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Richard Estes

Richard Estes

 

Personal Details

Name

Richard Estes

Place of Birth

Kewanee, Illinois

Date of Birth

May 14, 1932 (age 77)

Field

Painting

Training

Art Institute of Chicago



Career:

   Most of Richard's paintings from the early 1960s are of city dwellers engaged in everyday activities. Beginning around 1967, Richard began to paint storefronts and buildings with glass windows, and more importantly, the reflected images shown on these windows. The paintings were based on color photographs he would take, which trapped the evanescent nature of the reflections, which would change in part with the lighting and the time of day. While some amount of alteration was done for the sake of aesthetic composition, it was important to Richard that the central and the main reflected objects be recognizable, but also that the evanescent quality of the reflections be retained. Richard had his first of many one-man shows in 1968, at the Allan Stone Gallery.

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Work done by Richard Estes