, Northeast Harbor Library, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2015
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Richard Estes: Painting New York City, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Richard Estes: African Sketches, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Richard Estes: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Richard Estes’ Realism: A Retrospective, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (solo exhibition)
Photorealism: Revisited, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2013
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Photorealism, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Fernando Botero, Richard Estes, Manolo Valdes: Peintures et Sculptures, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2012
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Richard Estes: New York By Night, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibitions)
Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape, Sims Reed Gallery, UK
Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Painting Air: Spencer Finch, Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
[Space] Travel, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
ReFocus: Art of the ‘70s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL Photorealism: Painting with a Camera, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Exposition de groupe Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
Leben Mit Pop!, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Multiplicity, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough New York, NY
Optical Noise, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2011
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Multiplicity, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
The American Art: Masterpieces of Everyday Life from the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Art Museum, Deoksugung, Korea
Our Own Directions: Four Decades of Photorealism from the Louis K. And Susan P. Meisel Collection, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
East of Eden/Photorealism: Versions of Reality/Photorealism as a Cold War Phenomenon, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
An American Collection, National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY
The 100th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: The Vision Endures, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
New York For Sale, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Scream Collection Part II, Scream London, London, UK
Hyper Real: Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Graphics Group Exhibition, Marlborough New York, New York, NY
2010
Richard Estes Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Richard Estes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo exhibition)
Realism, the Adventure of Reality: Courbet, Hopper, Gursky…, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
10 ans deja, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Public Collections

Académie Francaise, Paris, France
Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy Andover MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Texas
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Columbia, South America
Boca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, FL
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Erie Museum, Erie, PA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NY
Hechinger Collection, Washington D.C.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum Of Art, Indianapolis, IN
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY
Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
La Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogota, Colombia Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Ludwig Collections:
Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kusnt, Aachen
Museum Ludwig, Budapest
Museum Ludwig, Koln
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wein
Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen Ludwig Collection, Aachen
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Academy, New York City, NY
National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art, Kansas City, MO
Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
Norton Simon Museum Of Art, Pasadena, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton Museum of Fine Arts, Princeton, NJ
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Australia
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Antonio Museum Of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, (Noord-Holland)
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, NY
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
The Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
VandenBroek Foundation, Netherlands
Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, FL
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum Collection, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Literature

2017
Drents Museum. The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2017. Assen: Drents Museum, Marlborough Inc.
Richard Estes: Obra Reciente. Barcelona: Marlborough Barcelona.
2015
Sims, Patterson. Richard Estes Painting New York City. New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2015
2014
Sims, Patterson, May, Jessica, Ferrulli, Helen. Richard Estes Realism. Washington: Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine, and Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014
2012
Marlborough Inc. Richard Estes: New York by Night. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2012
2006
Wilmerding, John. Richard Estes. New York: Rizzoli, 2006
1993
Arthur, John. Richard Estes: Paintings & Prints. Petaluma, California: Pomegranate Communications, 1993
1979
Canaday, John. Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1979
English (US)

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